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Old Jun 22, 2005 | 10:00 am
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Originally Posted by Georgia Peach
You're right about the marriage questions - the first time my family went, our host offered to find a wife for my brother and arrange the wedding so she could go back with him!
Personal questions vary by generation. As well as by where you are. Essentially, in the more urban India, cases like mentined above are mostly said in good humour, playing up the stereotype of the Indian social circumstance. Foreigners seem to take it more personally than is necessary.
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