Are you in a relationship with a person of a different ethnic minority to yours?

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

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How do you find it? Are you still comfortable knowing you might not fully understand their culture and they might not fully understand yours?
How do your parents and friends take it? How did their parents take it?

How are both of you culturally different? (One of you might be black, one might be white, and one of you might be Christian and the other Muslim etc).

Thanks
 
My ex is Kenyan, had zero issues (I'm white). Their culture appears surprisingly similair to ours. Or maybe she was really good at going along with the flow of ours.
 
My girlfriend is english and not really religious, although she likes visiting churches, cathedrals, and so on. I am Mauritian born, have dual nationality now and Hindu. We have been together 2 years. We went on holiday to Mauritius last year with my parents and it was a bit of a brief culture change for her. She dressed up in indian-type clothing sometimes, ate the local food, took part in the religious ceremonies my family/relatives organised.

She knows I don't eat some food out of choice, and respects that. Similarly, I don't mind if she eats these food when we go out together. She stays over at mine, I stay over at hers; our parents are fine with it.

Then again, she is very in tune with other cultures. She has lived over a year in Russia, weeks in Europe, especially Croatia.

An "old" friend of mine - a Slovenian girl I met whilst in Czech Republic - really fancied me because I was different, well, of a different race. It couldn't/wouldn't work out between us though. Turns out she now has an Indian boyfriend. She also was in tune with other cultures, having spent months living in various European countries.

Both my girlfriend and the Slovenian girl have studied linguistics at uni too.
 
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My girlfriend is a Hindu. her parents don't know, because she isn't supposed to date outside of her religion.
 
No, but I have been several times in the past. Don't think I ever encountered major issues.
 
Ben M said:
My girlfriend is a Hindu. her parents don't know, because she isn't supposed to date outside of her religion.
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That's news to me.

I have 4/5 Hindu cousins (male and female) from Mauritius engaged/married to foreigners and other religions. I recall Australian, German, Swiss, English, Thai. It must be the way you are brought up. Mauritius, whilst predominantly Hindu and based on indian culture, used to be French and British before gaining independence in 1968, and hence stills retains a lot of the latter cultures.
 
DB_SamX said:
That's news to me.

I have 4/5 Hindu cousins (male and female) from Mauritius engaged/married to foreigners and other religions. I recall Australian, German, Swiss, English, Thai. It must be the way you are brought up. Mauritius, whilst predominantly Hindu and based on indian culture, used to be French and British before gaining independence in 1968, and hence stills retains a lot of the latter cultures.
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She's southern Indian, and her family is quite devout. She isn't allowed to date outside her race and religion, specifically outside her caste.
 
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