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In reply to the discussion: Poll: When did you last socialize with a person of a different race in their home or yours? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)conservatives, so I can easily identify with that at least. I haven't kept it a secret that I'm liberal and Democrat, and it's normally easy to pick out the bigoted hard-cores by their cold reserve and flickering glances while they maintain the pretense of normal mannerly behaviors. We've told a lot fewer my husband's Jewish, but I imagine it's gotten around among some groups. A basic sort of litmus test for character and personality acceptable to us is simply who is open to friendship and who is closed.
Our DIL's Danish, and apparently culture there is very strongly family oriented. Even though she was raised in America since childhood and seldom visits Denmark, she's family and thus is a member of a sizable social structure she just steps into when she does. The nice side to that.