Ujm, this is why I said “more than other groups”. It’s a contradiction to stress the whole “you’re no different than a frei jew” party line while simultaneously discriminating against anyone who’s not an original Russian lubavitcher. No other group does that. Rebbishe families, yes; rich and poor….somewhat, but that’s not the case in the yeshivishe world, where being a ben torah usually assures a bochur a shidduch from a family more well off than his own. Rav belsky took a sefardi son in law, as did rav aharon shechter, because these aren’t the biggest concerns for most of klal yisroel. Sefardim is more of a cultural thing, but the are plenty of mixed marriages (aside from the Syrian community).
Belz, vizhnitz, satmar, ger, munkatch, bialeh, boyan….name it; chasidim don’t have a problem with marrying someone whos parents aren’t from the town of their chasidus. We’re not talking about personal status; they discriminate based entirely on the town from which one’s forebears come from. Satmar did make an issue chitun, and it was earth shattering…it made a huge rift between chasidim of both sides, but it was along ideological lines, not “gazanus” – any chasidus which advocated voting was included.
It’s pure supremacism; and it’s everywhere, not just in Shidduchim…. that’s just where you can see it more.openly.