Why should people settle?

Random but common question: why am I required to be with my own ethnic group?
Number one answer people are human first. The thought of something different freak everyone out. What can you do about it? Well, nothing just go about your business. It's your life and you are the one who will spend the rest of your life miserable in a relationship you did not want, but wanted to please everyone around you. Ladies and gents listen up! It does not matter who you like as long as you happy can't no one take that  from you. You have to understand that the concept that people hold on to is the normal. Blacks with blacks, whites with whites oh goodness it is 2014 and will be 2015 in two days why do you let people tell you who to date and who not to date?  Yes it is important to have family approval but you can only go so far to please them. I cannot see myself getting married and my family does not approve but at the same time do I want to throw away my happiness, the one person who I will live with for years and years and years and so on. You have to understand that family and friends are stuck in the norms. Whatever happened to what God has for me it's for me, whatever happened to happiness? My best friend told me she cannot imaging kissing a white guy that is just too much. But she is right, that is the mind set of most people who believe that no change is change. So, today I wanted to encourage you today, just wanted to reassure you that it's okay to be with another ethnicity, it's okay to have a crush on the black girl, the white guy, the Latinas , it is perfectly okay. We need to start encouraging each other to  make our own decision based on our likes and dislikes and not based on what the neighbors say. LET'S GO BEYOND THE NORMS!