Interracial Marriages

Interracial Marriages

Introduction

The marriages between couples of different races and ethnicities continue to rise in the U.S. and the largest growth has been among Hispanics and Asians, according to a report by the Pew Research Centre. The report, based on data from the Census Bureau says that the share of new marriages with spouses of different races or ethnic groups increased to 15.1% in 2010, while the established marriage has reached 8.4 %, 4.8 million, a record. According to the Pew Research Centre, Asians and Hispanics are the two groups with higher levels of interracial marriage. In 2010, more than a quarter of the newlyweds in each of these groups were matched with someone of another race or ethnicity. While 17% of black's newlyweds married someone of a different race, only 9% of whites held betrothal to someone of another race, the lowest level among the groups studied. Whites are still mostly in the U.S., so that their marriages with people from minority groups make up the type most common interracial pairing in this country. Among blacks and Asians, there were "significant differences" by sex. Thus, black men more than women, are more than twice as likely to marry outside their race. The same applies in reverse, with Asians. In contrast, among whites and Hispanics were no gender differences in regard to interracial marriage (Judice, 2008).

Discussion

Interracial marriages are more common among those born in the U.S. than among foreigners: Hispanics born in this country are three times more likely than those coming from outside couples marry outside their group, according to research. The document also notes that interracial marriages are more common in the west. 22% of the newlyweds in the area were married to someone of a different race or ethnicity between 2008 and 2010, compared with 14% in ...