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Summary
In today’s blog post, I will discuss the challenges we might face when we date women from a different culture than our own.
This is a continuation of the article “Dating Culture or Dating and Culture“.
Let’s all face it. There is not a genuine “Christian” culture that transcends all Christian countries in the world.
There are slight differences if you’re a Christian living in Europe, South America, Asia, North America or Africa.
Christianity is divided within itself, especially into Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Catholicism, just to mention three of the larger church families.
I haven’t gone into every church or denomination in detail here. Still, I can tell you without going into every specific detail that there are similarities and difference between the three different parts of the worldwide Church.
Each church has a different relationship with the countries where they developed and are active today.
Immigration has meant that the geographical separation between these church families has declined since the 17th Century. In some cities, you may even find a multitude of the three families within the Christian church mentioned above.
With this being written, let’s discuss dating women from our own as well as other cultures now which is the focal point of this article.
No matter if you are dating in your own country or not, respect is, as I have emphasized a lot in the past, a key element to dating and is something you have to show the woman you are dating.
When You Are Dating Women In Your Own Culture
Dating in your own country or a country close by is of course what most singles do.
It is often the same cultural patterns that both men and women are following. They speak the same language or languages similar to one another, so there is a lesser chance to misinterpret gestures, body language and behavioural patterns.
It is also very cheap to travel to one another and visas are often not needed if you’re going to a neighbouring country.
As you now understand, there are many good reasons for dating within your own country, even if it might pose some challenges as well.
If things don’t work out for you and your date, you might risk bumping into each other again. This is, however, a risk you are willing to take when you date in your own city or country.
When You Date Outside Your Own Culture
Thanks to the Internet, dating outside of your own culture has never been easier.
Most dating websites offer the opportunity to date someone else who lives on the other side of the World.
At ChristianDatingInternational.Com you can decide if you want to date Christians from your neighbourhood or on a different continent. This is your own choice.
Needless to say, dating outside your own culture has its own unique challenges.
You might have to book a hotel room and go to a country’s embassy to get a visa, and there is also the possibility that there might be confusion between the two of you even if you are fully aware of it.
Thanks to the video chat option that Christian Dating International offers, you can talk with each other and find out how the other person reacts on things you say or do.
Texts can be easily misunderstood, especially if they are humorous and slightly sarcastic. Emojis does help to minimize these misunderstandings.
If you do not speak the same language, there is also a greater chance that you or your date will not know how to express yourself properly or to use a correct euphemism or a figure of speech.
I can tell you myself that I am always a bit careful if I talk with someone for the first time and never assume they will understand what I am referring to in the beginning.
A great benefit of dating as a Christian though is the fact that we share a common source, the Holy Bible where a lot of figurative speech in the modern languages are derived from, and that is, of course, something that can break down cultural barriers and differences.
At the end of my email course “Free Dating For Men” I discuss this briefly.
For this reason, I have planned a new email course that is focusing on dating outside your own country.
When I launch it, I will share the information with my readers.
I hope that you now understand that dating outside of your culture as well as inside your own culture has both it’s unique challenges and opportunities.
Next Article
My next article will be published on the 15th of April, 2017.
I will then discuss what dating coaching is all about and reveal my new coaching series.
See you then,
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