I've seen women from Asia, Africa and other countries that come here to the US, and they are married but they wear their ring on their right hand instead of their left like the women here in America do. So I was wondering why they do that? Is it culture, religion, or some other reason?
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2. Most countries have it on the right. I was engaged to a guy from Denmark.
3. I don't know. Maybe for the same reason the water spins differently when you flush the toilet.
4. culture. i've seen the same for some latin american countries as well.
the same can be said why do we wear the rings on our right? just tradition, i suppose.
5. i thought it was a jewish custom from most european countries they came from. and i know a few rads who just like to do their thing. they are apt to wear it on their middle finger on either hand. like tatoos, they gotta be special.
6. Are you absolutely sure all of them were married? Maybe they have to use their lefts hands more and work and it gets in the way.
7. maybe its a right hemisphere thing. just like how the water in toilets spin the other way. hahaha! maybe!
8. Is there some reason Americans wear their ring on the left instead of the right? No, there is no real reason, it's just a cultural preference.
My wife wears her right on the right hand, because this is Jewish tradition.
9. I believe it could be both. Some cultures probably view the way a woman wears her ring veryyy different than here.
10. my parents were from Europe and mom told me that they wear a plain gold ring on the left hand for an engagement and change it over to the right hand when they marry, so, if you see the ring on the left you know she's engaged and if you see it on the right you know she's married...they don't have an engagement ring as such they use the same ring for either occasion.
11. i guess GOD create Adam and then woman second Eve.so woman belongs to the right who is a helper to man. so ring are the same too put at woman right hand.
12. The same reason America doesn't use the metric system. Different culture.
13. It is just culture. Nothing more, nothing less.
14. My aunt married a norweigan man and she wears a ring on her right beacuse of his culture. She also wears one on her left because she is canadian. I guess its really preferance or culture
15. Depends on what part of the world you are in my mom is from West Germany and she wears her wedding ring on the right ring finger hand
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