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Physical attractiveness A consequence of this is that, since higher-ranking men get to marry the more attractive women, the upper classes of a society generally tend to develop a lighter complexion than the lower classes by sexual selection (see also Fisherian runaway).

Johnny Appleseed He opened his eyes very wide–they were remarkably keen, penetrating grey eyes, almost black–and replied that all women were not what they professed to be; that some of them were deceivers; and a man might not marry the amiable woman that he thought he was getting, after all.

LGBT rights in Spain It is important to note, however, that even among straight relationships, men tended to marry women much younger than themselves, usually in their early teens.

Mixed-orientation marriage The Wedding Banquet - Story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card

Croatian American These men usually married American women, which greatly contributed to their fast and easy assimilation.

1980s Black men marry white women at a rate of 10% in the United States.

Virginity In some countries until the late 20th century, if a man did not marry a woman whose virginity he had taken, the woman was allowed to sue the man for money, in some languages named "wreath money".

Saini No other man from the community would marry a woman thus repudiated.

Interracial marriage In the 1920s, Filipino American communities of workers also grew in Alaska, and Filipino American men married Alaskan Native women..

Interracial marriage "[I]n the 1920s Japanese men married Eskimo women throughout western Alaska."

Interracial marriage Historically, Chinese American men married African American women in high proportions to their total marriage numbers due to few Chinese American women being in the United States.

Interracial marriage According to the 1990 US Census (which only counts indigenous people with US-government-recognized tribal affiliation), Native American women intermarried Caucasian Americans 2% more than Native American men married Caucasian American women..

Interracial marriage The "marriage squeeze" refers to the fact that the most "eligible" and "desirable" African American men are marrying non-African American women at a higher rate, leaving African American women who wish to marry African American men with fewer partnering options.

Interracial marriage It may be in part due to the still lingering effects of social ostracism, to which Caucasian American men who married African American women were heavily subjected in the past.

Interracial marriage Indian men have married many African women in Africa.

Polyandry in Tibet Polyandry resolved the problem by allowing a few men to marry one woman.

Winnipeg The French men married women from the First Nations.

Freedom of religion in Bangladesh In contrast, Christian men may only marry one woman.

Life with Derek A divorced man, named George Venturi, who has custody of his two sons Derek and Edwin and daughter Marti, marries a divorced woman, Nora, who has two daughters, Casey and Lizzie.

Inner West (Sydney) Each clan contained about 50 to 100 people and, to avoid genetic problems, the men would marry women from other clans.

Female genital cutting Heavy stigma lies on men who marry an uncircumcised woman.

Freedom of religion in the United Arab Emirates Muslim men may marry non-Muslim women "of the book," that is, Christian or Jewish women; however, Muslim women are not permitted to marry non Muslim men, unless the men convert to Islam.

Demographics of Kuwait Most obtain nationality by marrying Kuwaiti women. 30-35% of stateless men in adulthood (capable of marital status) have married Kuwait women, and this number is rising.

Nikah mut‘ah The refutation of this is the fact that prior to this Allah mentions the women whom a man is forbidden to marry, then he mentions what is permissible for him, and He commands the man to give to the woman he marries her mahr.- Shaykh Munnajjid (1) Shi'a scholars argue that is not relevant because the individual verse permits Istamta'tum by means of contract.

Sharia On the other hand, the Qur'an explicitly allows Muslim men to marry any woman of the People of the Book, a term which includes Jews, Sabians, and Christians.

Sharia However, fiqh law has held that it is mukrah (reprehensible) for a Muslim man to marry a non-Muslim woman in a non-Muslim country.

Sharia The man who is not currently a fornicator can only marry a woman who is not currently a fornicatress or a chaste woman from the people of the Book.

Women in Islam This is pursuant to the principle that Muslims may not place themselves in a position inferior to that of the followers of other religions.On the other hand, the Qur'an explicitly allows Muslim men to marry chaste women of the People of the Book, a term which includes Jews and Christians.

Women in Islam However, fiqh law has held that it is makruh (reprehensible, though not outright forbidden) for a Muslim man to marry a non-Muslim woman in a non-Muslim country.

Francis La Fontaine He arrived with Charles Beaubien, and both men married Miami women and declared their loyalty to the Miami.

