Cultural shock

I decided to blog because I believe there are many of you facing a long distance relationship. Is not unusual  to find couples with different nationalities having a relationship nowadays. Long distance and multicultural relationships are not easy, my case: Latin-american having a relationship with a Scandinavian, living in Greenland. Here is my story and how I have been surviving.

A few months ago I met a polish girl while we were doing a boat transfer in the Melville Bay (Greenland). I was not sure if it was worthy to really start a conversation with her because she was going in a different boat and our time together was limited. I was wrong! our few hours together opened my eyes and I learned that I was not alone and "suffering" with the cultural differences of dating a Scandinavian guy. In those few hours we shared the situations we found annoying and discovered that it was probably a cultural thing and not lack of education (I guess).

I will give you an example: me and my partner are walking on the street, he meets someone and start talking in their native language, which I don´t understand. He doesn´t introduce me to the person and keeps talking for more that 10 minutes while I am standing like an invisible ninja having no clue of what´s going on. In my world when you meet someone on the street and your partner, friend, family, etc is with you, the first thing you do is to introduce each other. The first times I stood there and smile while feeling very awkward, ignored and not worthy to be presented to my partners´ friends. After facing that situation more than 5 times, I started to continue my path to let my partner know that it was not agreeing in standing next to him as a ninja. He didn´t get it at all, so I explained the situation and how I felt about not being introduced and not knowing what was going on or who the person was. Did something changed??? not immediately!!