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Black people and white people should not form relationships; an admonition against miscegenation. / (more generally) Some people, things or characteristics do not go together.

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oil and water don't mix

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oil and water don't mix

Proverb

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Japanese Meaning

本質的に性質の異なるものは、いくら混ぜ合わせても調和が生まれないという意味。 / 人種間、特に黒人と白人が交際することに対して、自然な関係ではないと警告する意味（人種混合に対する戒告の意）を含む。 / 一般的には、全く性格や特徴の違うものや、組み合わせると問題が生じるものは一緒にならないということを示す。

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Some people misuse the proverb 'oil and water don't mix' to argue that Black people and white people should not form relationships, but that claim is racist and unacceptable.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

一部の人々はことわざ「油と水は混ざらない」を悪用して、黒人と白人は交際すべきではないと主張しますが、その主張は人種差別的で受け入れられません。

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Black people and white people should not form relationships; an admonition against miscegenation.

I don't think you quite realise, Benneville, what it means to be married to a native woman. It will mean that you lose friends, home, and everything that is worth living for to an Englishman. You would not be likely to make friends with the other natives. Oil and water don't mix. . .