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Chapter10
1. Understanding Intercultural
Communication Second Edition
Chapter 10
What are the Challenges in Developing
an Intercultural-Intimate Relationship?
Stella Ting-Toomey & Leeva C. Chung
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
PowerPoint Slides Designed by Alex Flecky and Noorie Baig
2. TODAY’S MENU
I. Developing Intercultural-Intimate
Relationships: Invisible Challenges
II. Intercultural-Intimate Relationship
Attraction: Facilitating Factors
III. Intercultural-Intimate Conflict:
Obstacles and Stumbling Blocks
IV. Raising Secure Bicultural Children
V. Intercultural Reality Check: Do-
Ables
3. I. Developing Intercultural-Intimate
Relationships: Invisible Challenges
A. Cultural-Ethnic Membership
Values
Individualistic Orientation Collectivistic Orientation
I-identity relationship We-identity, ingroup
expectations relationship pressures
Ingroup’s (we) connection,
Couple’s privacy, concerns
autonomy
Structural commitment,
Voluntary, personal family and social
commitment reactions
Low-context emotional High-context emotional
expressions expressions
Value companionate
4. Media Activity: YouTube Videos
The Meaning of Love 7 Billion Others
Church Bans Interracial Couple
5. I. Developing Intercultural-Intimate
Relationships: Invisible Challenges
Discussion Questions:
Intercultural-intimate relationships:
Have you experienced a relationship of this
type?
What were some positive things that you
gained from it? What were some negative
things that occurred?
What was most surprising to you about the
different love expectations?
Have you experienced the “me–we”
dialectical forces in any of your relationships?
6. II. Intercultural-Intimate Relationship
Attraction: Facilitating Factors
A. Perceived Physical Attractiveness
Physical attractiveness critical to initial
attraction; cultural differences regarding
what is attractive.
• For example, U.S. individuals attracted to: high
energy, enthusiasm.; Korean individuals
attracted to: high integrity, concern for others.
B. Perceived Similarity
• Similarity–attraction hypothesis: cognitive
consistency
7. II. Intercultural-Intimate Relationship
Attraction: Facilitating Factors
C. Cross-Cultural Self-disclosure
Comparisons
• Self-disclosure: intentional process of
revealing exclusive information about
ourselves to others that other individuals
do not know.
• Social penetration theory:
interpersonal information progresses
from superficial nonintimate to more
deep-layered intimate self-disclosure.
8. II. Intercultural-Intimate Relationship
Attraction: Facilitating Factors
C. Cross-Cultural Self-disclosure
Comparisons: Discussion
Check out similarities and
differences….
• Where did you learn your self-disclosure
tendency?
• Do you come from a high-disclosive family or a
low-disclosive family?
• What topics do you consider as quite “Public”?
• What topics do you consider as quite “Private”?
10. II. Intercultural-Intimate Relationship
Attraction: Facilitating Factors
Media Activity: Fools Rush In film clip
Discussion:
• Can you relate to this clip?
• How do the cultural value dimensions impact
the development of your particular intimate
relationship?
• How did Alex and Isabel handle the dialectical
tensions of autonomy and connectedness?
• How did they differ in terms of disclosing to
their parents about Isabel’s pregnancy?
11. II. Intercultural-Intimate Relationship
Attraction: Facilitating Factors
D. Online Disclosure of Affection
Do you stay in touch with your Facebook friends by
“liking” their posts, photos, or statuses?
E. Third-Party Matchmakers: Online and
Mobile Dating
Five phases of online dating:
1. Attention
2. Recognition
3. Interaction
4. Face-to-face meeting
5. Resolution
12. II. Intercultural-Intimate Relationship
Attraction: Facilitating Factors
E. Third-Party Matchmakers: Online
and Mobile Dating
• Have you tried match.com or
eharmony.com? How about pof.com
(plenty of fish.com )?
Take a look at this Indian matrimonial
site:
• Did you notice that his parents created this
posting? How would you react if your parents did
something like this out of concern for you?
13. II. Intercultural-Intimate Relationship
Attraction: Facilitating Factors
F. Intercultural/Interracial Romantic
Relationship Development
Interracial couples’ four stages of
“racial” awareness and awakening:
• Racial awareness
• Coping
• Identity emergence
• Relationship maintenance
14. II. Intercultural-Intimate Relationship
Attraction: Facilitating Factors
Some Intercultural-Intimate
Relationship Research
• Generation is predictor of interethnic
relationships.
• Individuals with assimilated, bicultural, or
marginal identities have greater tendency to
date outgroup members.
• The “Romeo and Juliet” effect: The more
the families are against relationship, the
more the couple wants to rebel against
parents, thus finding each other more
15. III. Intercultural-Intimate Conflict:
Obstacles and Stumbling Blocks
A. The Encounter: Prejudice and
Racism
Intercultural-intimate conflict:
Antagonistic friction or
disagreement between two
romantic partners caused, in part, by
cultural or ethnic group membership
differences.
Have you observed prejudice or
racism toward interracial couples?
16. III. Intercultural-Intimate Conflict:
Obstacles and Stumbling Blocks
B. Countering Racism and Prejudice:
Coping Strategies:
1. Ignoring or dismissing
2. Normalizing
3. Withdrawing
4. Educating
5. Confrontation
6. Prayer
7. Humor
17. IV. Raising Secure Bicultural
Children
A. Bicultural Identity Struggles:
Four identity forms of bicultural
children:
1. Majority-group identifiers
2. Minority-group identifiers
3. Synthesizers
4. Dissaffiliates
18. IV. Raising Secure Bicultural
Children:
Some suggestions:
• Work out identity plan early – communicate with your
partner (e.g., religious faith, language, customs).
• Listen to your children’s identity experiences.
• Provide cultural enrichment opportunities.
• Be truthful about prejudice & racism issues.
• Nurture & support different identity facets.
• Provide safety net & maturation challenges. Realize
that children will grow up & choose their own identity
path….
• Together: DRAW an ideal dream house….
19. IV. Raising Secure Bicultural
Children
B. Cultivating a Secure Multifaceted
Identity
To help bicultural individuals:
• Know values and beliefs of each group.
• Positive attitude toward both groups.
• Confidence that one can live effectively within
both groups without compromising one’s
individual identity.
• Be grounded.
20. V. Intercultural Reality Check: Do-
Ables
In managing diverse intimate
relationship issues, here are some
helpful do-ables:
• Pay attention to culture-based challenges.
• Be mindful that individualists and
collectivists may hold different
expectations.
• Be sensitive to your partner’s family
reaction issues.
• Be flexible in learning your partner’s
21. Parting Thoughts…
Living on borders and in margins,
keeping intact one’s shifting and multiple identity
and integrity,
is like trying to swim
in a new element, an “alien” element.
~ Gloria
Anzaldua