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Same-Sex and Interracial Marriage Find Common Ground
2008-05-22 09:36:00
In the 1948 case of Perez v. Sharp, the California Supreme Court struck down a ban on interracial marriage.Chief Justice Ronald M. George quoted from the Perez decision three times while the current court was ruling on the legality of a ban on same-sex marriage. It seemed that the chief justice accepted that the struggle for same-sex marriage closely paralleled that of the struggle to legalize interracial marriages, reports the New York Times. When the California Supreme Court majority found Thursday that same-sex couples had a right to marry, they cited Perez.Opponents of same-sex marriage are uncomfortable with the analogy, reports the New York Times. Monte Stewart, president of the Marriage Law Foundation, says the parallel only works on the surface. "Marriage in its deep logic has nothing to do with race and everything to do with the union of a man and a woman," said Stewart.The Perez decision came long before the rest of the nation started desegregation, as another...
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Interracial Loving in black and white
2008-05-07 06:23:00
Mildred and Richard Loving , January 26, 1965.On this day when people in Indiana and North Carolina are choosing between the Democratic candidates for president, one of whom is the offspring of an interracial union, it's mind-boggling to think that just over 40 years ago, marriages like that which produced Sen. Barack Obama were illegal in many states, including North Carolina where voters are going to the polls.But all that was changed in 1967 because of two quiet and courageous people who fought for their love by fighting an unjust law, Richard and Mildred Loving of Virginia. Their desire to have their marriage recognized in the eyes of the law in native state led them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws in the nation.Mildred Jeter Loving, an African-American, died at 68 last week. Her husband was killed in 1975 by a drunken driver. But she and he will forever have a place in history as the Loving family in ironically perfect legal c...
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Interracial Couples Today
2008-05-07 06:17:00
Interracial marriage has become more common, but remains relatively rare. Sociologists estimate that 7 percent of the nation's 59 million marriages are mixed-race couplings.And even now, interracial marriage remains a source of quiet debate over questions of identity, assimilation and acceptance.Take Anna Blazer and Bryan Walker, for instance. The white woman and her black husband, with their two young children, live just miles from the Caroline County courthouse. Donald Loving, a grandson of Richard and Mildred Loving, introduced the couple when they were teenagers.Blazer, now 23, says her family was initially wary of her then-boyfriend because of his race."My mom was a little weird with it, because he used to wear this really long — they call it bling-bling — he used to wear a bling-bling cross around his neck and baggy pants. And I don't know, she just kind of looked at him kind of funny when she first met him," Blazer remembers.But over the years her mother has warmed to W...
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Jury should hear coach's claims he was fired for interracial marriage: Cour
2008-04-21 17:38:00
A white former Iona College hoops coach scored big Tuesday in his two-year battle to prove he was fired because his wife is black.The 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a jury should hear Craig Holcomb's claims that top-ranking officials at the Westchester school allowed racists to oust him from his job as top assistant to axed Iona basketball coach Jeff Ruland.The court said a lower-court judge was wrong to toss out Holcomb's discrimination claim and sent the case back to trial.In a first-of-its-kind decision, the court ruled that even though Holcomb is white, he still can make a claim that he was discriminated against because of his association with a black woman.Holcomb accused Iona Vice President and former Athletic Director Richard Petriccione of repeatedly using the N-word to refer to black players and of calling a Nigerian employee a "jungle bunny."In 2000, Holcomb says, he asked Petriccione if he'd received the invitation for his wedding to Pamela Gauthi...
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Interracial Marriages Not Uncommon in Urban Areas
2008-04-21 17:30:00
When it comes to interracial marriage, many Koreans picture farmers marrying women from China in suburban areas. However, a recent government report said the trend is changing fast ― many of the grooms live in urban areas and are marrying for the second time with Vietnamese women.The report said many of these couples suffer from poor-communication and financial problems. They are also reluctant to have children, it said.According to the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, only 12.4 percent of 30,208 men married to foreign women in 2006 made a living in the agricultural or fishery sector ― a huge decline from 30-40 percent in the past.Many grooms were previously married. In 2001, 66.7 percent were getting married for the first time, but in 2005, the number decreased to 55.4 percent. The portion of males on their second marriage jumped from 32.3 percent to 43.2 percent over the same period.Lee Sam-shik, a researcher at the institute, said in these cases many men who div...
