Niam Ntsuab Teev (aka May Vang) relates a similar story of a Hmong guy marrying a Somali girl.
They met at work in a manufacturing plant and dated in every sense a date permitted. She visited his family several times. His dad told her to
leave him or else his dad would do some voodoo to chase her out. She got scared and left him. But the guy went to her family, hung around their
door and even slept outside several nights, and begged to marry her.
"My friends tell me I have such a beautiful woman with a slim body and that beautiful buttock," he is quoted to have said something to this effect.
The Somali in-laws said they needed his family to be involved in the marriage. But he said they wouldn't be, so he begged to do it alone.
After questioning, they realized how much he was in love with their daughter and vice versa, so they did the marriage and wedding their way.
Today, he says he has beautiful children with adorable eyes and he loves his wife. He has abandoned his family.
In a decade or two, I'm sure he can bring the kids to reunite with his Hmong family. They'll accept him back then, partly because their eyes will have opened up to
our American diversity more than before.