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Interracial marriages at a all-time high
Sunday, June 6, 2010 7:45 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote: The first time Priya Merrill, who is Indian, brought her white boyfriend home for Thanksgiving in 2007, the dinner was uncomfortable and confusing. She still remembers her family asking if Andrew was the bartender or a family photographer. The couple married last August, and her Indian family has warmed up to her husband despite their racial differences. "I think we get the best of both cultures," said Merrill, 27, of New York. She added, "Sometimes I just forget that we're interracial. I don't really think about it." Asian. White. Black. Hispanic. Do race and ethnicity matter when it comes to marriage? Apparently, race is mattering less these days, say researchers at the Pew Research Center, who report that nearly one out of seven new marriages in the U.S. is interracial or interethnic. The report released Friday, which interviewed couples married for less than a year, found racial lines are blurring as more people choose to marry outside their race. "From what we can tell, this is the highest [percentage of interracial marriage] it has ever been," said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer for the Pew Research Center. He said interracial marriages have soared since the 1980s. About 6.8 percent of newly married couples reported marrying outside their race or ethnicity in 1980. That figure jumped to about 14.6 percent in the Pew report released this week, which surveyed newlyweds in 2008. studies show that support for interracial marriages is stronger than in the past, especially among the Millennial generation. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, about 85 percent accept interracial marriages, according to a Pew study published in February. Scholars say interracial marriages are important to examine because they can be a barometer for race relations and cultural assimilation. Today's growing acceptance of interracial marriages is a contrast to the overwhelming attitudes 50 years ago that such marriage was wrong -- and even illegal. During most of U.S. history, interracial marriages have been banned or considered taboo, sociologists say. In 1958, a woman of black and Native American descent named Mildred Jeter had married a white man, Richard Loving. The couple married in Washington, D.C., instead of their home state of Virginia, where state laws outlawed interracial marriages. The couple was arrested by police. Their case made its way to the Supreme Court in the case Loving vs. Virginia in 1967, where the justices unanimously ruled that laws banning interracial marriages were unconstitutional. Yagan attributes the increase in interracial relationships to the Internet, which makes it easier to connect with someone of a different race. People who live in a community where race is an issue can meet someone of another race more privately, than say, instead of having to start their relationship in a public setting. "You don't have to worry about what your friends are going to think," he said. "You can build the early parts of the relationship."
Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:57 AM
ANTHONYT
Freedom is Important because People are Important
Sunday, June 6, 2010 9:55 AM
KPO
Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:07 AM
THESOMNAMBULIST
Quote:Originally posted by AnthonyT: Hello, I forgot which comedian said that the solution to racism was that we should all keep f*cking till we were all the same color. --Anthony/B]
Sunday, June 6, 2010 12:01 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Quote:Originally posted by AnthonyT: I forgot which comedian said that the solution to racism was that we should all keep f*cking till we were all the same color.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 9:27 PM
PHOENIXROSE
You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.
Monday, June 7, 2010 4:58 AM
BYTEMITE
Quote:Originally posted by kpo: The downside is that we'll lose variety (including natural blondes). The upside is that the Brazillians are quite a nice looking nation of people Heads should roll
Monday, June 7, 2010 5:04 AM
HERO
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: I've been down with that since I was like, fourteen - got me in a heap of trouble back then, it did.
Monday, June 7, 2010 5:44 AM
WULFENSTAR
http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg
Monday, June 7, 2010 5:46 AM
Monday, June 7, 2010 6:01 AM
MINCINGBEAST
Monday, June 7, 2010 6:07 AM
Quote:Originally posted by mincingbeast: Soon, interracial gay marriage will be at an all time high, too.
Quote:Originally posted by Bytemite: The best racial determination I've ever seen is something about migration groups out of Africa, it's based entirely on genetic sub-groups. There's still some bothersome aspects where the first wave is considered "primitive" and successive waves more advanced (in every sense of the word, including intelligence). But ditch that, and you've got a perfectly reasonable categorization based on genetic similarity. And the more we learn about neanderthals, the more we find out that they were, actually, capable of artwork, and more advanced than we thought, and all these ideas about respective intelligence of the waves are likely just so much bull dunk, proposed by people who have an agenda.
Monday, June 7, 2010 6:22 AM
Monday, June 7, 2010 6:30 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Bytemite: The one I'm thinking of says there were three, maybe four waves. DT knows this better than I do, as usual.
Monday, June 7, 2010 6:32 AM
PIZMOBEACH
... fully loaded, safety off...
Monday, June 7, 2010 7:13 AM
Monday, June 7, 2010 7:26 AM
Monday, June 7, 2010 7:34 AM
Monday, June 7, 2010 7:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by pizmobeach: so Darwin is still the prime selector.
Quote:Originally posted by mincingbeast: A character in Anthony Burgess' M/F advocates radical miscegnation as humanity's only hope for the future. Of course, he's also irrestibly drawn to incest...
Monday, June 7, 2010 9:01 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Hero: Quote:Originally posted by pizmobeach: so Darwin is still the prime selector. Darwin was a racist. By his theory Africans evolved into slaves.
Monday, June 7, 2010 9:22 AM
Quote:Originally posted by pizmobeach: Your grandchildren will find little comfort in that premature assessment when they find themselves being ripped to pieces by live panthers in the Oakland Coliseum during the annual 100 Days celebration of Yomerika.
Monday, June 7, 2010 9:45 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Hero: Quote:Originally posted by mincingbeast: A character in Anthony Burgess' M/F advocates radical miscegnation as humanity's only hope for the future. Of course, he's also irrestibly drawn to incest... He does have a hot sister... H "Hero. I have come to respect you." "I am forced to agree with Hero here."- Chrisisall, 2009. "I find those statements amazing. I said I found your remarks 'amazing'" Niki2, 2010.
Monday, June 7, 2010 1:31 PM
Quote:We would? I just figure we'll see only about a quarter of the population with blond hair, and a half of the population will be in between, and a quarter of the population will be darkish. It's not like the recessive genes for blond hair is going to disappear, it'll just be paired more often with a dominant expressing gene.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 5:11 AM
PIRATENEWS
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