Hall's theorem Each woman would happily marry some subset of the men; and any man would be happy to marry a woman who wants to marry him.

The Wedding Banquet The Wedding Banquet (Chinese: 喜宴; pinyin: Xǐyàn; Wade-Giles: Hsi yen), is a 1993 film about a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card.

Afro-Asian It became increasingly common for a Chinese man to marry a black woman since the number of black women outnumbered that of Chinese women.

Islam and slavery In Islam, "men are enjoined to marry free women in the first instance, but if they cannot afford the bridewealth for free women, they are told to marry slave women rather than engage in wrongful acts."

Dark Honeymoon After a brief courtship, a man marries an enchanting woman, and then things begin to go terribly wrong.

Mistress (lover) When an upper class man married a woman of equal rank, as was the norm, it was likely that she had been strictly brought up to believe that sexual intercourse was firmly for procreation rather than recreation.

Mistress (lover) Since divorce became more socially acceptable, it was now easier for men to divorce their wives and marry the women who, in earlier eras, would have been their mistresses.

Cable Act Previously, a woman lost her U.S citizenship if she married a foreign man, since she assumed the citizenship of her husband—a law that did not apply to men who married foreign women.

Cherokee A white US man could legally marry a Cherokee woman by petitioning the federal court with approval of ten of her blood relatives.

Cherokee If a Cherokee man married a white woman, however, he was cut off from the tribe and no longer considered a member and citizen of its nation.

Théophile Gautier The plot includes an old man named Géronte who wishes to marry a beautiful woman who is in love with another man.

New Echota Across from New Echota, there were two farmhouse sites that owned by white men who had married Cherokee women; these sites are now part of Gordon County golf course.

Marriage law One example is South Korea's general taboo against a man marrying a woman with the same family name.

Marriage law For instance, in Islam a man is allowed to marry up to 4 women at the same time.

Mail-order bride In the early history of the United States many men in the old west married women from China using this method.

Married and maiden names Foreigner men who marry Japanese women usually join their wife's koseki.

Literature of Brazil The consolidation of this sub-genre (indigenism) is found in two famous novels by José de Alencar: O Guarani, about a family of Portuguese colonists who took Indians as servants but were later slain by an enemy tribe, and Iracema, about a Portuguese shipwrecked man who lives among the Indians and marries a beautiful Indian woman.

Miscegenation Indian men, who have long been traders in East Africa, married many African women in Africa.

Bolgo language ibéri koko ao léti (man marry woman two), "the man married two women".

Swan maiden One notablly similar Japanese story, "The crane wife" is about a man who marries a woman who is in fact a crane disguised as a human.

Veil In the story in the Book of Genesis, a man named Laban tricks Jacob into marrying the wrong woman.

Widow This was aggravated by women's longer life spans, and that men generally marry women younger than themselves.

Seaborn Roddenbery Obsessed with the topic, Roddenbery used any opportunity to deliver philippics against Negro men who married white women and to further promote his bill, usually to applause in the House of Representatives.

Magnus Maximus Conan's men married native women after cutting out their tongues to preserve the purity of their language.

Robert Herbert In 1864, Herbert offered an explanation as to why he had not married: "It does not seem to me reasonable to tell a man who is happy and content, to marry a woman who may turn out a great disappointment."

Social Development Unit: a Social Engineering Initiative by the Singapore Government Dr Tony Tan – then Minister of Finance and Trade and Industry – attributed this finding to 2 factors: firstly, the cultural attitude among local men, who preferred to marry women with lower educational qualifications than themselves and secondly, the preference among female university graduates to marry men who were better educated or at least of the same educational level as themselves.

Pimicikamak "Cree women enjoyed a degree of autonomy that confounded European men who married Aboriginal women."

Hasidic Judaism No custom encourages an older man marrying a young woman.

Waddams Township, Stephenson County, Illinois Also a man named Kent who lived in the area that is now Rockford, IL, and a man named "Mack" who married an Indian woman and lived at the mouth of the Pecatonica River.

Hindu teaching and customs of marriage Men would marry a woman, whom he had seduced while she was asleep, intoxicated or insane.

Intercultural marriage Mildred and Richard Loving, a white man, married Mildred and Richard Loving, a black woman, in 1958.

