Saturday, March 28, 2009

International marriages

It is amazing how much has changed since world war II. After the war the Japanese would learn from General Mac Arther that it was not cool for whites and blacks to hang out together.

Though there were "unofficial" pleasure districts set up for men of all hues, marrying a Japanese woman was of course illegal. Japanese women and their children were mostly left to fend for themselves.

25 years later, Captain Jim Kirk would make bi- racial hook-ups cool with the first interracial kiss on television.