Re: Mixed race marriages.
My youngest brother's fiance, who is Russian (and my ex Pen Pal), is a very talented Music Teacher from a wealthy family and well travelled, but.... she is still astounded at how independent the women in the West are.
She was telling us that Russian men expect their women to act as we women did back in the 30's/40's. The men work and the women are expected (even if she has a full-time job), to still run the household, the children, the garden and any household jobs and errands that need doing. The thought of any Russian man sharing household tasks would be met with horror from others and the woman in question would be deemed a lazy slut!
When she first came over here, My brother came downstairs the first morning at 8 am to find her outside on a step-ladder cleaning the outside conservatory windows!! When he protested, she just laughed and said if she was at home with her two grown children out at work, she would already have had the cleaning, and ironing done and washing machine on with more an hour earlier!
It took him quite some time to explain to her that any jobs such as cleaning the outside conservatory windows are done by the window cleaner! something she found unbelievable that he would pay someone to do a basic task that was a woman's domain.
She said that is just the way it is in Russia.
(She also told me it was lovely the way my little bro would think nothing of kissing her on the cheek in public or hold her hand whilst out in public in St. Petersburg. She explained that Russian men would not dream of doing such a thing, they are very cold fish when it comes to how they treat a woman)
Makes one think when I see he who must obey down on his knees cleaning behind the toilet (my knees won't allow me to do the job anymore).