(Ok...just found out that this forum is only for 18+...but teens are just too inactive lol)
Personally, of course I would! There have always been arguments against race mixing, involving cultural differences. However if my wife's culture was not so different from mine, and if she adhered to my Catholic faith, then there would be no problem. If their values were completely different from mine, we'd be incompatible and I wouldn't even consider dating them.
However I believe the actual skin colour does not matter at all. Personality, individuality and faith are for more important than ethnicity and nationality.
Culture? What is culture?
Twenty-five years ago, when I was in Japan I met a "Japanese" fellow on the street who was leaving a church. I put "Japanese" in quotes for a reason--because he had been born in Japan of Japanese parents and had lived in Japan his entire life. Most people would say he was "Japanese."
But we met and talked, and when he found I was a serious Christian (not just because I had been born in a "Christian" nation), he invited me to his home.
We spent the entire evening talking about the deep subjects of life: Love and hate, good and evil, honor, righteousness. We found ourselves seeing eye-to-eye on everything. And it was all in Christ. We prayed together, sang a bit (both pretty horribly). He taught me the significance of the simple "Haleluia-Amen" praise chorus.
I thought that was pretty cool--two men from opposite sides of the planet being totally in one accord like that.
But it wasn't until about a year later, when I was in Washington DC, that I had the real epiphany. I was talking to another man--someone who externally was very much like me. But when we got to those "deep subjects," we did not agree at all. Despite all the worldly similarities, he was far, far, far from me.
I contemplated that, compared to my experience in Japan. If I was in agreement with the man in Japan on the meaning of right and wrong, love and hate, honor, morality, justice--and in total disagreement with the man who was born on the same chunk of dirt as I was...which man was really of
my culture.
Is culture nothing but language and food and styles of music and clothes? What is the importance of those things? Isn't culture really those "deep subjects?" If my citizenship is in Heaven, then which man was really my fellow countryman, and which man really shared the culture of my true nation?
I have discovered that any woman filled with and guided by the Holy Spirit can be a satisfying mate to any man filled with and guided by the Holy Spirit, and vice versa.
I have also learned that human beings control who they are attracted to and who they love. People make their own decisions to exclude whole groups: Too fat, hair too short, feet too big, skin too blotchy, nose too long. That's absolutely nothing but the flesh speaking, and such people are letting their flesh control them, not the Holy Spirit. Such incredible silliness--as though such things will even last a lifetime, much less for eternity.
