Advantages And Disadvantages Of Marrying Into Different Cultures

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The Disadvantages of Marrying Into a Different Culture
Love is blind; not even race and color can stop it from happening. There are supplementary and additional marriages of people from different countries. In a marriage with a person from the same country already have distinct differences once each was taught by different families, went to different schools, their idea of the world is different and in general, their way of life is different. By judgement, a marriage with people from different countries has even more differences. The disadvantage of marrying into a different culture is money, in the country Haiti, a family must have a certain amount of money, must have a certain degree, must own a land, their own business, and …show more content…

Any little thing can break up the relationship because the man side or the woman family make fun of them and down talk them. In the country of Delta they have a certain way to greet their elders and it must done the way everyone done it or else, if by any chance an elder greets wrong, a sacrifice must be and that’s slaughtering a chicken if not one family member will died.There are many reasons why its is hard to marry another culture, some culture you have to be light skin, your hair must be long, some have to dress a certain way, different religions, some must wear long dress and covered their head. According to Swapnil Deuikar, he stated that “The fact that one would marry a person from other culture means in itself that there 's a stronger bond than just compatibility (I think they call it love). This might lead to a more stable and happy married life. There 's twice as much to explore. Festivals, foods, movies, music, people …show more content…

So at some point, you might be compelled to make difficult choices.” Marrying a man or a woman from another culture is not an easy task. Many woman and man have been through that path; one great example, is the African culture, for instance, woman that are from Ekiti State are not aloud to marry man that are from Delta state, reason being, they speak different languages.Marrying someone from another nation can be exciting! There are so many things that are new and different, interesting and challenging. These same things can be a source of frustration and conflict, misunderstanding and hurt. Marrying someone from another culture [could] mean that one of you will be living outside of your home nation permanently —which means that you will not be able to see your family very often. That means your children will see very little of one set of parents (their grandparents.) Not only will your children not have the opportunity to know one set of grandparents very well, if there is a language barrio parents will not be able to really communicate well with your children. You may need to consider the effect of the “home court advantage” on your marriage. If a foreign man marries an American woman and they live in the United States, she would be cast in the leadership role in some aspects of their relationship. (She would better understand the language and protocol of the nation) Whereas if they

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