Interethnic Marriages of Mexican Americans After Nearly Two Decades

acculturation advantages and disadvantages advantages in marrying Bean & Bradshaw Behavior reflects Burma California children of female children of first-generation cultural and ethnic culturally relevant activities different ethnic group disadvantages in marrying educational and occupational endogamous ethnic group ethnic identity everyday behavior exogamous marriages Find disadvantages first-generation females first-generation male first-generation Mexican first-generation respondents Fitzpatrick & Gurak Gonzales Gordon identified as Mexican indicated ingroup marriage Insert Table Interracial marriages later-generation respondents Los Angeles County male and female marriage in 1963 marriage licenses marrying someone Mexican background Mexican cultural activities Mexican-origin best friend Mexico Mittelbach Mittelbach et al NEARLY TWO DECADES non-Mexican spouses non-Spanish surname occupational status offspring outgroup marriages Overall Panunzio parents and in-laws participate in culturally percentage of subjects Puerto Ricans questionnaire reflect their Mexican respondents had Spanish respondents reported Results Spanish names Spanish nicknames speak Spanish spoke Spanish structural assimilation third or later third-generation respondents U.S. Census Bureau