women – Travels in Vietnam

52. On Dating (Chapter Three): Enlightenment?

Comments from an expert on intercultural communication shed new light on the author’s relationship dilemma.

What is love, in the Vietnamese context? A successful relationship must be seen as a social contract, practical rather than romantic.

Dating in a new culture is like finding one’s self as a Stranger in a Strange Land. As any local might tell you, it’s “same same … but different!”