ABSTRACT
The Asian American intermarriage rate is relatively high, reaching approximately 25 percent nationwide as of 1990, and it has continued its upward trend into the twenty-first century (Lee, 1996).3 Although some interpret the high intermarriage rate of Asian Americans as an indication that they are the next in line to become “white,” a closer examination of Asian American marriage patterns presents a different and more complicated story about their process of assimilation.
