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A "mixed "marriage" is a marriage between people from different religions or from different races or ethnic communities. The term is used when the two religions, races, or ethnic groups are thought by many to be incompatible in some way, such as marriage between a white man and a black woman in the US south in the 1950s, so that it is appropriate or necessary to specify that it is not a "usual" marriage.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 9y agoA mixed marriage is one where the partners are different in some regard. The difference is usually in the eyes of third parties who feel a moral or other superiority to the actual participants. The "mixed" part may bee due to:
- Male/female marriage is obviously mixed but acceptable to most whereas a same sex marriage (not mixed) would be frowned on
- Different racial groups
- Different families (In the southern states a Hatfield marrying a McCoy would be mixed as they were feuding. Similar to Romeo and Juliet's families position on their marriage)
- Different ethnic groups
- Different religions (e.g. Protestant and Catholic)
- Long term unrest between related ethnic groups (Arab peoples and Hebrew peoples are both Semitic peoples, but because of religious and cultural differences, a marriage between these two related ethnic groups could be called a mixed marriage as well. )
- As same sex marriage is identified as one type of marriage a mixed marriage might refer to a male/female marriage.
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∙ 12y agoA mixed-orientation marriage is one in which a gay man marries a heterosexual woman, or a lesbian marries a heterosexual man.
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What does mixed marriage mean in northern Ireland?
A mixed marriage mostly refers to a marriage between people of different religious traditions or cultures. In Northern Ireland the term would mostly be associated with a Catholic and a Protestant getting married to each other.
What is the difference between marriage and mixed marriage?
Not much. Mixed marriage usually means people from different cultures hispanic and oriental for example.
What has the author Margarete B Heilers written?
Margarete B. Heilers has written: 'Lebensration' -- subject(s): History, Jews, Marriage, Marriage, Mixed, Mixed Marriage
What is the Catholic Church's teaching on mixed marriages?
It doesn't teach anything, a marriage is a marriage.
What actors and actresses appeared in The Mixed Marriage - 2003?
The cast of The Mixed Marriage - 2003 includes: Karen Constantine as Janice-Lead Role Mike Janowiak as Thark Paul Tulley as Therapist
What has the author Joseph Kannath written?
Joseph Kannath has written: 'Proselytism and Gandhian concept of religious conversion' -- subject(s): Christianity, Conversion, Missions, Church and social problems, Theological anthropology, Catholic Church 'Mixed marriage and married life in a cross-cultural milieu' -- subject(s): Marriage, Mixed, Miscegenation, Mixed Marriage
What Is Whitney Houston mixed with?
She is related to Dionne Warwick, and of course, the Brown's by marriage.
When a Jew marries a non-Jew it is called what?
It is sometimes called a mixed marriage.
If your mother is mixed and your dad is black does that mean you are mixed?
Yes, you are mixed.
What is the baby of a female horse and a male donkey?
This 'mixed marriage' will produce a hinny.
What does marriage traditions mean?
marriage between a man and a woman
What does the plexer UTNS mean?
mixed nutsbecause its nuts mixed
