Parents tell you that you can only, marry within your own race. Options

[Oranite]

Do you guys know anyone like that? I have a few friends with this situation. One who is pakistani and her parents tell her that she can only marry or even date other ppl who are pakistani and I also have several asian friends that have a simlar situation in which there parents say they can only marry/date there own race.

For me I think that your parents should not be able to tell you to only date/marry only ppl of certain races/cultures. My parents don't really care for me. I think thats partly because we are of mix races or maybe were just more open minded idk... what do you guys think about it? Is it an acceptable based on the fact that some cultures don't believe in mixing?

[Chii]

ugh i hate that some people are so closed minded!

people should be able to marry whoever they want. my parents say that i can only marry/date a cantonese, rich, chinese dude who can read and write in cantonese, nothing else is acceptable. and the guy i'm seeing, his grandmother will have like freak out (most of his family will follow suit but not that extremely) which would be bad for her since she's a diabetic if he marries someone who's not russian and jewish...since he's russian and jewish...which is why he's kind of hesitant to take our relationship to the next level...

it gets kind of discouraging sometimes because like, these people don't take the time to get to know you and hate you because you're different. like my older brother, he's been with his white girlfriend for like 5 years and my parents still look down upon their relationship.