marriages in cultural contexts

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 […]

Love and Loving in Middle-Class Pakistan

Victor Karandashev
 

The article by Ammara Maqsood, Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at University College London, tells us the modern story of love in Pakistan and how modern urban women manage their desire for love in Pakistan. Traditional marriages in Pakistan are arranged marriages. […]

What Happened After the Golden Age of Marriage?

Victor Karandashev
 

Social scientists coined the term “golden age of marriage,“ referring to the period in the middle of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, the cultural ideology of “love marriage” and a number of marriages became popular and prevalent in many […]

The Golden Age of Love Marriage in Western Societies

Victor Karandashev
 

Love marriage appears to be a valuable cultural value in many countries throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as many other modernized societies around the world. However, it was not always true in history. In the 20th century, […]

How Romantic Was the Ancient Aryan Love?

Victor Karandashev
 

The term “Aryan culture” refers to the ancient cultural civilizations that existed many centuries ago. The word “Aryan” was often used interchangeably with “Indo-European” to mean Indo-Iranian languages. Here I will talk about Aryan love. Who Were the Aryans? In the past, […]