Inter-Racial Marriage

Interracial marriage occurs when two people of differing racial groups marry. This is a form of exogamy (marrying outside of one's racial group) and can be seen in the broader context of miscegenation (mixing of different racial groups in marriage, cohabitation, or sexual relations).

Contents

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* 1 Legality of interracial marriage

* 2 Americas

o 2.1 United States

o 2.2 Latin America

* 3 Africa and Middle East

o 3.1 Middle East and North Africa

o 3.2 Sub-Saharan Africa

* 4 Australia

* 5 Eastern and Southern Asia

o 5.1 China

+ 5.1.1 Hong Kong

o 5.2 Japan

o 5.3 Korea

o 5.4 Southeast Asia

+ 5.4.1 Burma

+ 5.4.2 Malaysia and Singapore

+ 5.4.3 Philippines

o 5.5 Indian subcontinent

* 6 Europe

o 6.1 France

+ 6.1.1 Normandy

o 6.2 Germany

o 6.3 Iberian Peninsula

o 6.4 Iceland

o 6.5 Italian Peninsula

o 6.6 Southeastern and Eastern Europe

o 6.7 United Kingdom

+ 6.7.1 Interracial marriage gender disparities for certain groups

+ 6.7.2 Case of Seretse Khama

* 7 Intercultural marriage complications

o 7.1 Family and society

o 7.2 Communication style

o 7.3 Management

* 8 See also

* 9 References

[edit] Legality of interracial marriage

Main article: Anti-miscegenation laws

In the Western world certain jurisdictions have had regulations banning or restricting interracial marriage in the past, including Germany during the Nazi period, South Africa under apartheid, and many states in the United States prior to a 1967 Supreme Court decision.

[edit] Americas

[edit] United States

Main article: Interracial marriage in the United States

U.S States, by the date of repeal of anti-miscegenation laws:

No laws passed

Repealed before 1887

Repealed from 1948 to 1967

Overturned on 12 June 1967

Interracial marriage in the United States has been fully legal in all U.S. states since the 1967 Supreme Court decision that deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, with many states choosing to legalize interracial marriage at much earlier dates. The United States has many ethnic and racial groups and interracial marriage is fairly common among most of them. A record 14.6% of all new marriages in the United States in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another. This compares to 9.0% of all current marriages regardless of when they occurred.[1] Multiracial Americans numbered 6.8 million in 2000, or 2.4% of the population. Now statistics show that the percentage has increased to 6.7% in 2010. Now over 12.5 million in November 2010[2]

[edit] Latin America

In Latin America, much of the population are descended from Amerindians, Europeans and Africans. They formed the Mestizo and Mulatto populations that populate almost all of the countries in Latin America. Intermarriage and inter-relations occurred on a larger scale than most places in the world. In some countries,