wedding bell bigotry

So I recently received an email from a college aquaintance that made my mouth drop. Apparently, her brother has fallen in love with a wonderful woman, and they want to get married. How lovely. Mazel Tov! One problem. He’s half Mexican-American and she’s from a conservative Korean-American family and her folks are flipping out. So sis is canvassing to find other cases in which a Korean-American married someone of another ethnicity despite parent’s wishes and “everything turned out fine.”

In my point of view, the point where someone uses “lesser breed” to refer to another human being (as this girl’s parents apparently did) happens to be the exact same point where I stop caring about their opinion on who marries whom.

The fact that the boy in question “has never been to Mexico except to go snorkeling in Cozumel, thinks Cesar Chavez is a silent film star, and speaks not one word of Spanish” really doesn’t have much bearing on the issue. He could visit Mexico on a monthly basis, immerse himself completely in Mexican culture, teach graduate level courses on Mexican nationalism, and speak Spanish, Nuahatl, and Yucatec and if he’s a nice guy who makes a good living and is nice to their daughter, then they can just shut up about what culture he comes from and whether or not he appreciates it.

Meanwhile if anyone knows a Korean-American who married outside of his or her ethnicity despite parent’s wishes and it has all turned out okay, shoot ’em my way.