We met in Providence, Rhode Island. We both attended Brown University and have different memories of how we first met. I believe we met through
a mutual friend at a house party, his story is at the
Graduate Center Bar.
We make our binational/cultural relationship work
by celebrating the best elements of each of our
cultures. We think it helps that both of us had lived
abroad before we met, so we were already open
to new cultural experiences. The basic ingredient
to a bicultural relationship is respecting each
other’s backgrounds, traditions or even cultural,
let’s say, peculiarities.
Living in a country outside of both our cultures is
better, I think. We are always on the same side
of the river, if you will - which makes things easier.
We can both complain to each other about rude
Parisian waiters and strange French bureaucratic
processes. Then we can work together to find
solutions to the problems arising from the ‘third’
country we live in.
We complement each other well. But with both
of us being foreigners, it takes more time for us to
integrate into the society than it would if only one
of us was a foreigner. Consequently, our progress
in the French language is going terribly slow!
Current Location - Paris, France
Dimitris, 34
Andrea, 29
Post-doctoral researcher
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