CULTURAL DIVERSITY 1. Tradition (n) 2. Traditional (adj) 3. Traditionally adv 4. Attract (v) 5. Asian (adj), (n) 6.

n) 6. Asian (n) 7. On the other hand: 8. Contractual marriage: 9. Survey (n) 10. Conduct (n) 11. Deterimine (v) 12. Attitude (n) 13. Summary adjnoun 14. Reponse (v) 15. Key (n) 16. Value (n) 17. Confide (v) 18. Major (n) 19. Majority (n) 20. Wise (adj) 21. Unwise (adj) 22. Partnership (n) 23. Equal (adj) 24. Reject (n) 25. Sarcrifice (n)

26. Significant (adj) 27. Oblige (v) 28. Measure (n) 29. Measurement (n) 30. Romantic (adj) 31. Romanticism (n) 32. Generation (n) 33. Nursing home n 34. Income (n) 35. Celebrate (v)

CULTURAL DIVERSITY Traditionally, Americans and Asians have very different ideas about love and marriage. Americans believe in romantic marriage- a boy and a girl are attracted to each other, fall in love and decide to marry each other. Asians, on the other hand, believe in contractual marriage the parent of the bride and groom decide on the marriage; and love, if it ever develop is supposed to follow marriage, not predece it. To show the differences, a survey was conducted among American, Chinese and India students to determine their attitude toward love and marriage. Below is a summary of each groups responses to the four key value. Physical attractiveness: the American are much more concerned than Indian and Chinese with physical attractiveness when chossing a wife or a husband. They also agree that a wife should maintain her beauty and appearance after marriage. Confiding: few Asian students agree with the Americant students view that wives and husbands share all thoughts. In fact, a majority of Indians and Chinese think it is better and wiser for couple not to share certain thoughts. A large number of Indians men agree that it is unwise to confide in their wife. Partnership equals: the majority of Asian students reject the American view that marriage is partnership of equals. Many Indian students agree that a woman has to sacrifice more in a marriage than a man. Trust build on love: Significantly, more Asian students than American student agree that a husband is obliged to tell his wife where he has been if he come home late. The Asian wife can demend e record of

her husband activities. The American wife, however, trust her husband to do the right thing because he loves her not because he has to. The comparion of the four values suggest that young Asians are not as romantic as their American counterparts.