More than four out of 10 marriages in Hawaii were mixed, the highest intermarriage rate of any state.
The Macanese--largely the descendants of intermarriage between Portuguese settlers and local Cantonese--account for fewer than 5% of the enclave's half-million residents.
The authors conclude that intermarriage between blacks and whites is unlikely to increase sharply any time soon.
The most obvious solution, he discovered, also runs into the greatest taboo: intermarriage.
So intermarriage between the people from those two buildings was a major sit-down.
But by far the most common reason seems to be that black women still regard intermarriage as tantamount to betraying the race.
Through clever intermarriage and conquest, the Habsburgs ruled as far afield as modern day Ukraine, Montenegro, Spain and the Netherlands.
Still, in Australia and South Africa, where day schools are the norm in Jewish communities, intermarriage rates are significantly lower than in America.
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As intermarriage has climbed, the rate of outmarriage among Asians has declined, most likely because the pool of people who are members of the same group and of marrying age has swelled.
Sociologists link the rise in non-affiliation among Jews to the steep increase in Jewish-Gentile intermarriage in recent decades.
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Younger adults, especially those under the age of 30, tend to have a more positive view of intermarriage than older adults, according to a Pew survey that is part of the report.
Others say the tradition of friendship, cultural exchange and royal intermarriage began even earlier, under Charlemagne, before 800.
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