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Lifestyle disagreements in cross cultural relationships

What is cultural identity?

Describes actions to improve cross-cultural relationships

Lifestyle disagreements are arguments involving daily life. These disagreements can sometimes be sparked by resentment because one or both partners feel their culture is being rejected or attacked when the other refuses to follow their customs or traditions.

Culture isn't just about the things we can see. It's not just about the national dish, the fashions people wear, the gods they worship, or even the places they live. Culture is for the most part invisible; we hardly even notice it until we're forced to step outside and see it from a new perspective.

A large amount of what we do, say, think, believe and to some extent, feel - is shaped by the culture we come from. From a young age, information we absorb from the world around us influences our:

*ideas about how to behave

sense of self-worth

*thoughts about what's right and what's wrong

aspirations and interests

*values - the importance of things in life (i.e. family/money/freedom)

*understanding of our individual places in society

*ideas about birth, life and death

Cross cultural relationships

Cross cultural relationship issues

Particular challenges faced by people in cross cultural relationships include:

  • coping with religious differences
  • loss of identity
  • daily disagreements over small things - cooking, hygiene, standards, rituals etc.
  • different ideas about the meaning of love, family and relationships
  • different methods of dealing with conflict
  • unsupportive families.

All relationships are to some extent cross-cultural, in that both parties come together from different families to build a new unit together.

Whilst for many couples this will be a natural set of compromises to which both partners will adjust naturally over time – for others the differences can be fundamental, with one finding it difficult to understand the others way of looking at the world and vice versa.

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