Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks.
I believe in traditional marriage.
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.