The Larger Picture

In one of Childs many discussions she talks about looking at the bigger picture presented before us. Here she says, “Couples who de-emphasized race in terms of their own identities or experiences were most likely to say that others in society also didn’t care that they were an interracial couple, drawing on common phrases such as “ love sees no color” or the “browning of America”. Though all of the couples had some experiences where others in society responded negatively to the relationship. These couples simply did not discuss the opposition in racial terms. Some couples explained it in terms of a personal choice “not to see opposition.” For these couples, opposition does not exist because they do not acknowledge it similar to the ideology of color-blindness” (Childs 39). I picked this quote because it shows how interracial couples put things behind them meaning that they did not let outside world influence their decision. They couples stay true to themselves, what feels right for them goes nothing else. Victor gives his point of view.
“I think is has changed, I’ve seen it change… we’ve seen that [the opposition] change because we’ve seen it so much [referring to interracial couples]. I mean, when you walk places that’s what you see. I can remember we went to Boston, and, I mean, they were all over the place, very interracial…it’s not going to be a big deal… but there’s probably places down there [south] that still, it’s not to be done…but we’re quite fond actually of spotting interracial couples wherever we go. We them IRCs… “ Did you see the table behind you/ oh, yeah, cool,” course she’s always checking out the kids… to see what the mix looks like. Honestly, it’s going to be the wave of the future. There’ll be more of it and people will think less of a taboo about the whole thing” (Childs 38).
Here victor talks about how the world is getting better and letting go of the norm. He says that there are some places that he can comfortably express himself and other parts that still need more work. And this is better compared to the 19th century were people had to hid because they were scared of the consequence for breaking the rules. And it is true that the world is getting more diverse. Which I think is a good thing because then racism might vanish and people wont have to be afraid anymore. I am almost done with reading Navigating Interracial Borders, then I will began reading stories about the 19th century, this is going to be very interesting because the people of those times lived in a more violent era.