Kedoshim A man who married a woman and her mother, and the woman and mother whom he married (Lev. 20:14.)

Fernão Lopez Some of the men had married local women, and some, possibly including Lopes himself, had converted to Islam.

Undercover Mosque With his practice, he clarified what is permissible, and that is why we shouldn't have any issues about an older man marrying a younger woman, which is looked down upon by this society today, but we know that Prophet Mohammed practised it, it wasn’t abuse or exploitation, it was marriage.”

A viuvinha In the story, a young Brazilian man plans to marry a young woman he met in a church.

New Square, New York Men who marry women from outside of the community are encouraged to stay in New Square.

Dhimmi Islamic jurists reject the possibility that a dhimmi man (and generally any non-Muslim) may marry a Muslim woman.

Ubuhake Intermarriage between Hutu women and Tutsi men was strictly forbidden, although Hutu men often married Tutsi women.

Age fabrication Lucille Ball, born August 6, 1911, and Desi Arnaz, born March 2, 1917, split the difference of their ages for the purpose of being the same age, largely because it was uncommon for men to marry older women at the time.

American literature One of her finest books, The Age of Innocence, centers on a man who chooses to marry a conventional, socially acceptable woman rather than a fascinating outsider.

Chinese immigration to the United States These laws not only prevented new immigration but also brought additional suffering as they prevented the reunion of the families of thousands of Chinese men already living in America that had left China without their wives and children; anti-miscegenation laws in many states prohibited Chinese men from marrying white women.

Chinese immigration to the United States Other laws included the Cubic Air Ordinance, which prohibited Chinese from occupying a sleeping room with less than 500 cubic feet (14 m3) of breathing space between each person, the Queue Law, which forced Chinese with long hair worn in a queue to pay a tax or to cut it, and Anti-Miscegenation Act of 1889 that prohibited Chinese men from marrying white women, and the Cable Act of 1922, which terminated citizenship for white American women who married an Asian man.

History of Paraguay Irala had several aborigine concubines and encouraged his men to marry Indian women so they would lose feelings of homesickness.

Women and Islam This is pursuant to the principle that Muslims may not place themselves in a position inferior to that of the followers of other religions.On the other hand, the Qur'an explicitly allows Muslim men to marry chaste women of the People of the Book, a term which includes Jews and Christians.

Women and Islam However, fiqh law has held that it is makruh (reprehensible, though not outright forbidden) for a Muslim man to marry a non-Muslim woman in a non-Muslim country.

Long list of puns An invisible man marries an invisible woman.

Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia Genetic evidence reveals that over millennia, men from higher casts have married women from lower castes, but women from higher casts have rarely married men from lower castes.

President Dad Ricardo is a man that married a woman named Lucia, another false persona created by Fahrenheit in order to get close to Ricardo and assassinate him.

Katang Whenever a Katang man marries a woman, he will add a room to the house for his new family.

Interfaith marriage Samaritan men are allowed to marry women outside their community, on the condition that the wife accept the Samaritans' practices.

Stepfamily Modern films, however, seem to cast stepfathers in a somewhat kinder light, implying honorable men who marry divorced women or single mothers make good stepfathers.

Jewish assimilation According to Halakha, when a Jewish man marries a non-Jewish woman, their children are considered to be gentile.

The Job (2009 film) A hapless man named Bubba who is desperate to find a job and marry the woman he loves is hooked up with a slick employment agent by a drifter, but after agreeing to the job, he finds that he is in over his head.

Marriage theorem Each woman would happily marry some subset of the men; and any man would be happy to marry a woman who wants to marry him.

Polygyny Men who marry more than one woman can do so knowing that they are responsible for treating all their wives with kindness and dignity as well as for providing for their material needs equaly.

Object Process Methodology 1 to 1 (Example: 1 man can marry 1 woman)

Women in Ghana The age at which marriage was arranged varied among ethnic groups, but men generally married women somewhat younger than they were.

Danish Australian Danish men married women of other elasticities in Australia which made it harder for the community to maintain its identity.

Petruchio (The Taming of the Shrew) The basic elements of the play are found in the 14th-century Castilian tale of the "young man who married a very strong and fiery woman".

