Oh, do let's bring on the absurd false analogies!  Hockey players are not a given race/ethnicity/cultural group (despite what Canadians may think).  I would even hazard a guess there are a few of them who are of South Asian descent.  But anyone can play hockey; not anyone can be Indian.

Gifts: Oh, stop with the registry complaints.  Just RSVP "no" and get over yourself.  I love registries.  I don't want to get the bride and groom something they don't want, and since people nowadays don't usually marry right out of their parents' house, they probably already have the basics, unlike when people married younger.  And most of us don't do formal china any more, so we don't need an extra set of dishes (you know, the dishes your mother wouldn't let you touch).  So, yes, please, give me a list of what you will actually use so I don't see what I gave you in your garage sale, untouched, two years later.