One of the most difficult issues in India is the problem of interreligious marriages. People are killed over their choice of spouse for belonging to a different religion. Many people see such assimilation as "genocide" Interestingly, in a related thread, the issue of racial/religious sovereignty was brought up in relation to identity. This reminded me of something I had read while reading up on intercaste marriages So, is inter-racial marriage genocide? If yes, what are your thoughts on the subject?
I believe in Jesus' "Be not unequally yoked". On principle, I do not believe in any interracial, intercaste, interreligious, international, intercultural close relationships. Of course, in a multicultural, multireligious, multinational melting pot like modern culture, this may seem moot. But in order to have a decent measure of stability and harmony, one ought to find one's friends and family among people who are similar to oneself - people who have the same values, the same goals. People from different religions do not have that in common.
What...? No. By the way, I got redirected to http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=4821 when I voted on the poll. This is an old issue, I know.
1. You didn't answer the question. 2. People of a different 'race' may very well have the same values etc. Interracial marriages are more often than not between people that have grown up in the same country.
Um no? From a "survival of humanity" stand point the wider the genetic diversity we breed from the better. If you isolate people then they become inbreed (see Tasmania and NZPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!)
I thought marriage = more people (since married folks tend to make babies) and genocide = less people?
Not nessarly, you can breed out a culture. An example would be what the government tried to do in Australia with so called "half castes". Further more killing all the men and raping all the women or even abducting them and forcing them to marry has been used by cultures in the past to destroy another culture. However alowing people to marry for love even if the person they marry is not in that culture is not the same
Do you remember when, We use use to sing , La La La La La La La La La La La La La La. I like brown eyed girls . Diversity is the spice of life . Local makes people homogenized. Lots of Human habitation is already Homogenized . Wal-Mart and McDonald's are everywhere. Support beastiality today. Date a Heathen!!!
Quite a skewed perspective. You said something similar in another thread that said something long the lines of your past experience showing that mixed relationships didn't work. I ask again, are you sure its not just you that's the problem?
Poppycock! In order to have a decent measure of stability and harmony, one ought not be a tool in one's relationship/marriage, nor should one marry until one is ready and one should also not marry a tool and should marry someone who made them happy regardless of race or religion, and not marry someone to make someone else happy (ie family and friends).
I been getting redirected for months, maybe longer. Sometimes tells me wait for my poll or something like that.
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I see you found a new one. This seems rather an odd one to be discussing genocide with because it looks very much like a person who once was committing genocide in his country. I guess that with any country they all have their own societal rules to use and abuse. I think that it is wrong on many levels and am abhorred by a nation as progressive as India still living with these and other rather barbaric customs.
Inter-racial marriage could breed a particular race out of existance. If you look at it that way I guess you could very loosely call it genocide. But since you aren't killing anyone, just preventing them from being born, so it's more like eugenics, I think.
They are two distinct concepts; however, I can understand why people would want to treat it as genocide. race within a particular geography usually correlates to a distinct culture. People of different cultures inherently distrust each other and end up in conflict. That is why inter-racial marriage is viewed as bad in this case.
Inter-racial marriages of course. Did anyone read the OP? What do you think of the sentiments of the two races discussed? The one with the aim of deracialisation, the other with the aim of access to the circle of elites? Entirely.
In highschool, I had a classmate who claimed she would marry a black man (she was white). At the time, she didn't even know any black men, though. For some time in Europe, from about 1970 into the 90's, it was fashionable to marry black people, also Arabs. And I mean really fashionable, a status symbol, a matter of not being "average". Other than that, as far as I know, Indians tend to look down on whites. I myself have been the target of this once.
this has to happen naturally over time and not forced so there is adjustment and understanding, otherwise people perceive it as marring their culture with elements that don't fit in. culture is like a large body of art and with elements contexually complementary. also, as you allude, there can be elements and/or values that are entirely contradictory to another culture which is the cause of the friction. it is natural to share culture and immerse and also to keep separate to have one's own type of culture as well.