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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the big deal? You are going to give a gift.....just give them whatever you would have spent in form of cash, check or a gift card. No big deal. Jeez people. [/quote]

No, you are wrong.  [b]It is wrong to specify that you want cash.[/b] It is a big deal and stunningly rude.  [/quote]

It is rude to specify that you want cash -- in mainstream US culture, on most occasions. It's not universally true everywhere for everybody.

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However, we are IN THE U.S. I don't care what you're used to elsewhere. You're here now.[/quote]

We're in the US! We don't need to care what other people do elsewhere in the rest of the world! -- eh, PP?[/quote]

NP here.  What other people do in the rest of the world is all well and good.  The point is that when you come to the US and you do something that is considered rude here, you're going to rub people the wrong way.  e.g., inviting the whole class to a birthday party, most of whom are probably not used to YOUR cultural norms instead of those in the US and then specifying that you want cash for your six year old, which here is considered, as PP said, stunningly rude.  You'll probably get a lot of people just not coming (and maybe they prefer it that way anyway).[/quote]

I didn't see anywhere in OP's post stating the whole class was invited. For all we know it may be a birthday party where the majority of the attendants will be from the culture of the birthday girl. OP may be the only or one of only a few non-of-their-culture invited.

OP, if that is the case you could have just called the host to ask the meaning.  It wouldn't have been rude.

What's rude is all this nastiness being thrown around about a family that no one on here knows.

[u]But hey, we are in the US! Putting down other people's cultures is what we do!!!!!
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