Over the past several years, girls phenomenon of Brown men preferring to date white women has been on the rise. As someone who has dated white women and is currently in a long-term relationship with one, I wanted to see how my experiences related to this idea.
Siddiquee discussed how Brown women are presented in the U. She wrote of several reasons explaining this phenomenon and the politics behind it, most of which I agree with.
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One of the most notable reasons she listed was that Brown men often use white women to escape the expectations their parents have for them. Do I want my life to follow completely as my parents imagined it to be? Does dating a white woman mean I can escape visit web page expectations? Does that mean I use white women as a way to fulfil that goal? No, because the answer is more nuanced than that.
Dating a white woman, or simply a non-Punjabi woman, makes me happier because doing so allows white to escape the restrictive expectations of my parents and my culture.
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Not to mention, girls would be a heavier pressure for us to marry and the marriage to work out than if I were to date and eventually marry white white woman. However, these patriarchal expectations are also a reason why Brown women may prefer to date white article source non-Brown men, as Agrawal discussed.
Our patriarchal culture and world expects more of women than it does men, regardless of the actions women take to white this burden. Unfortunately, all of this means that Brown women Punjabi women in my case get caught in the crossfire of Brown men dating to defy cultural expectations and vice versa.
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