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Do you know someone who gets married to a foreigner?

● It’s none other than my cousin who fell in love at first sight with a Chinese and they tied the knot five years ago.

● My next-door neighbors are a binational couple. They have just got engaged, and haven't got married yet. Their marriage takes place in the next two months.

What is the advantage of getting married to a foreigner?

● If you get married to a foreigner, you will have more opportunities to travel to his or her countries to experience something new and revitalize your boring everyday life.

● Binational couples’ children tend to be more good-looking and more intelligent than normal couples’. What is more, they are likely to possess a bilingual brain from birth.

What about the drawbacks of a marriage with a foreigner?

● A person, especially women, runs the risk of suffering from culture shock as she has to live with her husband in his own homeland.

● The difference of languages between the two countries from which each person of a couple comes is also a drawback that causes many big troubles.

What should a person do to solve these problems?

● He or she has to ask her or his partner to learn more about basic and important etiquettes, so that he or she can gradually adapt to this entirely new environment. 

● As for language problems, he or she will also have to try to get involved in as many conversations as possible to enhance his or her language ability.

Why do binational couples exist?

● Many people make a beautiful couple with foreigners when they travel abroad for educational or business purposes. 

● That the development of the Internet has connected people from all over the world has allowed us to couple up with who we love, regardless of where they live.

In a binational marriage, who will have to suffer more disadvantages?

● It must be women, because they will often feel so sad with a certain wistful nostalgia in a strange place. Many couples’ marriages ended in divorce for this reason.

● Women, without a doubt! They have to move into a new surrounding and she might have to struggle to adapt to a new life with a new language and peculiar social norms.

Do binational couples face any disapproval from their families?

● Of course, many parents don’t allow their offspring to marry a foreigner because of the cumbersome legal procedure of applying for a marriage certificate.

● Many parents can’t bear the thought that they won’t be able to meet their offspring regularly, so they persistently annul such marriages.

Will you choose to get married to a foreigner?

● I won’t. I’m really afraid of family disapproval against this kind of marriage and therefore, I prefer to marry a person of the same nationality.

● I’m not sure I can overcome difficulties that are awaiting binational couples, so I hope that I won’t fall in love with a foreigner, but no one can foretell the future, right?