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06.15.2009 12:56 pm

How do you feel about interracial couples? Survey wants to know

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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The kissing photo

The kissing photo

When the Post-Dispatch published this photo on the cover of “Go” in April, we caused a firestorm of comments to break our in this blog — more than 350 people weighed in for it, against it, or indifferent to the photo of this real-life couple.

Since then, five graduate students at Washington University  have undertaken a look at interracial relationships and people’s attitudes toward them, and their survey is the backbone of some of that work (NOTE: The survey has now been closed; this link to it is no longer active).

Taking the time to fill out this survey will help them, and maybe everyone, understand people’s attitudes toward interracial relationships.

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If 2 people are happy together, let them be..regardless of the color of their skin!!

— DPec
1:20 pm June 15th, 2009

My husband and I are a mixed couple. We have been together since 1994 and I can tell you from first hand experience, I’ve lost jobs because I am married to an African American. My husband has had notes left on the windshield of his cars on the parking lot where he used to work. Never in a million years did I think that St. Louis could be so racially polarized. when I was in high school, I fell in love with downtown St. Louis — all the hustling and bustling of the city streets. Had I known back then, what I know now, things probably would have been different. Thankfully the neighbors have accepted us as a couple.

— grueller
1:31 pm June 15th, 2009

Can you file this under “Complete Waste of Time?” Just think, these five students are paying mucho denero to WashU and this is the best they can come up with?

— Amazedbythelunacy
1:41 pm June 15th, 2009

Why is it that in this country no one had a problem with Hugh Hefner dating girls 50 years younger than him but some got all up in arms over the photo?? Some people need to get a life! If people are in love who cares about what they are or where they came from! Does anyone remember the 1980’s move, “Earth Girls are Easy” because underneath it all we are all the same.

— Kelly
2:03 pm June 15th, 2009

Why is it that if the couple is half white and half black, people freak out about them, but if the couple is half white and half Oriental, nobody cares?

— red
2:19 pm June 15th, 2009

the concept was good, but the questions were surprisingly poorly done. too bad.

— jakey
2:42 pm June 15th, 2009

I’m all for interracial couples, but against affirmative action. It’s fine for love, bad for business.

— Sam
2:45 pm June 15th, 2009

Didn’t we do this one already?

— numbedout
2:46 pm June 15th, 2009

Those questions came from Wash. U. graduate students? You’re joking.

— publicschooled
2:56 pm June 15th, 2009

Relationships between people of different skin colors (I won’t use the term interracial because it is bogus. There is only one race, Homo Sapiens) is so common those days, I don’t give it a second thought anymore. Not so, 15 or 20 years ago, when it seemed a little awkward. The pity is that people (regardless of their skin color or ethnicity) get into relationships for the wrong reason, and after they’re in over their heads, they realize they have absolutely nothing in common with the person they’ve chosen to be sexually intimate with.

— Joe L.
3:17 pm June 15th, 2009

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