Interracial Marriage

A recent study, by Pew Research Center, has found that interracial has become more publicly accepted. These are individuals who chose to marry outside of their racial social category. They do not feel it is necessary, or wrong, to not share this same social category with their spouse. In 2010, 8.4%  of marriages in the United States were interracial. In 1980, only 3.2% of marriages were interracial. Since the number of interracial marriages has gone up, so has the public acceptance. Furthermore, interracial dating sites have appeared suddenly and unexpectedly, spreading individuals social network to other races they would like to date. The study also found that only 10% of people found interracial marriage a change for the worse. The rest either agree it is a change for the better (43%) or are on the fence about it.

This is great, that a thing, such as race, is becoming less of a boundary and more acceptable. It is about time some disapproving thoughts shift and hopefully to something truly harmful.

Posted by: Estefania Giron

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/16/us/interracial-marriage/index.html?iref=allsearch