In a marriage where both parties come from the same cultural beliefs, they are naturally in harmony and unison regarding what beliefs and customs to pass on to their children.
Look at the state of marriage among Westerners today. How many marriages broke down due to disagreements about the bloody Covid vaccine!
Westerners are so fractured by differing ideologies and broken of any sense of solidarity around culture and ethnicity that most of us go into marriages without that binding glue which non-Westerners use to bind themselves together as strong-knit family and culture groups.
– Tribalism & Kindred by CE
Roth’s Note: When I taught about ethnicity at the military academy, I suggested that interracial marriages, those with different religious, ideological, or political backgrounds were more prone to failure. I explained that in my own experience – my wife and I both from middle-class, white, Presbyterian, conservative, Republican families – we still had a good deal of tension in our first of 53 years together. We each just assumed that simple things like how to celebrate holidays would be the way we did it growing up, even though those things were different. Imagine how much more difficult reconciling cultural differences would be.
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