Interethnic marriage in the united kingdom : the phenomenon and its leading mechanisms

Abstract EN

There is a dearth of information on mixed race marriages in the UK.

This is curious since it is often the area of “race relations” which excites the most public condemnation and personal hostility.

It is an extremely controversial subject on which nearly everyone has an opinion.

Early public opinion surveys often included a question “would you let your daughter marry someone from another race?” so as to provide an indication of the level of racial prejudice in the UK.

Racial prejudice is roughly regarded by some experts to have decreased when intermarriage increases to a certain level.

The paper aims at discussing reasons leading to interethnic marriages and different ethnic groups to intermarry in the UK.

Marriage, despite basically concerning only two persons in the agreement encompasses several individual and contextual constraints.

Why one is more likely to choose a particular partner rather than one another? It lies in our effort to take every possible causal factor into consideration because marital decisions are often made on the basis of a range of related attributes