why do people like to marry people from the same colour ?

Answer 1

I think less people do these days. Inter-racial marriages are at an all time high.

In years gone by there was generally less mixing through a lack of option (people didn't tend to move and settle very far from home - so everyone tended to be from the same cultural background) and an ignorance about other people's cultures led to a certain amount of prejudice against people from different cultural backgrounds. So (without prejudice) it wasn't so much that a white man wanted to marry a white woman, it was that he DIDN'T want to marry a black woman.

Now we're a world, not a collection of nations. People move around the world, and even if you never leave your own back stoop, things like the internet are bringing the world to you. We're much more open culturally.

By the way, my parents were mixed (Dad Indian, Mum British) and every one of my dad's nieces (he doesn't have any nephews) married white boys. So we definately don't hold to sticking to our race.

Answer 2

Because they live with people of the same colour, so they most know people with the same colour, and there are more possibilities to fall in love with them

Answer 3

I think it's because they feel they have more in common with someone from the same color. I remember hearing that in a cultural anthropology class. However, my boyfriend and I are different races and I don't have a problem with it at all. I actually find it very interesting to learn about his family's culture.

Answer 4

I've never drawn the color line; just happened to fall in love with a man of my own race because I'm attracted to the combination of dark hair and blue eyes.

Many people don't date or marry out of their own race because they're afraid of their parents and peer group. Simple as that.

Answer 5

Because some volatile social issues in the West are governed by the appearance and the color of one's skin. If someone is the same color as his mate, racial differences and cultural differences that have been fostered by racial differences may be absent from the relationship, but not always. In others, it may be the way they were raised to be preferential toward someone of their own color.

Answer 6

I've dated outside of my own race, but wound up marrying a white guy. While most of the guys I dated were very nice people, we had very little in common. Different cultures, different ways we were raised, different things we could relate to in society.

Answer 7

Because they are proud of their skin colour and want their children to have it too.

The only way to stay that colour is to mate with that colour.
It takes about four generations to get to the original colour once you mate out!

Answer 8

I think people marry the people they fall in love with.

However, I think if you only meet people of one race/colour/creed/religion in your life then you are obviously destined to marry one of them.

Answer 9

Proximity

Answer 10

Have you ever seen a robin and a blue jay in the same nest?

Have you ever seen a cardinal and a finch in the same nest?

Have you ever seen an owl and a hawk in the same nest?

Have you ever seen a duck and a goose in the same nest?

Have you ever seen an owl and a hawk in the same nest?

Have you ever seen a sparrow and a finch in the same nest?