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You really don't know how non Asian immigrant parents work, do you?
The increase in "status" does not make up for the loss in culture and religion that parents foresee. For a significant majority of Middle Eastern and Indian parents, especially in America, it is at the least a slight negative to marry a person outside of their group if not an outright disaster. The more progressive ones will care less, but it's not at all considered a status bump by any measure. Bringing home a partner not from their group is something that will result in huge, often irrevocable, rifts between families.
Genuinely thought this would be common knowledge at this point. Even with their sons, these are communities that dislike them marrying white women. Kumail Nanjiani famously made a whole movie about the story about him and his wife getting together and his parents in that movie were probably much nicer in their significant disapproval than they were in real life.
In fact, I dated a devout Hindu woman whose family were (ethnically) Indian and upper middle-class (doctors, lawyers etc.). Now, she's married to a white Hindu guy who is better suited to her spiritually than I would have been. On the other hand, that wasn't in America, and I don't know the situation there. And of course, almost by definition, more conservative families will be more concerned about a white son-in-law: that's a semi-defining trait of a conservative non-white family.
Islam would be a different issue. I've never known a Muslim to marry outside of their faith, though obviously I've known plenty Muslim girls to hookup casually and often secretively with non-Muslim whites.
Anyway, if you look again, the conversation was about what African parents consider high status, not what Indians/Arabs/whatever consider high status for their children.
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