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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are missing the obvioius here:  what you are all really reacting to is the unstated :  that only people who need money given to them at a wedding or for an expected baby are poor or lower down on the socio-economic scale, that is why they [i]need[/i] money more than gifts.   People call these "traditions" tacky or low-class because it orginates when a cultural group is lower class economically speaking.  We all know that many ethnic groups who were once identified as mostly poor immigrants, like Italian-Americans (mostly peasants) or Korean-Americans (often refugees), are often now quite well off financially and certainly now longer part of the lower economic rung but, the old traditions stand.  To groups of American who were here "before" these various ethnic groups arrived with their different traditions, such behavior was very much out of the norm and regarded with distaste.  Each new large group of immigrants deals with their own form of this bias: bringing a tradition or way of behavior that Americans who are second, third, etc.. generation find gross or distatseful or appalling.  We are all just suppossed to be less ignorant of our own biases than the WASPs of the 1900s.  So, while it may be tacky for a Mayflower WASP descendant to have a money tree or money dance, it is not for an Italian-American.[/quote]

Wrong. Koreans in Korea, even those that are well-off, still give money at major events and as gifts. It has little to do with being a poor immigrant.[/quote]

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