You should show them the NRI parent-personals in India Abroad. That’d really leave them speechless.
I was just thinking up a way to propose to you. You know, we could be in Vegas in like four hours…
I’d rather marry you. Honestly. You’re not going to make me have kids, you’re not going to expect me to kowtow to your mother, and I love Vegas.
Then I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride.
I suppose I could kiss her user name.
Is there cake? I was told there’d be cake.
There’s pie. Someone came back and brought pie. 
[sub]Is steak-and-kidney pie usual for this kind of thing?[/sub]
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I don’t like pie. Meat pie is OK though. Cake is good though. But I refuse to be “wife” if he is going to be “man”. I’m a modern woman and how come he gets to stay a man if I am subjugated to “wife?” :dubious:
Really Not All That Bright, why do you read the personals in India Abroad? Are you looking for a wife? 
I got nuttin’ to ad, except best wishes to **Anaamika **and tdn. Oh, yeah, and to Pollux Oil… cool user name!
The marriage forms in Ontario say Applicant and Joint Applicant. I suppose it’s an improvement. I tend to use the word ‘spouse’ in generic discussions.
The problem usually is, a wife is not looking for us.
Fine. I want a divorce.
And then make up sex.
Entertainment value.
There’s just something deeply amusing about the way they shill their kids.
For those who don’t know what we’re talking about, see here - they’re like regular personals, only you’re being listed by your parents, who pretty much invariably require their prospective in-law to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. Preferably all of the above.
I told my mother that if I ever found myself in one of those things I’d elope straightaway with the skankiest woman I could find.
Does this mean you are single again? Because we could be in Vegas in 4 hours…
Wait! Wait! Do I still have to bring the meat pie to the reception, or what? I’m so confused!
So I went on shaadi.com to see if I could find youse guys any nice examples. First of all, you can filter the males by “age” “newest”, and lastly, “height”. Hee.
Here is one. I deleted the name, I don’t want to embarrass the poor guy deliberately:
And another:
I can’t get anymore because I’m not a member.
BTW, this is not to say all Indians are like this, or even that it’s wrong, necessarily. It’s just, raised in this country, this kind of stuff is so alien to even me.
Does ‘family values’ mean the same thing it does in the US and to some degree Canada: code for ‘conservative religious values’?
Hmm. Many of those ads in India Abroad ask for a Punjabi Khatri or a JatSikh. Well, I know what a Jat is, I know what a Sikh is, and Punjabi, but even I am not sure what a Khatri is.
Ah. Looking on Wiki, it’s the Punjabi adaptation of the old Hindu word Kshatriya, so warrior caste. I wonder what they think of mixed caste girls like myself? Probably they spit on the ground to ward off evil.
ETA: Sunspace, yes.
Nah. To them (“us”, to some extent, I suppose) it has more to do with maintaining close ties with family; if you married me, and my mother lived in India, you’d be expected to put up with her for long visits- as in six months long.
My family is “pure” Brahmin stock. Imagine the scandal when my brother married a gasp white woman!
Actually, nobody in the family was bothered at all. They’re all remarkably progressive, even by Western standards. My mother’s med-school friends, though…
That is conservative religious values, though. One of our highest “commandments”, for lack of a better word, is respect your parents and your spouse’s parents.
As for religion, well, you’re pretty much expected to change to your in-laws. If you were a Krishna devotee at home, and they worship Shiva, well, guess what. Better get the milk out (to pour over the shiv-ling).
Great, let’s go.
You can support me, right?