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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Indian arranged marriages last longer.[/quote]
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that's mostly due to culture, not because the marriages are awesome.

My parents' generation (Asian) look down on divorce, but many of the marriages of that generation are horrible, and they would've divorced if there was not so much stigma around it and/or there were was  more opportunities for women back then.  And I include my parents' marriage in this category.

I'm sure some sociologist has studied this, but I can't be bothered to investigate it.

I will say that I am married to someone of a different race; my siblings are married to people of the same race.  One of my sibling has divorced; the other, they were close to divorcing (lots of fighting), but they held out because they did not want to end up as a statistic and they stayed together for the kids. They seemed to have accepted that their marriage is what it is.

My marriage is on much more solid ground, however, I got married much later in life compared to my siblings.   A PP stated that the age of the wife at time of marriage is a stronger indicator, and just anecdotally, I would have to agree.

Of all the divorces I know (some involved interracial couples), the woman was quite young when they married, and/or the man was not mature enough to be married.

I would say that interracial marriages have a lot more hurdles to overcome, but at the same time, if the couple have managed to over come many of the hurdles earlier on in their relationship before they got married, then the marriage is much stronger than same-race marriages because their relationship has already been tested and gone through rough patches.  [/quote]

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