Saturday November 7, 2009, 12:24 pm
This is a very interesting topic.

I've often wondered how much interracial
parents influence who their children will marry.

Would love to see read more comments.

Knock on wood-Plant trees for life...........

Saturday November 7, 2009, 1:03 pm
I have mixed children and I have enstilled in them to stay in their own race. They told me they wouldn't even want to go out of it anyway's! I am Native American & my husband is Mexican, he is Mexican Indian. We are very much the same race, just different States of origin.

Saturday November 7, 2009, 1:25 pm
Everyone must do what they see is right for themselves. Your childrens' lives are not yours to live!!! They have their rights and their choices must be right for themselves - parents have no right to indoctrinate their children at all in things of this matter - this is what eventually may lead to HATE CRIMES!!! LOL sorry but this is how I feel and the RIGHT OF CHOICE LAYS WITH THE INDIVIDUAL!!! Another person cannot force another to marry where they see fit - they may offer advice but they may not indoctrinate!!!. I come from a family of many mixed races. TY LW Brightest Blessings.

Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:30 pm
I am also Indian and Mexican my girls tend to gravitate to the mexican side...LOL No worries from me its thier life...besides mexi/indian babies are soooooooooooo cute...LOL

Big Gorilly Hugs

Saturday November 7, 2009, 4:08 pm
PS: Sorry I missed something in my reading - re the Culture of The Native American Peoples - sorry - all cultures should be kept alive it would be a sad thing to lose them they must always be handed down but in saying that these cultures can still be kept alive even through inter-racial unions can they not. LOL Brightest Blessings

Saturday November 7, 2009, 6:53 pm
noted thank you

Saturday November 7, 2009, 10:48 pm
He'll choose his own way when the time comes, just as his father did. I only hope his father will not be a jerk as his own father was, if the kid chooses a non-Indian spouse.

Saturday November 7, 2009, 11:04 pm
Thanks Terry

Sunday November 8, 2009, 12:26 am
Seems perfectly normal to me.

Sunday November 8, 2009, 4:08 am
I understand why the preference would emerge given the situation, although I have the exact opposite position with my children. An individual's choice of partners should always be respected. And let's remember, it's the continuation of traditions which make the culture, not the bloodline.

Sunday November 8, 2009, 5:36 am
Thannxxxx... I think this is a personal decision ... one needs to live by their own convictions and if they want to have mixed marriages this is up to them, and whatever faith or culture they decide to go by is also okay... I don'' think that the native ameican race will die out..

Sunday November 8, 2009, 11:44 am
The most important thing in any mixed marriage is that the children are brought up to know both cultures then they can make an informed choice when they are older. I think it applies to people of, say Hindu culture, who move from India to the UK. I believe that they need to know their history, language as well as that of the country that they live in. This gives them an identity as well as an understanding of why, regretfully, they are picked on!

By the way, I am in a mixed marriage, a religious one, and have to leave my children to decide their way forward. It can be difficult sometimes which is why mixed marriages can be hard as well as wonderful.

Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:39 pm
The Dad is making a big mistake-- he has yet to learn that whatever you tell your kid not to do, they will do it, and vice versa. This is a good thing, otherwise every person would be a carbon copy of their parent/s, and taken to the logical conclusion, we would all be still doing things that our forbears told us to do, millennia ago! Hopefully the Dad will not get in the way, whatever partner his son chooses, whether Indian, white, black or Asian, gay or straight. Inter-marriage is a good thing for society anyway, as mixing genes leads to strengths (the opposite of in-breeding) and also because if everyone was "a little bit of" then nobody would be able to be racist.

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 3:56 pm
Our bodies are just a vessel for our souls, it doesn't matter what race you are. It's the beliefs you follow that are important. I have known NA with very non-native souls/culture, and vice versa. I find it also ironic, that this NA man is acting like a ole prejudice person.

When I would go to many pow wows, I could feel the energy of disapproval upon me. Except for a handful of people who had a spiritual gift, did they know that I walk with many NA souls. Even though in this life I am mostly European. Like I said the soul is what matters, and how we live our lives, no matter our packaging.