#100PostsIn24HrsForAAPIHeritageMonth - 75 - South Asian American And 2nd Gen? Looking For Marriage?

Sunday, May 24, 2015

An interesting article down @ the NYT on South Asian American men looking for love while balancing work and life:

Like many second-generation South Asian-Americans, Mr. Khan finds himself walking a fine line between paying respect to traditional matchmaking practices extolled by an older generation and embracing more contemporary methods of finding an appropriate life partner. His search has involved, among other things, being fixed up by professional “Rishta aunties” hired by his mother, meeting women at networking events and suggestions he try online dating.

“It’s exhausting,” said Mr. Khan, deputy counsel for litigation in the New York Public Advocate’s office. “When you’re set up, there’s another dimension to that meeting. You’ve got to give a report when it’s over. That’s the tricky part. How do you tell the referring authority you’re not interested without offending them?”


Read it in full.