I said I would try to find data for rates of White-Asian marriage (or partnerships) in the UK. A BBC report in 2002 said:
“Data from the 2001 census due to be released later this year is expected to confirm that Britain has one of the highest rates in the world of inter-ethnic relationships and, consequently, mixed race people.
“By 1997 already half of black men and a third of black women in relationships had a white partner according to a major study of ethnic minorities published by the Policy Studies Institute (PSI).
“It also revealed that other inter-racial relationships were flourishing with a fifth of Asian men and 10% of Asian women opting for a white partner. “
However, I haven’t been able to confirm this from published Census data. The figures for Asians seem a bit high – I doubt very much that as many as 10% of Muslim women have a white partner, so the rates for Hindus and Sikhs would have to be even higher.
But I welcome correction if anyone has good data.
Posted by David B at 12:36 PM