People always seem to think biracial people are better than single raced people, why?

I'm Latino. But I have friends who are mixed, one who is Korean/White, Korean/Black, Puerto Rican/Asian, Black/Persian, Guatemalan/White, Indian/Chinese and a few other mixes.





And no matter what when I describe my mixed friends to other friends (while showing my pictures, people ask questions) they are amazed like being biracial is something special.





I love my friends and they are special, but not because they are biracial, because they are great people.





People also assume all biracial people are gorgeous, all of my friends are gorgeous but I've seen some ugly mixed race people.





I'm just worried about falling in love with someone from another race b/c don't want my kids growing up getting way too much attention for being biracial. I don't want people constantly asking them what race they are or telling them they are pretty BECAUSE they are mixed, like single race people arent pretty!





Why is our culture obsessed with biracial people, at least in my experience they are.

People always seem to think biracial people are better than single raced people, why?
they want to be so modern. Sometimes people think dating interracially is better too. And your right i have seen some ugly a** biracial people before. They are not special, just human, get over it people.
Reply:I don't know. If I posted a question saying white people are the prettiest race or black is the prettiest race I would be called racist. If I made a board saying a biracial person is the prettiest race nothing would happen though. Why not? All three of those instances are generalizing so why do 2 of them get bashed on and 1 is accepted? Double standard. Or should I say triple standard? lol
Reply:Speaking from experience, I've found that bi-racial folks generally ARE more attractive. I deal with a large population of college-age people every day where I have to ask them to choose a racial classification for EEOC purposes. I have no bias and no preconceived notion about any one group being better than another, but for physical attractiveness and an exotic quality, the mixed race kids are standouts more often than their single race peers.
Reply:Just another facet of racism. They think it is okay because it is "positive" racism.
Reply:It's a funny thing, and you're right. People are kind of obsessed with other people's ethnic background.


While I think there are beautiful mixed people...I find single raced people just as beautiful aswell.


But I think there's some kind of prestige put on someone for having the most exotic backgrounds.


Unfortunately, being just white, just asian, just latino, just black...is sometimes thought as boring.


I mean, look at most hip hop music videos and you'll find most of the girls are mixed race...Azzareya, LaShontae, and so on. It's almost as like you're not beautiful unless you're mixed or unless your from a certain country or background. It's weird.
Reply:I personally think the same thing about biracial people and I can say that my answer for this would be because biracial people are different not special but different!!!!!! You see black people all the time especially in a black family! You see whites all the time especially in a white family! But you just don't wake up in the morning and run into a guatemalaian or a puerto rican at the end of the street and when you do it's a small family that just moved in town from new york or somewhere. and sometimes it's just a new look outside of the box that's impressive to some people! do you know that a good sum of people never leave their hometown? not for vacation or a job move or anything..!! so to see someone of a differeft lifestyle and color and speech is amazing to others just because they haven't seen it before. So just be patient with us ok? and we apologize for makin' a spectacle out of some gorgeous otherwise unknown to the rest of us humans that happen to have an ancestry other than AA or caucasian!!!. Be blessed and don't be scared to acknowlede the fact that you are beautiful !!!! and your friends too!!!
Reply:I do not.....they're just people.......not all biracial people are gorgeous.......they're just like any other man or woman..........people need to grow up an stop trying to separate all of society.........this is the reason there are still wars and whole lot odf craziness going on in the world..........WE ALL NEED TO BE ONE
Reply:I respect that of you for coming up and saying that and you're 100% correct. It doesn't matter what your backround is, you're a good person and part of the human race. Lo tenga mucho amigos en Milwaukee Wi. Ademas, una novia philipina y estamos enamorados. No escutcha a los otros. Ellos sabe nada.
Reply:Lolololololol.


Ohh boy, that was funny.





I can't help laughing. Get over it. I'm considered "just white" by most people who never ask and I've no less then seven heritages of seven seperate cultures who, by the by, look only nominally alike in skin tone and nothing alike in build and structure. My husband has four "races". People all over the world care, they get happy or mean, it happens. But to choose or fear to date because of "future" kids?





I'd hate having ugly kids and worry about marrying a man who is everything you want and happens to be far from "pleasing" to the eyes! But worry over each race because of possible kids? People in europe always wanted to know my race and my families linage, friends too. It's a question that happens. Your kids if they are blessed with good looks will be liked for that, race regardless and learn to handle thier lives according to your teaching. Worry about the guy loving you back, not about the future you don't have yet.