Interracial Relations: Marriages The United States has witnessed a considerable amount of social and cultural desegregation between African-Americans and Caucasians. However, despite years of desegregation, social and cultural differences still exist. One of these differences that still exists is in the institution of marriage. Americans have been and are continually moving slowly away from segregation. In the past forty years, a multitude of changes have transformed schools, jobs, voting booths, neighborhoods, hotels, restaurants and even …
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…who are also guilty of causing friction, and the next generation must be educated to understand and accept these patterns of new thought on interracial marriages. Until these attitudes, that support segregation, are suppressed, and eventually changed, the only way to make changes involving segregation is through education and tolerance. Children of interracial married couples learn tolerance within the family, which allows these children to add their experiences to others, in one way or another.