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Divorces between Interracial couples involving a Korean and non-Korean surg
2008-04-21 17:25:00
Divorces between couples involving a Korean and non-Korean surged by 41 percent last year.According to the National Statistical Office (NSO), Monday, the number of divorces between couples composed of Korean and non-Korean spouses recorded 8,828 last year, soaring 40.6 percent from the previous year.Their divorces have been soaring notably each year, growing by 46.8 percent in 2006, 25.8 percent in 2005 and 57.1 percent in 2004.Divorces between Korean-foreign nationals reached 7.1 percent of total divorces last year, up 2.1 percentage points from the previous year.Divorces involving a Korean husband and foreign wife totaled 5,794, taking 65.6 percent of the total. Divorces with a Chinese wife recorded 3,665; Vietnamese wife 895; Filipino wife 220; and Japanese wife 219.Among Korean women who divorced foreign husbands, 3,034 divorced their Japanese husband, 649 their Chinese husband; and 259 their American husband.``The number of divorces between Koreans and Chinese wives or Japanese...
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Is interracial dating in Minnesota really one-sided?
2008-04-16 19:33:00
“A black woman wonders: What’s up with the Minnesota dating game?”This was a headline for an article written 3 years ago. And the woman is still wondering…This woman is concerned about couples comprising black men and white women being so predominant. Many black men in Minnesota are not dating or marrying black women. And according to her, men of other races don’t seem interested in black women, either.Here is some census data involving blacks:Among married black men in Minnesota, 44 percent have wives who are not black; among married black women in the state, 14 percent have husbands who are not black. Nationally, the figures are 7 percent for men and 3 percent for women.So this lady asks, “what’s up with this? If 44 percent of married black men in Minnesota are going over to the white side, compared with only 14 percent of married black women, what does this mean?”This lady has nothing against interracial relationships if they are for the right reasons - compatibil...
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Dating Mr. White
2008-04-16 19:15:00
Has our attitude about dating outside our races changed? Some writer in Detroit decided to try something different… something new: dating a White man. The attraction was there – good-looking guy with a sense of humor. One thing that was a plus for him was that he was liberal and smart. Being 39, the dude seemed like a viable option. “The older you get, the more open you become to the possibility of love… I would like love to come in a certain form or color. But at the same time I realize that the population of eligible Black men is getting smarter. So I’m open” says the writer.According to some polls, 45% of black women have been involved in interracial relationships. And as for those who haven’t, it’s not because they lack the opportunities… 70% have been asked out by a white guy. A lady who had watched the movie “Something New” (in which the character falls for a White guy) says that movie was her signal to start chasing and accepting their offers. And she pu...
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Do white women approach men better than black women?
2008-04-16 19:08:00
Do White women approach Black men better than Black women do? One thing that most people believe is that white women are more aggressive when it comes to letting a man know they’re interested. How is this so?Apparently, white women have perfected the art of making the first move. Remember Big Mamas and how they taught younger generations of Black women that it’s unladylike to go after a man? Correct me if I am wrong… White women don’t have Big Mamas so they are like baracudas when it some to getting their man. The thing with white women is that when they think they like some guy, no time is wasted. She will be all up in his face, to get his attention.Well, I find it to be a major turn on when a woman leaves the guesswork out of who likes who. On the other hand when a Black woman likes a dude, she telepathically sends him a message (you know how we men are pathetic with reading-between-the-lines kind of messages… we almost never get them).Most Black men I have had the chanc...
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Why some Black women only date White Men
2008-04-16 18:45:00
We always talk about Black women and how they can’t date White men. Well, there are those women that only date White men. I remember a pal of mine telling me once that she will never get married to Black man. And even as kids, when playing make believe, she was always married to a White guy.The reason for women like her who only date white men may be very similar to the reasons why most Black women only date Black men … attraction. Some also feel that Black men treat them better than any other man ever could, and they feel that they’d rather have what they know instead of experimenting with what they don’t know.Some Black women are just not physically attracted to Black men. And as much as parents usually like hooking us up with people of our own race, well it reaches a time when you have to be honest with yourself. Imagine my pal for example: As a child, her first crush was Adam Sandler, then as she got older, she fell in love with Mel Gibson. This doesn’t mean that Black...
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Why white guys love the black woman so much
2008-04-16 18:38:00
Ever wondered why some white guys, love black women so much?It seems that being a white male and proclaiming your attraction to black women (not only sexually, but also romantically) may lead to a lot of controversial and dangerous things. Let’s leave the debate of why more black women may be opening themselves up to white guys. The main focus of this debate is why some white guys are opening themselves to black women? Let’s concentrate on that.Most white males don’t feel like they are running short of white women to marry. White males just marry at high rates. So question is: Why black women? The thing is it will not be fair to bundle up black women as one since everyone is their own person… be it in appearance or personality.However, one thing that a white male friend of mine said… and I let him get away with bundling it all up is: “We love a black woman’s confidence, her tenacity and her undeniable achievements in the face of great adversity…” Since this info wa...
