Most Albanians I have discussed this with do not realize the danger of … As a northern Albanian I can say… It starts with history: As a nation we have had to fight to keep our identity from the ottoman conquerors & the land-grabbing neighbours. Marriage arrangements were always exogamous and made by the head of the household. I have dated with my Albanian boy friend for 3 years now. However, I do not know any Albanian woman that has married a non-Albanian man. Her and husband are happy and husband's family is accepting of her? OUR SISTER GETS MARRIED!! Children were betrothed sometimes even before birth, often in respect of an existing alliance or in order to establish friendship or peace with another clan. (Albanian wedding edition) - YouTube I know very few Albanian men that have married non-Albanian women. But his entire family diagree it. So stop portraying Albanians as … Albanian women from the northern Gheg region reside within a conservative and patriarchal society.

We are thinking to get married. Women in Albania are women who live in or are from Albania.The first women's association in Albania was founded in 1909. It is not better for an Albanian to marry a non-Albanian; an Albanian marrying an Albanian is not wrong and and Albanian parents who want their kids to marry Albanians are just like German parents who want their kids to marry Germans and so on. In such a traditional society, the women have subordinate roles in Gheg communities that believe in "male predominance". I am asking out of curiosity. and I am Asian.

He is from kosovo. but just because I am not Albanian, they disapprove us. we really love each other and want to be with each other. Residence in Albanian clan society was strictly virilocal. his family told him if he marries me, he wil lose his family, and they will no longer have this son. I am an Albanian woman in my mid-twenties. How marrying non-Albanians is destroying our ethnicity Being in an intimate relationship with a non-Albanian is one of the most damaging acts Albanians are doing to Albanians and Albania. I would like to know if is there any out there are happy with the outcome?