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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do parents worry about kids date/marry different races?  For example, do white parents here worry that their ivy kids marrying tech immigrants’ kids since now there are over 40% of them at Harvard.  [/quote]

I don’t care about the race, more having matching socioeconomic background of the partner. So many more FGLI and Pell Grant kids at top schools nowadays. At least middle/upper middle class preferred.  So much of post-grad life depends not just on smarts, but being able to access parental help, for a first downpayment, being able to avoid grad school loans, just even simple things like not having to help out extended family members if you’re the one who “made it big” from a FGLI family. It would be nice if our side is not the only one that can provide the help, and the other side is not going to be a financial burden. It’s the unfortunate realities of modern capitalist society. Inheritance trumps salary, even for super smart kids, in a lot of ways. [/quote]

Oof. You said the quiet part outloud, and this is probably the dividing line between people who are jerks and people who are not. [/quote]

Np I do get where they are coming from.  DH and I are both the people from broke families so we both get it but I imagine it would be extremely stressful dealing with either of our families if you were UMC or even just from a normal family without constant money troubles.

I’d much prefer my kids to marry someone equally well off or better off than them. [/quote]

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