Americans Have The Extended Family Blues

A perfect holiday theme!

Henry Fonda crushes it as the anti-grandpa capable of alienating anyone faster than a speeding bullet. Movie poster image courtesy of Universal Pictures

When you hang out in a Tamil village in India, one of the many family background questions you’ll get is: do you have a cross-cousin? A what?

Look, I get it. Parsing types of cousins is not Euro-American …