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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is this show could have been made with any religious or cultural or racial groups.

I observed the following IRL:

-Chinese friend’s entire family didn’t attend her wedding because they were outraged that she was marrying a non-Chinese man. Same religion, same advanced level of education, and the guy is awesome on all levels. Didn’t matter. Pretty sure we’ve seen movies about how this plays out in Asian culture, right?

-A white friend’s family threatened to cut her off when she got engaged to a black man. His family wasn’t any better: his family was blatantly hostile to her the first time he brought her to a family party. She wasn’t deterred despite leaving in tears. She kept showing up and being kind, and they eventually came around. Ditto for her family.

-A Muslim friend’s family did cut her off (stopped paying her tuition) when she got engaged to a catholic white American. She was American too btw—despite her American-born parents considering themselves as “Insert other Muslim country here.” That marriage was a disaster thanks to the unwillingness of her family to accept him. She caved eventually and her parents rewarded her with a new life in another city: fancy new place, new wardrobe, new car, etc.

I could go on, but I’ll stop here. As a shiksa whose future MIL enlisted the help of relatives to try to dissuade us from marrying (I won’t say how, but it was heavily orchestrated and blatant), I chalk it up to loss of control and fear of the unknown that some rigid older women have. It’s a thing, which is why the evil MIL stereotypes exist in every culture, etc. [/quote]

NP here. All of this. I know a Chinese woman who was dumped by her Korean boyfriend (of 10 years) because his mother threatened to never speak to him again if he married a Chinese woman. My white sister married a black man and HIS family refused to come to the wedding because our family is white. I married a man from a Western European country that is predominately catholic and they opposed our engagement because I’m 1) American, 2) not Catholic (even though they are not practicing) and the real winner 3) I am disabled and they thought I was taking advantage of a non disabled person so he could be my lifelong care taker (I don’t need a caretaker). After 20 years married my FIL still makes snide remarks about all of them. My Quaker friend was engaged to a Jewish man and was starting the process of converting when he broke the engagement at the insistence of his family because she wasn’t born Jewish.

There are so many modern examples of prejudice. This movie could have been about any two opposite cultures. This crap still happens all the time. [/quote]

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