[Gorzaloon]

Either way, race was NEVER brought up in this home because I had two parents who had better things to do.

Same here, and further, not ONE of us six children married another WASP. I have Black, Cherokee, Jewish, and Hispanic relatives as well. It makes family get togethers interesting and often quite funny.

I think it is a generational thing. The older generations may have been appalled, and this is learned behavior...

[cyborg]

Things are very different. I'm glad I'm living in America today in the year 2004 where every last little issue doesn't divide along racial lines (no matter what the media says).

[luckystarmom]

Not in my family. My family (parents, brothers, sisters-in-law) was shocked when I said that it would be okay for my kids to date people of other races as long as they were Christians.

I think this is a much bigger issue in areas in the south.

[R. Scott]

I think it is a generational thing. The older generations may have been appalled, and this is learned behavior...

My father was a good example of the generational attitude.
When I was drafted (1965) his greatest fear wasn’t that I would be killed or maimed, but that I would come home with an Asian wife. He had acquired an intense hatred for all Asians during the fighting for Guadalcanal in WW II.