intermarriage
IPA: ɪntɝmˈɛrɪdʒ
noun
- Marriage between people belonging to different groups, such as different racial, ethnic, or religious groups; mixed marriage.
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Examples of "intermarriage" in Sentences
- Others say the decline in intermarriage is a non-issue.
- But yeah, “intermarriage is up, a sign of increasing racial isolation” makes no sense.
- Probably the biggest factor in intermarriage and fertility rate change is critical mass.
- If the rate of increase of intermarriage is slowing, then the article is correct on that fact.
- The very fact that people felt the need to write these rules concerning intermarriage is telling in itself.
- The cultural capital exchanged in ethnic intermarriage is considerably greater than that within ethnic groups.
- He agrees with the writer Calvin Hernton that intermarriage is "the crucial test in determining when a people have completely won their way into the mainstream of any given society."
- But accepting that intermarriage is a fact in a free pluralistic society, so how do we best connect with the Jewish half of these couples along with their partners in a meaningful way.
- Using census data from 1990 and 2000, Qian and Lichter identified "unprecedented declines in intermarriage with whites, and big increases in marriages between native - and foreign-born members of Asian and Hispanic ethnicities."
- That said, I personally use the term intermarriage when talking about White Latino marriages in part because I think a marriage between myself (White woman) and someone like the rapper Fabolous (black looking Latino) would be treated differently than some one like Emilio Estevez (White looking Latino).
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