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Photographer decided to photograph interracial relationships and asked them to include one negative comment they have heard being said about their relationship.

Interestingly a lot of the photos where there is a black man with a white woman, has a comment underneath coming from a black woman referring to the white women stealing their men.

Finley, 2015. Interracial Couples Share The Insults They’ve Experienced In Insightful Photo Series. The Huffington Post Australia. http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/interracial-couples-share-the-insults-theyve-experienced-in-insightful-photo-series_us_560ecface4b0dd85030be6c7

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Interracial dating shouldn't be taboo, but some people who date outside their race are sometimes ostracized.

Donna Pinckley told The Huffington Post that she is standing up for these couples with her photo series titled "Sticks and Stones." The Arkansas-based photography professor began the project in May 2014.

Pinckley was photographing a white woman and her black boyfriend when the woman's mother told Pinckley that people often make horrible comments about their relationship. "If you go black, they won't touch you," Pinckley said the woman's mother recalled hearing people tell her daughter.

Pinckley said this was upsetting for her because she'd heard of instances like this in the past, so she decided to photograph more interracial couples. She said she took the photos in black and white to distract from skin tones and focus more on each couple's affection for each other. She also asked each couple she photographed to write down an insult they've received from someone else about being in an interracial relationship.

"They are disgusting," one couple wrote. Another couple wrote that they once heard, "If she can't use your comb, don't bring her home!"

"I just wanted to show them that, you know, we should be treated equally," Pinckley told HuffPost.

As of last year, the number of Americans who were in favor of different races marrying each other increased 24 percent from four years earlier, according to Pew Research Center. Perhaps most striking to Pinckley, she said, was the number of younger couples she photographed who have experienced hate speech.

"It's kind of interesting to see, with race relations the way they are, you would think that you would only hear the comments made to older couples, but I'm finding out I have a lot of young couples, too, that have had comments made to them," she said. "I find that kind of disturbing. It's not getting better."

Pinckley said that the photo series is ongoing and hopes that it will help people become more open to interracial relationships and less judgmental.

"Anyone is entitled to love," she said. "It's not just same race. Love's love."

Scroll down to see more moving photos from Pinckley's "Sticks and Stones" series.

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By 2050 will we all look Brazillian?

That's the question!
The National Geographic's research on race relations found that due to the rate of interracial relationships increasing, humans will eventually homogenize and we will all end up looking like mixed-race Brazillians!

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This article discusses Will Smith's latest hollywood film 'Focus', and the unspoken interracial affair between him and fellow actress Margot Robbie.
It talks about films with interracial romances as the lead roles are usually short lived, as the world is still 'coming around' to the idea of interracial relations.

Ifeanyi, K. 2015.
The Last Taboo: Will Smith, "Focus," And Hollywood's Interracial Couples Problem. Fast Company. Retrieved from http://www.fastcompany.com/3043046/the-recommender/the-last-taboo-will-smith-focus-and-hollywoods-interracial-couples-problem

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If something is Taboo, it means it is discouraged, forbidden or seen as wrong within societal norms. For instance, many places, religions and cultures find interracial relationships as taboo. They are either forbidden or highly discouraged.
For many people, they can experience being critised, ostracised and can be the target of racism, all because they have chosen to be with someone outside of their race, religion or culture.

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This YouTube clip tells the story of an Arab man who pretended to be a Jewish Bachelor in order to have sex with a Jewish girl in Israel, was sentenced to 18 months in Prison in Israel for 'rape by deception'.
In Israel there are a group of men called 'fire for Judaism' whose sole purpose is to stop relations from occurring between the local Jewish girls and the Arab men. They have a 24 hour hotline set up with counselors on call, for family and friends to call and inform them of someone they suspect or know to be having interfaith relations.

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Yet more proof how the jewish hypocrites push diversity, multiculturalism, and miscegenation on everyone but themselves

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KIMYE - one example of celebrity interracial relationships

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KIMYE - one example of celebrity interracial relationships

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Kim is of Armenian/ Dutch, English, Irish, Scottish & Kanye is African America and in my opinion they make a stunning couple!

