Posted by: once in a while March 8, 2006
The Courage of love
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Its not an racial but a cross-cultural issue. South-Asian men who are brought up in male dominated society, have in mind that inter cultural marriage would not last. In fact, there are quite a few Nepali men who married western girls to divorce after few years and returned to Nepal in search of Nepali bride. In Western culture, divorce has become very common thing and nowadays people are buying insurance against divorce while they get married. In South Asian culture, its not the "love factor" that binds a marriage, but a spirituality and sense of responsibility. South Asian men ( no matter how much he freaks out) expects his marriage last till his death bed. Its not easy for South Asian Men ( brough up in South Asia) to marry a girl from different culture and society and even you marry, its not easy to continue it. Even knowing this, if one develops relationship and later dumps her showing the cultural differences or whatever, its not good. A friend of mine, who was a Tour Guide and now a Director of Travel Company in Kathmandu had several relationships with foreign women, American, European, Asian and finally with a Polish girl, he was in serious relationship. The girl stayed with him for more than 4 months in Kathmandu but he was the "jetho chhoro" of a Brahmin family and his mother was a hardline woman and would not accept her as his "buhari" and so my friend sent her "love" back to her country and within a couple of weeks, he got married with a Nepali girl. If you ever say you love her, you don't bring your parents or relatives or culture in between. One should not date the western girls for an experience or pleasure. If one says that I love you but can not marry you, he is a liar.
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