INTERNATIONAL VIEW
American dating--'a puzzlement'
By Norma C. Romano
By Norma C. Romano Study abroad not only means adjustment to new education and study patterns, but adaptation to a foreign culture as well. International students studying in
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America must not only leap the language barrier and marvel at the kaleidoscope of campus life, but they also face an adjustment to the predominant social activity on any U.S. campus, dating.
An inquiry among several international students at KU revealed their most difficult problem has been to face and solve the problem of "dating—American style."
"DATING HERE SEEMS to be regarded as a social requisite in order to be accepted by the rest of the group," in the opinion of Alvaro Gonzalez, Peruvian graduate student. "Girls feel left out, and consequently unhappy if they don't go out every weekend. They go out because everybody else does and not because they find a partner with a kindred personality.
"Man-woman relationships are prisoners of many conventionalities here. It amazes me to see the diverse steps that a couple has to
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Maria Meono, graduate student from Costa Rica, said, "I am not against good night kissing if it is done as a way of showing your admiration and affection for one boy. And I mean one, not kissing Joe on Friday, Pete on Saturday and Bob on Sunday."
"BLIND DATES ARE the strangest custom. I think that if you want to go out, you are the one who should find a date and not have someone else do it for you," Mariela Vaz, freshman from Venezuela, said.
of the American dating pattern that drew criticism from David Vargas, junior from Costa Rica.
"American good night kissing is like Latin American shaking hands," he observed. "It seems to be no longer regarded as a way of expressing your feelings for your date, but as a social grace of thanking him for taking you out. And for Pete's sake, if you want to make out why don't you go to a private place and stop doing it in front of everybody?" he asked.
Sonia Hamman, junior from Egypt, said a date should not be synonymous with "making-out."
does it, it seems like she's trying to make up for a dull evening."
The American tradition of the good night kiss is a "strange habit" to Paccard.
Julio Mendez, junior from Bolivia, has the impression that "American style" dating is "a requirement that one needs in order to participate in different social functions."
follow before marriage: steady-dating, lavallier, pinning, and engagement. In other countries, you date, get engaged and that is the end," he said.
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"A date every weekend has come to be regarded as a status symbol. There is a great deal of pressure on young people in this respect," she said. "I also question the attitude of some boys who think that because they have asked a girl out, she owes them something," she added.
"IF YOU FEEL like taking a certain girl out today you ask her today. I don't like to fill up someone's schedule far in advance," he explained.
"It seems like this custom is a girl's way of thanking a boy for having taken her out. It sounds like an obligation made out of something delicate," he said, "If a girl kisses a boy for mere routine and because everyone else
Asking a girl out a week or so in advance is a senseless custom, according to Jean Claude Paccard, graduate student from France.
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