Adrienne Mayor

Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.

American Historian

Frans de Waal

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation.

Dutch Scientist

Henry Louis Gates

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

American Critic

Roger Bannister

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

British Athlete

H. R. McMaster

It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

American Public Servant

Remember, discussing intermarriage can be delicate due to varying cultural perspectives on the subject.

Cultural Sensitivity

Interracial or interreligious intermarriages may carry significant social implications in some areas.

Social Implications

Historically, intermarry has been used to describe unions that were uncommon or frowned upon.

Historical Context

Interrmarrying can create extensive connections and alliances within or between families.

Family Connections

Historically, intermarrying was often strategic, to forge alliances or peace, rather than for love.

Historic Alliances

Modern intermarriages are more typically for personal reasons, rather than political or strategic.

Modern Perspectives

 they intermarried and now there's a few Muslims that you know believe the Dalai Lama to be their political leader but not their spiritual leader and this woman bless her heart had no idea why I was taking her photo and what I found interesting and she was just walking

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 Another pillar of the strategy, like Russia, is demographic. China exports business people, nannies, students, teachers to teach Chinese around the region, to intermarry and to occupy ever greater commanding heights of the economies.

Intermarry