[AmericanPhoenix911]

their culture doesn't have the Romantic movement ours descends from
That's a really interesting bit of history that I hadn't yet read about in the context of in trying to understand the radical differences in cultural mindsets. Thanks for adding it into the mix.

[Anamensis]

I'm no expert on the matter, but in my French classes I had to read a lot of Romantics like Chateaubriand and we talked about the German movement, and of course in English classes I had to read a lot of the Keats & Shelley stuff. Then later, in my francophone classes I had to read some literature from Algeria, Morocco, et al, and there are some very definite differences in the approach to love, romance, and sex.