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To: epicure who wrote (71933)	6/13/2008 7:35:43 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541991

But when I started dating a black man, I thought she would die. I had a similar experience with my mother. She was from a small town and I was far away in the city. What I told her to relieve her distress was that it was different in cities, that people were anonymous, and that, if it turned out that society frowned on me for it, I could always start afresh later with a new circle. I just told her what she needed to hear so she wouldn't worry. I think the "what will people think" attitude of Kate's and my mothers are not necessarily personally bigoted but more an unwillingness to take a stand against a perceived bigoted society. My mother came from a different world. She always wanted me to marry "a nice Slovak boy." Shared ethnicity probably mattered to first generation Americans. By the time I married, it was irrelevant. Now, as you say, it's different even for race.