1. Intermarriage and Japanese Identity
- Author
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Shuko Takeshita
- Subjects
Interracial marriage ,Government ,Interfaith marriage ,Spouse ,Identity (social science) ,Interethnic marriage ,Context (language use) ,Sociology ,Japanese culture ,Genealogy - Abstract
The Japanese term kokusaikekkon (intermarriage) refers to a marriage between persons of different nationalities. Even in statistics compiled by government agencies, intermarriage includes marriages between a Japanese person and a non-Japanese person who was born and educated in Japan. In the American context, Merton (1941) defines intermarriage as marriage between persons deriving from those different in-groups and out-groups other than the family which are culturally conceived as relevant to the choice of a spouse. In other words, for Merton, intermarriage comprises a number of subcategories, including interracial marriage, interethnic marriage, interfaith marriage, and intercultural marriage.
- Published
- 2016