INTERRACIAL: WHAT IT IS, MEANING AND AREAS WHERE IT IS USED - DUDAS - 2025

The word interracial refers to a concept that depicts the union, exchange or composition of two different races or ethnicities. It can be applied in different fields, from the military, through the social, to the pornographic.

The difference between a race and an ethnic group is that the first refers to physical aspects, such as the color of skin, hair or the color of the eyes. Instead, ethnicity refers to a person's cultural background, such as nationality or language.

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Although today speaking of races can arouse controversy in some who consider that one is superior to another, the concept of interracial is accepted and used by different institutions, although it is also sometimes called "intercultural".

Areas of use

At couples and family level

In the case of couples and family unions, even at a sociological and historical level, the term refers to two individuals of different races who have sexual relations.

For example, the unions between European men and women with the natives during the period of the conquest of America, gave rise to the "mestizos." For their part, in Japan, the children of these unions are called "haafu", (half Japanese).

This type of couples throughout history were not well seen in many societies, in which the union of a white person with a black person was prohibited, as in the United States, whose law that prohibited it was declared unconstitutional in 1967.

It is also possible to refer to interracial adoption. The same is usually between parents who adopt a child from another country and it is also generally simpler than the adoption of a child from the same nation or white.

These had their beginning in the 1950s, especially in the United States. Among the reasons for this adoption at the time were the inadequacy of social protection for black minors, a growing anti-racist awareness in society, and a large number of white parents wishing to adopt black children.

Sexual and pornographic

Interracial sex is one that is practiced by two or more people of different races or ethnicities. Its origin occurred mainly where immigration was high, as in several countries on the American continent.

Like couples or families, sexual relations of this type were also prohibited in some societies. For example, in the days of conquered America, white men tried by all means to ensure socio-racial "purity" as a requirement of the pre-eminence of their families.

Thus, women were prohibited from having relationships with locals to ensure white continuity in the family. However, the man had no such prohibition.

Another example of the prohibition of sexual relations between different races occurred in the times of Nazi Germany, an order that was followed by both women and men.

Meanwhile, within the pornography industry, interracial is a sub-category where two or more people are filmed having sex.

In the military field

The United States Colored Troops (USCT in its acronym in English), were those that were made up of black soldiers, but also by Asians and inhabitants of the Pacific islands.

At the veterinary level

There is talk of interracial in the world of animal medicine when there are crossbreeds, such as between the different ones in canines.

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