An Analysis Of Intercultural Marriage-from Cultural Conflicts Perspective

With the development of globalization and the frequent communication among cultures and economics, intercultural marriage, as a new style of marriage, has stepped into people’s lives more often than before. Intercultural marriage is a typical representative of cross-cultural communication, which greatly reflects the similarities and differences of diverse cultures. The research of this thesis is mainly on the following aspects: first, the characteristics of cross-cultural communication and intercultural marriage; second, the macroscopic and microscopic cultural elements that influence intercultural marriage. The macroscopic aspect refers to the whole social backgrounds of couples, including social ideology, value system, high-and low-cultural context, religions, traditions and customs etc. The microscopic aspect involves the details of couples’ lives, including the pace of life, different dinning habits, different arrangements of time and so on; third, how to reduce or settle the conflicts between couples who come from different cultural backgrounds. At last, this thesis gives some useful methods to deal with conflicts in intercultural marriage. The author hopes that these researches can offer more materials to intercultural couples, helping them realize the importance of knowing and dealing with the cross-cultural conflicts well in case that extreme approaches are used in solving problems which lead to the end of marriages.