Complex sentence: The Jawi Peranakan chose their spouses carefully, screening prospective matches for ties of wealth and status and less their racial origins, hence permitting intermarriages between Jawi Peranakan and prosperous members of other Muslim communities like the Arabs, Indians and the Malay royalty.
Split into simpler sentences: The Jawi Peranakan chose their spouses carefully, screening prospective matches for wealth and status, rather than racial origins. This enabled intermarriage between Jawi Peranakan and other prosperous local Muslim communities, like the Arabs, Indians and the Malay royalty.