New Delhi, India -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/16/2012 -- While many consider it to be backward thinking or conservative to state that couples who belong to similar cultural groups are more likely to have a successful matrimonial. In a broad term, this would incorporate everything from language, religion, food habits, music and even literature.

Considering the pace at which the world is shrinking, more and more Indians are looking at not only marrying people from other Indian cultures but from other nationalities as well. While parents are still looking for life partners for their children within the same community and ethnicity, real life statistics draw a completely different image.

The significance of marrying within ones culture will be discussed at length later into the content, but let’s first understand what classes of people it is that tend to face this problem the most.. while first generation Indian immigrants who have moved to the western country have ended up marrying people from within their own community and evidently lead very stable matrimonial lives, it is the children of these immigrants that tend to go through a cultural identity crisis while growing up and also end up hindering their decision when it comes to choosing a suitable life partner.

Marrying outside the realms of your own culture requires a tremendous amount of patience, a broad vision, and open mindedness from any kind of racial bias. At the same time, it is far than believable when one says that this may be difficult to maintain in the long run. With the growing number of diverse weddings taking place in India and around the world, so is the rate of separations and divorces. While one may argue that it is wrong to generalize the cause of these divorces on cultural differences, one cannot even deny the correlation to a certain extent.

While it may be easier to make the commitment of wanting to spend the rest of your matrimonial lives together in spite of the cultural differences, it has often been observed that it is when the couple actually starts living together and gets over the honeymoon phase of life, when problems begin to manifest. It is when couples tend not to consider the differences in cultural backgrounds, that the differences being to manifest.

At the same time, not all inter-cultural marriages go bad. If you get into a matrimonial relationship with complete awareness of what you are getting yourself into, continue to working towards a relationship built on open communication, empathy, and faith; there are more chances of you building a strong and lasting relationship between yourself and your partner.

Though people from similar cultural backgrounds tend to naturally understand the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of their partners, it does not mean you cannot adapt to the changes and mould your lives to create a balance between both the cultures.

As long as you keep the conversations going you will be able to build between yourself and your spouse a progressive and loving marriage that is based on trust, faith and care.

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