Marriage between races and ethnic groups has reached an all-time high in the United States as public acceptance has grown, according to a Pew Research Center study on Thursday.
Couples of different race or ethnicity made up a record 8.4 percent of all married couples in 2010, up from 3.2 percent in 1980, the study showed.
About 15 percent of all new US marriages in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity, more than twice the share in 1980, the report said.
Intermarriage is more common in Western states. About 20 percent of newlyweds there married someone of a different race or ethnicity between 2008 and 2010, compared with 14 percent in the South and 13 percent in the Northeast.
Forty-three percent of Americans say more people of different races marrying each other benefits society. Just more than a third say a member of their immediate family or a close relative is married to someone of a different race.
Asian Americans are the most likely to enter mixed-race marriages, at 27.7 percent of newlyweds in 2010. They were trailed by Hispanics at 25.7 percent, blacks at 17.1 percent and whites at 9.4 percent.
Pew based its report on data from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey for 2008 to 2010 and on telephone polling.
据周四皮尤调查中心发布的研究结果，随着跨种族和跨民族婚姻逐渐被公众所接受，跨种族及跨民族婚姻数量在美国达到了历史最高峰。
研究显示，2010年不同种族或民族结合的夫妇在所有新人中占了8.4%，打破了历史记录，而在1980年这一比例为3.2%。
研究报告指出，2010年在美国结婚的所有新人中，约有15%的新人是来自不同的种族或民族，这一比例是1980年的两倍多。
异族婚姻在美国西部各州更为普遍。2008年至2010年间在美国西部结婚的新人约有20%是与不同种族或民族的人结合的，而在美国南部这一比例为14%，美国东北部为13%。
43%的美国人认为，更多不同种族的人结合对社会有益。稍过三分之一的人称，自己的直系亲属或近亲中有人和不同种族的人结婚。
亚裔美国人最有可能跨种族结合，2010年结婚的亚裔美国人中有27.7%是跨种族结合。紧随其后的是西班牙裔，占了25.7%，黑人这一比例为17.1%，白人为9.4%。
皮尤调查中心的这一报告基于美国人口普查局的2008-2010美国社区调查数据，以及电话调查。
Vocabulary:
intermarriage: 异族结婚
immediate family: 直系亲属
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