How to maintain your own traditions and cultures through intermarriage?
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Explanation:
In America today, more people are marrying someone from a different religion or racial/ethnic group. According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, nearly 37% of Americans are married to someone of a different faith.1 Additionally, the 2010 U.S. Census reported that 10% of Americans are married to someone of a different race.2 Researchers have offered several possible explanations for these growing trends.
Couples are more likely to marry outside of their faith when these contributing factors are in play:
They are more independent of their family, do not feel a need to be of the same faith as their parents, experience a divorce, or expect a more balanced division of household responsibilities.3
Diverse immigrants provide local residents knowledge about and exposure to religious difference and build acceptance of other religions in American society.4
Interracial couples are more likely to marry when these contributing factors are in play:
They have a common religious orientation, education level, or global perspective.
Racial boundaries weaken, differences narrow, and language and residential barriers diminish, thus making intermarriage more likely to occur.
Immigrants of the third generation or later are more comfortable with the local language and culture.5, 6 Intermarriage can benefit immigrants or ethnic minorities to become part of the dominate culture, though they may lose identification with their own.7