Death of a Hero His father, a middle-classed man from England's countryside, marries a poor woman who falsely believes she is marrying into a monied family.

An-Nisa This verse details all woman whom a man may not marry(Mahram).

The Beauty Stone The Devil suggests that, as there is "so little beauty" in Mirlemont, the Prince should instead order the ugliest man, the dwarf Peppin, to marry the ugliest woman.

William Hope Harvey He defended a white man who married an African American woman, which was against the law in West Virginia.

Culture of the Tlingit Because the children would be of the mother's clan, marriages were often arranged such that the man would marry a woman who was of the same clan as his own father, though not a close relation.

Ata'ollah Mohajerani It should be noted that under the current Iranian law, it is allowed for a Muslim man to marry up to four women, but the act is considered unethical and backward in the major Iranian belief, especially among the intellectuals.

Mrs. Kimble Covering several decades from the 1960s to the late 1990s, it is about a man who marries three women and in turn ruins each of their lives.

A Wife for a Month The play's plot turns on the idea of a tyrannical king who allows a man to marry the woman he loves...for a month, and without sexual relations.

Ki Teitzei If a man married a woman, cohabited with her, took an aversion to her, and falsely charged her with not having been a virgin at the time of the marriage, then the woman’s parents were to produce the cloth with evidence of the woman’s virginity before the town elders at the town gate.

The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin A man has married a woman of higher birth than him.

History of Indigenous Australians In traditional societies, men are required to marry women of a specific moiety.

Bahlikas Vatsyayana in his Kamasutra records a peculiar custom prevalent among the Bahlikas i.e several young men marry a single woman in Bahlika country and in Strirajya .

Pamidi The man then married a woman in Tangutur and settled there.

Nullity (conflict) For example, a man domiciled in England obtains a decree in Nevada and immediately marries a Nevadan woman.

LGBT issues and Hinduism Men that are too effeminate or transgendered to marry women are often rejected by their families and forced to join third-gender groups such as the hijra.

Lemba Lemba men who marry non-Lemba women are both expelled from the community if the women refuse to live according to Lemba traditions.

Fox River (Wisconsin) The French-Canadian men who established homes on the Fox River married First Nation women, producing a mixed-blood population similar to the Metis of Canada.

List of Spanish television series Los Serrano (Telecinco, 2003-Present) Comedy/drama where a widowed man with three sons who marries a divorced woman with two daughters.

Kanakas In Canada, many Kanaka men married First Nations women, and their descendants can still be found in British Columbia and neighbouring parts of Canada and the United States (the states of Washington and Oregon).

Jump Tomorrow It concerns George (Adebimpe), a shy, bespectacled man who is about to marry a fellow Nigerian American woman named Sophie Ochenado, played by Abiola Abrams, when he falls for a Spanish woman.

Eurasian Avars Initially, the Avars and their subjects lived separately, except for Slavic and Germanic women that were married by Avar men.

Gideon's Way A man marries rich women who die apparently accidentally soon afterwards, so C.I. David Keen investigates.

Shidduch The Talmud (tractate Kiddushin 41a) states that a man may not marry a woman until having seen her first.

Kidnapped (Kipling story) Kipling reports the facts, without overt comment: he accepts the 'impossibility' of such a gifted young man marrying such a woman. with all the necessary relationships with her relations.

Marriage of convenience In the case where a gay man marries a woman, the woman is said to be his "beard".

Gus Welch A Chickasaw, Carter descended from David Carter, a white man captured in Connecticut and raised as an Indian who elected to remain with them as an adult, married an Indian woman, and for a time edited The Phoenix, an Indian newspaper.

Zera Yacob However, he also rejected polygamy because "the law of creation orders one man to marry one woman."

Peopling of Thailand Early Chinese immigration consisted almost entirely of Chinese men who married Thai women.

Italian nationality law Foreign women who married an Italian citizen before April 27, 1983, were automatically granted Italian citizenship, while foreign men who married Italian women weren't granted this privilege, and neither their children were granted Italian citizenship if born before January 1, 1948.

Pehthelm Sometime between 730 and 735 Boniface (c. 672 – 754) writes to Bishop Pehthelm seeking his opinion on the ecclesiastical question of whether a man may marry a woman for whose son he is godfather.

