the West where emphasis is put on choosing your partner yourself, and on going through a period of dating different potential partners while choosing the person you are going to marry. Of course in some cases Eastern men and women will go against their traditions and decide to marry outside of their religion, just as in some cases Western men and women will decide not to. Asian men could feel that their partners are failing to respect their beliefs. At the same time a Western man might feel that they want their partner to show more flesh. Again it is important here to understand you are simply coming at the subject from different perspectives, and that you should not try to change each other.