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In The Godfather, Vito is uncomfortable with his daughter marrying a Northern Italian, yet seems unconcerned about his son marrying a more obviously ethnically divergent New England WASP. Does this double standard accurately reflect mid-20th-century Sicilian-American views of outmarriage?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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