In my experience, while every love is different, people should be cautious and get to know the other person better, maybe over a 6-month or 1-year period, before getting seriously involved in a relationship. I got seriously burned twice, first falling in love with an American from Korea, and second time marrying a woman from China (in Manila, Philippines as it happens.) While it is nice to be broad-minded, especially at Age 20, being friends and being life partners are two very different concepts. Also, people should get blood tests, as people can very well be physically incompatible. The word that comes to mind is "miscegenation" or mixing races, although in some respects, cross-pollination, cross breeding, new gene pools can result in genetically hybrid if not entirely superior offspring. The world is of course trending in that direction. Island Nations with high cultures like Japan and Korea (peninsula, I know) make for particular exceptions to this general rule. Jewish people, for a special exception, may date liberally, but tend to marry within the "tribe" of Jews, but Jewishness is transnational. I happen to be an American of Italian extraction, myself. Precious few Italian women here in America for me to choose from, as it would seem to me. I don't live in New Jersey, "Soprano Country" needless to say. Looking back on my life, I think I should have gone back to "the Old Country," Italy, like Grandpa Rossi, to find my wife. Italians Dance Tarantella Calabrese style and region