That's rather rude of you, shreeya, to tell benic to "grow up".

I think benic was only trying to describe what her husband's appearance might look like to people who don't know what a maori person looks like.

Would she be married to him if she was ashamed of him?

And while mixed-race relationships are perfectly normal, some people do frown on them. In my experience, it's been non-white people who object to a mixed-race relationship, and some of the comments can be quite nasty, so I can understand why benic wants to ask the question.

NB: my experiences relate to incidents that happened in the UK and China, not in Qatar.