Interracial Dating?

the other day, i was approached by one of my good friends, and was asked why i wasn't dating an asian girl. wow, just like that. i had to admit i was prettty shocked at the question, but to be fair, i think i need to preface my reaction by explaining a little about how my friends and i work.

first of all, we are well known to kid and joke around with each other, i mean what kind of friends don't? (if you guys don't do that, i'm sorry if i have offended you). anyway, we are pretty open with each other and when we are not, the situation escalates until we all decide that we were stupid for not being open with each other in the first place. with that being said, it was not completely out of place for my friend to ask me about my interracial girlfriend, although i did NOT see it coming at all.

after i settled down and actually thought about the question though, i realized that i never really thought of why i wasn't dating an asian girl. it's not like im not attracted to them, hell, i can be attracted to anyone who is attractive. that was when i realized that although people will admit that a person of another race may be attractive maybe even hot, but that is usually where it ends. many many people out there, although they may not admit it, have quite the problem with interracial dating. they may agree with it themselves, but when it comes around to actually dating someone themselves, they will not touch the subject. keep in mind though, this is all mere speculation on my part.

so, in response to this new "epiphany," if you will, i decided to do a little research in the area of interracial dating. i poked around a few websites and found some very interesting stuff. one example was an article i found on cnn.com that was dated in 2000 concerning the lifting of an interracial ban on a college campus. although the article was nice in the fact that the ban was lifted, it was pretty amazing to me that a college campus could actually ban interracial dating in the first place, and in the second, keep in enforced until 2000!

in the end, i would have liked to discuss this topic in class, and maybe let some of you ponder about it yourselves. what truly is your stance on interracial dating?