I'm actually from a different culture from him, but I have lived in his country for more than half of my adult life and am a naturalized citizen of his country. He has lived in my country too with me and is a naturalized citizen of my country. She is from the same culture as him, but does not have the worldly experience we have. We are now living in his hometown but he spent his entire adult life until recently living elsewhere, so he has been away from the local culture for a long time and adopted ways different from it. He and I actually have the same high level of education and hers is lower. So really he and I actually in some ways have more in common with one another than he does with her, in spite of the different origins.
He has never thought so much like people from his own culture and doesn't buy into all the traditions etc. That was what struck me about him when I first met him, that he actually had a natural way of thinking similar to people from my own culture in many ways. Case in point is how much he isn't into the wedding traditions.
To some extent I think maybe the replay is about reclaiming his own culture but I am not sure it is going to really fit him as well as he expects because he has always been his own man and the expected conformity will be a burden on him.
