When push comes to shove, people fall in love with and marry who their heart desires so it's not like some outside force is requiring this.

More like whomever the media wishes them to be attracted to...it takes years of brainwashing and propaganda.

and attracting massive waves of illegal immigrants in order to speed up the process.

Looks like we have a liberal in the audience thumbing down the posts.

Not just illegal immigrants, think of our massive number of LEGAL immigrants.

and attracting massive waves of illegal immigrants in order to speed up the process.

and Americans travelling overseas to find a feminine, submissive wife.

The figures are confusing if you fail to differentiate between inter-racial with inter ethnic, e.g. if a Thai man married a Burmese woman, or an Englishman married a French woman, or an American married an Australian, would that be counted in the figures?  

Intermarriage has been going on since the year dot. I don't understand why you even ask the question.

Do I believe this?  Yes.

I have watched it with my own eyes.

I grew up in the very deep South in the 70s.  Race mixing was frowned upon and often resulted in shunning from one's family.  Very few people really wanted that.  Oh, sure, there was a lot of mixed race dating, but just so teenagers could shock their parents.  Absolutely no one was serious about race mixing.  

Also, very few people I knew were all that interested in mixed marriages regarding religion or ethnic origins.  Italians married Italians.  Irish married Irish.  Germans married Germans.  You could get away with the ethnic thing, though, because of religious values though.  

But by the late 70s and early 80s, all of this was dying.  By the time I was 25, it wasn't so shocking to see blacks with whites and military men had long been bringing home Asian wives, especially the black ones.

As I look around now, race mixing is no longer a consideration for most people, other than just a preference.  You know like "I like vanilla ice cream better than chocolate."

It seems like EVERYTIME I see little babies now, they are mixed race, and many of the mothers are unmarried.  This was almost unheard of 30 years ago.

Nowadays, ethnic "pride" is seen as some sort of gang mentality or nationalism and is completely frowned upon unless it is related to Latinos or Blacks.  You know---yea, your Cuban!  Yea, your Nigerian!  What's a Slovak?  

It has happened really rapidly.  

So yes, I believe it.

Do I believe that it is socially acceptable now?  That's a hard one to grapple with, isn't it?  But we were told for so long that considering our races and ethnicities  was somehow hateful, so we decided to ignore it.

Regarding the thread I live in the Deep South and see interracial marriage all of the time, especially between black men and white women.

Yeah right

Is that sarcasm or agreement?

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Yeah right

Is that sarcasm or agreement?

Neither. I disagree with what you are saying. I don't believe interracial between blacks and whites is common in the deep south.