Douglas Todd: Rise of mixed-race unions in Canada softening identity labels
2020/11/28 Leave a comment
An ongoing trend although fear mixed unions in Canada compared to the US along with some interesting variations among visible minority groups:
The elevation of Kamala Harris to vice-president-elect of the United States of America has many probing the significance of mixed-race partnerships.
Many celebrate how the daughter of an Indian mother and Black father went on to marry a white Jewish lawyer named Douglas Emhoff. Optimists see her journey as a creative blurring of ancestries, which might help soften the harder divisions of identity politics.
Interracial couples make up about 10 per cent of all relationships in the U.S. and about five per cent in Britain and Canada.
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