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L1zar9 t1_j68x88l wrote

Reply to comment by julien_et_mathilde in Caste, Society and Politics in India, by Susan Bayly by tolkienfan2759

Racism probably plays some part but there’re also like more than 5 times as many white people as there are black people in the US so it’s not like it’ll ever even be physically possible for intermarriage rates to reach close to the same levels as others. Also other aspects would have an impact, like how different ethnic groups tend to form more insular communities and probably at least a few others that aren’t coming to my mind atm

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julien_et_mathilde t1_j690hhn wrote

Of course you wouldn't expect an equal number of mixed race marriages as intraracial ones. You would, however, expect a high percentage of the minority group to eventually be married to partners outside of their group. We see this with Jews in the West, who marry non-Jews at high rates now that religious rigor is relaxing and anti-Jewish sentiment is less normal.

Insularity is common among immigrants, but it normally does not last more than a few generations due to assimilation. The exceptions seem to happen when the group is legally made into a racial underclass or when insularity is a tenet of the group's religion.

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