Don't bring race into it. Rima and Dina are an example of girls who married south asians - are their families racist? Her aunt married a brazilian who is a revert back in the 90s which is great! One of her extended family members in france got married to a maronite (leb christian) Sami gemayel - so their family doesn't care much about the background as long as the person is right. (Of course whoever strongly believes in islam would prefer a muslim and whoever is secular, will not care).shinydiscoballs wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:41 pm^ quite possibly. I always found it strange (perhaps not the right word) that she even married a paki guy given how racists arabs tend to be. But to give her credit she did seem to embrace the desi culture more than her friend Dina Tokio ever did, I'm sure Rima wore a lengha at her walima and even visited pakistan as well.
She's really become more confident recently so perhaps he was controlling, her make up is more stronger and her dress sense is getting more daring as well. I just hope she doesn't end up becoming a cliche. Does anyone know how much her dresses cost?
Rima's family was brought up in Birmingham which is a place full of pakistani muslims , naturally, she will be integrated within that community (be attracted to them, family accepting towards their traditions etc). She did embrace the south asian culture (wearing their clothes), visited pakistan and visited neighboring Bangladesh to help people. I mean shes from lebanon so she couldve chose to go to lebanese camps for syrians or palestinians but she chose bangladesh which shows that she feels like bengalis are neglected and their issue is not spoken of world wide or at least in the muslim community.
I personally think he was controlling and he was a bum. Shes successful; she created all that by herself while he's just running his family business with barely any aspiration. So she was probably doing better financially!
