Hey sweetiepie......you got me all wrong.....i have already said that everyone is just expressing their feeling from their own point of view.....there's no such thing as right or worng.....coz it's also depends on what kinds of situation you are in. As for you, you are educated and wise......you follows your own instincts rather than following what other have to say. It's seems like you are not that type of person who was brought up in a conservative environment as you say that your parent can speak English, which mean that they are educated and wise too......But that doesn't mean that your cup of tea will be everybody cup of tea too. We are all different individual who were raised up by different family with different backgrounds. Our parents might not be educated. Anyway i didn't say that marrying a foreigner is wrong.....what i was trying to say was that it would be great if everyone could see marrying a foreign as the same way as marrying another castes from our own society. But marrying someone from your own society will benefits more.... but our elders will disagreed to it becoz the other party might be from a lower caste. Like you, i also have no problem marrying a foreigner coz i was born and grown up in a foreign land. But if i wanna marry a person who is from a lower caste than definitely my parents will disagreed to it.......becoz we are all still tied to our relative back in Nepal and unfortuanately my parents have went back to Nepal to settle down for good and to enjoy their retirement. I do not discriminate caste but i can't fight back or go against it too as i am nailed down by the society and my parents too. I don't wanna break my parent hearts who i have know since the day i was born for someone whom i just knew for a couple of years. It might be the same case for lots of the other people too. But anyway......there's lots of other fish in the pond. If i can't marry a certain caste then first of all i won't even approach that person to make the situation too complicated. However it would be really great if everyone could treat others (whether that person is from a higher caste, a lower caste or a foreigner) as equal. Then i can also have more fishes to choose.......heheheheee....but if i still pissed you off then do pardon me........becoz your cup tea doesn't mean my cup of tea too. Cheers.