When I think of interracial marriage in my own admittedly illogical brain, I find archetypal stories. The first: two individuals transcend racial boundaries to find true love, throwing society's prejudices back in its face and paving a path to the future. The second: two individuals hook up based on their desires to be with someone exotic or who gives them the social mobility of whiteness, claiming to love the other as an individual, but consciously or subconsciously expecting the other to fulfill racial stereotypes.
This is the part where I worry I make no sense. I tend to associate the first archetype with interracial marriages before 1967 (Loving V. Virginia) and the second with interracial marriages after 1967. Is it because I think people had to be more serious in marriages that broke laws? Am I just glorifying the past? Am I going crazy? Where did this strange assumption come from?
i think historically, it wouldn't have accepted well if someone admitted that they were hooking up with another because they were super exotic. but its not like human nature has changed... i think both stories happen in past and present, its just which one is more culturally relevant/accepted/cool to talk about.
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