Cupids Dating Blog

I think it's safe to assume that people searching for interracial relationships are more concerned about what they'll find attractive in each other than what their children might look like. Still, the "opposites attract" phenomenon only further proves my point. People like variety and those who are physically attracted to people of different ethic backgrounds will logically benefit from the added bonus of having racially-diverse offspring.

A friend of mine comes from an interracial background where her mother is Scottish and her father is from India. My friend and her three brothers are all grown up now and each one sports a different skin tone, from lightly-tanned white to dark chocolate brown. Yet every one of them is attractive in their own way.

Perhaps I'm letting my multicultural, North American, big-city bias get the best of me, but I think interracial couples are on the rise. For once, mass media can be blamed for contributing to something positive in our society. With movies and magazines celebrating the aesthetic charms of ethnicities from all over the world, the Euro-centric monopoly on beauty is gradually being traded in for a wider selection of models.

We've certainly come a long way. I remember when "interracial couples" was a taboo topic on day-time talk shows. It's comforting to know this topic doesn't cut it any more on these types of shows, be it Oprah or Jerry Springer. However, perhaps there is an aspect to cross-ethnic romances that was never explored.

For the most part, interracial relationships were discussed in terms of issues of racism, which always had a negative and serious connotation. What if we put a contemporary spin on the conversation, ignored all the out-dated social taboos and focused on the simple beauty that results from giving the gene pool a stir? The world's a small place and there's no better group of people to remind us of that than the future generation of interracial kids.