Pictures of Some Famous Intercultural Marriage

...and so people say love is blind. is it?



This was the famous John Lennon of the Beatles with wife, Yoko Ono. A cross of British and Japanese.



This one is Seal, the ballad singer with wife Heidi Klum, the world-known supermodel with their children. Obviously colours don't count.



Hrithik Roshan, a Bollywood hero and Suzanne Khan - an interreligion marriage



Meet the Gosselins: Jon, Kate, their seven-year-old twins Cara and Mady, and their three-year-old sextuplets, Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah & Joel. It's Jon & Kate plus 8, the reality show. However, the couple have divorced. Jon is a Korean, while Kate is American

"What Do You Think of Intercultural Marriage?"

That was the question I asked my friend, when we were just fooling around with YM *wink2*

HELLO THERE PEOPLE!!
It's been awhile, yeah, since the last post. But keep the comments coming in, I've never actually thought that an assignment blogging could be so much fun! hehe. Especially when you're sharing with people of the real experience.

So back to the topic.

So she (who's name yet to be mentioned, probably won't be) is aware of intercultural marriage which occur between a couple of either different backgrounds or races. And she believes that the main challenges in this marriage would be the differences in beliefs and family opposition.

And mainly she has no problem with intercultural marriage as long as the couple can agree on their religion and the relationship between families are kept close no matter the gaps. There shouldn't be gaps anyway. It is said that children of intercultural marriage would be very SMART, and CUTE. LOL You think?

UKM Students' Opinion on Intercultural Marriage

Salam, g'day people!

Yesterday in English for Social Science (ESS) class, we were asked to interview some students randomly to find out their opinion on the topic we're covering on this blog: intercultural marriage.

we asked a group of 5 2nd year Geographic Students to know what they think of this topic.

So I'll put this briefly.. They think that mostly what's more challenging in an intercultural marriage is that the religions of the couples. Some of them don't want to mix with each other. For example, in Malaysia, specifically for Muslims, if couples marry interculturally, the couples will need to choose the same religion, mostly preferably Islam, but in slight cases, vice versa. However, there are other countries which allow marriage between different religions where the couples are allowed to keep their respective religions such as in India and Indonesia.

As what they understand, environment is the main factor that encourages intercultural marriage. Using Islam as an example, they mentioned that this religion promotes intercultural marriage as in their beliefs, God created human races to let people know each other and interact with one another peacefully.

The major differences between intercultural marriage and marriage within culture would be the cultures and background between the couples. There will be exchange of cultures within their newly-built family, like they'll celebrate more celebrations, and some traditions from both sides of the families (the positive ones) will be absorbed.

In a nutshell, as the interviewer I find this group thinks that intercultural marriage is rather interesting, but in Malaysia itself, religion plays the biggest role in deciding whether they want to get married between different cultures because religion is a way of life which is their life principles. Therefore, they feel it's important to hold on to their religion.

That's all from me now, stay blogging... ^_^

Percentages of south asian males n females who married to different race and ethnicity

About 8 % of all South Asian guys marry someone of a different race but among American-raised guys marrying American-raised women ,43% of them are marrying interracially. However, that of all US-raised South Asian men, only 26.7% of them married interracially. It’s only those that chose to marry other US-raised individuals that married outside of their ethnicity to such a large degree.

The intermarriage rates here are a little lower compared to the guys for the whole population (6.4%), but, surprisingly higher for the girls, with 45.7% marrying someone of a different ethnicity. The majority of the difference for genders seems to come from marriages between South Asians and whites, as “only” 31% of South Asian men marry white women, but 36.3% of South Asian women marry white guys. 18.5% of US-raised Indian guys married white woman & 18% of US-raised Indian gals married white men. Overall, 24% of US-raised women married out of their ethnicity, which is lower than it is for group 2 guys.

the statistics was taken from http://www.asian-nation.org/interracial.shtml

Why is it different with the normal one?

