Do you think it is hard for people of different cultures to marry

@AnnaB7 (756)
United States
July 4, 2008 6:09pm CST
I mean if you love someone and they love you is that really enough to over look culture or background differences? Or is that just a recipe for a bad marriage, or relationship? Also what about marrying someone who is at a higher or lower social economical level than yourself do you think that is just a way to invite trouble to your life? or can it really work, and would you want to be married to someone who came from a very different background than you.
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@tomzhong (50)
• China
4 Jul 08
people of diffierent culture have different customs. it is difficult overcome this kind of difference. if the couple really love each other and want to get married,don't marry immediately.they can live together for 1-2 year in order to know how the one he/she want to marry live in daily life. If they can get along with each other well and still want to marry,isn't it a better time?
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
Well I really don't think it is okay to live together before marriage because I think that is starting with the idea of well if this does not work I'll just go find someone else, so it makes later divorce more acceptable at least that is what I think. =
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
I still disagree with moving in together before marriage maybe instead the couple could spend lots of time together.
• China
5 Jul 08
it's imposible to find two people with no difference. people from different culture have different customs. however it doesn't mean u can't accept the customs the person u want to marry have. living before marrying can let each other familiar the life style of each other,not just imagination but the real experient .it must help u both get to know whether to marry or not
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@mayka123 (16584)
• India
5 Jul 08
My husband was from a very different culture and background. Agreed we had to make a lot of adjustments (I think this should read as I had to make a lot of adjustments). My my inlaws had accepted my very nicely and allowed me to live my own way. I was allowed to continue practising my religion.
@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
7 Jul 08
I am sorry to hear that, I think that would be very hard to loose your husband. Especially if you had been together for a very long time. It is hard I think when we l;oose anyone but when we loose those closest to us it is even harder or at least I believe it is. I hope that youa re doing okay since it has now been several years., I am sorry for your loss.
@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
That is good, I hope you have a long and happy marriage,
@mayka123 (16584)
• India
7 Jul 08
My hubby expired 8 years ago.
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@heero1103 (322)
• Philippines
8 Jul 08
It wouldn't be that hard as long as you are very open to others. About the economic status, it would be difficult if the parents of your beloved who are members of the higher class are well, hard to please.
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
8 Jul 08
I agree it would probably be very hard to please someone who was used to things at a very different level than you are able to do. I think that for the relationship to work that you would really have to work harder at it than someone who did not have so many obsticles to overcome. But maybe it will work, if someone really wanted to make it work. Anyway, thanks for your comment and I hope you have a great day.
@excellence7 (3647)
• Mauritius
8 Jul 08
It is hard for people of different cultures to marry at first but once they get adapted to each other's way of living, things become easier. I think it is a bit difficult to cope only at first but later things run smoothly :)
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
8 Jul 08
That is good to know, maybe if my friend would of stayed with her husband longer she would of been able to work things out so her marriage would of worked,. She has also had poor relationships with those of the same culture as she is, so it can not be just that her husband is of another culture, I think it takes two to get a long with each other, and two to fuss with each other, it is hard to have a relationship good or bad by yourself at least that is my opinion of the matter,. anyway hope you have a great day.
@sunname (101)
• China
5 Jul 08
base on the different culture and background,people have different opinions to face things, when two are together, they must have enough patience and kind-heart to get along with each other, if you choose to another culture, you must take good spirit prepare, for me ,I am not going to be like that, I like local guys:)
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
that is interesting I suppose, but sometimes I just wonder about things and I do like people from all kinds of different backgrounds, I don't really care to be with anyone who screams a lot or who is bad with money no matter where they originated, though,. i like to be around kind people who care for others,
@XQshee (33)
• China
7 Jul 08
i think it's important to keep communicating between different cultures lovers , to look for more things in common.
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
7 Jul 08
I agree it takes communication to get along with anyone. thanks for your response.
@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
7 Jul 08
I agree with you communication is a good thing for all cultures.
@rosema (1145)
• Philippines
5 Jul 08
Hi AnnaB7, As long as both of you willing to understand each other or willing fot the adjustment i dont think its hard to marry different cultures, I am talking about myself and my husband, we have different religion before, but we manage to understand each other. and until now we are happily married. the only thing is missing is a child. thanks and have a nice day my friend.
@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
I agree with you, I hope you all have a long and happy marriage and are blessed with as many children as you would like to have, Hope you have great day.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
4 Jul 08
marriage is the hardest job you'll ever have. it doesn't make any difference who it is if you are both happy & stay in love that's a miracle.
