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From: peter@icom.UUCP (No Zipnicks are)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Indian women in the US
Message-ID: <708@icom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 21:09:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 19 21:09:28 1986
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I am an American of european descent and live in Chicago's Rodgers Park
area. Many of my neighbors are recent immigrants from India (I'm not really
sure about the (Sub-Indian) ethnic makeup). There are many young,
\strikingly\ beautiful, seemingly un-attached women among them. My lack of
knowlege about Indian language(s)/culture(s) (as well a healthy dose of
shyness) prevent me finding out directly, so I will pose my questions to the
net:

1) Are 1st, or 2nd generation immigrants generally willing to have social
contact with native americans? If so, does this extend to the single women
dating / marrying non-Indians?

2) Are courtship rituals generally different from the american/european
model?  In particular, do women initiate and conduct relationships on their
own, or only with the participation on their families? (i.e. arranged
marriages, etc.)

3) How do women expect to meet men? I have refrained from approaching
   women on the street, because generally I can't tell if they are interested
   in talking or not, and not wanting to embarrass them if this wasn't
   socially acceptable.

Any CONSTRUCTIVE comments/discussions welcome. Flames to /dev/null, please.
-- 
	Peter Kerrigan -- peter@icom.uccp, ..!ihnp4!icom!peter
	ICOM Systems, Inc.
	3415 N. Kennicott ave., Arlington Hts, IL, USA 60004