Why is it different?Why people are reluctant to accept this intercultural marriage?Why there are so many barrier?All of this question always been asked when this issue arise. First of all, it is because of the differences that occurs in both culture. What make it different is the couple need to learn something new in their partner's culture. They have to understand and accept the cultural differences in order to make their relationship works. Besides that,its the prejudice they have to endure.Although both of their partner are open minded and okay with the marriage, but the social attitude towards this marriage is dissimilar. The society might found that this marriage cannot be last forever because of the differences. They hardly can accept it. Moreover, this marriage is different from the normal marriage because the couple need decide which country they want to live. For example if the couple married with the people that came from other country, they have to willingly ready to migrate. In addition the social norms is vary among others. Each represents the gender roles, behavior and etc. People with same background, culture are easy to apprehend and sometimes share the identical social norms. The ratio to face any problem is not big enough compare to those who did not have the same social norms. Enough from me. Its your time. Let me hear it from you. ;)

Factors Which Lead to Intercultural Marriage

Hi everyone… Here I am to talk about some of the factors which lead to the intercultural marriage. Amalina had mentioned some before, so I explain other factors which she hasn’t mention, right…
First, since nowadays more people work or study overseas (like the immigration Amalina had said, either permanently or temporarily), the environment or the proximity between colleagues or peers is very much intercultural. People who immigrate usually have an open mind or are willing to accept peers from different cultures. Since they have similar job environment, or religions/beliefs, or affiliations, there are certain aspects which allow them to be comfortable among each other thus bloom a relationship.
Furthermore, the factor would be the background of a person. One could be attracted to another because they have similar backgrounds or maybe because they have completely contrasting backgrounds. It could be either way. It is quite obvious to see that people with similar backgrounds have chemistry among each other right away because they can understand being and living in such culture. However, for some, they find the difference among them very appealing. They are very interested in knowing the partner and his/her culture that he/she decided to be a part of it.
Moreover, physical attraction would be one of the main factors. Certain people have the eagerness to break free from their own culture bound and stereotypes. They say beauty lies on the eyes of the beholder. Some people have the idea of how their partner would look like and they go get them. It’s like, they’re tired of the typical looks in their culture. For example, I am a Malay and I have this tendency to find a blue-eyed man. Statistically, it is very rare for typical Malaysian men (or women) to have blue eyes, right? So, to encounter a man with blue eyes I probably should travel to Europe, for instance. It could be because of heights, or certain looks that one particularly admires.

Approaching to the family

Salam and a very good morning to all..
Today i'll discuss about how they approach to their family. Marrying other people whom came from other culture,background,religion or perhaps from other country is not easy as ABC. If you want to marry people with same culture and religion, you don't face any big challenges like marrying to other people that have many differences from your culture. Thus, when the couple are ready to get married, they must approch their family rightly because not all members in the family could accept people from different culture, background,religion and country as their new members in the family. For the old generation, they tend to like people that have similarities with them, it is because they could control and reserve ther tradition and heritage. In my opinion, the couple firstly must get the bless from the older generation in their family. They should bring their partner in the early stage of the relationship so that their partner be able to learn about the other family's tradition and manage to be accustomed with it. Besides that, the partner together with the family themselves guide and teach their better half anything they need to know about each other culture. In addition in order to approach the family,the could also consistently visits their partner family. For those family who is open, and could accept ,it is easy to approach because they might be understand the challanges to marry other people from other culture. For those family who aren't it is important to get their blessing because it is important for the couple to know each other family structure and etiquette,culture and upbringing because it is not the same with marrrying people from the same culture.
I guess thats all from me. Thanks. Anyhow,if you have anything to share about this,just let us know. (:

Factors that lead to intercultural marriage.

Salam Ramadhan and hi to all...Its been 9 days of ramadhan and i'm blessed with the day given. Lose no time,today i'll write the factors that lead to intercultral marriage..Why they chose to married a person that comes from different culture,background,religion and etc.It is somehow must be a reason,right?In my opinion an essential factor that lead to this marriage is when a person is imigrate to other country.The chances to meet new people is big,so it is not impossible for them to get know each other and fell in love.Automatically they become the product of intercultural marriage. Besides that, they will found out that the other partner own a different personalities from their cultural,for example they claim that western people people are more liberal and open-minded,thus they are attract with these characteristic. Next, another factor that lead to intercultural marriage is because it is easy to settle down with the people that also comes from their community with common understanding,experiences.
It come to the end..That's all from me..Wassalam..
Feel free to leave any comment ya! ;)

the challenges continue... IN-LAWS et al!

