{"id":46529,"date":"2016-04-10T01:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T01:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46529"},"modified":"2016-04-10T01:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T01:31:50","slug":"of-association-assimilation-and-mixed-race-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46529","title":{"rendered":"Of association, assimilation and mixed-race marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/omanobserver.om\/of-association-assimilation-and-mixed-race-marriages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Of association, assimilation and mixed-race marriages<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/omanobserver.om\" target=\"_blank\">Oman Daily Observer<\/a><br \/>\n2016-03-21<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:aliriyami1@live.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Ahmed Al Riyami<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is said that \u2018love knows no bounds\u2019 and, as such, when two people meet and fall in love there is little that can stop there union and all that it entails; especially the expected outcome, which is in fact the main reason that a man and a woman conjoin in the first place \u2014 whether consciously or unconsciously \u2014 of producing offspring and securing their gene pools. In a world that has seen the mass movement and migrations of people, across boarders and continents, it is not surprising, then, that the incidence of mixed marriages between people of different national and cultural origins, faiths and creeds takes place.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">Britain<\/a>, it is reported that one in ten marriages is by a mixed race couple; something almost unimaginable and very rare just a few decades ago and yet, as the figures show, is becoming quite commonplace&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/omanobserver.om\/of-association-assimilation-and-mixed-race-marriages\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of association, assimilation and mixed-race marriages Oman Daily Observer 2016-03-21 Ali Ahmed Al Riyami It is said that \u2018love knows no bounds\u2019 and, as such, when two people meet and fall in love there is little that can stop there union and all that it entails; especially the expected outcome, which is in fact the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,10],"tags":[23460,23461],"class_list":["post-46529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-ali-ahmed-al-riyami","tag-oman-daily-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46530,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46529\/revisions\/46530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}