Living with someone from another culture

[Joey Shabadoo]

I shared a flat with 3 Ghanains in London once. They prepared a stew that they slow cooked over a number of days. The smell filled the building, setting your mouth watering as soon as you opened the door. We finally sat down to dine with great ceremony and lots of assurances that 'tonight Joey, you will eat like an African king!".






It was piggin' awful. We all got food poisoning. They explained "Ah you see Joey, in Ghana the women cook, not us."

 

[mustang1]

Ok, there's one thing that really annoys me: its when men from this part of the world (between western Europe and West Asia) are talking with me and then they start tapping the back of their finger on my arm or chest. Like wtf is that about?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Ok, there's one thing that really annoys me: its when men from this part of the world (between western Europe and West Asia) are talking with me and then they start tapping the back of their finger on my arm or chest. Like wtf is that about?

Clearing the boogers

 

[Arrowfoot]

I was fortunate to share a flat at Uni with three fabulous cooks, all girls. Polish, Algerian and French Guianan. Still the best home-cooked food I have tasted, and that was 30 years ago

Just to be clear, just food only. After 30 years surely there is a statute of limitation

 

[Arrowfoot]

I don't know how to explain this but I think females are more open to a relationship with a person from another culture. They tend to see the person rather than his background.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Just to be clear, just food only. After 30 years surely there is a statute of limitation

What do you mean by 'just to be clear'?

 

[Blue Hills]

I don't know how to explain this but I think females are more open to a relationship with a person from another culture. They tend to see the person rather than his background.

mm - i take it you have no data for that.
An unfortunate mate of mine who got entangled with a woman from the old soviet union might disagree with that in his saner moments.

 

[PaulB]

Maybe I should try it sometime; because I always seem to manage to make a complete ar*e of it with those of my own culture.
Mind you, there was a young lady from Greenock once ..... now there's a challenging cultural difference, for sure (and that didn't work too well either) .
Possibly, just possibly, it's me .

Bet you've never married someone from England, have you?

 

[Brandane]

Bet you've never married someone from England, have you?

That would be a step too far.....

 

[DCLane]

An unfortunate mate of mine who got entangled with a woman from the old soviet union might disagree with that in his saner moments.

My brother-in-law's found that out as well

Me? SWMBO had lived in a number of African/European countries by the age of 18 and is Irish by birth but not upbringing, but has seemed to adjust to being in Yorkshire OK. To this East-Midlander they're still foreign up here though

 

[byegad]

My brother-in-law's found that out as well

Me? SWMBO had lived in a number of African/European countries by the age of 18 and is Irish by birth but not upbringing, but has seemed to adjust to being in Yorkshire OK. To this East-Midlander they're still foreign up here though

I don't know how to break this to you....... but you are the foreigner in this.

 

[HobbesOnTour]

I don't know how to explain this but I think females are more open to a relationship with a person from another culture. They tend to see the person rather than his background.

I'm confused.
If she has a relationship with someone from another culture it requires that he has one too? No?
Unless you're referring specifically to same sex relationships?

 

[Blue Hills]

I'm confused.
If she has a relationship with someone from another culture it requires that he has one too? No?
Unless you're referring specifically to same sex relationships?

thanks hobbes - that certain lack of logic got me as well - great minds and all

 

[All uphill]

It always interested me to see if one partner or both make the adjustments and compromises. I found it a challenge at first understanding I was the oddity, not the people around me!

One of the things I disliked, and have stopped, is explaining myself and my native country. I wasn't very good at justifying Margaret Thatcher in the seventies!

 

[oldwheels]

Guy I know got married to a Nigerian woman which seemed to work out ok and she became popular in the local community.
After a year or so she got into his business bank account, cleared it out and scarpered back to Nigeria never to be seen again.