Spin-off from another thread
Interesting – the Americanization of an Asian female. Not just America, but, what changes have you noticed in your wife since she’s been exposed to a foreign culture.
Just under a year in America took my wife back to Thailand for a vacation. In the slums of Bangkok, where foreigners do not go, she suddenly asks me “Why is everybody looking at me?” Well, they weren’t looking at her they were looking at me, but, for the first time in her life she was observing what others were looking at, as opposed to keeping her eyes averted (as all good Asian females are taught they should do). Now granted, this was twenty-five years ago, but, still…
In the USA a pair of jeans runs about USD $25, it took a few years before she would actually buy a pair of jeans – “I could feed my entire family for a month on the price of a pair of jeans”
Another item from her first visit back to Thailand – just under a year so she rang up friends, well, her friends were uncomfortable being around her, seems her having married a falang and lived outside the country raised her status to the point that she lost friendships - her friends felt they had to treat her with a "higher" level of respect and couldn't enjoy themselves around her. That was/is the most puzzling thing I noticed.
Those are a few of my recollections concerning the Americanization of my wife.
What differences and changes have you noticed in your wife? Not limited to just those who have travelled outside of the country, but, any differences that you have noticed just on the basis of having married you, a foreigner?