Dating outside your race..

I'm not attracted to skin colour as much as I am bone structure... and I like a more sleek, slender, feminine structure. It seems generally easier to find the kind of facial structure I find attractive in my own race... but this one dude I dated with THE MOST PERFECT FACE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE was black/white bi-racial. GOD that boy was gorgeous. Ugh.

So I've obviously been watching too much Star Trek because when I first saw this poll I instantly thought other races as in Klingons, Cardassians, and Vulcans and things not part of the human race rather than Asians, Native Americans, etc. lol

I'm white and I have been on dates with guys who weren't white, but never dated any of them for more than a month or so. I'm not opposed to the idea of it though.

Great question. I don't really care who I date as long as it's someone good and worthy.

For me it's not about race, i just have a thing for pale skin.

My parents are against me dating outside my race but I don't really care.

i have dated out side on my race in my younger days

I honestly don't care about race and find people from all different races attractive. I did have a crush on a boy that was half black in high school and my mom told me about how some of the older people on my dad's side are all "no you don't do that" and it upset me. I have cousins that are half black and some people on that side of the family didn't talk to my aunt for many, many years. Then when everyone made up and one of my cousins started dating a black guy they wouldn't let her bring him around. It was BS. When I was younger I cared what my family thought but now I really wouldn't.
I briefly dated a guy that was half Mexican in high school and looked it. No one seemed to have a problem with that. It's weird how they are okay with some and not with others.
I really don't care and don't even look twice when I see different race couples. Skin color has nothing to do with who a person really is inside and they shouldn't be treated any differently because of it.
When it comes down to it I don't think there really is a "pure" race left anymore. Everyone is made up of small or large parts of several different races/ethnicities.
I was taught to not care about race and not to discriminate growing up. My parents wouldn't have had a problem with it but they were just worried about how I would be treated by the one side by certain people.

I'm completely fine with other people dating different races. It doesn't bother me to see it. I'm not racist at all but I just feel more attracted to my own race. I have no idea why but that's just how I am.

I voted that I am currently in an interracial relationship and it doesn't bother me. Being a dark skinned Hispanic (I am half Hispanic and half German but I am very dark skinned) in the South, it's hard to date girls from a different race. Just the other week I was at the grocery store where my gf works and seen a white male with a nazi symbols tattooed all over him and it made me very nervous. Since my gf is very white we commonly get starred at but it doesn't bother either of us.

I'm not attracted or unattracted. I honestly don't think about it. I have been with people outside of my race and I've been with people who are of similar race to me. I do not feel attraction to people based on any physical traits, race being one of them, so to say that I am specifically attracted to people of differing race would be a fallacy; in fact, it would be a fallacy to say that I am attracted to people of similar race. I'm not.

Nothing wrong with people being with others who are of differing race. Again, not something that I think about. It's perfectly fine.

I am very physically attracted to people outside of my race, not any specific races necessarily. But, what it really down to is how a person treats me.

Dark hair and warm brown eyes are most attractive to me. Every ethnic group on this planet has people that fit that, though I do have a preference for black women. Yes, I'm open to it and have before.

On the other hand, it can bring up issues that are difficult to deal with in the long term. Internalized racism on some people's parts. Plain ole' racism too. It's very complex. So, I can see why most people marry within their own group whether they find other people attractive or not. Love should conquer all, but life is often more complicated than that. Both people need to be fully invested to get through any awkward or subconsciously hurtful racial dynamics in my experience.

I could care less about race

I tend to be more attracted to those outside my race because I was raised not to favor men in my own race (yes, bad, I know, but it's hard unlearning this stuff).

I really don't like saying 'race' as I prefer to say 'ethnicity.'

That said, I'm more attracted to those who are Caucasian, but I HAVE dated guys who were mixed races, mostly Asian and Mexican, and while they did have Caucasian in them, they looked more Asian and/or Mexican.

To me it's all about personality, but those relationships never lasted mostly due to meddling by family, me getting cheated on, and/or habits/quirks about the people I just didn't like. (Such as alcoholism.)

My dad was NOT pleased. Family believes in staying with your own 'race.'

I don't think it's wrong to date outside of your own race. I have personally never dated outside of my race but mostly because I grew up in a mostly white small town. There were less than a handful of non white people in my high school. I think there is a fine line between personal preference and racism when it comes to dating.

Should I have dated outside of my race, some of my family wouldn't understand or worse. However, I blame their upbringing. Growing up in the South in the 1950's to parents who grow up at even earlier times, you are brainwashed with hatred. And then you pass that hatred, until finally it stops or gets worse.

I don't care about race. I care about intelligence, personality, body type, etc. That said, I think my family (parts) would be a little uncomfortable if I were serious about someone of another race. Probably not in a racist way because I don't think any of them are racist, but in an "oh boy I don't know how to act around this person" sort of way.

I don't care about race, it's more about personality and how someone treats you, etc.