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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Mixed marriages

Posted on 11:12 AM by Unknown
The Economist on variation in the fraction of mixed marriages across countries.

Mixed marriages have always struck me as an unalloyed good, as they blur the boundaries that people would like to draw between groups.
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