MASHABLE – Feb 13 – For millennia, humans were most likely to marry and/or raise kids with members of their own tribe. That changed a little when we started to sail and settle around the world. In pre-World War II, we were most likely to meet our significant others through family. In the 1950s came the rise of meeting "friends of friends," and that method stayed dominant through the rest of the century. By 2000, 10% of opposite-sex couples and 20% of same-sex couples met via the internet. By 2010, those numbers had reached ~20% and 70%respectively. The Tinder era has supercharged this trend. A Stanford study looked at data in relationship surveys that goes up to 2017, and found that 29% of heterosexual and 65% of gay couples had now met online. There are ~1M Tinder dates every week around the world. Online dating is creating mixed-race couples at a faster rate than our increasingly diverse society would. During the 2000s, the percentage of new marriages that are interracial rose from 10.68% to 15.54%, a huge increase … the proportion of new interracial marriage jumps again in 2014 to 17.24%, remaining above 17% in 2015 too.
by Chris Taylor
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