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... Searching for a Mate: The Rise of the Internet as a Social Intermediary Abstract This paper explores how the efficiency of Internet search is changing the way Americans find romantic partners. ... 1985, and as many as 25% of heterosexual couples met through family in the 1940s. Social and geographic distance from the family of origin has long been theorized as one of the fundamental factors ... was offered in a variety of languages. Asians and Hispanics are the two groups that contribute most to racial and ethnic intermarriage in the US (Qian and Lichter 2007). Among Asians and Hispanics...

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