So, on today's Kojo Nnamdi show, the topic was inter-racial marriage, a topic very near to my heart, right FW? Anyway, a recent study found that the metropolitan Washington D.C. region has the highest rate of interracial marriage in the country. Something I always suspected but was never sure of. Reason #1 why the wife and want to stay in the area to raise our kids.
I was wondering about other inter______ marriages/relationships. I think inter-racial, inter-faith, whatever marriages are cool, obviously. But I don't think I could have ever dated, much less married, the FW if she was Republican. I just think our worldviews would have been so different. Race is just a social construct, as far as I'm concerned. Yes, my wife and I have cultural differences, but she would have had them with anyone she married - she's 1st generation American, the daughter of two immigrants. Our biggest difference is our socio-economic background. Also, despite all outward appearances, most religions, at their most basic, also teach the same lesson - love each other. So that's not really a big issue when you think about it, apart from all the pageantry and symbolism different religions wrap themselves in and the way people interpret them. But political differences, I don't know. That's huge - it encompasses so many different things - your views on race, religion, gender, sexuality, economic policy, poverty... I could go on forever.
If anyone out there is dating someone "other", other religion, race, politics, let me know how it's going.
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Yes, his friends are very cool, especially his really liberal ones! But since your Dad is on that side of the political spectrum, you were already "broken in", no?
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