It's possible. I just know that i've always had an attraction to the fairer skinned. I also seem to attract them anyway, first woman i slept with was 1/2 rican and 1/2 white. I never intentionally went out searching yo meet someone, but i always found myself, or other races flirting equally with me. So why not ? However I do remember my folks joking when I was a kid that i'd hook up with a "white girl". Never understood why they said it, but oh well.

well I am 37 and I never dated a black man until I was 27. I never really gave a black man a second look until the end of high school. Where we grew up there wasn't many blacks at all. It was white, hispanic and asian. So I can't tell you if I was "predisposed to having interracial relationships". I actually ddin't know the first black man I dated was black until after I agreed to go out with him... lol long story.... we met cuz he was on the phone talking to my friends boyfriend and he wanted to talk to me when he heard me in the back ground talking. So we talked and agreed to go out..... when I met him in person I didn't even look at his skin color. But that was the first black man I dated and since then it has only been black men and one puerto rican.........

Predisposed, as if to say 'it's in the blood'? You'd have a hard time selling that.

Tendencies and proclivities, absolutely. I grew up in a mostly-black environment but never socialized as I was expected. Meaning, I did my damn homework and came in the house when the streetlights came on (Well, not all the time...). This created the kind of schism between my peers and I that's the stuff of superhero origins. I was never 'street' and certainly not 'ghetto (fabulous)', so they thought I was trying to be something else. Not conducive to getting a lot of dates, let me tell ya....

By the time I realized this, I had just turned 10. Right about the time I noticed the tiny brunette across the street named Michelle...

And that's where the seed got planted (conceptually, not literally...I was 10, dammit :) )

And I do not buy the snake oil of race, either. Only the supposedly evolved and higher-thinking homo sapiens do this to ourselves. Not different races of dogs, cats or bunnies. Pretty suspicious if ya think too long about it.

I understand we're all descended from people in North Africa, somewhere around 40000 yrs ago (although I have heard 100000 yrs). Anyway, in number of generations that's something like 2000 generations, which (to me) seems really small, so claiming one race is superior to another is quite narrow minded. Yes, there are differences in skin color due to generations of environmental conditioning, and some differences in abilities (eg people living mountains apparently can breathe better, and eskimos have advantages over the rest of us to enabe living in extreme cold), but overall we are the same inside. Externally, we have some differences, mainly skin color, stereotypical body shapes and bone/muscle structure, which is what I think this tribe is about, yes?

"I'm just pondering, are some people predisposed to having interracial relationships more than others? "

I have kinda always figured I was predisposed...... being "mixed" anyone I date is going to place me in an "interracial" relationship........

I agree with the statements about race and past (erroneous)racial construction and its debunking. Though I don't understand why governments and cultures, or societies around the world still use the terminology and classification if it is disproven...

I sincerely don't believe in having any predisposition about the inter-racial relationship...

For me its just a way of identifying someone...see if my name is X and physical attributes tell that X belongs to this race or culture etc...then its identifying a person...we attach some cultural background with them...however judging someone on that basis wouldn't be correct...i believe just identyfing sum1 on this basis would help us in being more close to the person and not anything else...

I agree that these days all those govts societies etc may use these terms however when we meet some1 or are in a relationship...its the person that matters and not anything else...

The upbringing of a child does have an effect over the person's nature, thinking etc, however was we grow we need to explore for facts and what our oncious and logic tells us we should go by that...

being in a relationship requires the people to be coomfortable with each other...the understanding should be the most important factor...Where does the question of Race comes in? And being predisposed about someone's race means that we are not open in relationship and we are not communicating well...
If the communication is gud among the people then probably the prejudices and predispositions doesn't exist.