Inter-racial marriages continue to grow in the U.S.

I'M A FIRST-GENERATION Filipino American. My wife is a Filipina American whose family has been in this country five generations. Through my extended family, I have relatives who are mixed race: Filipino plus white (a strong dose of Irish), black, Latino and Native American.

According to the U.S. Census, the rest of the country is catching up with my family. The  trend of interracial marriages is becoming more common place, according to the U.S. Census.

Is this what people mean when they say, "Love conquers all?"

By Brittany Rico, Rose M. Kreider and Lydia Anderson
U.S. CENSUS

MARRIAGE LOOKS a lot different today in many ways than in years past. As our nation becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, so are married couples.
The percentage of married-couple households that are interracial or interethnic grew across the United States from 7.4 to 10.2 percent from 2000 to 2012-2016. This change varied across states and counties and for specific interracial/interethnic combinations.

Is this what people mean when they say, "Love conquers all?"

Following is a press release from the U.S. Census:

There are seven types of interracial/interethnic married-couple combinations that make up 95.1 percent of all such married couples. The largest of these is non-Hispanic whites married to Hispanics, which increased in 43.2 percent of counties. In contrast, just 3.0 percent of counties showed an increase in the percentage of married-couple households that were non-Hispanic whites married to non-Hispanic American Indians or Alaska Natives.

While 40% of Asian females married outside their race in 2008, just 20% of Asian male newlyweds did the same. 

All states experienced an increase in the percentage of interracial and interethnic married-couple households from 2000 to 2012-2016.

• Two states, Hawaii and Oklahoma, and the District of Columbia increased by 4.34 percentage points or more. 
• Nine states, located mostly in the West and the Mid-Atlantic region, increased by 3.34 to 4.33 percentage points. 
• Seventeen states increased by 2.40 to 3.33 percentage points. 
• The remaining 22 states increased by less than 2.40 percentage points. 

The authors are family demographers in the Census Bureau’s Fertility and Family Statistics Branch.

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Interracial marriages drop among Chinese/Americans

REPRINTED FROM ASAM NEWS
THE PERCENT of interracial marriages in the Chinese/American community is on the decline, reports Next Shark.

Information from the 2012 census data finds that between 2008 -2010, mixed marriages in that community dropped by almost 10 percent.

An increase in Chinese immigration is partly the reason. Other factors may be cultural.

Tian Li, 32, of Chicago said she became dissatisfied with the White men she dated, some of whom she found to have a fetish for Asian women.

They didn’t understand me as a person,” she said.

Although intermarriage of Asians with other races appear to be dropping, interracial marriages are on the rise.

According to Pew Research Center, some racial groups are more likely to intermarry than others. Of the 3.6 million adults who got married in 2013, 58 percent of American Indians, 28 percent of Asians, 19 percent of blacks and 7 percent of whites have a spouse whose race was different from their own.

Despite the decline among Asians, according to Pew, Asian/American women in 2013 far outpaced Asian American men in marrying outside their race, 37 percent – 16 percent.

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SNL: Kids talk politics; Filipina/American cuts to the chase

Dave and Elaine Chappelle.

IN CASE you missed Saturday Night Live last weekend, you might have missed this little skit featuring four children discussing what they thought of Donald Trump.

Kids can be so honest because they cut through all the B.S.

The final youngster to speak up was Filipina/American Sonal Chappelle.

“He unleashed racism and xenophobia. We now must return to the dark ages of white presidents. Also my dad said that Donald Trump wills top and frisk my cat. (Pause) We have a black cat. His name’s Pussy.”

That last little girl’s father? SNL host Dave Chappelle, who appears at the end of the spoof and tells the group, “Looks like my little girl is dropping some truth! Let’s get your stuff. We have to get Pussy from the vet. Bye kids!”

Comedian Chappelle has been married to Elaine Mendoza Erfe for 15 years. They have three children. Sonal, their youngest child, delivered her lines perfectly.

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The browning of America: Predictions about the U.S.'s future

read this article This is an article on a phenomenon I've been writing about for decades, the growth of multi-racial families which will result in a quite different America than what we see today or what we are given to THINK is America thanks to a loud and vocal minority and a media still dominated by white, old male decision-makers. What Will America Look Like in 2060? 9 Bold Predictions About Our Future The U.S. is about to undergo some radical demographic shifts that will make our country a more beautiful, open place. View or comment on Ed Diokno's post »

Filipinos, Cesar Chavez and Hollywood

JUST FOR THE RECORD, With the recent release of a motion picture "Cesar Chavez" it should be noted that Filipino farmworkers began the grape boycott in 1965 forcing Chavez and the Mexican farmworkers to join in the strike.

The two unions became the United Farm Workers. Although led by Chavez, Andy Imutan and Larry Itliong were vice presidents and played major roles in cementing the UFW's role in labor history.

Unfortunately, in the movie, Filipinos were depicted only in minor roles, extras, spear carriers: a backdrop. You would think that in one of the few historical events in America where Filipinos played a major role, they would get more credit than what was shown on the screen.