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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe people are confusing what OP means by "other cultures."

I'm Latino and Catholic. Born and raised here. My parents might have preferred for me to marry a Latino man, but they just shrugged when I married a White guy from Indiana, and everything went on as usual.

That is completely different from my friends who are devout Jews or those whose parents are from India and expect them to marry someone they semi-arrange for them. In that type of family, parents will usually threaten to withhold an inheritance or support the marriage in any way. They might refuse to continue paying for college or graduate school if their child marries someone from outside their group. It goes far beyond what happens in families like mine where the worst thing to happen is that your mom will be disappointed if your wedding ceremony isn't held in a Catholic church and the priest doesn't conduct the service in Spanish.

OP, go for it with US-born Latinos like me, but avoid getting involved with anyone whose parents have a way to enforce their beliefs on their child. You don't want to be the reason your spouse is estranged from their family and culture. [/quote]

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