Bachelorette In some cultures, men would/will not marry a woman who was not a virgin.

Jawi Peranakan This led to a shortage of Indian brides, and so Indian Muslim men often married Malay women.

Lo speziale An old man, Sempronio, is determined to marry a young woman, Grilletta, more for her money than for any other reason.

Jack McQuesten McQuesten was one of the first white men to marry a native Athabascan woman.

Lindner Ethics Complaint of the 83rd Minnesota Legislative Session Once we begin to deviate...what's to keep us from having to pass laws to allow a man to marry several women, or a man and a boy relationship -- and there are people who would like to have that.

Australian Aboriginal kinship In cases where marriage does not adhere to the skin system, if a Yirritja man marries a Yirritja woman, for instance, the children take the skin that is opposite to their mother rather than the same skin as their father.

Libro de los ejemplos del conde Lucanor y de Patronio The tale of the "young man who married a very strong and fiery woman" has the basic elements of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

Chinese marriage A man who thus suffers chronic separation from his wife, such as a traveling merchant, may "marry" another woman where he lives and set up a separate household with her.

War bride War bride is used to describe women (and men) who married servicemen and women from another country as a result of a war.

The Taming of the Shrew The basic elements of the story are present in the 14th-century Castilian tale of the "young man who married a very strong and fiery woman".

Human skin color A consequence of this is that, since higher-ranking men get to marry the more attractive women, the upper classes of a society generally tend to develop a lighter complexion than the lower classes by sexual selection (see also Fisherian runaway).

Chinese American history These laws not only prevented new immigration but also brought additional suffering as they prevented the reunion of the families of thousands of Chinese men already living in America that had left China without their wives and children; anti-miscegenation laws in many states prohibited Chinese men from marrying white women.

Chinese American history Other laws included the Cubic Air Ordinance, which prohibited Chinese from occupying a sleeping room with less than 500 cubic feet (14 m3) of breathing space between each person, the Queue Law, which forced Chinese with long hair worn in a queue to pay a tax or to cut it, and Anti-Miscegenation Act of 1889 that prohibited Chinese men from marrying white women, and the Cable Act of 1922, which terminated citizenship for white American women who married an Asian man.

United Latter-day Church of Jesus Christ Men faithful to the church are expected to marry more than one woman, in addition to paying weekly tithes and following other church teachings.

Punjabi Mexican American Punjabi men married Mexican women laborers and there were eventually almost four hundred of these biethnic couples clustered in California’s agricultural valley.

Cinderella (1994 film) The man then marries a new woman, who brings along her two awkward daughters who treat the man's girl with cruelty and selfishness.

Women in Uganda Polygynous marriage practices, which permit a man to marry more than one woman, have reinforced some aspects of male dominance, but they also have given women an arena for cooperating to oppose male dominance.

Islamic marital jurisprudence The Qur'an explicitly allows Muslim men to marry chaste women of the People of the Book, a term which includes Jews and Christians.

The Hiding Place (biography) She talks about the only man she ever loved, a young man named Karel, who ultimately married a woman from a rich family.

Exploitation film For example Child Bride (1938) addressed a problem of older men marrying very young women in the Ozarks.

Musta'min A musta'min man is allowed to marry a dhimmi woman and take her back to his homeland; however, musta'min women do not have the same right.

Aida de Acosta They were certain that no man would marry a woman who had done such a thing, so they managed to hush it all up until many years later.

Thai Chinese However, early Chinese immigration consisted almost entirely of Chinese men who married Thai women.

Islamic view of anal sex When the muhajirun (the immigrants) came to Medina, a man married a woman of the Ansar.

Bianca Minola The basic elements of the play are present in the 14th-century Castilian tale of the "young man who married a very strong and fiery woman".

Sowa language Following the depopulation of Pentecost that occurred after the introduction of European diseases, men from Sowa-speaking areas were forced to marry women from other parts of Pentecost.

Matrilineality There are several instances in the Bible where Israelite men marry Gentile women without direct mention of the women converting.

The Other Man (Kipling story) "She did not die - men of Schreiderling's stamp marry women who don't die easily.

Macanese language The modern version arose in the late 19th century, when Macanese men began marrying Chinese women from Macau and its hinterland in the Pearl River delta.