05-03-2007, 06:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2007, 06:34 PM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->You've obviously given considerable thought to this. But I think it might be hard for a wife if she were living outside India and could not speak English. She'd be isolated - she'd have her husband of course, but that's all. Some Indian women tend to be snobbish and might look down on another who does not know English. So she might find it hard to make worthwhile friends of a similar background.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well in Toronto there are enough Telugu people, in my old apt there were at least 5 Telugu families so it's not isolated like say in America, plus fact is for emergencies like 911 they even have automatic translation of Telugu along with many other languages.
Plus I know of families where it has already worked out, two Gujarati families, one has a kid on the way but the wife don't know English and the other one recently married (both can't speak English but can read and write).
See my philosophy has always been "no pain then no gain", I can make sure that the kids speak Telugu even with a mother who can speak English but I am extra careful, plus as I said if you want certain things then you may have to give up other things, social isolation is not a big problem because down the line I can imagine how many more Telugu people will come here, the only thing is she maybe dependent on me for certain things and I am ok with that, in a country like US that may be impossible because like you said they are already upset about all the Hispanics but in Toronto you can get by pretty good especially if you are Tamil or Panjabi because as they say Brampton is "Browntown" and there are little Tamil Eelams all over Toronto.
Well in Toronto there are enough Telugu people, in my old apt there were at least 5 Telugu families so it's not isolated like say in America, plus fact is for emergencies like 911 they even have automatic translation of Telugu along with many other languages.
Plus I know of families where it has already worked out, two Gujarati families, one has a kid on the way but the wife don't know English and the other one recently married (both can't speak English but can read and write).
See my philosophy has always been "no pain then no gain", I can make sure that the kids speak Telugu even with a mother who can speak English but I am extra careful, plus as I said if you want certain things then you may have to give up other things, social isolation is not a big problem because down the line I can imagine how many more Telugu people will come here, the only thing is she maybe dependent on me for certain things and I am ok with that, in a country like US that may be impossible because like you said they are already upset about all the Hispanics but in Toronto you can get by pretty good especially if you are Tamil or Panjabi because as they say Brampton is "Browntown" and there are little Tamil Eelams all over Toronto.