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** Andromeda Tonks was part of the notoriously pure-blood Black family until she married muggle-born [[Alliterative Name|Ted Tonks]] and was ''literally burned off of'' the Black family tree.
** Similar things happen whenever a human marries a non-human; Hagrid's parents, Tonks and Lupin, etc.
* While it's only a single reference and not relevant to the plot, [[Star Trek: Hollow Men]] features a Lissepian criminal mentioning his upcoming marriage to a Nausicaan woman. Her family are trying to put a stop to it, unable to accept the validity of a mixed-race marriage.
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* Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel, most famous for their roles in ''[[Rent]]'', got ''hate mail'' for being married.
** Conversely, R&B singer Seal (a black Englishman) and supermodel Heidi Klum (a white German national who now lives in the USA) is questioned not because they are mixed, but because of the supposed [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] dynamic (Seal's features are [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|heavily scarred]] due to a childhood bout of lupus, which some people think make him unattractive).
* [[Bruce Lee]] and Linda Lee faced considerable opposition to their marriage, both in the US and his native [[
* A lurid TV movie from [[The Nineties]] entitled ''Bad To The Bone'' was based [[In Name Only|(very, VERY loosely)]] on the true story of a Korean-American teenage girl who committed matricide because her mother wouldn't allow her to marry any boy unless he was also Korean. The girl fell in love with an Irish boy.
* As if to show that old attitudes die hard, [http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/kentucky-church-bans-interracial-marriage-150009470.html a small Kentucky church] banned marriages and some other services for interracial couples after a longtime member became involved with a Zimbabwean man.
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