Marrying outside of your religion or culture, family heritage - or station?

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There are those who say true love transcends any earthly barriers. Others would argue that its important to have base commonalities. Arguing that if someone comes from a different belief system there may be problems down the line in decision making and child rearing and two people from different economic status points may not get along. Still others are afraid of their parents wrath. According to Leekey (spelling) the paleontolgist, we originated in Olduvai Gorge in Africa - that's where the earliest remains of man have been found, not in Java as previously thought. So perhaps we all originate in the same place from the same source. Christians believe so in their foundation story of Adam and Eve. Would you or have you married outside of your religion or culture? As an American, no matter what our ethnicity, its a pretty common culture, the Western culture. And many of us are of so many different races. I am Russian, German, French and Romanian. I married a man who is Taiwanese or Chinese depending on your point of view, with som Italian as well. He grew up in Japan - on the island of Okinawa and later moved to Mississippi - which some would argue is a different culture in itself - he tells me his co-workers on base actually believe yoga to be part of Satan's work. However, despite the fact that we have different family backgrounds, not only heritage but religion wise, we have many other things in common, including our stance on how to raise and educate our child and where we want to live. What are your feelings on this? Would you marry outside of any of these things? Why or why not? What do or would your parents think?