Interracial marriage
When married couples from the same background, culture, religion and ethnicity themselves have to sometimes make a genuine effort to make the marriage work through effective communication and mutual understanding, an interracial marriage will have a whole lot of extra issues to deal with! Marrying outside of your racial group is what is essentially an interracial marriage. In the past, people who wanted to have an interracial marriage had to skillfully navigate a lot of prejudices and misunderstandings of their family, friends and community. In many countries, it is only very recently that interracial marriages have even been given legal sanction. For example, in the United States, it was not until 1967 that interracial marriage was given the constitutional go-ahead.
Interracial marriage in the Asian Subcontinent was more widespread. In India, the Anglo-Indian community are descendents of marriages between the British and the local populace. Also, in Sri Lanka, there is a huge population called Burghers who have mixed lineage from the interracial marriage between Dutch and Portuguese men with the local Tamil and Sinhalese women. Throughout history, there have always been interracial marriage between the local population of a particular country and the foreigners who came for trade or to invade and rule the country.
Once an interracial marriage has actually taken place, the couple needs to decide between themselves how they want to tackle all the problems that would invariably crop up, either from outside in the form of their friends and family, and the problems that could break them from within, ie., themselves. Some of the major areas that cause conflict lie in the raising of children, how to deal with family interferences, differences in religion, culture, communication styles, even food and language. Ultimately, it would do well for everybody to understand and accept that if two people love each other and have significant shared values and interests that override the differences, then it is a marriage that would be successful, interracial marriage notwithstanding.
Apart from that, even scientifically, it has been proved that there are just superficial biological differences between different races and the rest are only observable differences like skin, hair, and eye color or the shape of ones eyes and nose (facial features). When an interracial marriage succeeds, the children born of these unions will hopefully lead a new generation that can see the truth that we are all the same human beings regardless of color, shape, religion and country!
Article by Karishma J. Anand
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