We have a wide spread of families of mixed marriage.

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We're a mixed marriage.

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By most standards, American rates of mixed-race marriage have been low: one in 23 marriages in 1990, up to one in 15 in 2000.

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Anti-Catholic prejudice was rife in polite English society until surprisingly recently: countless families can tell tales of scandals or feuds triggered by a mixed Anglican-Catholic marriage, up to the 1960s or 1970s.

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Rajesh Jethwa told St Albans Crown Court his marriage went downhill when she became "mixed up" with the man who is alleged to have stabbed her.

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He also stood his ground against gay marriage -- an issue that has received mixed responses from the African American community.

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Mixed couples are as likely as those in non-mixed marriages to be college educated and their ages at marriage are also similar.

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The counter-cultural left combined genuine liberation with dangerous excess, while the traditionalist right mixed reaction with a desire to preserve some precious institutions, such as marriage.

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Jamal Al Bah, who directs the Marriage Fund, argues that the government should enforce a rule to reduce or even forbid mixed marriages, as in neighbouring Oman.

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Through marriage and schooling (American Protestant mission schools creating converts), the Maalouf family was thoroughly mixed up, and mostly was happy with this.

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