Mixed Marriages? Even if you married your own race, it's still a mixed marriage.

Since when the ministry of (mis)information, (mis)communication and (un)culture(d) of Malaysia dishes out wise advice "to think a thousand times" before entering into a mixed marriage? And the wise minister, he didn't just say this because he was jealous he couldn;t score some minah salleh or ah moi for a wife or two, you know. He backed it up with STUDIES, saying that "studies conducted from 1995 and 1998 by several sociologists in the country had shown that seven out of 10 mixed marriages end in divorce." He also said that "the failure of the marriage is caused by cultural differences, religion and how a person is raised."

I'm not going to even question his intelligence. It's obvious.

Being married, and that too, to someone that is only different from me in terms of his skin colour and his passport, I say getting married to ANYONE needs some degree of thinking, don't you think?

And I'm tired of people labelling mixed marriages as marrying someone of a different culture etc. We are all marrying people of different culture, background, upbringing, irrespective of the skin colour, nationalities, religions...all that labels that come with a person. I call all these things, add-ons or softwares. These softwares are unique experiences that make up the collective self, so even if you are of the same race, it doesn't mean that your softwares are the same. A Chinese from Selayang is different from a Chinese from Ipoh and even if they are from the same town, doesn't mean that they share more similarities because they could attend different schools or have different tastes in music etc.

Both my siblings are married to Chinese. My sister even married someone from the same town but the cultural differences between the husband's family and ours are so big, it is as good as marrying someone from 18th century China. My brother's wife is a fan of mahjong and we think it's odd and could hardly understand the game, yet, she is 100% Chinese.

Although Chris is obviously a mat-salleh, someone who does not share the same hardware, and even some softwares, but we have more similarities than differences. And that's much more important, isn't it?