Roomate Lists Racial/Ethnic Preference

CPUscientist3000
Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:02:05 +0000

I’m guessing in your culture there’s a strong preference for marrying inside your ethnicity? And if someone dates/wants to marry someone outside your ethnicity, it’s frowned upon? I don’t mean just the people in the US, but back in Jordan too. How would the people there view an interracial relationship?

Even here-whites, blacks, Latinos, etc- the (unspoken, even subconscious) expectation in each culture is that you date/marry someone in your ethnicity or one that’s “accepted”. IE white and Asian is a common one.

(Almost) the same thing with your roommate wanting a preference for their own ethnicity.

I don’t like the term Middle Eastern because its a US term and it places America at the center of the world and names other regions in relation to it.

I have Muslim friends in college initially worried about roommates because of their hijabs–people don’t usually like their culture put in the spotlight and questioned, for whatever motives (just curious, thinks it’s weird, etc)

Long story short, relax.