Blog: #10

CLASHING CULTURES

Many people are facing huge problems with clashing cultures in United States of America. For example, a lot of people comes to the States from Middle Eastern countries with Muslim background. Over number of years, the parent’s changes a little bit while the kids grow up and learn everything here. When it comes time for them to start dating and get married, the parents wants them to have arrange marriages like how they were married themselves. The kids being raised here does not want to hear, that they have to marry their first cousins (it is very common for people to marry their cousins in many Middle Eastern countries). This kind of difference creates family bond breaking problems within that family. I am not saying the parents are wrong or the kids, but this is just how their lives are. They are constantly fighting their discussions, to either make their parents happy or do what makes them happy.