Relationships and Going Places
European Americans Embrace Positive Feelings, While Chinese Prefer a Balance of Feelings
European Americans prefer positive feelings over negative ones while Chinese tend to experience a balance between the two, new Stanford research shows. a number of studies by other researchers have shown that people from Chinese and other East Asian cultures are more likely to feel both negative and positive – or "mixed emotions" – during good events, such as doing well on an exam. On the other hand, Americans of European descent are more likely to just feel positive during good events.
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Americans Are On the Move Again: Tired of Shoveling Snow and Ready for the Warmth
Historically, about 17 percent of families move in a given year, but the recession knocked that number down as low as 11 percent, said Kimball Brace, president of Virginia-based Election Data Services. After two straight years of improvement, the number of moving families has partially recovered to about 15 percent. "The recession kept people at home. They couldn't sell their home, they couldn't find a job," Brace said. "We're starting to see bigger numbers. We're not all the way back." more »
Same-Sex Marriage Bans Struck Down Nationwide: Clear Protections From Discrimination Still Needed
Today the Supreme Court has affirmed what Americans already believe; that same-sex couples deserve the right to marry and marriage equality should be the law of the land. Since the introduction of the Equality Act in 1974, only 17 states plus the District of Columbia have passed laws protecting all LGBT residents in employment, housing, and public accommodations — meaning that a majority of the states and the federal government still lack the basic protections for LGBT Americans that are afforded other populations. more »
Interracial marriage: Who is ‘marrying out’?
In 2013, a record-high 12% of newlyweds married someone of a different race, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data. Looking beyond newlyweds, 6.3% of all marriages were between spouses of different races in 2013, up from less than 1% in 1970. Some racial groups are more likely to intermarry than others. Of the 3.6 million adults who got married in 2013, 58% of American Indians, 28% of Asians, 19% of blacks and 7% of whites have a spouse whose race was different from their own. more »