Interracial marriage occurs when two people of differing racial groups marry.

This is a form of exogamy (marrying outside of one's racial group) and can be seen in the broader context of miscegenation (mixing of different racial groups in marriage, cohabitation, or sexual relations).

Malaysia and Singapore In Malaysia and Singapore, the majority of inter-ethnic marriages are between Chinese and Indians. The offspring of such marriages are informally known as "Chindian". The Malaysian and Singaporean governments, however, only classify them by their father's ethnicity. As the majority of these intermarriages usually involve an Indian groom and Chinese bride, the majority of Chindians in Malaysia are usually classified as "Indian" by the Malaysian government. As for the Malays, who are predominantly Muslim, legal restrictions in Malaysia make it uncommon for them to intermarry with either the Indians, who are predominantly Hindu, or the Chinese, who are predominantly Buddhist and Taoist.[95] It is common for Arabs in Singapore and Malaysia to take local Malay wives, due to a common Islamic faith.[90] The Chitty people, in Singapore and the Malacca state of Malaysia, are a Tamil people with considerable Malay descent, which was due to the first Tamil settlers taking local wives, since they did not bring along any of their own women with them. According to government statistics, the population of Singapore as of September 2007 was 4.68 million, of whom multiracial people, including Chindians and Eurasians, formed 2.4%. In 2007, 16.4% of all marriages in Singapore were inter-ethnic.
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Intercultural marriage complications Oftentimes, couples in intercultural marriages face barriers that most married couples of the same culture are not exposed to. Intercultural marriages are often influenced by external factors that can create dissonance and disagreement in relationships.[162] Different cultures endure vastly diverse moral, ethical and value foundations that influence their perceptions of individual, family and societal lifestyle. When these foundations are operating alongside the foundation of different cultural roots, as in intercultural marriages, problems and disagreement oftentimes occur.[162] However, interracial marriages are not always intercultural marriages, as in some countries, such as the United States, people of different races can share the same cultural background. Family and society The most common external factors influencing intercultural relationships and marriages are the acceptance of the family and the society in which the couple lives.[162] Sometimes, the families of the partners display rejection, resistance, hostility and lack of acceptance for their kins partner.[162] Specific issues regarding the family; including

generational gaps in ideology, and how the wedding will be held; which ties into how tradition will or will not be practiced. Many intercultural couples report conflict arising over issues of how to carry out child raising and religious worship as well. Dealing with racism from outside sources is also a common area of potential conflict. Communication style Intercultural couples may possess differing communication styles. Individuals from a high context culture are not verbally explicit in their communication behaviors.[163] These cultures typically consist of eastern world countries where collectivism and relational harmony underlie communication behavior. By contrast, individuals from a low context culture use direct obvious communication styles to convey information.[163] In situations where marriage occurs between two people from differing communication contextual backgrounds, conflict may arise from relational challenges posed by the underlying assumptions of high/low context cultures. Challenges posed by differing communication styles are common among intercultural marriage couples.[164] The longer the two individuals have existed in the current culture the less likely this is to pose an issue. If one or more partners within the marriage is relatively new to the dominant culture the likelihood for conflict to unfold on these bases increases.[164] Management Intercultural couples tend to face hardships most within-culture relationships do not. Various resources which focus on conflict resolution of intercultural differences in marriage relationships have become available in the media. Specialized counseling and support groups have also become available to these couples. Conflict resolution and mediation of the infrastructural issues faced by intercultural couples leads to a broader understanding of culture and communicatio

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Mixed marriage does happen in Malaysia, althought very few. One of the biggest problem towards inter-racial marriage is religion. Most people of a particular race usually to a particular religion, all of Malays are Muslims, most of the Chinese are Buddhist and most of the Indians are Hindus. Many of us have yet open up our restrictive thinking and we still try to confirm to their practices. In addition, our parents are still afraid of mixed marriage, because they think that mixed marriage can caused

many problems due different cultures, lifestyles, and languages. Nevertheless interracial marriage also have the advantages interm of promoting national unity and soon there would not be any distinguishing between Chinese, Malay, Indian or Sikh as everybody will be a Malaysians. Mixed marriage means a marriage of two people from different races,religions or different cultures. The families of both partners in a mixed marriage often disapprove their marriage.

Normally children who are born from mixed marriage family would have problem in using their mother tongue. For example, in a family where the father is a Chinese and the mother is an Indian, so their child might know how to speak Mandarin or Kantonis only but dont know Tamil. For those partners in mixed marriage, it would be hard for them to express their feelings through the language as their mother tongues are different. Some of them are used to communicate in their mother tongues. When misunderstanding occurs caused by the language problem, they might always quarrel. Further-more, different language might also influence their pronunciation.

