All in The Family

[Atlas14]

I would want my children to look like me, just so I feel a bit more connected to them. Although if they didn't look like me, I wouldn't mind too much.

 

[Xanikk999]

I would like my kids too look white or possibly asian or hispanic.

I would never marry a woman who isnt white, asian or hispanic because any others are unattractive too me.

 

[skadistic]

And here I was hoping for another "is it ok to hump your cousin" thread.

I don't care myself and as we all know a mixed race person is always hotter. Genetic diversity is what our primal instincts want and look for in phermones.

 

[downtown]

My parents didn't care. They were from different ethnic groups.

My mother has teased me about this before, since I tend to date blonde, european girls (instead of say, hispanics or ambigiously ethnic people like me)...but it doesn't *really* matter to any of us.

 

[Irish Caesar]

As a side note to this poll, why is it wrong to care about how your kids look? It's certainly wrong to judge people based on ideas about their appearance, but I don't think it's wrong to want kids to look a certain way.

It would be wrong to love them less if they were born with brown eyes instead of blue, but I don't think there's anything wrong in hoping for blue eyes nine months prior to that. For example.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

I actually think it would be cool to have a black or asian kid that somehow manages to look very similar to me.

 

[Stacmon]

As a side note to this poll, why is it wrong to care about how your kids look? It's certainly wrong to judge people based on ideas about their appearance, but I don't think it's wrong to want kids to look a certain way.

It would be wrong to love them less if they were born with brown eyes instead of blue, but I don't think there's anything wrong in hoping for blue eyes nine months prior to that. For example.

I was going to make roughly the same comment.

I voted for the third option, "I know its wrong, but it IS somewhat important to me." I don't think it's wrong to want your children to look like you/have the same physical features of your ancestry.

Personally, I'm of mixed parentage, like some, half Lebanese (Arab) and half Ukrainian (White European). A lot of my physical features are fairly "Middle Eastern" though, and I get very little from my mother.

I have black hair, dark brown eyes, though my skin is only slightly darker than a white European's.

Basically, the type of woman I'm attracted to happens to be a brunette/woman with black hair. I like Arabs and Middle Eastern women, because of both their physical features but also their culture.

I think having children that look like their parents, or share the physical characteristics of their ancestors have a stronger sense of identity. I know I've battled with the subject myself.

One of the reasons I'd prefer to be married to a Lebanese or Arab woman is so that my future children would be 75% Lebanese/Arab and would likely look it too. It's hard to explain but identity is actually something very important to certain people, and I want my children to have a heritage that they can clearly identify with.

However, Islam teaches the equality of all people and stresses that no race is better than another. In other words, it's not that I have a problem with "White Europeans", South or East Asians, Africans, etc. but rather that I would prefer a person similar to me. If I was Danish, I would probably want to find someone Danish/Scandinavian for the same reason.

 

[PrincepsAmerica]

I couldn't really pick an option because it is important to me but by being half me I'm sure the child would look a lot like me regardless of what my wife looks like. The only way this wouldn't work is if I adopted. I think it's probably better to think of my tribe as America.

 

[colontos]

My wife is a different race than I, so there's your answer, I guess.