[ACC25073]

As recently as the time of your own grandparents, Italians used to be considered another ‘race’ (which is a fraudulent idea with no scientific backing, by the way) that were not ‘white’, and so many people refused to let their daughters date or marry them. Arab or Arabic is not a ‘race’, it is a culture with members as light as Marlo Thomas and as dark as Anwar Sadat. For that matter some Americans considered ‘black’ are lighter than some Italians. Who is darker, Colin Powell or Al Pacino? Whatever gave you the idea that people of mixed backgrounds or in ‘mixed’ relationships are hopelessly confused? There are tens of millions of us just in this country alone, and I think as a group we cope better with the issue of racism than most so-called ‘pure’ people. You seem to be using your daughter as an excuse for your own feelings, with no evidence whatsoever that she would be harmed by such relationships. Who you date is your own choice of course, but let’s hope you don’t pass your own irrational fears to her. If you were to openly verbalize what you have said here to her, the message you would send to her would itself be very confusing: mixing is OK for other people, but you and I better not. Somehow your own parents overcame the same fears you have, the only question is: why didn’t you?

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Name : ACC25073, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States, 

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