<p>BCEagle, Although I have seen a couple of cases where the girls in other countries say no to boys in this country, depending on what country we are talking about, it is hard to deny the fact (as of today) that being a college-graduated US citizen who will likely have a job is a draw for his/her potential mate from other country where many of its citizens prefer to immigrate here by any means, possibly including marriage. If this is the case, the one in US will likely not know whether he or she is “desirable” to the other party due to his/her nationality, or his/her own personal merit.</p>
<p>BTW, I did not teach DS this at all and do not know from where he got this idea. (Being a too proud, and borderline arrogant, American? 
) He does not look down upon them at all. He was always the one in my family who helped showing relative visitors about his age around. Even though there is sometimes some communication difficulty, the younger visitors still prefer his company to our company during their visit. Many of his overseas cousins have access to his facebook, but we as parents do not. Sometimes, we found out something, by accident, about his activities from overseas (younger generation) relatives instead of him who we actually talk to each other regularly every week. LOL. Sometimes there is something the younger generation really does not want his/her own parent to know about. In C++, isn’t there a saying that goes like this: a friend (class) can see your private part? Disclaimer: This is really true in that computer language. I do not talk something dirty here.)</p>