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2008-04-16 04:27:00
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2008-04-16 04:25:00
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Interracial marriages forming at unprecedented rates: census
2008-04-09 04:10:00
TORONTO — Four decades after Hollywood's first interracial kiss in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" shocked mainstream America, Canada's multicultural society is increasingly showing signs that love is colour blind.The latest census figures released Wednesday by Statistics Canada show that, on this side of the border, mixed unions are forming at unprecedented rates.There were 289,420 mixed-race couples, married and common law, in 2006 - one third more than in 2001, the last time the data was collected.Yet there was a time in North America's not-so distant past that marrying someone of a different race wasn't just taboo, it could land someone behind bars.Before a 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled it unconstitutional, 16 states still had laws banning interracial marriage.Since Sidney Poitier's landmark smooch, Hollywood continued the tradition of big-screen portrayals of interracial romances. Kevin Costner hooked up with Whitney Houston in "The Bodyguard" and Spike Lee brou...
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Mixed marriages rise 30 per cent in the last five years
2008-04-09 03:47:00
If Ward and June Cleaver were the idyllic picture of marriage in the 1950s, then Vishva Ramlall and Stephanie Linton could be the face of relationships in the 21st century.Mr. Ramlall was born in Guyana and came to Canada when he was 11. Ms. Linton was born in this country and grew up in several small towns across Ontario.The two met through friends in Ottawa, started dating and have been married for nearly three years.The couple represents a small but growing number of Canadians who are involved in interracial unions - a number that many experts predict will jump dramatically in the next few decades."The numbers are skyrocketing," said Minelle Mahtani, a geography and journalism professor at the University of Toronto who studies mixed-race identity.Nearly 300,000 Canadians were involved in mixed marriages or mixed common-law relationships in 2006, a rise of nearly 30 per cent since 2001, according to the latest census figures released yesterday by Statistics Canada.In 1991, just 2....
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Mixed race marriages on the rise
2008-04-02 17:16:00
TORONTO – Four decades after Hollywood's first interracial kiss in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" shocked mainstream America, Canada's multicultural society is increasingly showing signs that love is colour blind.The latest census figures released Wednesday by Statistics Canada show that, on this side of the border, mixed unions are forming at unprecedented rates.There were 289,420 mixed-race couples, married and common law, in 2006 – one third more than in 2001, the last time the data was collected.Yet there was a time in North America's not-so distant past that marrying someone of a different race wasn't just taboo, it could land someone behind bars.Before a 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled it unconstitutional, 16 states still had laws banning interracial marriage.Since Sidney Poitier's landmark smooch, Hollywood continued the tradition of big-screen portrayals of interracial romances. Kevin Costner hooked up with Whitney Houston in "The Bodyguard" and Spike Lee br...
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Poll shows interracial dating widely accepted
2008-04-01 05:06:00
Pick a color -- black, white, brown, yellow, red or any color in between.Interracial relationships are now widely accepted by Americans of all races, according to a recent Gallup Poll , with 95 percent of young people, ages 18 to 29, approving. Nearly half of all Americans say they have personally dated a person of a different race."There is no question that people are more tolerant of interracial relationships today than in the past, but unquestionably people are not as tolerant in their hearts as they believe they are in their heads," said Sam Richards, senior lecturer in sociology.Richards said people of different races are dating others who have similar class and cultural backgrounds. They are not just dating anyone across the race line, but people they have a lot in common with, regardless of race, he said.This acceptance of interracial dating is a large change from past generations. According to the Gallup Poll, while 95 percent of the younger generation polled accepted these r...
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Interracial love is at heart of 'Shop'
2008-04-01 04:16:00
Romantic comedies typically don't feature Asian leading men and African-American leading ladies, but then again, "Akira's Hip Hop Shop " is not a typical movie.Starring TV's James Kyson Lee (who is best known as Ando on NBC's "Heroes"), the film is centered around the budding interracial romance between a Japanese hip-hop fanatic named Akira (Lee), and an African-American culinary student named Daphne (Emayatzy Corinealdi), and offers a slice of life and love we rarely see.Written, directed and produced by Detroit native Joe Doughrity , "Akira's Hip Hop Shop" is being screened 7 p.m. Thursday in room 1360 of the University of Michigan's East Hall, 530 Church St., in Ann Arbor. The screening, which is free, will be followed by a Q&A on the film and race relations."I was inspired to make 'Akira' following my first trip to Japan in 2005," says Doughrity, who grew up devouring matinee movies at the Northwest Theater on Grand River Avenue. He now lives in Los Angeles."Everywhe...
