Intermarriages and Relations Between Groups

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This article aims to demonstrate the significance of intermarriages between individuals from different cultural and identity groups. Specifically, close interactions such as intermarriages between individuals from groups constituted by excluding social categories, that may allow individuals and groups to build contact through changing their perceptions and relations. As international research shows, these marriages contribute to the transformation of group boundaries and diminishing prejudices. In this article, the transformative and positive potentials of intermarriages are discussed by means of an overview of the national and international literature.

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Intermarriages , Contact between Groups , Social Categories , Identity

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities