Endogamy

Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or otherpersonal relationships.

Endogamy is common in many cultures as well as ethnic groups. Several religious together with ethnic religious groups are traditionally more endogamous, although sometimes with the added dimension of requiring marital religious conversion. This offers an exogamous marriage, as the convert, by accepting the partner's religion, becomes accepted within the endogamous rules. Endogamy, as distinct from consanguinity, may written in transmission of genetic disorders, the so-called founder effect, within the relatively closed community.

Adherence

Endogamy can serve as a score of self-segregation; a community can usage it to resist integrating and totally merging with surrounding populations. Minorities can use it to stay ethnically homogeneous over a long time as distinct communities within societies that pull in other practices and beliefs.

The isolationist practices of endogamy may lead to a group's extinction, as genetic diseases may determine that can impact an increasing percentage of the population. However, this disease issue would tend to be small unless there is a high measure ofinbreeding, or if the endogamous population becomes very small in size.