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Examples Of Differing Cultural Expectations Of African Americans

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Differing cultural expectations
Cultural experience varies
All marriages take place within a cultural context. You and your family, no matter how Christian they are, will have expectations based on your own cultural experience and these do vary from culture to culture. It may even be you are both from a different culture from the one you live in and so you need to cover the expectations of three different cultures.
The question is can you and are you prepared to live with and them? The questions posed below are not to deter you from an marriage, but to prepare you should this be God's will for your life.
Different colored skin
It is important to be aware of the issues that you might face if you marry into a culture where skin color is generally an issue. God may be happy about it, but are you prepared for people to be prejudiced against you? This can happen whether you are a black person marrying a white person or a white person marrying a black person. It can happen if you are a white person marrying someone from a country and if two black people from a different countries join together. Racial intolerance can even happen between tribes and clans. You may not have issues, but others around you might. Are you prepared for this? Have you the stamina to stand up to and ignore any comments directed at you? Have you the ability to cope with the looks in the street and the surprise on people's faces when they discover your appearance doesn't match your surname? …show more content…

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