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
I think that you are very right marriage can be hard no matter who you marry or how close to alike your backgrounds at culture, I don't think there is really any advantages marrying someone who is just like yourself or from basically the same background as you. Just my opinion though
@marieCAU (61)
• United States
5 Jul 08
In the end, love will overpower all. However, I do believe that it should be difficult for people of different cultures to marry. The best way to handle a situation like this is to be sure that the couple engaged have a very detailed, deep, and expressive conversation about each one's own personal wants, needs, beliefs, values, and customs. With this converstaion, there will be some aspects of each other's culture that they may have to change, alter, or completely remove from their lives to accomodate each other. So answering your question, yes it would be difficult, but not impossible.
@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
I think that what your saying is a good idea.
• China
4 Jul 08
it will be a bad marriage someday . i think
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
I don't know maybe if the two people really care for each other and love each other they could make it work. especially if they decide to not ever get divorced. I know a lot of people who have came from the same backgrounds same cultures who just don't do very well at all and get divorced, that is sad really.
@elenahap (104)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
5 Jul 08
It is not hard to marry a person from a different culture....what is hard is to keep the marriage with that person from a different culture! When you are fully in love you think everything will work and you will find solutions, you will make agreements, about the difference in customs, religion, cultural background...but later on you find that is not everything solved by love alone. The families of the two persons also get involved, trying to influence the couple and then the fights begin. Also when the children come, each member will want to bring up the children in their own way.... Trust me I know, better to marry a person as close to your own upbringing, even like this you will have enough problems to solve in the marriage.
@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
Some times I think it is better to marry someone as unlike yourself as possible including background especially if you had a background that is very undesirable or just difficult. also some times it is good for a married couple to stay away from their extended relatives especially if they are a bad influence.
@qhwater (392)
• China
7 Jul 08
i do not think so. i do think that love can solve anything. if a man is deeply in love with a woman, he would do everything he can to make her happy, and vice versa. and also if you have nothing in common and you cannot accept his/her culture, you will be in love with her/him, right?
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• United States
5 Jul 08
For me,culture and background has got nothing to do with marriage as long as you guys really love each other.
@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
Okay, that sounds positive, I have known several couples who have gotten married who were of very different backgrounds and one couple who may be getting married soon. And two couples have had serious problems, one is on the road to divorce, but in that case it was the wife mostly to blame as she can be very mean, she has had many failed relationships, even when she was with someone of the same culture or background.
• China
5 Jul 08
Yes. I think it will bring the troubles easily .Peolple frome different countries must have different concepts, thoughts and characters which always lead to quarrel.
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
5 Jul 08
well maybe the two people can learn to accept the differances sometimes and not quarrel, because it is not good to quarrel it just leads to discontent.
• United States
5 Jul 08
I think that any marriage with two doffrent cultures can work if you want it to...For one anymarriage wether two diffrent cultures or 1 in the same compramise is a must have,also understanding. I think that most mulit-culteral marriages have alot more strain on their marirage because they have to fight the world together. there are many who dont beelive in marrying outside your own race they give looks of dissaproval,comments so it makes it harder for them. i think that it all depend on theur beleifs and there customs.. Im not ganna marry someone who in there culture it is okay for them to beat there wifes, wifes cant do this and wifes cant do that. Never would i marry into that. but if there not like that and you love the other person why not,, i say wh cares what others think we have love thats all that matters:)...
• United States
5 Jul 08
I don't believe that anyone should let something stand in the way of marriage. If you are truly in love with a person, and they feel the same way about you, then there is no need to let something so insignificant stand in the way of the two getting married. How someone looks or ranks should not be held against them. After all, they cannot help it. If someone really loved the other person, they would not let that stand in their way.
• India
5 Jul 08
when we are marrying someone essentially we are bonding with all their family members, I think here a lady needs to be more mature and understanding . usually she interacts more than her husband. so I think for a marriage to work both of them should put effort to get along with each other families, only then they can expect a happy family :)
• United States
5 Jul 08
i think it can work you guys just have to be willing to accept the differences that being from different cultures may bring.
5 Jul 08
hhmm....there can be some issues after marrying a partner from another community or with diff culture...but if the couple is matured enough...these things can be worked out...and yes..they can lead a happy life even with different cultures....
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@Kemboi (341)
• Eldoret, Kenya
5 Jul 08
No with modern generation you can inter marry. Unlike the old age where strictness were considered. I come from a culture where many world athletes come from, many of them have married foreign girls while our girls have been married by foreign men. So there is no problem in this what matters is love among the two.
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