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Friday Connections – 13-11-09
Oh yeah, I dated this international style! So, I''ve decided to start linking some of my favorite reads at the end of the week - there's a million and one things I run across that seem like they'd be of interest to the readers of this blog, but I never have time to write a whole blog post about each one. Thus, Friday Connections. I'll try to group links each week into subjects. Let me know what you guys think!
Continue reading...Of Love and Race
Monday, February 16, 2009
An excellent short documentary on interracial couples by Tim Tsai featuring four different intercultural marriages in the US. I was most struck by the first third of the documentary, which focused on the (negative) attitudes that the couples have experienced by being in an interracial marriage. My personal experience has been quite different from that of the couples' in the film. I have had very few negative encounters regarding my relationship with Aditya. I have cared about very few of the negative encounters I've had regarding my relationship with Aditya.
Continue reading...Becoming an Intercultural Communicator
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
My husband and I don't speak a common language. Never have, never will. Sure, I'm a native English-speaker, born & raised in America, and Aditya grew up speaking English both in the home and at school - and he even majored in English Literature at the Midwestern university we both attended. Nonetheless, we will always be shouting to each other across a ravine - a gap created by our different cultures. Those of your who are in an intercultural relationship - or who interact regularly with people from a different culture, as I discussed last post - know that this gap goes far beyond the ones created by so-called gender wars, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" talk, the accents or incomplete vocabularies of non-fluent speakers , or even the basic idea from philosophy of language that no person can know exactly what you're thinking in your head. The culture we grew up with inevitably affects the framework of the world we perceive - and thus the world we communicate to and with. Lest I end up sounding too pessimistic, however, let me hasten to add that that the difference in world views created by dissimilar cultures isn't insurmountable. Sure, you're never going to completely conquer the gap between two cultures - but every little bit helps! Today's post is on one of those little bits that help. Or maybe it's a big bit - I'll let you decide.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
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