Ok, on a slightly more serious note.. I wouldn't even want to answer that yes or no question because neither of those direct responses would reflect my feeling on the matter. Like many others, I don't see race as relevant. Yes, there are some things that correlate with race, but ultimately a person's race only tells you only one thing - their race.
Just about all of the things we associate with race would not necessarily follow, basically the only thing that it really tells you is the person's genetic makeup. If you've known someone of another ethnic origin who was raised in your culture, you know that they can be practically identical with the natives behaviorally speaking. Look at how many different races make up Jehovah's Witnesses, if you think their ethnic origin tells you something about their religious beliefs, you'll be wrong many times. Often times the person's racial identity does correlate with many things, but I suppose the real question is how identified that person is with their racial identity, or how free they are from it. I for one am more interested in someone who is free or atleast wants to be free, not just from that but religion, culture - from anything.
Someone with the same racial profile as you could very well be identified or limited by it, whereas you may be free from it. I guess most people are looking for someone they have something in common with, (you can't help that actually, you're both human beings) it just so happens though that most of the time what they're looking for is the same basic set of conditioning. People seem to fall in love with the byproducts of love rather than just falling in love. I mean really, you look for things like they look a certain way, they make me feel a certain way, they like the same things I do, and the list goes on and on. Now obviously it makes sense to have some things in common, but I guess one way of putting it is are you in love with those things or are you in love with the person? I suppose the assumption is people tend to think those things which may include some good qualities make up the person, but the reality is even those qualities are only aspects that reflect who that person is and is therefore incomplete and indirect information.
Look, the bottom line is who the person is as an individual, right? I would certainly think that most people wouldn't pick just anyone who happens to be of the same race, or by the same token a different one - as if that alone tells you enough about your compatibility with the person. I think we all endeavor to be a little more selective than that.
