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Discrimination, inmigration, and struggle by latinos inmigrant to USA minorities and mass media...interracial marriages People had always been influenced by the differences found in other people when considering the first impression these had had on them. At the beginning, the humans had been accustomed to living in tribes and forming relationships only with the members of their tribes. However, with time, there have been interactions between members from different tribes and different races even.

Globalization has made this occurrence even more possible, as people have found it easier to interact and form relationships between people of different backgrounds, even if they came from different environments. Interracial marriages are now very common world wide, as people can safely form bonds in spite of the racial differences between them. The act has been seen as being against the nature and even disgraceful within communities not willing to accept it, not to mention making it legal.

Interracial marriages have been banned in several countries until recently in the 20th century as people evolved and started to comprehend the fact that relationships between people of different race are inevitable and have nothing to do with the laws against nature. People regard interracial marriages as having damaging effects on both those that get involved in such relationships and on their children. However, when considering several people like Obama, Tiger Woods, and Derek Jeter it can easily be observed that they have grown into very successful adults.

All of the famous people mentioned are born out of interracial relationships. In most of the countries, the laws banning relationships between people of different races have been abolished and, as a result, the number of interracial marriages has increased world wide. As incredible as it may sound, there are still people today that are not willing to accept interracial marriages and often protest against it.

Interracial marriages are surely not going to be prohibited ever again as it is much easier now for people to interact on the internet or even in person with the means of transport having made a huge step further compared to those from the last century. From the point-of-view of technology, the possibility to travel around the globe is now virtually possible for anyone. The U.S.

is one of the countries in which the topic is most discussed, most probably because of the large number of people of different nationalities which exists here. There are institutions which preferred to keep the banning of interracial marriages alive until recent years and only decided to stop after intense pressure from authorities. Racism is a debated matter in the U.S. with interracial marriages not being possible and being harshly denounced until the abolishment of slavery in the 19th century.

The South is still reluctant from accepting black people as being true American citizens and further more from accepting relationships between blacks and whites. Interracial marriages are still severely condemned by the people in the south of U.S. The people of South Carolina are presently among the most discontented when regarding the matter.

As having been one of the last states to stand firm in fighting the North in order to preserve slavery in the country, South Carolina has maintained some of the sentiments that its people had before the ending of the Civil War. The situation affects the married couples through the fact that they feel their society does not accept them and they are often alienated from the normal activities in the community (Robert McNamara, Maria Tempenis, Beth Walton).

The most plausible reason for their alienation is that South Carolinian communities might consider that the particular couples had broken a southern tradition. The U.S. is presumably the land of the free and the land in which most things are accepted, but despite all suppositions, Americans, especially those in the south, often prove to be nationalists and not are willing to accept any kind of interaction between people from different races or nationalities.

Most often, the marriage between an Afro-American man and a white woman is considered not to have love as a motive, but as being a fraud done by the black man in order for his place in society to increase. Also, when a white man and an Afro-American woman marry, the woman is believed to have acted because of financial motives, as the normal white man is considered to be wealthier than the typical black man.

However, the theories are not necessarily true, as there is also the possibility of a white woman to marry a black man for his social status. Marriages between Afro-American men and white women are more frequent than marriages between white men and Afro-American women. Interracial marriages are also condemned because of the fact that people that choose their partners from a different race are seen as being either traitors of their own race or as killers of their racial identity.

(McNamara, Tempenis, Walton, 1999) An important problem that rises when looking at the relationships between whites and blacks is that their children can find it difficult to relate to a certain race when searching for their racial identity. Moreover, people in general have a hesitation from accepting one that is from a mixed race.

Whites do not accept people from mixed races because of their disapproval of interracial relationships and blacks also reject people from mixed races due to the fact that their brighter skin presumably advantages them in a society that is controlled by white people. (Brown, 2001) it is hard for one that has been born as a result of an interracial marriage to grow up because both whites and blacks see the slightest difference in skin color as being enough to reject an individual from the community.

Multiracial people had been recognized as being able to identify themselves as being members of more than one particular race in the late 20th century (idem). Sadly, the reaction of the public remains to be seen, with the Americans having had used racial differences as a mean to categorize social classes for centuries. The interracial relationships matter is well-known since the early ages and it had begun to emerge as a habitual act with the colonization of various aboriginal countries.

Patricia Grimshaw presents how things had developed in New Zealand and how people of different races have managed to live together against all odds. The lives of Jane Foley, a woman that had been born from an interracial marriage, and Bessy Cameron, that had been married to a man coming from an interracial marriage, are unfolded as they encounter all of the difficulties of having their racial identity put to test. The two women had a lot in common, as they were both raised and educated by settlers.

The difference between the two came from their different standing points in relation to their mixed origins. Foley had discovered that her condition brought along several advantages while Cameron had been living in misery because her condition only meant to her that the newcomers would look down on her for being an aboriginal. (Grimshaw, 2002) The marriage between Ellen Davis, a white Scottish widow, and John Davis, a respectable black man, in 1879, in New York is another example of interracial marriages taking place for quite some time.

It would appear that this particular case had not been singular in the 19th century, as people from a variety of nationalities and colors had been reported of having got married (Dabel, 2005). The couples that chose to marry regardless of their difference in color usually did so in the black churches from New York and had been accustomed to sending their children to schools attended only by blacks.

One of the most possible factors which are believed to have influenced interracial marriages in New York in the 19th century is that the weddings had been done between Scottish or Irish immigrant women and black men. Another factor which manipulated the marriages had been that the people to marry had been from similar positions in the contemporary society; they belonged to the working classes.

Most of the Irish and Scottish immigrants coming to New York had to stay in the poorest areas of the city (which had usually been inhabited by blacks), and thus, interactions between races had been made easier. (Dabel) The people of South Carolina still feel the hate of those that see blacks as being inferior. Racists are criticizing anyone that.