When you say 'interracial' does it count if you get uncontrolable urges towards farm-yard animals?
Not that I am in that catagory, just a question, I know that it is a really BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD thing to do..........

I am 'white' and was born and brought up in Africa, sent to an international school in the uk when I was 9yrs old where 75% of the girls were 'not English'.
To this day one particular incident haunts me.
I was about 12 yrs old and a nigerian girl said to me "You can't join our gang - you're not black".
I didn't half cry and it was such a shock to me, I went and stood in front of a mirror totally baffled because it never occured to me before that anyone actually *had* a skin color!
Personally I've never dated a non-whiite guy for the simple reason that I've never been in the right place at the right time to meet one whom I liked and he liked me.
(And I still struggle to understand why anyone 'sees' skin color).

I was surprised how much of a reaction it got when I told my friends I (a white guy) had been seeing a black girl. Not a lot of it was negaive persay, but it seemed to shock/intrigue a lot more people than I thought. I honestly thought in our society it was a normal/everyday/accepted thing but it seems we're quite a bit away from that.

-brainy83- Good for you !!
As a person weho shares you colour skin I don't feel offended at all
In the US they have Lovings Day, about Mr & Mrs Lovings (there real name!...he's white)
, a couple in the 60s whose marriage was annuled beacsue they moved stat, then spent about 25 years going through stat-eto-state to make interracial marriage legal in the US

-brainstew-
it isn't common, your scenraio & hence it's a taboo, because people hav't thought about it, it has quite passed their mind




I posted earlier a true story a intterracial couple

He wasn't caucasian, she was,
He was 23, she was 43
He went to the local comprehensive though not to University, she gained a 1st masters in French Literature,
He was brought up in London suburb, she came from a 'posh'upgringing in Torquay in it's heydey,
He was 6ft foot, she was barely more than 5,
She was thin & called him Buddha,
They spent over 4 years together.