Reader Question:
As an American living in Canada for longer than twenty years, I believe Canadians are more prepared for interracial dating/marriage than Americans. You being the opposite, a Canadian surviving in the States, do you have equivalent observance? Why is this therefore?
-Keith (Canada)
Dr. Wendy Walsh’s response:
I hear what you are saying nevertheless research does not apparently help the thesis. In accordance with a 2010 Pew investigation, 8 percent folks marriages tend to be interracial, while studies Canada reports that about 4 percent of Canadian marriages tend to be interracial.
Nearly all of those marriages tend to be with one Asian partner. The next party probably to go into into an interracial wedding is Latino. I think your question could be discussing the personal recognition of black and white unions and there I can just offer anecdotal research from personal expertise. (My own children are multiracial: African-American-Irish-Canadian.)
In huge american and north American metropolises, the cultural acceptance of interracial relationship seems about the same as Canada. In smaller communities, rural locations plus some south says, where in actuality the legacy of historical clashes can be still offered through family programs, there appears to be significantly less support.
But instances are modifying everywhere and the majority of people today feel love can bloom between any two people.
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