Reply #57: I once dated a guy who is Vietnamese...

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And the only person that has a problem with it was his mother. My family was cool (except for my grandfather who is just way old fashioned). His mother would not let me in the house and even though she spoke perfect english, she would only speak vietnamese in front of me.

I was thinking about this...and the only thing I can see against interacial dating is that these communities have not been mixed for thousands of years. There is alot of genetic variation that occurs in these communities, and by mixing the gene pool we could have an increase in genetic disease. For example: The amish are an isolated community that only marry within their own group. Therefore, they have many genetic diseases that are more prevalent in their community. Occasionally, there are people who leave the amish church and go on to marry someone else. This causes the mutations within the amish genome to be expressed in other genomes, thus causing an increase in genetic disease. Same with Sickle cell...if we mix races enough, the incidence of sickle cell anemia will go up. Thats the only problem I can see.