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. (: