#mixed marriages

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"MIXED MARRIAGES IN ONTARIO MANY," Windsor Record. October 30, 1913. Page 1. ---- Toronto, Oct. 30. - That the Ne Temere decree is not working out to the absolute stoppage of mixed marriages is shown in the annual report of the registrar-general of the province issued today.

According to the figures, 820 men and 1,096 women married outside their faith.

The number of marriages totalled 28,445. Nearly two-thirds of those married were between 20 and 30 years of age. The unusual marriages included a man of 25, who married a woman over 70 and three women under 30 marrying men over 70.

The province showed a reduced death rate for the year, lower than in many other countries. On the other hand there is the announcement that one of every ten infants in Ontario dies before attaining the fifth year.

The birth-rate was 22.4 per thousand, the lowest since 1902. In 1911 it was 22.6.

Deaths numbered 32,150, or 12.4 per thousand, or 2 lower than in 1911. Illegitimate births showed an increase of 168. Seventy-two per cent. of these births were in cities.

The battle with the white plague showed good progress. There was a total of 2,250 deaths, but this was a decrease of 103 and a decrease in percentage of 05. About seven per cent. of the deaths in Ontario were from tuberculosis. The heaviest death rate from the disease is between 20 and 30 years of age.

One out of every ten infants die before its fifth year. There were 8,230 of such deaths, while 6,494 died before completing 12 months. Two hundred less died from diarr- hoea than in 1911, the lowest in six years.

This was attributed to the greater interest in child welfare and the successful efforts to educate young mo- thers in the care of children.

[discipleofthemis]

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, V. MARELYN TANEDO MANALO, respndent.

G.R. No. 221029. April 24, 2018

Civil Law: Family Code, Article 26 (Mixed Marriages)

ISSUE: Does a Filipino citizen have the capacity to remarry under Philippine law after initiating a divorce proceeding abroad and obtaining a favorable judgment against his or her alien spouse who is capacitated to remarry? (answers are rulings of the Supreme Court) after the facts

FACTS: On January 10, 2012, Marelyn Tanedo Manalo filed a petition to cancel her marriage entry in the Civil Registry of San Juan, Metro Manila. She based her petition on a divorce judgment issued by a Japanese court. The Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Dagupan City, specifically Branch 43, found the petition to be valid both in form and substance. The court scheduled an initial hearing on April 25, 2012, and published the petition and hearing notice in a newspaper for three consecutive weeks.

During the initial hearing, Manalo's counsel presented documentary evidence, including the court's order, an affidavit of publication, and newspaper issues from February and March 2012. The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) appeared on behalf of the petitioner, the Republic of the Philippines, and authorized the Office of the City Prosecutor of Dagupan to represent them. The OSG filed a motion challenging the title and caption of the petition, arguing that it should be a petition for recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment.

In response to this challenge, Manalo requested to amend her petition. The court granted her motion to admit an amended petition.

In the Amended Petition, which now included a petition for recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment, the following allegations were made:

Manalo was previously married in the Philippines to a Japanese national named Yoshino Minoru, as evidenced by their Marriage Contract.

Manalo filed for divorce in Japan, and after due proceedings, a divorce decree was issued by the Japanese Court on December 6, 2011.

As a result of the divorce decree, Manalo and her former Japanese husband no longer live together, and she and her daughter are now residing separately from him.

It is necessary to cancel the entry of marriage in the Civil Registry of San Juan, Metro Manila, where Manalo's marriage to her Japanese husband was registered. This cancellation is sought to avoid any implication that Manalo is still married to him, especially if she decides to remarry in the future.

The petition is primarily filed to request the cancellation of the marriage entry, in accordance with Rule 108 of the Revised Rules of Court, since the marriage has already been dissolved by the divorce decree.

Manalo also prays for the restoration and use of her maiden surname, Manalo, along with the cancellation of the marriage entry.

Due to Manalo's scheduled departure to Japan for employment reasons, she was allowed to testify in advance.

During the proceedings, several documents were presented and admitted as evidence. These documents include:

Court Order dated January 25, 2012, which confirmed that the petition and its attachments were sufficient in both form and substance.

Affidavit of Publication, which served as proof that the petition and the notice of the initial hearing were published in a newspaper of general circulation.

Issues of the Northern Journal dated February 21-27, 2012, February 28 - March 5, 2012, and March 6-12, 2012, which were published to fulfill the requirement of publication.

Certificate of Marriage between Manalo and her former Japanese husband, validating their previous marriage.

Divorce Decree issued by the Japanese court, officially dissolving the marriage.

Authentication/Certificate issued by the Philippine Consulate General in Osaka, Japan, confirming the notification of divorce.

Acceptance of Certificate of Divorce, indicating that the divorce was recognized and accepted.

It is worth noting that the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) did not present any evidence contradicting or challenging the allegations made by Manalo.

On October 15, 2012, the trial court issued a ruling denying the petition of Manalo for lack of merit. The court's decision was based on its interpretation of Article 15 of the New Civil Code. According to the court, Philippine law does not grant Filipinos the right to file for divorce, regardless of whether they are residing in the Philippines or abroad, and regardless of whether they are married to Filipinos or foreigners or where the marriage took place. The court also emphasized that unless Filipinos acquire citizenship in another country, Philippine laws maintain authority over matters related to family rights and obligations, as well as the determination of their legal status and capacity to enter into contracts and civil relationships, including marriages.

Upon appeal, the Court of Appeals (CA) reversed the decision of the Regional Trial Court (RTC). The CA ruled that Article 26 of the Family Code of the Philippines is applicable in Manalo's case, even though she was the one who filed for divorce against her Japanese husband. The CA based its decision on the understanding that the divorce decree obtained by Manalo rendered her former husband no longer married to her, thus enabling him to enter into a new marriage.

In line with the ruling in Navarro, et al. v. Exec. Secretary Ermita, et al., which emphasizes determining the intent of lawmakers, the CA concluded that considering Manalo as still married to her Japanese ex-husband would be unjust, especially when he is no longer married to her. The fact that Manalo initiated the divorce case was deemed inconsequential by the appellate court. The CA cited the case of Van Dorn v. Judge Romillo, Jr., which involved the dissolution of a marriage between a Filipino and a foreigner through a divorce filed by the Filipino spouse abroad, as a similar precedent.

The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) filed a motion for reconsideration, which was subsequently denied, leading to the filing of this petition.

ANSWER (SUPREME COURT RULING): YES!!!!

The interpretation of Paragraph 2 of Article 26 of the Family Code focuses on its plain and clear language, which states that the provision applies to a divorce validly obtained abroad, without specifying whether the Filipino spouse is the petitioner or the respondent in the foreign divorce proceeding. The purpose of this provision is to avoid the situation where a Filipino spouse remains married to an alien spouse who is no longer married to them due to a foreign divorce decree.

There is no substantial difference between a Filipino who initiated a foreign divorce proceeding and a Filipino who obtained a divorce decree upon the initiative of their alien spouse. Both scenarios involve Filipinos whose marital ties to their alien spouses are severed by the operation of the latter's national law. Both individuals are considered Filipinos with the same rights and obligations in a foreign jurisdiction.

A restrictive interpretation of Paragraph 2 of Article 26 would have negative consequences. It would require Filipinos who initiated and obtained a foreign divorce to first avail of the existing mechanisms under the Family Code, leading to issues of illegitimacy for any subsequent relationships they enter into. This would harm both the parent and any children born out of such relationships.

The Supreme Court acknowledged that a Filipino can initiate divorce against a foreign spouse. However, in Marelyn's case, the court remanded it to the Regional Trial Court (RTC) to allow her to present evidence on the relevant Japanese law regarding divorce.

[sunderwight]

Thinking about Black Widow Luo Binghe.

Hear me out -- so just like in canon, Shen Qingqiu self-destructs to save Luo Binghe, dies, and Luo Binghe steals his body to put on ice while he looks for methods to resurrect him. But unlike in canon, staving off decomposition is simply not that doable for a matter of years, even with cultivation and Luo Binghe pouring qi into the process. The qi costs are still high, so is Xin Mo, and now Binghe also needs a special artifact that can actually preserve Shen Qingqiu, but that runs on blood sacrifices.

To get the thing working, Luo Binghe feeds it a bunch of prisoners from the Water Prison. Then he starts kidnapping cultivators to drain for his own qi reserves, but that's difficult, controversial, and he can't use the same victims for the blood sacrifice afterwards. Frankly, between one thing and another it would be easier to satisfy Xin Mo with dual cultivation, and focus on finding victims for Shizun's Snow White style glass preservation coffin without having to choose between using targets for one or the other. Especially given that, if he finesses it, Luo Binghe can extend the use of his sacrifices and get more out of them with fewer deaths that way.

He's pretty sure that Shizun would want fewer deaths.

Of course, he is not a fan of the logistics of the plan itself, but he'd do worse things to one day be reunited. He consoles himself that he's building up bedroom experience for one day being with Shen Qingqiu, and that it doesn't really count because his heart's not really in it, and also if Shizun got to spend all that time in brothels then it's only fitting that Luo Binghe be his equal in this as well. It still doesn't make it pleasant for him, but it makes him able to tolerate the necessity of it.

So Luo Binghe ends up marrying a string of rich and powerful figures -- mostly the villainous single fathers and mothers and evil uncles of harem members from PIDW, rather than their daughters -- and coming up with creative ways of making all their deaths a few months into the process look like accidents. After the third one people are undeniably wary of marrying him, but there's always someone with a big enough ego to think they'll be an exception, or stupid enough to believe that it really has just been so much bad luck up to that point. It helps that the universe is predisposed to let him hit it.

When SY wakes up in the shroom body and hears about Luo Binghe's succession of marriages, he's not surprised. What he is surprised by is the bisexual graveyard of toxic dilfs and milfs that has replaced the harem.

What did he do to cause that?!

And what does Luo Binghe mean that he wants to marry his own shizun now? Is this his new method of revenge??? Binghe, you don't have to marry someone to kill them!

[dozydawn]

Betty Ann Grubb at Wimdledon, 1979.

[tsukinohana]

little rec chart i made today!

[stromblessed]

Mizu's spectacles, and the levels of her disguise

In drafting some more Blue Eye Samurai meta posts, I find myself writing out the comparisons between what Mizu can and cannot hide about herself, and how that affects how she moves through the world.

Like, I get the jokes about Mizu's glasses, if only color contacts had existed back then, etc. etc., and I think (hope) that most viewers don't take the glasses jokes seriously, as in "I don't care about the suspension of disbelief because BES is a cartoon." But I wanted to write these thoughts out anyway without burying them in a text post about something else.

I think the points I'm going to lay out here are viewed very differently by different people, so please feel free to add to this post, reply, or put your thoughts in the tags!

Not only do Mizu's glasses not actually help her that much, there's surely more to Mizu's mixed race appearance than just the color of her eyes.

In my view, this was pointed out in episode 1:

I'm willing to bet most of us were expecting young Taigen to say "blue eyes," not "ROUND eyes."

Obviously this is still about Mizu's eyes, but not even spectacles can hide their shape.

I don't think the show is obligated to point out everything about Mizu's face that isn't quite as Japanese as the people around her expect. Though the creators have said that they specifically designed Mizu - and her clothes - to read both as "white" and as "Japanese," as well as both male and female. I think there's more about Mizu's features that read as "white" than just her eyes.

This is where my own headcanons start entering the picture, but it's my impression that people can just tell that Mizu looks different, whether or not they can put a finger on exactly how.

There's the little girl who looks at Mizu and then hides on the way into Kyoto:

When there's more to your face you'd like to cover up than just your eyes, big hats are a big help!

By the way, most of these examples have to come from the first half of the season, since by the second half, either Mizu is too preoccupied with fighting henchmen, or everyone Mizu is facing knows who she is already, and she therefore has no reason to hide her mixed race identity.

