Swirling With Another Minority Ain’t As Easy As it Sounds

June 29th, 2011 - By Christelyn Karazin

 

On its face, it seems like interracial dating and mating with another minority–Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern–would seem a bit easier than hooking up with a WASP-y white guy, right?  It seems to be easier.  After all, you’re closer to matching in the melanin department, and as mutual minorities, it seems like you could have this “We’re all in this together! Us against The Man!” attitude.  Well,turns out it’s just not that simple.

Aside from the superficial “skin issue,” you often take on a culture that might be completely foreign to you as a Westernized woman born and raised in the USA.  And sadly, other minorities suffer from the same internal conflicts of colorism and bigotry that we do.

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  • Tia

    as someone who has had relationships with Arabs, Indians dated Filipino and others, i can say yes this is true, we don’t often see that side of these different cultures because they are minorities too so not well represented in the mainstream, but colorism and racism exists among them, and they often have the same views, or even worse than some racist whites have towards us. of couse it depends on the man and his upbringing. and marriage, thats another subject altogether.

  • observer

    I stayed in China for two weeks … went all over it … my very dark skinned daughters were stopped constantly on the streets by men and women begging for pictures w/ them and told constantly by chinese men that they were beautiful … know what you talk and talk what you know

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