Mixed Marriages

[Unkotare]

When my grandfather was a young man, if an Irish boy intended to marry an Italian girl, it was considered a "mixed marriage," and the elders would cluck at such a notion. Many would say it would never last.



Crazy, huh?

 

[miketx]

Oh, I thought you were gonna post a mathematical ratio like "one part divorce, two parts alimony".

 

[Unkotare]

First, the British Americans couldn't stand the Dutch Americans. In time, they just became Americans. Then the German Americans just wouldn't assimilate and many saw the sky falling when waves of German immigrants arrived. In time, they just became Americans. The Irish, oh man, the Irish were a different 'species' and could never adapt their strange ways and dangerous religious beliefs to life in America. We all know what happened there.


So......just wait.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

When my grandfather was a young man, if an Irish boy intended to marry an Italian girl, it was considered a "mixed marriage," and the elders would cluck at such a notion. Many would say it would never last.



Crazy, huh?

Italians aren't far removed from Arabs in their phenotype, or genotype.

 

[blastoff]

Who marries who is of zero concern to me.