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Are mixed race children better looking?
2008-03-24 05:37:00
Well, I am sure you have heard of that. I am also sure that some people have had interracial relationships for this reason only. Why do people believe that if an interracial couple has children that they will instantly produce beautiful babies? Is getting into an interracial relationship for the sole reason of getting ‘beautiful babies’ the right reason to date interracially?
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New generation doesn't blink at interracial relationships
2008-03-22 16:05:00
Ryan Knapick and Josh Baker have been best friends since fifth grade. Colette Gregory entered the picture in high school. She and Josh are dating now. Knapick is white, Gregory is black and Baker is half-Hispanic. To them, race doesn't matter."People are finding people with common interests and common perspectives and are putting race aside," says Knapick, 22, a May graduate of Indiana University who works at a machine shop and lives with his parents in Munster, Ind.He and his friends are among an estimated 46.3 million Americans ages 14 to 24 — the older segment of the most diverse generation in American society. (Most demographers say this "Millennial" generation began in the early 1980s, after Generation X.) These young people have friends of different races and also may date someone of another race.This age group is more tolerant and open-minded than previous generations, according to an analysis of studies released last year by the Center for Information and Research on Civi...
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Why Interracial Love Is Still Hard
2008-03-22 15:04:00
Interracial relationships are more common now than in, say, 1950, but the pressure on today's mixed couple is still very real. The miscegenation of our society may seem to be growing at a steady rate based on how often we've been talking about race lately. But let's not kid ourselves. Interracial relationships represent approximately seven percent of couples in the country, which is incredible progress considering they represented just .07 percent in 1960. But for our ever-diversifying nation, these are alarmingly low figures. For the most part, everyone is still sticking to their "own kind." Is this intentional segregation or just cultural tradition? Could be both. But one thing remains certain: Every interracial couple entering into a serious relationship knows what struggles lie ahead. Maybe that 93 percent would just rather avoid them.I can't say I blame them. I'm white, and I lead a very happy life with my black husband. Our families love us and our friends are accepting. ...
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Vh1 To Air First Interracial Dating Show
2008-03-20 09:00:00
VH1 has reportedly given a green-light to "Interracial Love," a reality show about a white male looking to find an African American girlfriend. Writer "Lynn" of blackwhitekiss.com says the show will start casting in June for a fall 2008 premiere. The series will follow Tobias White and his two bi-racial sons Marcus and Zachary as they look to add a wife and mother to the family. In an interview with Lynn last July, White explained his preference for black women. "I’m a white male and I’ve always dated only black women. I just always have," he said. "It’s not that I’m prejudiced against my own race, but it just seemed a better fit for me. And now I have two children that are bi-racial. "I’ve seen so many shows like the Bachelor and now Age of Love, The Rock of Love and Joe Millionaire. They always have 19 or 20 white women on the show and they’ll have one black woman. It’s almost like it was set up for the black woman to get voted off. ...
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'Interracial Relationships': A Discussion at U of M Dearborn
2008-03-20 08:42:00
Dearborn, Mich. -- How would other people perceive black men dating white women? How would other people perceive interracial relationship? Those are the first of several questions that were thought of at a panel discussion inside the Kochoff Hall at the University Center (UC) at University of Michigan-Dearborn on Friday. “Conservation of Race” continues on campus with “Interracial Relationships ”.The students’ thoughts and opinions on this sensitive issue before the discussion was that interracial relationships “should be treated no less than relationships of the same race”. But some stated that information about interracial relationship isn’t “very informed” and people should know more about it, while others agreed that dating someone of a different race is “difficult” due to the reactions of both society and family.According to research, interracial marriages have gone from less than 1% of U.S. marriages in 1970 to nearly 6% in the 2000 U.S. Census Bureau, w...
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Modern take on interracial dating
2008-03-02 13:07:00
The year is 2008. People have been through varying times in mankind's history. Yet, there still seems to be a problem with what people define as, quote unquote, interracial dating.Many wars have been fought for all the wrong reasons. Now they have become internal struggles. A struggle against feelings and emotions.Virtues and characteristics change from one to the next. And not one person could help what their favorite color is or a particular food within their palate.So why do some turn away from their distinct feelings and emotions toward another?The question is simple, yet complex at the same time. Your answer might be your friends would not approve of that relationship. The other factor is the approval of your family.There is one determined fault in any of this reasoning; We put too much faith in what others consider to be righteous.But the final truth in "the pursuit of happiness" is finding one's own pleasure, seeking out contentment without the justification of others.This ...
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Forty years later, have we made any progress?
