CROSS CULTURAL CONFLICT IN MARRIAGE (SUNDA-INGGRIS DAN SUNDA-TIONGHOA)

  • Author: Evi Novianti
  • From: Prodi Hubungan Masyarakat, Universitas Padjadjaran

Abstract:

Globalization and technological advances have helped humans to more easily interact with people who have different cultures. This can make it easier to communicate with everyone. The difference in distance and time is not an obstacle to narrow the interactions between citizens. The ease of communicating that can affect individual activities to build the economy, politics and culture as well as be able to establish a bond that leads to marriage between citizens. Marriages between citizens who are then referred to as a marriage of mixed (interracial marriage), the event will be based on marriage is by a variety of differences, ranging from culture, habits and languages. In the household of ethnic difference needed a language that can be understood by each pair of different languages. Different languages can result in small and large conflicts, for that adjustment needs to be done so that the expectations of each partner could be fulfilled. Ethnic difference in marriage there are consequences that must be considered, namely, the voice of disagreement either from parents or extended family. This is due to the existence of differences both from the culture, mindset, habit or Outlook on life. One of the weddings, that adjustment factor adjustment to family, a man or woman who married not only married her partner, but also with the family of his wife.

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