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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What arrant nonsense.  Let's flip it, shall we - OP's now white, with deep southern roots that go back centuries.  His son is marrying a first generation Vietnamese girl, and his wife is apoplectic, and refuses to attend the wedding.  You see, she always dreamed of a DIL who has the same ethnic background she has - it makes it easier to connect, and to pass down traditions.  It's not that the prospective DIL is Vietnamese - of course not! - it's that she ISN'T a white southerner.

You'd think that was just fine, right?  Of course you wouldn't.  You'd lose your chit, and call her a racist redneck - and you'd be right.  This is no different.  [/quote]

Not the same thing. The first gen Vietnamese potential DIL, in your scenario, speaks fluent English.  That means the potential DIL has demonstrated the ability to share in her potential in-laws' culture because she can speak their language. Also, by growing up in the US, she probably has some of degree of familiarity with their culture. She can connect with them linguistically and to a lesser extent, culturally. On top of that, because they live in the US, it's already guaranteed that Southern American culture (food, holidays, and most importantly, language) can passed on with far greater ease. 
 
An equivalent scenario for your white Southerners look something like this. If the white Southerners some how ended up as racial/ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Their son brings home a Vietnamese woman who doesn't speak English and is not familiar with Southern American history/culture.

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[b]The lengths to which you will go to excuse bigotry are truly astounding[/b].[/quote]

It truly is.  The racism and the defense of it are nauseating. [/quote]

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