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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
That was a relatively common mindset back when our ancestors were finding husbands and wives. My husband told me the story of how his maternal great-grandfather disowned his son (my husband's grandfather) because the woman he married (my husband's grandmother) was only 3/4 English. He objected to her Irish blood 
I imagine the old chap is turning in his grave knowing his grandson married a Polish/Italian/Slovenian mutt! 
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My boyfriend's father is Hungarian - born during WWII. It took several years for his family to immigrate to America after the war, but when they finally did they stayed very loyal to their Hungarian culture. They lived in a primarily-Hungarian section of town in Cleveland, Ohio, and he married a Hungarian woman.
It's probably strange for him to see his son with me -- I'm definitely not Hungarian, and being from the South is odd to him also! LOL At least I'm Catholic, though... My boyfriend's brother married a Protestant Southern girl and I don't think that the family has quite recovered from that shock yet.