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Given that there is no biological basis to race (Duncan, 2016), then why is it that interracial relationships are such an issue within certain races and religions such as with Indians, Jews, Chinese and Muslims for example.

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This is a picture of my Brother, Maternal Grandparents, Mum and Step-Dad! Lovely colours!

As a side note - My Mum was scared to tell her Dad (a strict senior superintendent in the Police Force) that she was pregnant with a man she wasn't married to, and that the baby would be 'mixed race', i.e. ME! He was elated when I was born however, quashing her concerns over his conservative upbringing, and fearing he would somehow reject me!

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I myself am mixed race (previously known as half-caste, although this term is now considered offensive to many - proving the fluidity of political correctness and how it is constantly changing!). Born in England along with both of my parents, my mother is white and father is black. His parents both coming from Dominica in the Caribbean. I grew up in a small town in England with my mum and step-dad (also black with west indies heritage too) where most people were white. My step-dad was the only black man in town for about 12 years, therefore my brother and I were the only mixed race kids in school. I didn't experience racism in a negative form, but was definitely racialised by others. People assumed I was American, and did things, like came and touched my afro hair and called me frizzy! My brother however did experience racism and still to this day remembers being called a chocolate orange at school.

What was interesting is that, whenever I went to visit my biological father in the holidays, that side of my family would always think I was too white and I guess not black enough culturally, which I guess I wasn't as I grew up around white people mostly, but when I would go home, I instantly felt black again! So from my first hand experience, i 100% agree that race is a social construction, and at times I guess it was a bit challenging for me, finding where to fit in.

I have been in relationships with white and black men and eventually married an Asian man (Filipino) when I moved to Australia. My kids are therefore a mix of three different races (White, Black, Asian), so no doubt they will experience some form of racism and or/racialisation at some point in their lives, and go through similar circumstances that I myself went through.

Luckily my family and my Husbands family are very open and were welcoming on both sides to accept each others cultures, but I have friends whose parents completely opposed their relationships. One friend of mine is South African Indian, and she was with a Fiji Indian. The Fiji Indian parents ended up sabotaging their relationship as they wanted their son to be with someone who was also Fiji Indian, irrespective of the fact they were both Indian!!

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Race - Essentialist or Social Construction Theory?

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Race - Essentialist or Social Construction Theory?

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The essentialist theory reflects "deep-seated, inalterable essence and is indicative of traits and ability. Versus the social constructionist theory which states that race is socially constructed, malleable, and arbitrary. (Hong, Chao & No. 2009)

The essentialists believe that the biological body determines the social order; so they would say that skin colour and sex for instance, are the main factors that distinguish the social hierarchy between races.

I would side with the social constructionists as I agree that race is 100% socially constructed due to my own personal experiences. But this social construction has many 'real' condequences such as racism, and therefore for one to choose to date or marry outside their own race or religion, can expect that not everyone will be best pleased.

DeMello (2014, p. 214) states 'Races are artificial categories of people that are distinguished from each other on a basis of arbitrary critera - like skin colour or eye-shape. Those groups are then ranked in a graded hierarchy".

DeMello, M. 2014. Body studies. Retrieved from http://reader.eblib.com.au.ezproxy.une.edu.au/(S(zihsj0eudy24lg1leop1ckuw))/Reader.aspx?p=1582664&o=93&u=cvA%2fUCYurw4O%2bIu6BeXZAg%3d%3d&t=1471059244&h=74785188CAF2BAFDC558FB8F86F91B7C6D149CA2&s=27044474&ut=238&pg=212&r=img&c=-1&pat=n&cms=-1&sd=1#

Hong, Chao, No. 2009. Dynamic Interracial/Intercultural Processes: The Role of Lay Theories of Race. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00582.x/full

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John Safran - Australian comedian on all things politics and religion. He did a television series called 'race relations' questioning inter-racial relationships, stemming from his own quandary of being a Jew, yet consistently being attracted to Eurasians, and battling the judgements from family and friends  because he wasn't sticking to his 'own kind'!