Dating is tricky — even more so when you don’t follow the cookie-cutter mold of what a relationship should look like. Less than 50 years ago, interracial marriage was illegal in the United States and even when the anti-miscegenation laws were deemed illegal by the Supreme Court in 1967, interracial couples were harassed and discriminated against for decades.
Now we live in a new, global era with more tolerance and understanding for couples that exist outside the “norms” for relationships… yet many interracial couples still attract stares. As the “white” half of a Japanese-American couple, I noticed some of the same questions keep popping up again and again.
After a quick chat with some other interracial couples, I realized my experiences were not unique. These are eight seemingly innocent questions that have deeper, darker implications for interracial couples.
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