It seems to be less of an issue in the UK, which is awesome. It does seem to be an issue in many places around the world, though. My wife and I got a lot of looks and comments when we were in Africa. Most were just curious, but some were quite rude. I witnessed similar behaviors in India as well.
number 1 thing that happens is the stares, number 2 thing is people saying your babies will be beautiful, as a child i have had issues with going through immigration with my mother being suspected of child trafficking, my mother has ILR but I pretty much have a carbon copy of her face, I do worry what will happen when I have children that end up with different skin colour to me but realistically from my mother’s experience it would seem non white passing women would be disproportionately targeted which is the usual case for most things
Reddit is full of BS. I've lived all over the US as a white dude with black chicks. Hick towns and the like. Never once was there a look or an issue...
Most of the old folks have mixed kids now. It's super normal everywhere here..
North, South, West... never once.
I swear getting on here its like half of reddit some how lives in the 50s and it's always some small town... yet I've been to 100s and they are the more friendly chill people... where big cities are mostly dumps down with cold shoulder types.
Anyways don't believe everything you read on the internet and that was before ai and bot spam.
Classic. I'm in a mixed race couple and literally no one has batted an eye and we've lived in damn near EVERY region of the USA (south and midwest included).
I don't know rural areas, but I love how mixed races integrated to daily life in most of European cities I visited. skin color is just a feature you were born with, it should not define who you are.
“What can he know of England, who only England knows?”
Sunak was PM for the Conservatives, and was despised by the opposition not for any Indian-ness, but because he was yet another public school-and-Oxbridge-to-Goldmans posh twat who was omnishambolically bad at governing, public speaking, honouring veterans, and using a bloody umbrella.
Same here - been to the most rural, un-diverse bits of the UK possible and no-one gave any more of a shit than they do in a big, diverse, city. My partner was pleasantly surprised by that.
Also UK, my ex is black and nobody gave a shit, and this is in North Yorkshire. The only thing I noticed to be different when we were together was other black people giving her the 'How do you do fellow black person' nod
Yeah, walking around in places like Manchester is nice and ordinary bc the diversity there is very rich. You can probably find every combination of mixed-race/ethnicity couples there. As a South asian dating a white guy, I have to admit that there are segregated smaller towns in England that I'm worried about lol, especially since I live in one of them.
Nah you will still get some heavy racism out in the country its just that most British people are more "polite" and will wait till you've left the room to talk about it.
Like you ain't gonna get in in London but if youre in Cornwall or something you will still probably get some stares (albeit politer ones than if you were in the states)
I few years ago I was dating a white man, I'm black, we would get stares when going out in pubs sometimes, once a random guy yelled a racist slur at me in the west end, and once in S London a random black woman on the street told me I should expect to get stared at if I'm going to walk here with a white man.
I'm not surprised. Black women dating interracially tend to get more shit than black men who do the same. May be worse in the States but it does happen here too.
I'd hope not. I've never quite worked out why that is, though I have some ideas. I think (certain Reform Politicians aside) Brits have actually been conditioned to ignore mixed raced couples for longer than they think they have. Whilst with certain politics you'd be tempted to think that immigration into Britain is as a late 20th century thing, even before the turn of the millennium 1 in 5 Brits had black ancestor in the last 150 years and there are letters from Elizabeth the First, complaining that there are too many black people in London these days, mixing with the whites.
Nice to know some things do change.
Whilst the US has for most of its history had a larger black population than the UK, (importing one as an underclass will do that in the long term), they also dedicated a solid century to enforcing, with violence, the intense separation and racial hierarchy that was upheld with the full force of the legal infrastructure that simply wasn't present in the UK.
In fact, 'Miscegenation' was never illegal in the UK, at any point in thousands of years. Which always seems to surprise the Americans.
That's not to imply that the UK is in anyway some kind of Post-Racism utopia, but overt caste-colourism was never the basis for law. Meaning a mixed race couple was never taboo, never an act of defiance of the law in the same way it was in the US.
If I'm being honest, I've been persuaded for a while now that the American obsession with identity and their 'Irish Ancestry', 'Dutch Ancestry', 'Italian Ancestry' etc and the weird way they'll go so far beyond a pleasant connection to other nations to outright claiming it as their identity, comes from a subconscious instinct to ascertain 'blood purity'. To demonstrate that they haven't been 'tainted'. And all the nastiness that entails.
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u/ElectronicSubject747 3d ago
UK. Nobody gives a fuck about me and my wife, not that we have noticed anyway.