Interracial relationships often become stages where partners act out these bizarre dynamics, creating an environment that portrays the minority partner as the objectified fantasy victim. Many white partners act out the role of the adventurous rebel in their interracial relationships. These stereotypes provide evidence for some of the unguided curiosity that initiates some interracial relationships. It reduces the culture to a freakish fantasy experience serving to fulfill the imagination of the mainstream. Often black men choose white partners as a status symbol and black women chose white partners for the potential of social or economic advancement.
Cultural differences are unique and important because assimilation often equals cultural domination.
To completely assimilate is to acknowledge defeat. African Americans are subject to the constraints of the colonizer's language and many other established cultural characteristics. The cultural distinctions maintained articulate the heritage of our native land and our resistance to cultural annihilation. Although the minority partner in this tale has dignity and respect for her cultural distinctions, her efforts to assimilate open the door for the destruction of her culture. Interracial marriages have the potential to increase social awareness and appreciation of black culture and offer the opportunity to strengthen the characters of both communities.