Is it okay to ask a man for marriage ?

I know this is so absurd but I live in arabic country and I rarely meet good men , there is a man I met or became acquintaced with a month ago , he seemed polite and different , I want to know more about him and give him a chance but I don‘t even know his name I knew him from his work place , and I know in our country it is so looked down upon to go and confess that you like a man or want them to marry you , he was fishes chef also and I am a doctor so I don‘t know if my parents or his would approve us , because here the doctor woman has to marry a doctor or an engineer