[Avodah] kitniyot

[Ben Waxman via Avodah]

If the issue was jealousy of sefardim, people would want to drop the 
minhag entirely. There is that, but only on the fringe.

These chumrot seem like a false imposition, something someone invented.  
You can only hear "when I was a kid, we ate X, Y, Z" or "I went to a 
shiur and the rav said X, Y, Z are muttar" so many times before asking 
yourself "so  why don't we eat X, Y, Z"?

And yes, intermarriage is a huge factor.

On 4/8/2017 12:48 AM, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
> I can this of two very different possibilities: One is negative, that
> there is some sort of jealousy to the sefardim, or taavah for the many
> products that are available. The other is positive, that this is
> simply a natural development of how minhagim change over the centuries
> when communities mix.