Interracial Relationships and Multilingualism

There is a new trend of interracial relationships worldwide where one dates or gets married to another of a different racial background. This is so common today that it’s deemed as so normal, especially by the younger free generation.

 

What hindered interracial relationships in the past?

 However this wasn’t always the case, especially in the history, of not only America, but this goes for all continents worldwide.

Some of the reasons why there were no interracial relationships back then might be because of the following reasons;

Slave trade especially is the western countries that carried is one of the main reasons as to why there were no intermarriages. This is because there was no way one could be allowed to have a relationship with a slave who was deemed as a lesser human. In fact if this was rumored, the unfortunate slave would either be killed, punished or sold off.

In relation to the above, there was the blown up issue of castes and social classes. Here some races were more advantaged than others when it came to wealth, inheritance and material possessions in general. So there was no way one would marry outside their social class, let alone their race.

Geographical distance too made interracial relationships impossible, this is because a particular race was found in a specific geographical location at that time. The advanced technology and sophisticated transport systems were not in place and therefore mobility to other racial locations was limited.

Multilingualism 

However, today thanks to the world becoming a global village, interracial relationships have become the in thing. This therefore means more languages spoken by the off springs of such relationships.

“I speak English, a little bit of Hawaiian and Japanese”, stresses Ann Marie Yuri who is what is referred to as the mixed race today. Yes, she is as a result of a mixture of Japanese, Hawaiian and African American.

She is just an example  of millions of mixed racial off springs around the world, who might not necessarily speak all their parents’ languages perfectly but might know some of them and know the basics in the others.

Therefore interracial relationships are an important factor when it comes to fostering the global village element because their products have a foot in various races and speak more than two different languages.

This is a sense also fosters international business relationships because of the various languages spoken by interracial persons. This makes communication with business partners from different regions easier and more effective because someone interracial might speak the business partner’s language well.

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By Angela Kyolaba