Pressures of getting married

I found that the reading went in depth in regards to the analysis the video clips that were shown in class. I found interesting that Noriko was easily influenced by her family and that one friend to get married. I feel like this differs in the way that people look at marriage in the US. At my age 26 in the US, I don’t feel like I have pressure to get married. Although three years ago, when I went to my parents’ hometown Union de Tula, Jalisco, Mexico, I did feel some pressure. When I went to a fonda with my father and the ladies asked for my age and if I was in a relationship or married. I told them that I was 23 and that I had a boyfriend. I did clarify that in the US, women had the opportunity to go to college and pursue their purpose. They said, “Well good thing you have a boyfriend, and that you are able to go to school.”  They felt that they could ask me these questions, because my father went to the fonda often. Additionally, everyone knows each other in the small town.