intercultural relationships

How Assertion and Hesitation Help Sustain Love in Bicultural Marriages in Japan

Clifford Clarke
 

Authors: Clifford H. Clarke and Naomi Takashiro Intercultural partners experience many challenges in building and sustaining love in bicultural marriages. In the previous article, we reviewed the key problems that Japanese and American partners encounter in their bicultural marriages. We explored those […]

How Japanese and Americans Sustain Love in Bicultural Marriages in Japan

Clifford Clarke
 

Authors: Clifford H. Clarke and Naomi Takashiro Intercultural lovers experience many challenges in attempts to build bicultural marriages. In this article, we consider the key issues that arise in the dozens of bicultural marriages we have known through observation of interactions and […]

Societies Favorable to Intercultural Marriages

Victor Karandashev
 

In the modern world of increased social mobility and mass migration, many countries have become very multicultural. Subsequently, new mixed cultures with blended communities have been developed in many regions. Some workplaces, public spaces, and residential areas have become spots where regular […]

Intercultural Relationships for Status Exchange

Victor Karandashev
 

Intercultural relationships are becoming more widespread in modern multicultural societies. Several theories of interracial romantic and marital relationships have been developed in sociology and social psychology. Among those are the theories of status-caste exchange, opportunity theory, ethnic identity, and interpersonal development. In-group […]

What Are Cultural Stereotypes?

Victor Karandashev
 

The article explains how social categorization, intergroup comparison, group identification, and outgroup bias shape cultural stereotypes. Social Identity Theory Social identity theory is a good explanatory framework for many things in our social cognitions, relationships, and behaviors. The concepts of social categorization, […]

Who Is a Multicultural Person?

Victor Karandashev
 

The article describes studies showing how multicultural communities and cultural mixing foster the formation of a multicultural mind and a multicultural person. Intercultural Encounters and Cultural Mixing Inter-cultural connections and cultural mixing in multicultural countries, states, and residential areas are conducive to […]

What is multicultural in culturally diverse societies?

Victor Karandashev
 

In multicultural societies, people can be in various connections, interactions, and relationships with each other and with other cultural groups. They can coexist in peace or in tension, subordinate cultural groups or respect cultural equality. Cultures and people in multicultural communities can […]