Archive for April, 2008
Guess Who’s Coming to Diwali?
Slate’s Dear Prudence column has dipped its toe into the intercultural relationship waters with a advice on how to deal with Indian parents refusing to meet their boy’s girlfriend. The situation is one that a number of readers here have seen - or are currently in - so I thought I’d link to this timely […]
Indian Wedding Story: Part Three
This is Part Three of a continuing series on my Indian wedding adventure. If you’re new to Gori Girl, try checking out Part One and Part Two.
Lunchtime! Tomorrow the real wedding pictures start, but today was super hectic, so you’ll be getting the pictures from the lunch before the big night, and the story […]
He’s soooo Indian!
In this guest post, NeoKalypso of Doings & Undoings writes about her understanding of “Indian-ness.”
“You are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot […]
A Couple of Great Resources
In my internet browsing I’ve found a couple of sites that might be of interest to yah’ll.
First, of there’s a pretty active forum at Indiebride.com (which is a good resource in-and-of-itself), called Intermarriage, where people pretty much just discuss intercultural relationships. Different races, different religions, different nationalities - it looks like it pretty much all […]
Why the Gori of Gori Girl?
There’s been some talk in the comments about the word gori, which, given the blog name, is probably a term you’ll hear thrown around here from time to time. So I thought I’d explain what it means, some of the connotations it can carry, and why I chose it for the name of this blog […]
Indian Wedding Story: Part Two
Part one of this Indian wedding story can be found here.
The wedding ceremony took place in the evening, so Aditya and I were pretty free to do what we’d like the morning of the big day. His family had been planning the event all along - all we did was show up - so if […]
Who is Affected by your Intercultural Relationship?
Many people subscribe to the idea that your personal life is nobody’s business but your own - as long as you aren’t maiming others, anyways. While I generally agree with the sentiment this idea expresses, I also think it’s important to realize that, like it or not, your actions affect a wide swath of people. […]
Indian Wedding Story: Part One
I’ve mentioned previously that Aditya and I recently had our Hindu wedding ceremony in India, and I’ve been meaning to write a post or two (or a hundred) about my experiences in India. And then a reader mentioned that she liked the pictures of the wedding that are sprinkled around the GoriGirl site, and would […]
Meeting the Desi Parents
Few things fill me with as much dread as meeting my partner’s parents.
First off, I’m socially awkward by nature - at least when meeting new people. I never know how to make small talk, or when good eye contact crosses the line into weird staring, or if my posture and facial expressions are saying […]
I’m Dreaming of FIOS Internet…
So, we still lack internet at the new place, which means the lovely post sitting in Word on my laptop won’t be available to you guys until I can get to campus tomorrow morning. You’d think I’d remember things like this *before* I left for home, but you’d be so wrong. I blame lingering moving […]
