Interracial Dating in America Vs Zimbabwe: Here Is What I found Out…

From the onset blacks and whites are different

I was going through some articles online the other day, when I stumbled upon an article around interracial dating in America. Before then, I had never really thought much about it, but the article did raise some pretty interesting points and it showed just how the issue of race and racism was still a major problem in the world.

Intrigued, I decided to carry out a little research to find out if people in Zimbabwe interracial dated and if so what challenges they came across.

During the process of the research, I learnt that a lot of black Zimbabweans have a line that they have drawn for themselves, a line they wouldn’t dare cross and that line separates them from people of other races, especially the Caucasian race. It’s ‘us’ and ‘them’. ‘We don’t care about them, they don’t care about us.’ I was left with the impression that interaction was only possible when it was necessary otherwise; people minded their own businesses and felt comfortable within their own worlds and within their own race.

A lot of the people I talked to, spoke vehemently against interracial dating, especially dating a white man or woman, and the most popular reason was because of the cultural clashes that would come with such a relationship.

One guy spoke of the cultural differences that exist between black people and white people from the moment of birth. From the onset blacks and whites are different, exposed to different backgrounds, parental influence and history. According to him, these differences signify the distances between the two races and as such, dating is next to impossible.

All of the people that I talked to didn’t mention colonization or the power struggles between white people and black people in Zimbabwe as a factor in the way they viewed interracial dating, however, I felt this part of the Zimbabwean history has an impact in the way most Zimbabweans view the white man in general.

One girl I talked to said ,her bringing a white man home would be taboo, she likened it to sin. She claimed her family wasn’t racist, but her parents and her relatives wouldn’t be comfortable with the culture mix and the mixed race baby that would be a product of such a union.

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