Interracial marriages

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener! Jokes apart, love defies all logic and reason. It vanquishes any boundaries created by humans and emerges triumphant. Love needs to be given a chance under any circumstance.God created a nature that is so diverse and unique. It always resonates a unified harmony in diversity. That is the beauty of nature. In this beautiful orchestration of variety, humans too have been blessed with varying endowments.

These varying endowments may be in the form of physical, or mental attributes and abilities. The world has evolved so, that it categorized this into different compartments. These compartments then became discrete and more separated.

Interracial marriages have been happening quite often and frequently. There is nothing stopping such trends and it will surely carry on.

What are the benefits of interracial marriages?

- It is good for the world. It breaks up barriers. It creates a free and far meadow that harvests true love and compassion.

- Offsprings in interracial marriages are genetically stronger. They get the dual strengths in the genetic make-up of both the races. They are also less prone to hereditary diseases. These children will also be open-minded and adventurous in life.

- There is a cross-pollination of culture. This affluence of cultural diversity will make things more exciting and interesting.

- Interracial marriages might be from people of different countries. This might give opportunity for going to different countries, and exploring more of the world.

- You will be respected more for believing in what you did. Often when a relationship does not end in marriage, it is dismissed as a fling.

What are the challenges faced by interracial marriages?

- There might be a strong backlash from people in your race. Clannish sentiments might arise. In orthodox cultures, this kind of relationship might be difficult to assimilate into the scheme of things for the family members. This can give rise to discord and dispute in the family circles.

- The two people in the relationship might face problems related to intrinsic cultural principles and values. Issues related to children, elders, finance, home, faith etc might crop up. There might be language impediments as well.

All said and done interracial marriages are continuing to happen, and signal to be another wave of a truly globalized world.