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Expat Love 101: Ho-hum + foreign accent = doable
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Cross-cultural love can be tricky. Photo of a Mission District (San Francisco) mural by Erin Van Rheenen
South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, a squeaky-clean Republican in his second term and a married father of four, fell for a 43 year-old divorced mother of 2 from Argentina. Maria Belen Chaper, the press reports, works at a multinational agribusiness corporation and is fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Chinese. Got to hand it to Sanford: Belen Chaper sounds like a woman of substance and accomplishment.
But even if she weren’t, she has, to Sanford, one other enticing allure: she’s foreign. She doesn’t look, smell, sound or taste like the women back in South Carolina. The very way she thinks, moves, and scrambles an egg is decidedly unfamiliar. And he, in turn, is foreign to her.
Anyone who’s had a foreign fling knows that
ho-hum + foreign accent = doable
& hot + foreign accent = utterly irresistible
What happens when the fling steadies into a real relationship? Well, then things get tricky. Tune in tomorrow for more stories of cross-cultural shenanigans.
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