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Article: Interracial dating holds benefits, problems for students
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- University Wire
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- March 30, 2000
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Ross Chambless
University Wire
03-30-2000
(Daily Texan) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- Phuong Lien, a speech pathology junior, remembers conducting a survey among her high school classmates on interracial dating. She said almost 80 percent said they didn't believe in it.
"Then I asked my friends, 'What about Lance and I?'" Lien said about her high school boyfriend. "Because I'm Asian and he's white, they didn't consider he and I an interracial couple. It was seen as mostly a black and white thing."
Despite some stereotypes, Lien and Lance Sander, who is still her boyfriend, are like many interracial couples at the University who occasionally experience racial and cultural tensions.
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