SALAM & HI DEAR ALL..

First and foremost I'd like to show facts on interrcultural/interracial marriage in the USA some years ago...

... positively increasing and I'm sure they'll be keep increasing...

So back to to our discussion,

As I've mentioned before, intercultural couples would have the similar problems as the typical within-culture marriage: in-laws and society. Lets say if it's hard for the spouses to cope with each other's tradition and beliefs, how would their families take it? Thus what about the perception of the society in where they live?

This external 'acceptance factor' is sometimes the worst that could get in the way of the marriage. It's when the family of the spouses respectively rejected the idea of interracial marriage, or even when they allowed it, they displayed their lack of acceptance through their treatment towards their son/daughter/brother/sister-in-law whose origin is by far too different for their liking.

To make matters worse, the respective familes feel that they have the idea of how to help this 'anomaly' (as the families would think) couple in raising their families such as how to raise the kids and how to live without forgetting their tradition in their daily lives. This peculiar involvement might be the cause of the pitfall of the marriage.

Moreover, some parts of the society still have prejudice and discrimination against any sorts of things regarding interracial issues. For this I'd like to share some polls carried out about this topic:

That'd be all for now... till next time. World peace!

my source of the polls:

http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/human-rights-facts-83-interracial-marriage/

just a glimpse of...

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Is intercultural marriage more complicated?

People would usually think, "intercultural marriage is definitely more challenging than the usual type". Now, if we come to think of it, intercultural marriage or intracultural marriage or royal marriage or 'normal' marriage is basically a marriage, isn't it? They would still have the 'normal' problems like other marriage couples have, such as economy stability, understanding, and even the traditional in-laws matters! (Well, they said when you marry your partner, you're also married to the family. Do you think so?)

Nevertheless, it consists of two people with different backgrounds, in some very contrary from each other, but they decided to cope with each other when they tied the knots. So the issues they, some not all, have to deal with is surely much more complicated.

Let's see... Firstly, the factor that stands out the most would be different backgrounds that the spouses have. This is because it reflects the social behaviour that his/her partner has. At first, the couple would try their best to try to learn to give and take as much as they can, but when the honeymoon years are over, things would go otherwise. Some problems would arise regarding each other's traditions or beliefs. However, I do believe that there are many examples of successful intercultural marriages examples to look up to. They will have to face the music and overcome it. Didn't they say, love conquers all? ;)

So much to say, so little time. We'll continue the talk on this, alright. Till next time.

~> hana :)

sory couse interupt, here i want to give a one link that someone have do a thesis about the intercultural marriage.
this is the link,
http://74.6.146.127/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=barriers+of+intercultural+marriage&fr=yfp-t-701&u=scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12222004-125301/unrestricted/thesis.pdf&w=barriers+barrier+intercultural+marriage+marriages&d=JsDjfxlMS1od&icp=1&.intl=us
~bAhtIAr~

Barriers in Intercultural Marriage

ASSALAMUALAIKUM and Good afternoon to all. In my second post in this blog,I'm Amalina will signify the barries and the solutions that can be taken to overcome it. According to Christine Benlafquih, one of the barriers that occurs in intercultural marriage is prejudices and social attitudes, sometimes newlywed might hide their feeling or opinion if they dislike or hard to accept certain things of their spouse.This common aspect must be avoided and it is useful if each partner understand each other culture well before they get married. Besides that, other barriers that be found is religion conflict. It might take some time to spouse to comprehend with their new religion if they converted to other religion. If this happen,their partner must be patient and understand that people don't change easily and quickly. They also must be supportive. In addition, language barrier also plays a role in intercultural marriage as communicatin is very important. Each partner should learn their spouse language,s they could communicate well in their life.
I think that's all from now. Till i'll write again. Wassalam.
Amalina.