2008-03-02 13:02:00
As my mother and I reviewed the 40th edition of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? I thought about the first time I saw the original movie. It was the first movie I ever saw in color. Also, it was the first movie my father took us to see at the drive-in.Yes, I said the drive-in. I know Generation Y, X, Z (whatever they're calling themselves nowadays) don't know anything about the drive-in-which brings to mind the time my mother and I were looking for a copy of the movie for our family library.We went into Best Buy, Circuit City and Wal-Mart. We purchased the movie at Wal-Mart. No, we didn't have to fish it out of the movie bins they have sprinkled in the back of the store. It was actually on the shelf in one of their display cases.What was interesting was the associates at these stores had no idea what we were talking about or how to even get a movie from this era. We were asking for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and they kept referring to "Guess Who?" Now that's a generation gap.O...
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Interracial couples still misunderstood by families, society
2008-03-02 12:44:00
The issue of race, for better or worse, has always been important in American society.The idea of interracial couples in American history has, for the most part, met with rejection."In the United States, it was against the law to marry a black person, and we are still an endogenous society for the most part," sociology Professor Gloria Pimentel said.Laws banning interracial marriage, sex and cohabitation have been termed miscegenation laws or antimiscegenation laws since 1863. Miscegenation comes from the Latin words miscere, "to mix," and genus, "kind."The first laws banning interracial marriages were put in place in the 17th century when the 13 colonies were still subjects of English rule.Segregationists use the Bible to justify antimiscegenation laws, including the stories of Phinehas, who prevented the spread of a plague by killing a fellow Israelite and his Midianite woman (Numbers 25: 1-17), and Noah's curse of Ham, condemning his son to servitude (Genesis 9: 18-27).It was th...
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Why black women are doing the white thing
2008-02-22 08:11:00
Frustrated with the ‘shortage’ of ‘good’ black men, black women are expanding their horizons and are dating outside of their race.Statistics show that more black women are dating white men worldwide, and black female/white male marriages have increased by fifty per cent.Some argue that this increase in relationships between black women and white men may be attributed to educational attainment. "Some black men will look at you a certain way. They know that you have a lot going on and that they can't play games. Sometimes it's harder to attract black guys when you have a lot going for yourself," says Renea D. Nichols-Nash, author of Coping With Interracial Dating. Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg, who dates white men, found this to be the case. Black men, she says, have a hard time dealing with a black woman with power. Now, rather than sitting around dreaming about the perfect black man, black women are considering the possibility that ‘Mr. Right’ could be white. C...
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ERICA KANE FROM ALL MY CHILDREN TO GET AN INTERRACIAL ROMANCE!!
2008-01-20 10:48:00
January 10, 2008. Looks like Something New is coming to Daytime TV. Mario Van Peebles has signed on to join the cast of TV's daytime drama All My Children .Word is that Mario's character, a Senatorial candidate named Samuel Woods, will be Erica Kane 's (played by actress Susan Lucci) new love interest. We ain't watched All My Children in a minute. But we might have to start now...
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Study Focuses on Interracial Adoption
2008-01-20 10:43:00
Dr. Cardell Jacobson of the Sociology Department is currently researching the varied experiences that occur in interracial adoption cases.Jacobson is working with Darron Smith, a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah. They are focusing their research on white families who have adopted black children.In an age in which many people think racism is a fading phenomenon, Jacobson has found that racial slurs and discrimination are still prevalent."Without exception, whether we've talked to parents, or whether we've talked to the adult children, everyone has experienced discrimination," Jacobson said. "Every parent and almost every child over the age of five has heard the 'N' word."Jacobson has found that parents who research black culture and history may be better equipped to help socialize their black children. According to Jacobson, one of the main questions that parents considering interracial adoption should consider is whether or not they have the skills as a white parent to he...
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Interracial Marriages
2008-01-20 10:34:00
South Korean society is smitten with the issue of ``interracial'' or ``mixed'' marriages ― typically rural Korean bachelors marrying (South East) Asian women. Statistics are always cited: percentages, divorce rates, projected percentages of future mixed-marriage offspring and so on.Others speak of mixed-marriage repercussions on Korea's ``ethnic homogeneity'' with some assuming that such homogeneity has always been and others implying that it never has been. Amidst a rocketing divorce rate, others speak of ``saving'' these marriages, most commonly referring to communication differences, both cultural and linguistic.In fact, there's never a shortage of discussion on the various ways an interracial marriage can be undermined: miscommunication, or the inability to communicate at all, deceit on either side, pressure, and cultural dislocation.What is never entertained, however, is the possibility that many of these marriages never had a chance to begin with and what Korean cu...
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