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As the first son in his generation, Minh Le played a key role in his Vietnamese family lineage. So when Connecticut-born Minh told his family he planned to marry Aimee, a Jewish woman from California, and more important, a non-Vietnamese woman, he knew it wouldn’t be good news for everyone.

"It was painful for my grandmother on a very visceral level," he says. "She would always remind me that her father was second to the king of Vietnam." In other words, it was a letdown for Minh’s grandmother who hoped Minh would marry within his own race.