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Ethnically Mixed Couples Face Challenges: Tips on How to Make Their Union Work
Racially, religiously, ethnically, culturally, and nationally mixed couples all face challenges. Ultimately, it is an issue of cultural norms and attitudes.
Race Is a Social Construct
Ethnicity is a category of people identifying with each other based on a common language, ancestry, history, society, culture, nation, race, or social treatment. Race, on the other hand, is mostly defined and determined by physical characteristics. However, no gene cluster determines or differentiates between black, Asian, white, or any other race. For this reason, anthropologists assert that “race is a social construct.” Hence, it is an identity assigned based on rules made by society.
Most Americans Are of Mixed Ethnicity.
Although the US Census only recognizes seven racial or ethnic categories: white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Amerindian/Alaska native, native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and mixed ethnicity, the reality is slightly different. If you are among the Americans who consider themselves non-Hispanic white, chances are your ancestors originated from one of the many ethnic groups that migrated to this…
