High rates of intermarriage signal a breakdown in barriers between racial or ethnic groups.
College graduates are much more likely to regard intermarriage positively than those with only a high-school diploma.
The authors conclude that intermarriage between blacks and whites is unlikely to increase sharply any time soon.
More than four out of 10 marriages in Hawaii were mixed, the highest intermarriage rate of any state.
Others say the tradition of friendship, cultural exchange and royal intermarriage began even earlier, under Charlemagne, before 800.
Sociologists link the rise in non-affiliation among Jews to the steep increase in Jewish-Gentile intermarriage in recent decades.
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Blanket denunciations of Jewish- Muslim dating and intermarriage are problematic, even if they are justified from a religious perspective.
The most obvious solution, he discovered, also runs into the greatest taboo: intermarriage.
So intermarriage between the people from those two buildings was a major sit-down.
Through clever intermarriage and conquest, the Habsburgs ruled as far afield as modern day Ukraine, Montenegro, Spain and the Netherlands.
Intermarriage also produces children who are less clearly identified with a particular race or ethnic group (think of Tiger Woods).
The Macanese--largely the descendants of intermarriage between Portuguese settlers and local Cantonese--account for fewer than 5% of the enclave's half-million residents.
If intermarriage is the yardstick for measuring Jewish commitment and for most sociologists it is the impact of Jewish day schools is undeniable.
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But by far the most common reason seems to be that black women still regard intermarriage as tantamount to betraying the race.
Another, paradoxical, reason may be that Jews in America are now threatened with extinction, not by persecution, but through assimilation and intermarriage.
At this rate, intermarriage will soon stop being exotic and become mainstream.
Still, in Australia and South Africa, where day schools are the norm in Jewish communities, intermarriage rates are significantly lower than in America.
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As intermarriage has climbed, the rate of outmarriage among Asians has declined, most likely because the pool of people who are members of the same group and of marrying age has swelled.
Younger adults, especially those under the age of 30, tend to have a more positive view of intermarriage than older adults, according to a Pew survey that is part of the report.
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