Blood relations are also not allowed to intermarry.

They are not allowed to intermarry with noble clans, and the few attempted intermarriages have been forcibly broken up.

Indeed, not only do Christians and Muslims live in peace and harmony as distinct groups in Ethiopia, but also they intermarry, cohabit and dine together as a matter of common practice throughout most of the country.

Almost half of the total number of Puerto Ricans resided in various parts of the United States where, for many generations, Puerto Ricans had intermarried with other ethnic groups.

Societies became racially and ethnically complex, as the European, Amerindian, and African populations intermarried, but thelong-term trend of European dominance, indigenous and Afro- Americansubservience, and entrenched poverty became a scar on Latin American societies.

Given its geographical placement and its history, that great country is a land of encounter, a land of intermingling and intermarrying, and serves as crossroads for peoples, nations, cultures and civilizations, including the Greco-Roman, European, African, Arab, Judeo-Christian and Islamic.

Although the exasperation expressed in this debate has often been justified, and even in the dire current circumstances, we must not forget that we have to continue to strive for dialogue, negotiation and future peace in a land that must one day see its sons and daughters working together and intermarrying, free from the burden of the past and from those differences that currently divide and torment their parents.