Eds. Note: This is a response to yesterday’s guest post, How I met my son’s mother. Have a perspective to share on love and relationships? Read our guidelines, here.
Update 11/26/13: Congratulations to writer Aisha Saeed on this post being chosen by the editors of WordPress for Freshly Pressed, highlighting the best posts on WordPress. In an email to LoveinshAllah.com, WordPress said: “Aisha Saeed’s response to your guest post about arranged marriages was a really powerful and articulate call for fairness and equality. She delivers her points with a great balance of passion and reason, which makes this piece engaging even for those who aren’t intimate with the debate surrounding marriage in south Asian communities. It’s a great post that deserves a wider audience.”
There’s a befuddling conundrum afoot in the desi (South Asian) community. You must first understand a few things:
a) For whatever reason…
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Knightleyemma 
Some folks also call themselves “1.5 generation” (since we came here as kids or teens). But a sociologist & anthropologist told me that you can consider yourself “2nd generation” if you came to your new country before age 7 or 8.
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Thanks for posting; I have have had many students who have called themselves “ABCDs” to me, but I’ve never had an exact idea what that meant except that their parents weren’t born here and they were.
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