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Interracial is not the same as cross-cultural; you're talking about interracial, not necessarily cross-cultural, marriage. The only "con" of interracial marriage as such is that, as you know, a lot of people may not like it--but you really shouldn't run your life on the basis of what other people do or don't like, if the right thing for you is something they don't like. On the other hand, there are no "pros" of interracial marriage as such, compared to marriage within the same race. What matters is the character and compatibility of the people getting married, not what race they are. And if you admire *all* white girls, you're in for a terrible shock, because a lot of them (like a lot of any other kind of people) are not highly worthy of admiration!

Where do you live that people don't approve of interracial couples and marriages?

The pros and cons of multicultural marriages will be EXACTLY the same as any other marriage. You have to work at any relationship so it depends on the people, not their race or culture. In fact, in a lot of places in the world, multicultural marriages are more common than everyone sticking to their own race.

I personally don't have a choice whether or not to marry within my own race. I have never met a person who is Hawaiian, Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino like I am. And guess what? All of my relationships had the same pros and cons as anyone else's relationships.

Of course not. It's not the race of your partner that matters, it's the person he/she is and the love you share together.

I'm asian, but I really want to marry someone outside my ethnic background. My parents are always telling me that it's my choice, but they disagree with my opinions. They're quite traditional. But that's the past, this is 2010.

By the way, it sounds like you're talking about "interracial marriage". Cross-cultural marriage is when two people from different countries get married. Which is also fine.

Well, people are people... We may differ by language and by custom but by and large, all people want the same thing: To live and to be happy.

Some Cross-Cultural Matches are not a good idea... i.e. A Western Woman that wants to dress as she chooses, go where she chooses, and be equal partners with her mate can't marry a devout Muslim Man because in Islam, women are property, worth less than livestock, and her husband can do with her as he pleases, literally being legally and ethically in his right to rape her if he so chooses. Legally in the theocracies, ethically/morally in the spirit of Islam.

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☪ When feminists get it right

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-03-10/news...

In Saudi Arabia, and across the Middle East, men can't handle seeing a little leg — or even an ankle — so rather than put a blindfold on the men, they throw a tarp over the women. Indeed, throughout vast swaths of the Muslim world, men can't compute dealing with women as equals, so they lock up the women.

☪ Muslim Women Are Told to "Laugh Off" rape:

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/01/australi...

Melbourne, Jan 24 : Beleaguered cleric Abu Hamza came under fire again for his radical views on rape when his website claimed that Muslim wives could laugh off unwanted sex and rape could be confused with simply having a pushy husband.

In response to the sex-on-demand and wife smacking controversy sparked by Hamza's lectures, his Islamic Information and Services Network of Australasia website published an article saying the media had no right to question his marital teachings.

But the article on Hamza's IISNA website suggested a Muslim wife could choose to "laugh off'" sex without consent or that spousal rape was hard to define and could just be a case of being married to a "pushy husband".

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But there are also very many severely damaged western women that would love the chance to progress the cycle of abuse and chaos by being married in to a culture where she can be abused like she was in childhood.

I live in Chicago, IL USA and we are a very multi-cultural/multi-national city. We have enclaves from every culture on earth and we tend to get along...

Whites and Blacks...

Blacks and Latinos...

Europeans and Asians...

I've seen more "Race" and "Culture" mixing here than I've ever seen in any other place I've lived.

Do what makes you happy is my motto...

If you love a person outside your culture and that person is OK with your culture (and vice versa) or you are both willing to compromise to reach consent, I wish you the best of luck!

this isnt 1930. Date whoever you think is attractive and makes you happy. I hate ignorant people who think its wrong to marry someone of a different race. -.-

Be able to support your wife first of all, that's one way to keep her. If the two of you love each other, cling onto only each other, be there for each other, support each other, and your love for each other will concur all. Love is a beautiful thing.