Cross-Cultural Marriage
Cross-Cultural Marriage Sometimes people have no control over whom they begin a love relationship with. One does not see color, religion, culture, country, etc. difference, so it is very possible that someone may fall in love with a foreigner who has a totally different culture, which may result in a cross-cultural marriage. No matter how deeply this couple is in love with each other, differences will rise due to the variations in culture. Marrying someone with totally different culture will lead to leaving one’s country, inability of grandparents to communicate with grandchildren and leaving one’s traditions.
Marrying someone with totally different culture forces one the spouses to live outside his/her country. By that he/she will live instead in his/her partner’s country. Living in an outside country maybe interesting in the beginning but gradually this excitement will be substituted by homesickness. Though the feeling of homesickness differs from one person to another but it will always be there, Vince Appleby said, “Of course this homesickness factor is reduced in some people and magnified in other, depending on their personal history and what their home means to them”. It is so hard that one does not visit his home, family or friends for so long stretches on time. When someone leaves his country, this means he is leaving his position in the society as well. He/she must consider that the socioeconomic class he/she held in his own culture, may not cross over in the other spouse’s culture.
Since one of the spouses will have to live outside his/her country that means that his/her parents will see his/her children very little. Children will not really get know their grandparents. Sometimes grandparents will be able to communicate with their grandchildren due to the difference in language they use, as grandchildren will get used to the language of the other country which can be totally different than their grandparents’. Carol O’Hara
Marrying someone with totally different culture forces one the spouses to live outside his/her country. By that he/she will live instead in his/her partner’s country. Living in an outside country maybe interesting in the beginning but gradually this excitement will be substituted by homesickness. Though the feeling of homesickness differs from one person to another but it will always be there, Vince Appleby said, “Of course this homesickness factor is reduced in some people and magnified in other, depending on their personal history and what their home means to them”. It is so hard that one does not visit his home, family or friends for so long stretches on time. When someone leaves his country, this means he is leaving his position in the society as well. He/she must consider that the socioeconomic class he/she held in his own culture, may not cross over in the other spouse’s culture.
Since one of the spouses will have to live outside his/her country that means that his/her parents will see his/her children very little. Children will not really get know their grandparents. Sometimes grandparents will be able to communicate with their grandchildren due to the difference in language they use, as grandchildren will get used to the language of the other country which can be totally different than their grandparents’. Carol O’Hara
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