Irritating boyfriend or cultural differences?

No you should not overlook his actions and lack of communication. By doing so you will only hold in the hurt and anger. Both of which will grow like weeds and will begin to choke your relationship.

The hurt and anger will cause much animosity in the relationship weakening what you already have. 

You and your boyfriend need to sit down and have a very serious discussion, with you letting him know what you expect. A good line of communication and mutual respect is vital in every relationship.

It is better to air the dirty laundry now, before you become married or enter into a truly serious relationship.

I wish you all the best.

p.s. Watch for the response from Oron as he will have great advice for you also. Heed his words my friend and follow his advice. 

No!!Even if some of the differences may not seem too major now,they will later on!lack of communication will only increase in time!

Ask yourself and him some questions,like...what religion will your children be?What does he expect from you as his wife?How does he treat you now..as an equal?

Does he want you to act differently than you were raised?Is he trying to make you do things that he wants?Does he want you to dress according to what he seems right?

Believe me,having a relationship or being married to somebody is hard enough to maintain,without having the extra trouble of having different backgrounds!

I agree with the other answers you got. Keeping your emotions inside won't solve anything. You should talk to him about the way you feel and perhaps you can work things out even though there are differences.

This will also be a good way to see how committed he is to your relationship. Every relationship has hardships along the way and the question is how you deal with them.

Irritating actions and lack of communication will become more so as you get deeper into your relationship and more difficult to handle. I am not sure if having a serious discussion will help since these are the result of culture and upbringing. What you have to do is to think very carefully whether you are willing to constantly give in to avoid confrontation. Please think this over very carefully before making a serious commitment.

  No, you absolutely cannot overlook things like cultural differences.  If the difference was that you liked different shapoos that would be ok.  However your cultural differences are far far deeper.  Religion, Morals, and expectancies of a  spouse vary greatly between cultures.

   For example I have a Greek father and a Welsh mother.  My father was Greek Orthodox and my mum was Protestant.  My father gave up his religion b/c my mum didn't like it & now he's coping with having alienated his religion.

   My father also wanted the standard Greek wife, but, my mother had other plans.  These differences led to a divorce 25 years into their marraige!!

  So although these differences seem small now they will grow with time.  All you see now is the tip of the iceberg.  Deep beneath these minor differences are major cultural mores connected to the Jungian collective unconcious.  My advice: Do what you can but if things aren't how you want them now, they won't be how you want them later.

Working together & compromising is what a relationship is about. My significant other was not only culturally different, they were racially and religiously different. It took awhile and alot of hard work on both our parts to mesh together. Most of our misunderstandings was the interpretation of word.  USA use slang in place of the proper english word, which can be taken diferently and vise versa. So talk thing over and if it is meant to be-it will be. Oh by the way,it's going on twelve yrs. & we're still very much in love.

I think you can overlook it if you talk to him about it and you get an understanding as to why he's like that but if the problem persists then that is a problem. For example, my boyfriend and I are from different cultures too and things that he does irritates me sometimes but I talk to him about the problems and try to rectify it.

It's very dificulty to understand both sides, means men and woman species. theren,t right and wrong, perfect or.. cultural or....color or... or..  never loose respect for eachother, live today, love yourself, love your surrounds and  enjoy every aspect, every ench like that isn,t tomorrow, we are and will still trying to understand our species and where we,re coming from. remember were here in an short vacation. Enjoy the ride!!!!!