Most people think they should remain within their culture when they marry. But, don’t you think it would be fascinating to marry someone from a different culture? Getting marry often requires compromise, flexibility and love, and for many intercultural couples, getting marry has been the learning experience of a lifetime. In fact, the whole relationship process can be difficult for the average couple, but for intercultural couples, these aspects can also bring difficulties because of all the differences that they have in each culture, but have rewarding benefits as well (Sheri and Bob Stitof. "Facing many Challenges". International Marriage. November 2006. 30 November 2006 <http://marriage.about.com >). I happen to believe there are great benefits to marry outside of your culture, such as knowing different cultural values and customs, giving their kids the opportunity to learn more than one language, and also the whole intercultural family becomes more open-minded and has a strong sense of personal identity.
As has been indicated (analysis of Census Bureau data 1999), the interracial and interethnic marriages are on a rise because the incidence of these marriages have doubled since 1980. Some demographic analysts are calling this true beginning of the mix of different races and ethnic groups in our society. In the last decade it has become very noticeable in the United States that there are more relationships and marriages between people of different races and ethnic groups (Find Articles. Nov.1999. The American Demographics by Roberto Suro. 30 November 2006. <http://finderarticles.com/>Path:Help; Mixed Couples).
Now days, as we all know, the internet is also a great tool for meeting new people as well. Most of the intercultural couples meet on a web page, like a 60% of these couples meet on a chat room. There are different internet resources for interracial relationships and chat rooms, such as