It might be that it was a prejudice.

Others probably did not find a man to be odious because he was of foreign extraction and known by a foreign name.

Others would not suspect a man of being of Jewish blood because he was swarthy, or even object to him if he were a Jew by descent.
But it was wonderful to him that his girl should like such a man,--should like such a man well enough to choose him as the one companion of her life.

She had been brought up to prefer English men, and English thinking, and English ways,--and English ways, too, somewhat of a past time.

He thought as did Brabantio, that it could not be that without magic his daughter who had shunned-- "The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, Would ever have, to incur a general mock, Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as"-- this distasteful Portuguese.
That evening he said nothing further to his daughter, but sat with her, silent and disconsolate.