Intermarriage normally refers to marriage between people belonging to different religions, tribes, nationalities or ethnic backgrounds. It has also been used to mean the opposite, namely marriage within a small group. A marriage is a committed relationship between or among individuals, recognized by civil authority and/or bound by the religious beliefs of the participants. ... Viewed historically or developmentally, a tribe consists of a social formation existing before the development of, or outside of, states. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ...
Mixed marriages and relationships have probably been a part of human life, to some degree, ever since there were any divisions in the human species at all. Today with increased globalisation and its effect on communication and travel, rates of intermarriage may well be increasing. In most countries, it is totally acceptable, or even encouraged for various reasons. Miscegenation describes people of different human races producing offspring; the use of this term is invariably restricted to those who believe that the category race is meaningful when applied to the human species. ...
Some have speculated that at some point in the future, intermarriage will blend the human species into one homogeneous group again.
A social norm of "marrying out" is termed "exogamy". A pejorative term is "miscegenation". This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with interracial marriage. ...
Judaism considers marriage to be the ideal state of existence; a man without a wife, or a woman without a husband, are considered incomplete. ... Interreligious marriage is marriage (either religious or civil) between partners professing different religions. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Miscegenation. ... Miscegenation describes people of different human races producing offspring; the use of this term is invariably restricted to those who believe that the category race is meaningful when applied to the human species. ...
Intermarriage requires individuals in different groups to form intimate attachments, which suggests that group boundaries are fading in importance and that preferences for marriage within the group are weak.
Levels of ethnic intermarriage were very low among European immigrants near the beginning of the 20th century, higher among their native-born children (the second generation) in the middle of the century, and very high among their grandchildren and great-grandchildren (the third and later generations) by the end of the 20th century.
Intermarriage is often considered to be one of the most important signs of assimilation and integration of immigrant-descent groups for several reasons.
Intermarriage with Ammonites and Moabites was especially forbidden, whereas the offspring of intermarriages with the Idumeans and Egyptians were to be admitted to the congregation of the Lord in their third generation (Deut.
Intermarriages between Jews and Christians—who are not identified with Gentiles, but regarded as "proselytes of the gates" (Isaac b.
Statistical inquiry has proved that the number of children resulting from intermarriages is considerably smaller than that from purely Jewish marriages, averaging only about one child to a marriage compared with an average of three or four from purely Jewish marriages.
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