☯️Mixed Faith 2: Interreligious Parents & Interfaith Multiracial Daters
Interracial couples are interfaith, multiracials have interfaith parents, & multiracials date interreligiously (compared to monoracials)
Table of Contents
☆Preliminary Data [Pre-PrePrint] ☆
· Something With Something Else
☆ Sidenotes. ☆
∘ Consistency of Interracial Mate Preferences
☆Related Articles ☆
Preliminary Data [Pre-PrePrint]
1. Interracial couples are more likely to be interreligious, and interracial couples have multiracial children.
2. Thus, it follows that multiracial individuals should be more likely to grow up in households where their parents are different religions.
3. Moreover, being nurtured with religious diversity should increase their propensity to date interreligiously relative to monoracials.
Findings
1. Interracial couples are significantly more likely to be interreligious than monoracial couples, χ2(1, N = 1478) = 50.04, p < .001.
2. Multiracials’ parents are significantly more likely to be different religions than monoracials’ parents, χ2(1, N = 371) = 17.08, p < .001.
3. Multiracials are significantly more likely to date someone of a different faith than monoracials, χ2(1, N = 1255) = 5.16, p = .023.
Something With Something Else
Most (70.7%) interfaith couples are something with nothing (i.e., Christian-Atheist, Hindu-Agnostic).
Among BiFaith couples (interfaith couples in which both members are people of faith), they’re most likely to be Abrahamic-Buddhist (44.4%), Abrahamic-Abrahamic (24.8%), & Abrahamic-Spiritual (15.8%), χ2(4, N= 133) = 64.11, p < .001.
Abrahamic believers (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) would rather date a non-Abrahamic person (74.8%) than someone of a different Abrahamic faith (25.2%), χ2(1, N = 131) = 32.25, p < .001.
Atheist or Agnostic?
Monoracials (36.2%) are less likely to identify as atheist or agnostic than multiracials (50.7%), χ2(1, N= 1311) = 16.57, p< .001.
Sidenotes.
? — Question/Hypothesis: Interracial Remarriage Preference
For multiracials whose biological parents divorced & remarried, is their second marriage with someone of a different race?
Or did they marry someone whose racial background matches that of their offspring (whether partially matches or completely matches [as in they married a multiracial individual with the same composition as their offspring]?
Are divorcees of interracial 1st marriages less likely to enter into a same-race marriage when they remarry than divorcees of same-race 1st marriages?
? — About Twins & Interracial Preference
If one identical twin marries interracially, is their twin likely to do so at a rate higher than that observed for fraternal twins?
Consistency of Interracial Mate Preferences
“…those with stable ethnic dating preferences (preferring to consistently date either a same-ethnicity or a different-ethnicity partner throughout high school) maintained these preferences over time” (Chan & Kiang, 2021, p. 76).
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