An article was written in "LA Times" (news paper), appears that people should marry the one of the same or similar background. The contents of the article criticized that the chinese couples are not match with their similar background where most of the women (wives) work at the restaurents and the men (husbands) are engineeers. Since US is a melting pot, and Chinese in US are part of the ingredients. Here, the article reflects that the society in our country (United States) have the custom that people should marry the one of the same or similar background.

hello lady. you divide the world into foreign countries and your country? you need to expand your vision. this is a very simplistic view. (and a bit dangerous in fact, although i know you are not concious). i dont mean to hurt you but you need to grow up mentally. as big chinese philosopher Bruce Lee puts it:"be water, my firiend" .

Australia is a multicultural country and there have been a lot of intermarriages from the first time white men took aboriginal native women as wives.

Here in the USA, and in other countries that I have visited, this is a factor of urban or rural lifestyle as well. The more important the local social structure (like extended family) the more there seems to be social pressure to seek a similar mate. Much of the liberal tendency in the USA is based in the cities, in fact, and I believe this is so in other countries as well. I have also known couples to form based on values, especially men marrying women from more traditional countries, especially those where for economic reasons the women might be interested in living overseas. It seems that many American men and women do not share the same values at this time, it will be interesting to see how that trend continues.

yah.upto some extent...... but it depends.....