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julien_et_mathilde t1_j690hhn wrote
Reply to comment by L1zar9 in Caste, Society and Politics in India, by Susan Bayly by tolkienfan2759
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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