同等学力申硕英语经典阅读:美跨种族婚姻数量达历史高峰

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Marriage between races and ethnic groups has reached an all-time high in the United States as public acceptance has grown, according to a Pew Research Center study on Thursday.
1 c) T* A( f: t$ w4 hMarriage between races and ethnic groups has reached an all-time high in the United States as public acceptance has grown, according to a Pew Research Center study on Thursday.
Couples of different race or ethnicity made up a record 8.4 percent of all married couples in 2010, up from 3.2 percent in 1980, the study showed.
$ f& a8 n: G& c1 A* F' uAbout 15 percent of all new US marriages in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity, more than twice the share in 1980, the report said.
Intermarriage is more common in Western states. About 20 percent of newlyweds there married someone of a different race or ethnicity between 2008 and 2010, compared with 14 percent in the South and 13 percent in the Northeast.
% s5 Z# n, L9 C) g% qForty-three percent of Americans say more people of different races marrying each other benefits society. Just more than a third say a member of their immediate family or a close relative is married to someone of a different race.
% v, p9 S" Y+ x% P9 zAsian Americans are the most likely to enter mixed-race marriages, at 27.7 percent of newlyweds in 2010. They were trailed by Hispanics at 25.7 percent, blacks at 17.1 percent and whites at 9.4 percent.
% M( p4 Y, W4 B+ e- uPew based its report on data from the US Census Bureau´s American Community Survey for 2008 to 2010 and on telephone polling.
1 l" ?6 w! I# E- R$ N% M据周四皮尤调查中心发布的研究结果，随着跨种族和跨民族婚姻逐渐被公众所接受，跨种族及跨民族婚姻数量在美国达到了历史最高峰。
研究显示，2010年不同种族或民族结合的夫妇在所有新人中占了8.4%，打破了历史记录，而在1980年这一比例为3.2%。
1 B0 l1 Q, \( J; L研究报告指出，2010年在美国结婚的所有新人中，约有15%的新人是来自不同的种族或民族，这一比例是1980年的两倍多。
异族婚姻在美国西部各州更为普遍。2008年至2010年间在美国西部结婚的新人约有20%是与不同种族或民族的人结合的，而在美国南部这一比例为14%，美国东北部为13%。
43%的美国人认为，更多不同种族的人结合对社会有益。稍过三分之一的人称，自己的直系亲属或近亲中有人和不同种族的人结婚。
亚裔美国人最有可能跨种族结合，2010年结婚的亚裔美国人中有27.7%是跨种族结合。紧随其后的是西班牙裔，占了25.7%，黑人这一比例为17.1%，白人为9.4%。
皮尤调查中心的这一报告基于美国人口普查局的2008-2010美国社区调查数据，以及电话调查。
9 }# H5 D6 t% q! xintermarriage: 异族结婚
immediate family: 直系亲属
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