It's worth mentioning that the mere fact that Mizu has to hide multiple aspects of her identity - her mixed race and her sex - results in her having to choose clothes that really, really cover her up, which doesn't win her any favors either:

(Zatoichi reference, anyone?)

If it were as easy as, for example, tying her glasses to her head and wa-lah, nobody would ever know she was half-white - then (1) Mizu would've just done that long ago, and (2) Mizu wouldn't be so on guard and on tenterhooks 100% of the time the way she's depicted in the show, even when her glasses are on.

Her spectacles sure don't help her in the brothel, which is full of observant women who are trying to seduce her, meaning they get good long looks at her:

Mizu never takes her glasses off, but they still send a woman to her who has light eyes, thinking that must be what will interest a blue-eyed man:

No wonder Mizu gets mad after this, lol

So Mizu never takes her spectacles off in the brothel, it's dimly lit inside, and the women can still tell that she has blue eyes. I'm getting the sense that Mizu putting on her spectacles isn't a guarantee that people suddenly can't tell that she looks different.

And yet no one spots that she's female.

Mizu can hide her breasts, can wear her hair in the right style, can hide what's between her legs, can walk and talk and behave like a man - and she's been doing it for almost her entire life, to the point that not only is she very good at it, but the threat of being found out as female is deadly, but isn't presented in the show as omnipresent.

Let me explain.

She threatens Ringo for nearly saying the word "girl" out loud, because while she's constantly ostracized for being mixed race, being a woman traveling without a chaperone, carrying a sword, and disguised as a man will get her killed or flogged or arrested or some combination of these things.

But in addition, it's been drilled into her since she was a child that if she is discovered as female, the combination of her being mixed race and female will identify her as someone extremely specific, someone known to some bad people, and she will be killed:

I think of it as Mizu thinking to herself, "Being found out as mixed race means I'm treated badly. Being found out as mixed race and a woman means I'm dead."

Mizu's hair is cut as a child. But she isn't made to wear a big hat, or cover her eyes somehow, or anything like that. Because hiding her sex is a more successful endeavor than hiding her race.

Ringo finds out she's female by accident, but once Mizu accepts the fact that he won't rat her out, she relaxes pretty early on in the season. Because the threat of being found out as female is mitigated pretty much 99.9%, since Mizu has gotten so good at being a man. And also, because most of the time, people see what they want to see. Even if Mizu's face makes her stand out as "not 100% Japanese," no one in the world of BES looks at Mizu's clothes, her bearing, her sword, hears her voice, and will ever in a million years conclude that she is a woman, because expectations around gender roles in the Edo period were so rigid and so widely enforced.

One detail that proved this to me is after the Four Fangs fight:

Ringo takes off Mizu's clothes so he can stitch her up, then leaves her clothes off even after he's done. He doesn't even throw her cloak over her as a blanket or anything. There's a little a straw (pallet?) as a divider there on the left, but anyone could just peek around it and see Mizu and her chest bindings. (I think it's mostly there as a windbreaker.)

And Taigen is right there, but he doesn't give a shit:

Opinions probably vary hugely on this, but my impression is that because the show doesn't make any kind of deal about Taigen being in the room with Mizu here, my guess is that Mizu isn't in any danger of Taigen thinking she's female. Even when I watched the show for the first time, I assumed that Taigen had seen Mizu out of her clothes here, and that he thought nothing of it.

Eat your heart out, Li Shang (Mulan 1998). I actually do think that this scene is a direct and purposeful side-eye to that movie, lol

There's obviously some nuance to how "severe" being mixed race is compared to how "severe" being a woman is for Mizu:

After all, Swordfather can't bear to listen to Mizu confess to being a woman.

So a Japanese man can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants in BES. A Japanese woman has limited options: marriage, religion, or a brothel. A mixed-race man is an eyesore in this story. A mixed-race woman is a death sentence.

May as well eliminate the female aspect, and do what you can about the mixed-race aspect. Because that's just realistic.

