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By Melissa Price
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ove sees no color — it is a
phrase that has been said time
land time again.
)morrow#! Vifhi ' e some students are dealing
,, vith everyday dating issues, others
hxpec CQ vre having to deal with yet another
54°r Jatingissue on top of that — dating
- Meone of another race,
courtesy o ■ Bn y^| eat j e( a junior English ma-
■vho is Caucasian, has been dat-
Jier African-American boyfriend
(even months. She said she nev
es race as an issue when looking
[dating partner and does not un-
tand why some act as if skin col-
| important.
Ve always seen people for peo-
Meade said. “I don’t look at my
fiend and I any differently than
bther couple. And that is what
re — a couple.”
eade said that while she has
buntered some prejudice to
ri p her dating of an African-
[ prican man, most people either
accept the rela
tionship or do
not have the
courage to say anything to her.
She said the hardest part of dat
ing interracially is dealing with the
reactions of others.
“The key is not to care what oth
er people think,” Meade said. “You
have to be able not to notice the
stares, because you will get some.”
Meade said she has found that
people have a more difficult time
accepting a black and white couple
than other interracial couples. She
said she does not think she would
encounter as much prejudice if she
was dating an Hispanic man.
Some couples are not considered
interracial because it is not obvious
one of them is of a different race.
Jonathan Purifoy, a senior chem
ical engineering major whose an
cestors are from Spain and Mexico,
married his wife Christie two
months ago. He said people do not
consider he and his wife, whose an
cestors are from Greece, an interra-
Mixed-race couples look beyond skin color
cial couple because he does not
have dark skin.
“I think it would be very differ
ent if I looked more Hispanic,”
Jonathan Purifoy said. “People
tend to let their guard down
around me because they don’t see
me as a minority.”
Purifoy said they must over
come differences like any oilier
couple, many people do not con
sider them an interracial couple.
He said learning and experiencing
different cultural traditions and
customs is the best thing about
dating interracially.
Christie Purifoy said although all
couples experience some prob
lems, interracial couples must over
come added obstacles.
“People have a hard enough
time getting to know one another
and growing closer every day,” she
said. “It would make it a million
times harder than normal if your
friends and parents were telling
you you shouldn’t be together. It
would put a lot of unnecessary
strain and pressure on your rela
tionship.”
Annette Ferguson, a junior in
ternational studies major, recently
broke up with her Hispanic
boyfriend. She said she never really
thought about the fact that her
boyfriend was of a different race.
“It was never like I thought,
‘Wow! I’m interracially dating!’ It
was just, T’m dating this cool guy
that I like a lot,”’ Ferguson said.
Although some parents do not
support their children dating inter
racially, Ferguson said her parents
have supported her dating outside
of her race.
She said they agree with her that
race does not make a difference. She
has never discussed her personal ex
periences in interracial dating with
her parents because the issue has
never come up.
Ferguson
said although
some parents allow their children to
be friends with people of other races,
they forbid interracial dating. She said
this is usually a sign of the parents’ ig
norance about other races.
“When parents forbid interra
cial dating but say it is OK to be
friends with people of another
race, they are just masking their
prejudice,” Ferguson said. “If they
have a problem with their child
dating someone of a different
race, then they really have a prob
lem with the race itself.”
Meade is concerned about the
possibility of interracial couples
having biracial children. She said
some people who say they do not
have a problem with interracial dat
ing will get upset when there is talk
about having a biracial child.
Meade said she does not consid
er this a problem.
“I think that by the time I am
ready to have children, there will be
a lot of‘mixed’ children everywhere,”
she said. “I think my boyfriend and I
are strong enough to deal with that if
it were to happen.”
Meade said she does not under
stand why people view her and her
boyfriend differently than a same-
race couple.
She said they were able to enrich
each other’s lives because they are
from different races.
“I feel sorry for the ignorant peo
ple who feel there is something
wrong with interracial dating,”
Meade said. “You can learn a lot
from someone who is so different
from you, and it is sad that people
are going to cheat themselves of this
experience just because someone
has a different skin color.”
Jonathan Purifoy agrees.
“You can’t rely on what people’s
appearances are because so much
can come from someone who is not
your color,” Purifoy said. "If that
person is someone you love and
they communicate that love back to
you, that is what is important.”
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