The Not-So-Racist America
People born in America ("natives") are more willing than ever to commit to interracial and inter-ethnic marriages.
"In 2015, 17% of all U.S. newlyweds had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity"1. That is 1 out of every 6 newlyweds and a 6-fold increase from 1967. This increase is in spite of Latino and Asian immigration increasing only 3-fold and 5-fold respectively since 1970. The increase in interracial marriage is higher proportionately than the increase in immigration. Also, as some scholars have theorized, interracial marriages should be decreasing as immigration increases since the new immigrants have a larger pool of their own ethnicities to choose from. Their theories did not occur in reality.
What is especially remarkable about the increase in interracial marriage among Asians and Latinos is that it is occurring despite the growth of these populations due to continued immigration from Asia and Latin America. It’s expected that as Asian and Latino populations grow, these two groups would have a larger pool of partners from which to choose within their racial group, resulting in more intraracial marriage.2
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First, U.S.-born Asians and Latinos are marrying outside their race (mostly with whites) at much higher rates than blacks, and these figures have increased since 1990 for both Asians and Latinos. In 2008 nearly three-quarters of marriages involving a native-born Asian was interracial, up from 69.3 percent in 1990. This trend also holds for U.S.-born married Latinos; 52.5 percent of marriages were interracial in 2008, up from 46.0 percent in 1990.[2]
Not only are natives (and especially white natives) marrying immigrant minorities (non-European immigrants), but they are also marrying native minorities as well. To be more blunt, white American-born people are marrying non-white people, whether they are immigrating or born in America.
As mentioned in the quote above, blacks are being outpaced in interracial marriages by other minorities. As far as female minorities, black women have relatively low interracial marriage rates; and as far as male minorities, Asian men have relatively low interracial marriage rates. However, both are still rising.
Qian of Ohio University has shown similar findings3 with interracial cohabitation data, where "cohabitation" is non-married couples who live together, or the bulk of modern relationships
Claims that America is racist against blacks are absurd, since black men have higher interracial rates than Asian men. And claims that America is racist against Asians are absurd because Asian women have exceptionally high interracial marriage rates. So the claim would have to be that America is misogynistic-racist towards black women, but misandry-racist towards Asian men. That is, if we were to believe in group generalizations, much like those that make the racist claims to begin with. Humans only occur as individuals.
Livingston, Gretchen. Brown, Anna. "Intermarriage in the U.S. 50 Years After Loving vs. Virginia." PEW Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/05/18/intermarriage-in-the-u-s-50-years-after-loving-v-virginia/#fn-22844-2. 2019.
Levingston, Steven. "Immigration's Racial Complexity." Political Bookworm. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/07/immigrations_racial_complexity.html. 2019.
Qian, Zhenchao. "Divergent Paths of American Families." Department of Sociology, Ohio State University. https://s4.ad.brown.edu/Projects/Diversity/Data/Report/report09112013.pdf. 2019.