thanks amalina...
hai friend, i'm Bahtair and maybe second post in here, Amalina have said many things here and all of what she said is correct. I want to add little more things here that the barriers in this intercultural marriages, what i want to share is the barriers between famaly. What i mean here is some family are disagree white hwo are want to mariage other people from other culture.
why they wont?
The reason for this barriers is they scare that thier culture will destroy and terminate. They thinks this marriage can make thier own son will forget thier own culture and they thinks thier son will follow the other culture. That type of thinks is not good.
Other reason is they scare that thier son will change thier religon, ofcourse with intercultural marriage, the people need to change their religon but i thinks just in islam. In islamic religon if some people in other culture and religon want to marriage each other, person hwo is in other religon need to change thier religon to islamic religon, so that maybe the course that why there are to many people in other culture is not agree with intercultural marriage.

that what my opinion is, if have any eror on my grammar or vocabulary hope its better in other time..

wHy i'M aLwAys bE LAte?

hai guys...
sory coz being late,actly my english is not so good.so i'm sory if my grammar or spelling is wrong...
hehee...
let me introduce my self. my name is Muhammad Bahtiar Bin Othman. was born in Jengka the place at Pahang. last year student in FSSK, oh, sory my matrik no is A119794. taking Linguistik at PPBL, if you mdont know what PPBL mean you need to find it for our self ok?
my nickname is on my picture. now i dont know what i want to talking about..
just introduce right? i lake to eat,singing,sleeping and try something new like destroying computer...huhuu...
ok,just it i think i want to share with you, for more information asking me next time...
adios....

Variegated Life, Isn't It?

Salam and g’day people! J This is the blog of ‘intercultural marriage’ for English for Social Science course (FSSK UKM, us) mainly to express and discuss our opinions (and yours too!) on this particular topic which is not really alien to Malaysians or most parts of the globe. Surely different individuals have different perspectives.

First thing's first: I am Nur Hana Samsudin (simply address me as Hana) typing from my Keris Mas room, an English Language Studies (ELS) Program student, a first year one in FSSK UKM. Apparently I AM the forth member of the group; the last to join I guess. So people, by all means we’d really like to know what you think about intercultural marriage. So do share your point of view, alright… Have an awesome day!

||hYe my naME iS.....||

hello evrybody~actly,,this is my 1st time blogging in here,,n let me intoduce my self 1st,,
my name iz KHAIRUL MOHD SYAZWAN ZAKARIA,,A119382,,im taking 'komunikasi dan media',,im 21 y.o.
currently living in johor,,wanna know a lot bout maself??,,i just tell u a lil' bit k~i'm more into dancing than singing,,more into speaking than writing,,more into working than giving order,,more into fashion but not victim by them~~
actly this blog iz made by 3 of us Amalina, Baktiar n me for our group project in our class~
our title for this project is "INTERCULTURAL MARRIAGE"
bout this topic~when it comes to my minds,,i feels like its dunt usually occur in malaysia,,bcuz i dunt hear it alot in news or paper or evens magazines,,
but we take a full scope n around the world,,why this marriage really occur??,,why they dunt juz marry among themself,,with the same culcure,same background,,etc,,an1 can share any reasons and opinion???

[khairul mohd syazwan]

Who We Are (:

assalamuailaikum and hello to all the readers and Dr Nadzrah..
first thing first,i'm Nur Amalina bt Mohd Rashid.I will officially 21 years old this august. (:
I'm a diploma holder in English Communication from MARA Professional College, and currently taking degree at UKM in Komunikasi dan Dasar Awam.Well,for starters,this blog is a must for Bahasa Inggeris Untuk Sains Sosial subject. This is one of my favourite subject since i like English and in this class also i met with a lot of new friends who are really nice. Besides that,in this blog,its not me alone who will be posting,but my other two friends that are Khairul Mohd Syazwan and Muhammad Bahtiar.These two persons together with me will be posting in this blog regarding to our topic that is Intercultural Marriage.Just something for us to ponder and share.