Speech “Transnational Marriages”

     “Transnational Marriages”

Good morning.

The concept of “transnational” marriages is not strange anymore. It can be seen as a welcome change in the scenario where cultural intermingling can sow seeds of global cooperation and peace.

With intermingling of cultures, marrying foreigner is an obvious consequence, which produces both desirable and undesirable effects on the individuals and societies.

A “transnational” marriage provides a good chance to an individual to live in a foreign country. It can really change the life of the partner who gets the citizenship rights in a developed country after such a marriage. The partners start respecting each other’s culture, and their children can enjoy the traditions of both the cultures. On the whole, such marriages can resolve cultural differences, make societies broad-minded and reduce racism. When famous people indulge in this kind of marriage and make it successful, for example Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, others also remove their misconceptions about such a marriage.

A “transnational” couple initially enjoys each other’s company and is fancied when people look at them as an unusual couple, but eventually, the vast differences in their food habits, dressing, religion, customs, traditions, values etc. may lead to conflicts between them. Day-to-day adjustments may take a toll on them. Moreover, in these cases, families generally are not ready to accept a foreigner as a part of the family. One of the partners has to leave his homeland and has to be ready to remain away from the family and relatives. One may even be forced to change the religion. In this situation, partners realize that it is quite difficult to make their marriages survive.

According to me, a marriage between two foreigners can be successful only when there is a real and strong bonding of love. The differences in this kind of marriage are too huge to cope up with, and hence, can really change the orthodox societies, and cultural acceptances beyond the boundaries will make our world truly a global village..