Mixed Marriages Causing US Hispanics, Asians to Integrate Faster

*This is a major force in the “browning of America.” And it makes sense, because Latinos are of mixed and many races to begin with. This isn’t to say that there aren’t Latino bigots, they exist, but at the same time do you think tolerance has a natural place in Latino DNA. VL

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By Dora Mekouar, Voice of America

U.S. immigrants appear to be integrating faster than expected, according to a new report, which finds that the grandchildren of Hispanics and Asians are less likely to identify themselves by these ethnicities on government surveys than their parents and grandparents are.

This is especially true of children of mixed marriages.

“Most of this ethnic attrition, or most of this kind of missing identification, is from inter-marriage,” said economist Stephen Trejo of the University of Texas at Austin. “So, if both of my parents have Hispanic ancestry, then it’s almost for sure that I’m labeled as Hispanic. But, if I only have Hispanic ancestry on one side of my family…and not the other, then there’s a much lower rate of identification.”

In 2010, about 15 percent of all marriages in the United States were between spouses with a different race or ethnicity from each other. The percentages are even higher for Hispanics and Asians. Twenty-six percent of Hispanics and 28 percent of Asians married out, according to the Pew Research Center.

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Suggested reading

En otra voz is the first Spanish-language anthology to bring together literature from the entire history of Hispanic writing in the United States, from the age of exploration to the present. The product of hundreds of scholars working with the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage program over ten years, the anthology has compiled for the first time scores of previously unknown works in the Spanish language written by Hispanics of diverse ethnic backgrounds and classes. It is the most comprehensive literary collection available in Spanish, spanning more than three centuries and including a broad range of genres.

Organized chronologically into three sections which represent the three major manifestations of Hispanic culture in the United States—Native, Exile and Immigration—the anthology goes beyond the written tradition to also include oral literature: folk songs, tales, personal experience narratives and even rhymes.

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