- Many students socialize by going to discos, beer gardens and parties.
- Drinking and smoking are acceptable, but public drunkenness is frowned upon
- When it comes to dating, there is usually a big difference between city and country life.
- In the country, many weddings are still planned by the couple’s parents. Courting sometimes is simply an agreement between families, without the man and woman having much prior contact.
- When couples date before marriage, there is often a female chaperon (sometimes a female sibling of the woman in the relationship). More traditional families require chaperoned dates while less traditional families aren’t as strict.
- Courting can be a very quick process, some couples marrying a month or more after meeting.
- Men usually seem to be the initiators of the relationship.
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