how many mixed African American-Latino couples do you know who ended to together due to propinquity at school?
In every European country I lived I encountered and befriended lot of local people who think like me.
Why would I mislead you or anybody else about such things? It's not only school, although many such matches used to be made at Catholic schools, especially where Puerto Ricans are concerned. It's also work related. I've worked with professionals who were European American, Chinese American, South Asian American, Black American, you name it. Given that I live and practiced in New York, lots and lots of Jewish Americans. I think all my doctors are either Jewish or Italian American.
( I really didn't do any of this deliberately, or at least it wasn't conscious.) In terms of employees the only things I've ever demanded are competence and hard work and a professional attitude.
As to your question, let's see, one of my cousins married a Cuban-American girl he met in a Catholic high school in Miami. She doesn't look very "mixed" though, so perhaps she doesn't count? One of my secretaries was Puerto Rican, and she married an Irish boy (he became a cop) she met at a high school dance. My neighbor up the block is half Puerto Rican and half Irish and his wife is Irish/German/Polish American...lovely couple. I don't know how they met. My next door neighbor for years was also Cuban American. His wife was Peruvian and Venezuelan. Their son, whom I consider a sort of surrogate son of mine, now finishing his training in neurosurgery, is engaged to an Irish/Italian girl he met at university. A friend of my son's, a computer science type, is Korean American (and a devout born again type Protestant Christian...only in America. :grin
. He's living with a girl who is sort of Euro-mutt. Another friend of my son's, an Indian boy just graduating from law school, is going through a drama because he is in love with another Euro mutt sort of American girl, and his family is demanding that he give her up. They're tearing him in two. It's very sad, as from what I can tell she's a very nice girl and really cares about him, probably enough to convert if that's what would satisfy them. Should I go on?
Don't misunderstand me...this isn't the majority of marriages, but they exist, and in about the numbers quoted in the Pew Poll, which is a highly respected organization. You also have to factor in that I live in a very cosmopolitan, educated part of the country. It's not the same in certain parts of the country. Heck, when I was first working, some bozo from the south, a "big man" in the client company, got a little tipsy and told me that he had never met a "white woman" like me, by which he meant dark haired and dark eyed, Mediterranean, and therefore a little "exotic". (A total jerk, but I couldn't throw the beer in his face because he was the client.:annoyed: )
It's true that intermarriage with African Americans is more rare, especially for white Americans. Only one such couple is part of my personal circle of acquaintance. They're both lawyers, and it's a second marriage for both of them. I don't doubt that it will become more common in the future. Certainly, the interaction is there. One of my closest friends is a Jamaican who moved to the U.S. as a teenager. She's a social worker I met through work.
I'm leaving out the inter-ethnic marriages among European-Americans, because that includes almost everybody. I am one of twenty-four first cousins, and we're of an older generation, and yet only four of us married people of Italian descent. I've raised my children very "Italian", with yearly trips to Italy, and yet neither one has yet brought home someone of 100% Italian descent, although my son has introduced me to some half-Italians. My daughter seems to specialize in Irish American or Irish/German football players, (or maybe they choose her?)although she once went against type and dated a Persian Jewish boy who was in her high school. It didn't last more than a few weeks, but she went to his prom with him. He was a nice boy, but he wasn't her type.
This is just the way that it is. It used to be determined by religion...Catholics found it easier to marry Catholics, but as religion has become less important, the circle has broadened so to speak. I know a whole cadre of Italian-American professional women married to Jews, for instance.
As I said, this isn't the country for people who find this sort of dating and marrying offensive.