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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm a white girl married to a middle easterner. I often regret marrying into his racist family. My family is white, Catholic, upper class, financially conservative, socially liberal. My family embraced DH with open arms.
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His family never sent us a wedding gift, never send the kids birthday cards, when we do visit, they speak Arabic even though they are fluent in English. [/b]

I tell my kids to never marry into a different culture, religion, language. Biggest mistake of my life! They have real jealousy issues, too. The females. Ugghhh!

My family treats him so kindly. His family is so rude!![/quote]

Some of your complaints seem a bit odd.  Did they come to your wedding?  Are they familiar with the culture of sending birthday cards ([b]many cultures do not celebrate birthdays[/b])?  Do they speak at least some English -- like to you if you don't understand Arabic? You can be fluent in another language but still prefer to speak your mother tongue -- my family does this all the time when my DH is around.  It's not they are doing it on purpose -- it's more that they don't realize that they have stopped speaking English.[/quote]

My grandmother told me that when she immigrated to the US as an adult, she had to fill a form that asked for her birth date.  She had no idea what it was because no one had ever told her and she had never been asked for it.  So she just made one up that day.[/quote]

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