The social context of marriage has changed for everyone. Based on amalgamation theory, when someone marry other races or cultures they can constitute a new culture. This is because of deficient communication skills on the part of spouses. So they must create a new method to harmonize themselves. They must leave out old culture to take

care of their partners feelings. They must be open minded towards their problems. They cant just avoid the problems asby doing this problems might occur and they might ended up in divorce. The ideology of gender has challenged the dominance of husbands which was embedded in older marriage culture.

Pressure or stress from the public eyes can be seen visible in Southeast Asia, mixed marriage are still something rare. Common inter-racial marriage is Chinese and Indians (Chindian), because their religion come from the same roof and both religion have a lot in common. The marriage between Chinese and Indians will also face the problems of different language. Both races have different cultural, so they will have differential in point of view relating to social approaches, lifestyles and opinions. They have different native languages as Mandarin and Tamil but they are making it useful for a more general understanding of bilingual language. In oral communication, maybe will happen wrong evaluate the message, because wrong perception of the meaning or influence of environment and different situation and timing not use the properly communication. The nonverbal stimuli in a communication like body language can also lead to wrong expression and misunderstanding by different cultural. Communication of symbol also important. It represent our groups identity speech like whats up, and yo are popular in Malaysia. In addition, factor for space between of people, action, sense of taste also need to be taken to consideration in nonverbal communication.

Another interesting phenomenon is the increasing number of Eurasians in Malaysia, especially in Kuala Lumpur. Born of mixed marriages between Malaysians and Westerners. Normally, they are communicate in English, but Malaysians usually speaking in Manglish like you go to eat first la. Sometime westerners find it difficult to understand there are alsodifferences in communication between Westernes and Malaysian. For example kissing goodbye is common manners for Westerners but for Malaysians is not suitable.

Beside of these disadvantages in mix marriage, there are also benefits. According to Tan Sri Abdul Talib a child from mix marriage will have a high level of intelligent. This is because the children have a great mix of DNA from their mother and father ancestor. Beside intelligent, mix marriage can also produce a beautiful and good looking child because of the mix blood from their mother and father. This child will have a bright future in entertainment and modeling business because they are unique and different from our local people. For examples the child from mix marriage between Asian and Europe people are called pan Asian. Pan Asian are really popular in our entertainment business. Many actor and actress in Malaysia are pan Asian like Sofea Jane and Harith Iskandar.

As a conclusion, at the very beginning of mix marriage a lots of problems might occurs. This problem can be solve gradually by building the chemistry between the couple. They must spend more time together and be more communicative so that the relation gets better and to understand each other move.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of mixed marriages

It's already difficult enough getting along in a couple where you both come from the same culture without having the extra difficulties of different cultures. You have to make so many more concessions in a mixed marriage. Imagine if your husband insisted on you wearing a headscarf and imposed his religion on you? Maybe love is not enough to make this kind of relationship last, you would have to take a lot of time talking and trying to overcome inevitable misunderstandings. It would be necessary to find a common goal. As life is so demanding, the extra investment in terms of time and energy may be too much. Perhaps if you don't have too strong a character and are openminded enough to accept the customs and values of your partner without

necessarily giving up your own, it could work as long as the cultures are not too different. One advantage is that mixed nationality children are often gorgeous looking. Have you ever seen a chid who is half Africain and half Japanese? A mixed marriage could bring an element of variety and surprise which you don't have in a traditional marriage. It could be enriching and not so likely to fall into a routine.

What is the advantage of mixed marriages?

Could you be falling in love? You have told yourself that it is just a crush. After all, you are just really good friends, right? However, a relationship with him would be nice and he is the right kind of guy. No, you're being silly. He is completely wrong for you - isn't he? Figuring out if it is love is not easy. What is real love? These days, many mixed marriages begin in our society and don't take into account different religions, race and culture. In my perspective, mixed marriages will be a most happiness marriages in the world. Not to mention,spouses of mixed marriages come from different kind of family so many people will curious what they life will be after marriage.Mixed marriage have many advantage.One of them is they can take advantage in this special family background to exchange diverse of perspective.For instance, husband or wife come across the problem,they can suggest their family method to solve the problem.Besides,many successful story show us, a lot of mixed marriages is interpersonal relationships expert. They try to find a way to get together with their parents,sibling, relatives or friends,especially parents.Because of worrying to be curious or prejudice by they ethnic or get in dutch with someone so they will do a lot of family research. Thus,they will keep an eye on them and find out what they like to do or what they hate to see.For example,they will buy the food their like before drop by or bring

