intermarriage

(noun)

a marriage between people belonging to different groups, ethnic, religious or otherwise.

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Examples of intermarriage in the following topics:

  • Assimilation

    • Intermarriage refers to marriage across racial, ethnic, or, occasionally, generational lines.
    • High rates of intermarriage are considered to be an indication of social integration, as they suggest intimate and profound relations between people of different groups.
    • Intermarriage reduces the ability of families to pass on to their children a consistent ethnic culture and thus is an agent of assimilation.

  • The Incest Taboo, Marriage, and the Family

    • Intermarriage between groups construct valuable alliances that improve the ability for both groups to thrive.

  • The Decline of the Traditional Family

    • Intermarriage between groups, tribes, or clans was often political or strategic and resulted in reciprocal obligations between the two groups represented by the marital partners.

  • New France and the Native Americans

    • Later on, intermarriage allowed the French to deepen relations with indigenous nations and have access to their hunting and trapping grounds.

  • New France and Louisiana

    • Later on, intermarriage allowed the French to deepen relations with indigenous nations and have access to their hunting and trapping grounds.

  • Changes in American Indian Life

    • From the 16th through the 19th centuries, the population of American Indians drastically declined due to epidemic diseases brought from Europe, genocide and warfare at the hands of Europeans, displacement from their lands, internal warfare, enslavement, and a high rate of intermarriage.

  • Louis XIV and the Huguenots

    • He also disallowed Protestant-Catholic intermarriages where third parties objected, encouraged missions to the Protestants, and rewarded converts to Catholicism.

  • Theoderic the Great

    • While he promoted separation between the Arian Ostrogoths and the Roman population, Theoderic stressed the importance of racial harmony, though intermarriage was outlawed.

  • The Legacy of Alexander the Great

    • Within a century, Greek influence had spread throughout the country and intermarriage produced a large Greco-Egyptian educated class.

  • Bornu Empire

    • Over time, the intermarriage of the Kanembu and Bornu peoples created a new people and language, the Kanuri.