Catholics tended to mix with foreigners more than Protestants according to book on colonial intimacy

[Celto-Germanic]

https://www.morawa.at/annotstream/22...Colonizers.pdf

This book points out a novel pattern in colonial intimacy - that Catholic colonizers tended to leave behind significant mixed communities while Protestant colonizers were more likely to police relations with local women. The varied genetic footprints of Catholic and Protestant colonizers, while subject to some exceptions, holds across world regions and over time. Having demonstrated that this pattern exists, this book then seeks to explain it, looking to religious institutions, political capacity, and ideas of nation and race.


This was even true in Australia. Catholic German missionaries attempted to integrate the aboriginal and white communities whilst Protestants rejected this. In the southern US catholics attempted to defend the independence of native american self-governing countries and stressed co-existence but protestants were strongly opposed to it and sent european families to conquer the region and stop their raids on colonial settlements.

[Chris596]

That's why I'm Catholic I guess.

[catgeorge]

Orthodox does the same.
Though Greek-Italian marriages are not uncommon.