Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Marriage between people belonging to different groups, such as different racial, ethnic, or religious groups; mixed marriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, races, castes, or nations.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Marriage contracted between members of two families, classes, tribes, or races; connection or relation by virtue of such marriage: as, the estates of the families were united by intermarriage.
- n. Consanguineous marriage; marriage between persons nearly related by blood.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
- n. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Etymologies
Examples
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Others say the decline in intermarriage is a non-issue.
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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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The very fact that people felt the need to write these rules concerning intermarriage is telling in itself.
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If the rate of increase of intermarriage is slowing, then the article is correct on that fact.
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But yeah, “intermarriage is up, a sign of increasing racial isolation” makes no sense.
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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.
Rosh Hashanah: Mixed Faith Families, Mix-and-Match Honey and Apples « The Blog at 16th and Q
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Probably the biggest factor in intermarriage and fertility rate change is critical mass.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography
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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."
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The cultural capital exchanged in ethnic intermarriage is considerably greater than that within ethnic groups.
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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."
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