Of course what she and you consider traditional may be" it's hard for me to
figure out who is traditional and who isn't. I just out-and-out asked the med student the other night if she is,
and she admitted she is very NON-traditional."
very different. The fact that she, a Vietnamese woman, is in a Western country studying to be a physician means she
is non-traditional by Vietnamese standards. Travel and higher education for a young single woman from the "old
country" are unusual. But that doesn't mean she isn't traditional in other ways, e.g., male and female roles in
dating, sex, or family.
I guess I don't consider that non-traditional!"to keep it on the topic on non verbal communication, all the non traditional
asian girls i know dye their hair and get their nails done every week. i know it's stereotyping, but what can you
say when it's true for all the girls i know."
That's normal female activity, Asian or not. You should see the designer handbags most fairly traditional Korean
women covet! By traditional I mean retention of culture such as language, food, music, TV/movies, morals, family and
other values and attitudes unique to their originating culture. Western materialism jives nicely with the most
traditional family minded Asian man or woman. The Asian work ethic rewards my relatives with lots of BMWs and large
houses. They still eat kim chi everyday and speak Korean at home. But even my 2nd generation cousins consider
marriage, family life and kids the holy grail of human activity. That's pretty dad burn traditional! They think
something's wrong with me because I divorced my Korean wife, don't have any kids and drag home different women
every week or two.
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