r/Yemen • u/Prestigious_Owl9262 • 3d ago

Questions Do Yemenis intermarry anymore?

I saw a video on social media where the girl was 100% south levant (palestinian) and there was comment joking like “Damn…this’s Yemeni levels of keeping it ancestrally tight MashAllah.” Then I started to have conversations with my mum who is half Yemeni and half Somali - her dad is Yemeni, who was saying they used to intermarry a lot and I was disagreeing saying she’s mostly a rare case etc. is this true? Or am I wrong?

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u/Hashemaden 3d ago

It depends on region. In North Yemen, tribes like the Banu Hamdan often marry within their own tribal networks, while in the South and West like Aden and Hodeida, intermarriage with South Asians, Ethiopians, and Somalis has been common historically and of course in modern times.

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u/WildJohnsonn Taiz | تعز 3d ago

I saw an online post about a dude from Arhab marrying an Italian woman a while ago. It's much more common nowadays for northerners to intermarry than before, but it's still quite strict relative to other regions.

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u/uwupeach 1d ago

I am also Italian married to Yemeni. It really depends from family to family

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u/MamiLoco 3d ago

I believe the vast majority still do including in the diaspora, at least hadramis still do

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u/Academic-Treacle-530 3d ago

Yeahh still very much exists

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u/Traditional-Bat-7387 3d ago

Hell yeah we do lol. I am not the biggest fan of it but so far I see it has gotten better in USA a bit. They can choose which yemeni to marry now lol

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u/Prestigious_Owl9262 3d ago

why aren’t you the biggest fan of it? just curious :)

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u/Traditional-Bat-7387 3d ago edited 3d ago

Because marrying outside of our people is how we work towards becoming one ummah, and decreasing racism and colorism (if done correctly and respectfully)

Edit: my community is VERY MUCH the type to marry first cousins almost always, and even I avoided marrying a cousin. Thats how close to it i am.

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u/Prestigious_Owl9262 3d ago

yes I completely agree - there’s so much colourism and racism within Arab communities and even black communities, we need to do better as an ummah. I thought you were against it initially lol

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u/Traditional-Bat-7387 3d ago

Oh nono I misunderstood what you meant by intermarry. Def not against it as I did it myself! Highly recommend lol

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u/Affectionate_Bid8946 2d ago

Which community are u from just curious

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u/BeeHulking 3d ago

Actually the vast majority do

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u/Affectionate_Bid8946 2d ago

It’s rare since a lot of them are very tribalistic,but I’m going to break the curse and I’m marrying a Latina Muslim

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u/ComprehensiveRush341 2d ago

i think only the south and east of yemen do the north - western not much

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u/Incognito118 2d ago

Yes they do. Im married to a white man. I liive in the US.

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u/nem716 2d ago

Funny we go from non Yemeni strait to white men, what about the other non Yemeni people in the world :)

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u/Incognito118 2d ago

It worked out that way. I cant help who I fell in love with. This is a silly take, lol.

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u/nem716 2d ago

No worries I’m just teasing.

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u/strawberry000 2d ago

There is so many interesting tbh fe about Yemen that I am learning these days.

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u/user7336374 2d ago

yeah they do also it’s easier for men unlike women