Matrimonial Banquets
My barely fifteen year-old cousin spent the weekend of her first homecoming dance in tears. Was it because her date screwed her over? No, but her Roman Catholic parents and his Muslim ones did.
When the Arabic boy's parents found out he was taking a white girl to their school dance, they forbid him to even leave the house. My uncle spent that night yelling, very upset, that my cousin had gotten herself so attached to an Arab.
My cousin is too young to really understand why any of this is happening. She was brought up by the whitest, upper-middle class parents you can imagine and has a Walt Disney perception of race issues. "We're all the same deep down. Why can't we all just get along?" In her world, if you make any distinction between different races or cultures, you are a horrible person. But she doesn't understand the distinction between race and culture. No there is no difference between an Arab boy and a white girl, or between a black goy and a Hispanic girl. But there is......
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