Who cultures/traditions to follow in a mixed marriage

Mine and my spouses religion and cultures are one and the same. The couples with Intercaste marriage must respect each others cultures and traditions, but teach their children the cultures and traditions of father. I know a couple personally, who left their respective religions and embraced entirely a new religion, they teach their children the cultures and traditions of the new religion. And they are living happily and peacefully.

Hello,ellie,my parents are of different nationalities,it seems that they have been doing very well in learning the cultures of each others.I am not married yet,but i think i will be fine to marry with guys from foreign countries.I am quite open minded in learning new cultures,just like my parents,i think we can benefit from each other and learn their cultures.I will not force my partner to follow my culture if they are not comfortable with it,I will not mind him doing something in his own culture.

is there someone to follow? i think people can agree on who is to be followed, or one may want to convert.

In this modern era of mixed marriages,both husband and wife well civilised,educated.No one should stick to his/her own,only because it is traditional.Both should understand each others culture and adapt a mixed culture.It will satisfy both and there will be happy married life.

I think in such a situation it's important that both cultures are respected, each able to carry theirs out fully, and that any children are taught both parents traditions and encouraged to participate in both equally. after all, both are part of their heritage, part of who they are, and a good grounding in each will teach them to be tolerant, open minded and to weigh up the pros and cons, and maybe ultimately decide to follow one or the other more fully, or a different one altogether. but at least they will have an understanding of where they come from. I think it's very sad when people say the fathers traditions should over-ride the mothers. surely her traditions are just as important as the fathers.

For me, the culture is not so important as long as i can live comfortably the way i want to be. If i really love my husband to be, i will be willing to embrace his culture/tradition but he should not expect me to embrace it all. I will do what i think can make him happy, as well as i can feel comfortably. There should be a give and take on this matter. I might also introduce to him our culture, if he want to embrace it too, well that would be good.

well though people do get involved in mixed marriage here in my country, i do not think it is something i would really want to get involved in. Which ever way it is i think both should cultivate the habit of learning each others culture and to try and accommodate each others respective culture, with that, there would be no love lost between the 2 as to which of them is more committed

I think couple need to think about all this before they get married. I also think it is importnat to following both cultures and tradtions. I know of a family that is mixed like this. They also have adopted several children from different culture backgrounds. So what they do is have each day is a chart made up of what culture background they will have day. Like say sunday they will make all three meals to be mexican..Than monday it will be American..and tuesday will be ..african..SEe what I am saying. Oh course on the days with the culture themes they also learn about the cultures that day and discuss them over the supper table. I love the idea of people keeping their tradions and culture alive nomatter where they live.

In India there is one system which may be infamiliar to most of the people of other countries. That is the caste system. Traditionally marriages are arranged within the caste itself. But in these modern times many inter caste marriages are taking place. Many are happy marriages for the life time, but several such marriages fail. Root cause for such failuers is the cultural defferences. These defferences are due to lack of understanding between the individuals. So before entering into such relations the individuals should understand each other well and make themselves ready for some sacrifices too.

It all depends on understanding....The couples can follow their own traditions and cultures from which they come from provided they understand and tolerate each others cultures...IN mixed marriage the main thing is UNDERSTANDING and TOLERANCE towards wach others culture.....folowing these two things will make the mixed marriage succesful

We use bot cultures and at times we have to choose which one is good and which one is not and decide about it. The important is we always communicate with each other when we hit cultural differences stuffs and then try to see how we can compromise in oredr not to fight over them.

I think that would have to be something that is decided before marriage... first of all, each partner would have to seperately know what or if they were willing to lose or bend on any of their traditions, then decide as a couple where to go from there.