chocolatemuffingirl

Starting from last week, my office got a special visitor, participants of International Training. They came from Asian and African countries. They give - somehow - entertainment both for students and us. I mean, it’s not like everyday we get to see people who normally we only watch from tv. My boyfriend said that they are people from ‘Negeri Antah Berantah’

Each of them have special character depending from their country. I enjoy a lot either talking to them or just watching their attitude, body language, gestures, or even way of talking with cute accent. From the conversations i had with them, i found that in most asian countries, people are still very traditional in love life. They said that their parents prepare the one they’ll marry. Normally it still within family ties. If they want to date other person, they have to do it secretly. Still at the end, they need to marry the one their parents have set-up, because if they dont, it will break the good relation between families. My my.. complicated.

In other asian countries, children are not allowed to date if parents think it is not the time to get married yet. Wow..! compare to indonesia, some parents are even happy if their highschool-aged children start to date. It shows that their children are sell well..

in this matter, they left behind than Indonesia, but it’s not something we can proud of, because we can see that many youngsters in Indonesia become promiscuous. Dont know which one better, arranged marriage like them or normal marriage like us, but with high number of divorce..