Kamala Harris's New World

Kamala Harris, US vice president-elect, celebrates the election results.JIM WATSON / AFP

Of all the racial and religious prejudices, the rejection of intermarriage is the most entrenched.

The unions between people of different race and creed create affections that question and break the principle of preservation and continuity of the dominant collective.

That is why they have historically been penalized with social and family ostracism, if not with more serious sanctions, both in their secular form (from our peripheral nationalisms to British inbreeding in colonial India) and religious (in Islam with the demand for conversion previous; in caste order with matr ...

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