Meaning Mizu can avoid the strictures Edo society places on women. But she can't avoid the repercussions that come with being mixed race. And I truly don't think that it's just because "there's no brown contacts yet."

[fairsweetlonging]

i just love disney princess shen qingqiu, like that man is just made to walk barefoot through the forest and sing with the birds while carrying a basket of flowers and foraged goods while deer and rabbits and squirrels follow him around and butterflies perch in his hair like little ornaments; he will sit down near the lotus pond to practice the guqin and the sunlight hits the water like a golden shower as forest critters gather around him to listen, and he has the most beautiful singing voice that pulls in anyone who hears it.

he is the epitome of a beautiful, kind and gentle scholar, though he remains woefully oblivious every time someone talks about qing jing peak's flowers or treasures

[africanrefugeeswelcome]

Seek your happiness without caring what others think 👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏿

[the-feirefiz-blog]

She has achieved three important goals:

1. She married a black African.

2. She is carrying her first black baby.

3. Her younger sisters emulate her and only date black boys so that they can later go from being aunts to being mothers of black kids.

[qiu-yan]

wow this post got depressing really fast. sorry

if you think about it. if you were just some random no-name cultivator who somehow got invited to the phoenix mountain night-hunt, and you heard something about 1. hanguang-jun of the sterling reputation, 2. wei wuxian the demonic cultivator already flouting social norms, and 3. a forced kiss....which would you believe? that lan wangji forcibly kissed wei wuxian? or that wei wuxian forcibly kissed lan wangji?

depressing thoughts.

[madame-helen]

For all those accusing Argentina of racism:

[waitmyturtles]

MIX!

And:

(Source)

😭✨😭

[yoku-yukihime]

Does anyone else ever think about how junko was married to hou yi and he killed his own son to go elope with another woman. cause she was so right for being so seethingly angry she essentially became a god, killing the guy, and marrying a goth bad bitch from hell. like go girl go GO!!

[arianeemorythethird]

Thinking about Rex & Anakin & the (intimacy of) what they call each other some more...

I really latched onto that one scene in the movie where Rex uses Anakin's first name as a warning - it's a combination of Rex's trust that Anakin will get it (and he does!), that they're two people who already work really well together, they understand each other, they're in sync -

But it's also that Rex has this deliberate boundary up and Anakin respects that. Whether he actually consciously recognises there's a power imbalance between them and he needs to let Rex set the terms of how they interact or not, he acts that way, which is what ultimately counts? Anakin is someone who often struggles with maintaining boundaries in other relationships, but with this one, Anakin steps back and lets Rex set the pace.

Rex is someone he's close to and trusts, but he doesn't seem bothered that Rex keeps him at arms length in this one specific way - and more than that, he has a lot of self-awareness about it. When Rex calls him 'Anakin' in that scene he doesn't think, 'oh things are going badly and Rex must be reaching out to me more personally in a moment of need, we're getting closer, yay' - he immediately grasps that this isn't personal, this is a warning.

Both characters are making really deliberate choices in this scene, and those choices reflect how well they know each other but also how much each of them knows they know each other...

It's a kind of intimacy in and of itself.

[firstkanaphans]

They can t give us FirstMix for only 5 mins in mlc and expect me to be satisfied with that??? We neeeed more FirstMix and KhaoMix, actually just give me FirstKhaoMix 😭😭😭

God, a FirstKhaoMix series. That truly is the dream.

You know, I actually outlined a whole series for them once upon a time, but I’ll never write it because it’s not fanfiction, but it’s not not fanfiction either. In it, Mix was a spy or an undercover cop or something and he gets kidnapped by the bad guys. His boyfriend First sets out to find him, but in the process realizes Mix was living a whole second life he didn’t know about. In that other life, Mix was engaged to Khaotung, who I imagine as a rich, nerdy hacker. First and Khaotung have to team up to find Mix and help him escape—with Khaotung as the brains and First as the brawn. And then all three of them fall in love.

Maybe this is the plot I should submit to GMMTV’s YFind thing…

[blmpff]

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