#intermarriage

[secular-jew]

This helps explain it....

[uraniumgeranium]

I'm tired of spending holidays alone. Maybe this Christmas, I tell my husband that O can't come do Christmas stuff because I'll be busy with Chinese food and a movie 🤷‍♀️

[agentrouka-blog]

By the end of the Dance of Dragons thousands of northmen from Cregan Stark host married the widows and daughters of the Riverlands men who died in the war. The North and Riverlands lost many men in the War of the Five Kings.

Following my previous ask. Free Folk, skagosis and mountain clanmen marriying into the north and Riverlands? Is Alys Kastark the first step.

PS: it was Alys Blackwood idea to settle men of Cregan's host in the Riverlands.

Was it really thousands? Because that'd be a fierce cultural mix that would surely endure to the year 300. There is no sign of that.

The day after the executions, Lord Stark resigned as Hand. No man ever held the office so briefly, and few left it as gladly. He returned to the North, leaving many of his fierce Northmen behind in the south. Some wed widows in the riverlands, others sold their swords or swore them in service, and a few turned to banditry. But the Hour of the Wolf was done, and it was time for the regents.

(The World of Ice and Fire - The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III)

A handful of intermarriages, I would find feasible. But we shouldn't forget that apart from maybe the Golden Company, all of the populations you mention have plenty of their own women. Unless intermarriage is encouraged for both sexes, this simply leaves those women behind for no reason. That's a different proposition, though, from simply matching widows and some rootless men.

Alys and Sigorn are actually remarkably similar, which Jon and Alys make careful note of. The Thenns are the only wildling culture to practice a hereditary rulership and live in a disciplined, hierarchical society that is fairly similar to the Northerners south of the Wall.

"Free folk is what they call themselves. Most, at least. The Thenns are a people apart, though. Very old." Ygritte had told him that. You know nothing, Jon Snow. "They come from a hidden vale at the north end of the Frostfangs, surrounded by high peaks, and for thousands of years they've had more truck with the giants than with other men. It made them different."

"Different," she said, "but more like us."

"Aye, my lady. The Thenns have lords and laws." They know how to kneel. "They mine tin and copper for bronze, forge their own arms and armor instead of stealing it. A proud folk, and brave. Mance Rayder had to best the old Magnar thrice before Styr would accept him as King-Beyond-the-Wall." (ADWD, Jon X)

The cultural difference there is much smaller than to "wilder" freefolk or mountain clans, let alone the Skagosi. This already leaves out religious differences.

I don't think these cultures need to intermarry on a massive scale. This would simply blend all of the cultures together and remove their individual traditions. They don't need to be assimilated, they simply need to be able to live in peaceful coexistence.

It would be enough to stop being enemies. The rest can slowly grow from there.

[ameliathefatcat]

Ok, idk why I just made a very weird connection to intermarriage from StF and EoA ships. So if you don’t know intermarriage is when someone who is Jewish marries someone that is not. So my Intermarriage connection is that if a royal marries a commoner so ships Eleteo. So technically speaking if Elena married Mateo (or any of the amigos) she would be intermarried. I’m thinking to much into this and going into Rabbi mode. But I find this interesting. Are there royal parents that are like “Marry who you like as long as their royal.” Like many Jewish parents stay to kids except royal is replace with Jewish (this is my parents). I don’t see the Avaloran or Enchancian family being like this. But this food for thought.

[thesociologicalcinema]

Probability of race/ethnic intermarriage, 2008-2018

Predicted at the mean of controls for age (logistic margins)Source: Philip N. Cohen / American Community Survey data

[ask-jumblr]

I've been committed to conversion for over a year and a half now, and originally was beginning to convert Reform. I had to pause, sadly, for reasons outside of my control, and I've found myself being more and more drawn to Conservative Judaism. My question is, will a Conservative Rabbi welcome me if my long time significant other/future spouse is not Jewish, and not interested in conversion? S.O. is also monotheistic if that makes a difference. Thank you so much in advance!

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[jewish-education]

In this episode, meet Mikey and Sandra: two students at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College who are married to loving, supportive partners...who happen not to be Jews.

“I think it doesn’t matter how much tachlis [practical] Judaism we give to our children...I think it’s more about really loving them and about teaching them why I love Judaism and I think that is the home I want to create, the Jewish home I want to create for them” (17:22)

[pewresearch]

In 2015, 17% of all U.S. newlyweds had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity, marking more than a fivefold increase since 1967, when 3% of newlyweds were intermarried. More broadly, one-in-ten married people in 2015 – not just those who recently married – had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity. 

The growth in intermarriage has coincided with shifting societal norms as Americans have become more accepting of marriages involving spouses of different races and ethnicities, even within their own families.