Jun 13th, 2008 | survey

Should Africans Abroad Come Home To Marry To Preserve Our Cultural Heritage ?


 It has been a popular practice for African men abroad to travel back home to motherland to look for soul-mates. The rationale had always been that girls raised back home are more homely and therefore make 'better' wives in African context. But recently some experiences have not been very pleasant. While more people are getting into such unions purely for other ulterior motives, and commercial reasons, divorce rates from such unions are on the increase. This leads us to question if the rationale makes sense anymore.




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Beeafrican
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California, United States

posted Aug 27th, 2009 at 17:43 CDT

yes

Johnson
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Connecticut, United States

posted Jun 15th, 2008 at 08:17 CDT

it's not my culural heritage so i don't carebut if it brings people happiness, then yes by all means!

Drowlord
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Texas, United States

posted Jun 13th, 2008 at 15:24 CDT

As a generality, American women ARE demanding and difficult and have little to offer.  While I consider feminism to be an important movement in the US, a lot of women have used it as a "get out of life, free" card -- The right to take umbrage at domestic responsibilities, while making little or no effort to be productive outside the home.  It took me a lot of searching to find a woman that I wanted to marry.  She was an ex-marine, divorced working mother of two.  She has greater ambitions than to get drunk and shop, and that appears to be pretty rare.

James
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New York, United States

posted Jun 13th, 2008 at 14:01 CDT

Interesting question.While I understand wanting to go home to find more traditional women, it leaves the women in the U.S. who want to marry men with similar traditional backgrounds little to choose from. I know a few people from different cultures that have gone to "the old country" to find brides. The fact of the matter is a lot of men simply want wives and view American-born women as demanding or difficult.  While their intentions are good, this kind of thinking prevents them from meeting really cool women here to end up marrying virtual strangers they may have nothing in common with.

 
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