Mr. and Mrs. Bronz had never met the family, who are African-American, that put up the pajama party and decided that one of them should go to say hello. Chuck, Shelly's dad, knocked on the door and was met with disbelief. The family was surprised that Shelly's father was an African-American (Kantrowitz 40). Older children of interracial marriage parents also face problems. They have to make a choice as to which parent's culture to adopt. Halle Berry stated that it is important that multicultural individuals make a choice about race early in the life because even if they identify themselves as interracial they will still be discriminated against as a person of color in this country (Norman 108). Knowing all these barriers and problems, what brings African-American and Caucasian people together? According to a study done by Matthijis Kalniijin, a factor that is consistently associated with intermarriage is social class or status. African-American outmarriage becomes gradually more common when moving up the occupational scale and more common among higher educated African-Americans. Among Caucasians, the pattern is reversed. It is believed that Caucasians are more likely to marry an African-American spouse when it allows them to marry a partner of high socioeconomic prestige (Kalniijin 119). The appreciation of a partner's beauty and the common, the ability to communicate, and the main reason for marriage, love is what bring them together (Randolph 154). It can be seen conclusively, that parents, religion and the attitudes of people, in general, are the main causes to the friction in interracial relationships and marriages. It is difficult, if not impossible, to change the attitude of parents, the older generation, to influence the churches to accepting the patterns of new thought and identity. The older generation will not change because their ideas and thoughts have been ingrained in them. The current generation, who are also guilty of ...
