Why do you have to hide your relationship from you parents?

I grew up in Oakland. Older asian people don’t like black people very much. I was at a friends house and their Vietnamese mom said “ You two better study or else you’ll end up like those black people.” Or when I’m at an aunt’s house and she was scolding her daughter “You’ll end up marrying a black man at this rate. No one else will want you.”

Like it’s racism, but it’s not entirely unwarranted. My aunt and uncle ran a liquor store, who do you think they often get robbed and threatened by? Sure you could go “not all black people like that” but if you go through the poor neighborhoods like fresh asian immigrants, that’s your whole exposure to black people.

For one, people in asian countries prefer their kids marrying with the same race. And two, when their kids go out with foreign people, black people tend to rank the worse right below Hispanic.

My wife is white. Which my family was okay with, because I hid my girlfriends from them until I was about 25 and had them wondering why I couldn’t find a mate. So they were like omg just find somebody you hopeless son. Boy... if they only knew. Plus I didn’t want to give grandma a heart attack bringing home blue haired tattooed girls or a girl from the Caribbeans. That’s like an early grave.

/r/AsianParentStories Thread