Thanksgiving - family diversity

[geospyder]

It's been many years since we have had a family gathering. Looks like it may happen this Thanksgiving. It wasn't until I were looking at who was coming that I realized how diversified my family is. Back in the early forties when I was born my parents were very WASP and definitely prejudiced. My first wife's name was Ozeita and I was told that that dirty Mexican would not be allowed in the house. BTW she was not Mexican she was Native American (even worse in my parent's WASP eyes) - Ozeita meaning Little Bear. Now with the kids marriages and with the grand kids - not just mine but my sister and two brothers - we have a great mixture of Black, White, Hispanic and Asian. We have Protestant, Catholic, Muslim and mostly non-religious. And on the LGBT side we even have two sets of partners, one female and one male. This should be a great gathering. The only scary part is that I'm the oldest

[Elderberry]

Definitely would like to be a fly on the wall at that get together.

[tamarakay]

I love it. Ours too is expanding and growing more diverse. My dad was raised in East Texas, my mom in West Texas. You can imagine the prejudice they were raised with. Then my Dad joined the army. He said it didn't take long to figure out how wrong his parents were. We were raised with the "everyone is green" mentality. Now we celebrate everyone's uniqueness. The only thing my dad struggles with is gay partnerships and obesity. He's come a long way in the last 10 years with gay, but obese still gets him. It is interesting to watch them age and evolve.

[geospyder]

We have obese as well. My niece, who is huge, and I mean huge, married a guy from Afghanistan. She converted to Islam and for a while wore a burka. She looked like a huge black tent floating down the street. She was shunned by the most of the family. My wife and I were the only ones, other than her mother, that went to the wedding. Her husband died this year and his family has abandoned her. So this may be the most interesting reunion at the gathering. Tempted to wear body armor

[theCryptofishist]

Well, fat is still a broadly socially accepted form of prejudice and gay is more or less at the tipping point.