them go on vacation. In the other hand,children who burn in this family can become genius in the future.Because of parents come from different race so they can speak different kind of language. As everyone know,communication play an important role at the moment because it can abbreviate the distance between each other.For example,if Father is Chinese and Mother is German and live in United State,they probably can speak more than three language in the same time.No to mention if they study another language in the school like Spanish or French.Furthermore,Chinese people not only can speak Chinese but also can speak their mother tongue.Thus,Can you imagine how they will be in the future? Obviously, mixed marriage can give descendant unlimited expanding and fortune. No doubt, if they discover, latent fortune really exist in mixed marriages. As is known to all, quite of few spouses come from different country. If you are a businessman,you can expand you corporation easily. Namely,if you are Chinese and have a half of French descent and you wife is British and your live in Malaysia so you can expand you company in this different country and intensify you income freely. Can you image if you are this guys? For woman, more of the woman will agree that beautiful feature and nice body are their fortune. Because mates come from different cultures, they have their own ancient of recipe to keep their beauty forever. Then, she can discuss the recipe to their husband mother. In the mean time, relationship between wife and parents can be emphasized and features can be improved for good. Can you dream how sweet it is? In a nutshell,"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day." French Writer Andr Maurois said. Regardless of same ethnic marriage or mixed marriage,they also will appear many small case like argue eat in or eat out,debate eat rice or eat noodles and so on. In my opinion, I fully agree mixed marriage will bring happiness than badness. Spouse can show understand between each other because they need more time to figure out their mate daily routine in diverse culture. Besides that, descendants will become special in the future and fortune will come in their family."The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship." Thus,

don't confuse the real meaning of marriage. Anything cannot destroy the real Love no matter different religion,race or culture.

Project interracial marriage in Malaysia

Interracial marriages can be good in that they help contribute to a society where color is unimportant. Children born of such an union are both cultures, understand two cultures and bring a new perspective to society, as more and more biracial children are born. It brings cultures together. If the respective families are open minded (and just from my experience, they mostly end up being so, even if they don't start off that way), they learn and understand a different group, learn empathy and understanding where there may not have been some, and walls of prejudice or misunderstanding are slowly let down.

What are some benefits to interracial marriage?

Mixxy offspring are generally healthier over all due to low rates of genetic disease. Most genetic diseases are recessive traits, so you need the recessive gene from both parents. When the parents are of different races, this is much less possible. Sickle-cell anemia is an example of a common disease like this. The downside: They often experience dental problems among other things, because it is common to inherit, for example, a small mouth from one parent but large teeth from the other. One of my good friends has this issue. She is half Chinese and half African. She is beautiful, but her teeth are crowded. It makes you a better and more open-minded person. Your experience can help make the world more open-minded. You can learn about another culture, have another family that can offer you a different experience that your own family couldn't offer. You can put some "flavor" into your life. You can fit into TWO communities of people instead of just one. Having someone of that race is like a secret "pass" into that world and you gain acceptance into that world.. People of the same race as your husband are nicer to you when you are with your husband, etc. etc. Sad yes but it's true..

Interracial Marriage In Malaysia

Interracial marriage occurs when two people of differing racial groups marry. Not like before, there is no law restriction for interracial marriage anymore. Thus, interracial marriage had become more and more common nowadays. Once in love, modern people do not think that skin color is a real matter for love. However, there are still conflicts which are the main concern for interracial marriage. But, love will be the best catalyst to dissolve those conflicts. In this article, we will only discuss interracial marriage of Malaysian since we are studied about ethnic relationship of Malaysian. Interracial marriage is not a fresh or new phenomenon in Malaysia. Theoretically, the probability of interracial marriage to be happened in Malaysia should be high since Malaysia is a multi-racial country. There are some benefits that can be brought from interracial marriage. Interracial marriage can enhance the integration of Malaysia. This is because it encourages and increases the possibility of interaction between ethnics. Moreover, interracial marriage also increases the exchange of religions, languages, customs and cultures among people in Malaysia internally. Thus, this may stimulate some new element of culture in Malaysia. There are some conflicts that may exist in interracial marriage. First of all, conflict in religion adherence. For religion conflict, ethnic involved can be separated into Muslim and non-Muslim. In Malaysia, Malays are mandatory to adherence to Islamic. As for the Malays, who are predominantly Muslim, legal restrictions in Malaysia make it uncommon for them to intermarry with either the Indians, who are predominantly Hindu, or the Chinese, who are predominantly Buddhist. This is because, laws had also restricted that whoever marry with Muslim is mandatory to change their religion or belief to Islamic regardless of gender. So, there are no tolerances in religion for those nonMuslims that marry with Muslim. Therefore, those non-Muslim Malaysia have to...