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Anonymous wrote:Never an argument about where we will spend the holidays.
Jewish holidays & Thanksgiving with DW's family.
Gentile holidays - including every Xmas - with my family.

It's pretty great. Plus our kid gets to celebrate a lot of stuff all year long. I was raised Lutheran but now I'm agnostic, so when it come to religious our kid will default to Jewish.

That said, my DW is pretty leery of private schools associated with the Christian religion. Even great schools like St Albans/NCS or Sidwell is not ideal to her. She's a hard no on any Catholic schools.

Similar experience here, but we ruled out any religious private schools of either faith— until college if the kids feel so inclined. We also get to discuss the religions in a much deeper historical context then we would if we were married to people of the same faith.

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Anonymous wrote:Most presidential children are in interfaith relationships or marriages, including Biden, Trump, Obama, G Bush and Clinton.

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Anonymous wrote:Never an argument about where we will spend the holidays.
Jewish holidays & Thanksgiving with DW's family.
Gentile holidays - including every Xmas - with my family.

It's pretty great. Plus our kid gets to celebrate a lot of stuff all year long. I was raised Lutheran but now I'm agnostic, so when it come to religious our kid will default to Jewish.

That said, my DW is pretty leery of private schools associated with the Christian religion. Even great schools like St Albans/NCS or Sidwell is not ideal to her. She's a hard no on any Catholic schools.

Similar experience here, but we ruled out any religious private schools of either faith— until college if the kids feel so inclined. We also get to discuss the religions in a much deeper historical context then we would if we were married to people of the same faith.

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Anonymous wrote:However, I find babies, puppies, flowers, rainbows and similarly uplifting things a source of joy. If you find it creepy, its your problem.

As I thought no good explanation..mixed kids are not done novelty for you to gawk at and other for your amusement.

I hate to admit but I find your perspective better than mine. I'm officially embarrassed for my point of view and even though its not ill intentioned, its wrong.

Anonymous wrote:However, I find babies, puppies, flowers, rainbows and similarly uplifting things a source of joy. If you find it creepy, its your problem.

As I thought no good explanation..mixed kids are not done novelty for you to gawk at and other for your amusement.

To get back to the title of the thread, what bigger advantage than having a partner who is crossing huge barriers to marry you. If they weren't in love, they would've broken up after a quick fling.

While it has sometimes been a little bit daunting to be in an intercultural relationship (explaining cultural norms as they relate to ideas around manners, money, social graces, food, ideas about education and work), it has been wonderful also.

We both have benefited from wider understanding of each other and people in general, realizing while there are many cultural differences in people, at the core when people (individuals as well as their families) love each other, a lot can be smoothed over.

I think for us it was helped by each side of the family being socially progressive with similar world views and educational levels, and being pretty close socio-economically.

I feel like with any marriage, there are hurdles to overcome. Sometimes for intercultural couples it's that very fact and sometimes they have no more headwind than any other couple.

Being intercultural has been both hard for our kids when they were younger and found themselves explaining "where they were from" but ultimately I think something they are proud of and appreciative of.

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Anonymous wrote:Humans looking beyond their differences give me hope for a better future.

Mixed faith, race, and culture relationships have existed for many years and our world is still trash.

Enough with the othering!


They are no different than you or anyone else. They arei some magical super being.
Just people trying to live life

Its not as trash as it used to be. Individual and equal rights have come far in most parts of the world. Genetics has come far and thwarted most myths. No two humans are identical but all human beings are 99.9 percent identical in their genetic makeup.

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I get to sleep with a sexy brown man with a full head of hair instead of a gross, balding, pasty white dude.

You should have added:

Signed by,

the woman you see at Applebee's whose butt takes up two bar chairs.

Sorry to disappoint, but I’m a size 2 and have never been to Applebee’s.

But I will readily admit H is aging SO much better than me. Mid 40s, has never worn sunscreen, zero lines or spots, and just as baby faced as he was 20 years ago. Meanwhile I need Botox 4 times a year just to look my age. So unfair.

Never an argument about where we will spend the holidays.
Jewish holidays & Thanksgiving with DW's family.
Gentile holidays - including every Xmas - with my family.

It's pretty great. Plus our kid gets to celebrate a lot of stuff all year long. I was raised Lutheran but now I'm agnostic, so when it come to religious our kid will default to Jewish.

That said, my DW is pretty leery of private schools associated with the Christian religion. Even great schools like St Albans/NCS or Sidwell is not ideal to her. She's a hard no on any Catholic schools.

However, I find babies, puppies, flowers, rainbows and similarly uplifting things a source of joy. If you find it creepy, its your problem.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like racists have arrived.

Not only racists but super racist who would interpret a sweet comment into something ugly with their biased translation.

Explain to me what is sweet about saying a mixed kid is cuter?

Thoroughly awaiting your explanation.

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Anonymous wrote:Interracial children are definitely cuter and interfaith ones are definitely more open-minded, both are more accepting if others.

This definitely isn't true and your first sentence is both stupid and creepy.

What? Cute kids are creepy?

Fetishizing mixed children is wrong and creepy.

Not everyone has an ugly mind.

Let me break it down for you.
Mixed kids are no cuter than non mixed kids. They are not more special.

People like you who focus on their mixed status are either creeps are overcompensating for their racists attitudes by making such ridiculous beliefs.

As someone with mixed kids in her family this othering of them needs to stop

Your last sentence actually makes sense.

Anonymous wrote:Humans looking beyond their differences give me hope for a better future.

Mixed faith, race, and culture relationships have existed for many years and our world is still trash.

Enough with the othering!


They are no different than you or anyone else. They arei some magical super being.
Just people trying to live life

Anonymous wrote:It looks like racists have arrived.

Not only racists but super racist who would interpret a sweet comment into something ugly with their biased translation.