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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please.  Its because we have choices and laws that protect us.  South Asian women need their families for survival and murders of DILs and daughters are not uncommon.  You have no choice but to put up with crap from your elders and in laws.  We dont have to.  We can easily be completely financially independent and (unless there is a psychopath in our family) dont have to worry about being murdered for "honor" or for not producing a son.

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"Not uncommon"? They're also not common.

Yeah, too bad with my J.D. from a top ten law school and an established legal career I totally financially dependent on my family :([/quote]
And your JD may make you capable of financial independence but it doesn't change the attitudes about your role in your family and the shame you will bring down upon them if you don't act the bowing and scraping doormat daughter or DIL.  It is ingrained in those culture to such a deeply psychological extent that it takes generations of living in truly free societies for individuals to break away.  [/quote]

Wow, glad you know more about my family than I do.   My parents didn't raise a successful litigator by encouraging me to be a doormat FFS.  They probably engaged me in argument more than your parents did   :roll:  My guess is that if you met me, you would just assume I am not Indian because I don't fit your neat stereotype of what Indian women are like.

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I don't have a stereotype if what Indian women are like.  I do have a firm understanding of cultural norms in typical Indian families however.  [/quote]

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