摘 要

随着全球一体化的加剧跨国婚姻变得越来越普遍，由于不同的文化环境，价值观念，文化心理和宗教习俗，跨国夫妇面临着许多障碍和困难。两个来自不同文化背景的人，走入婚姻生活之后都会展现出自己特定文化背景下的思维和做事方式。整个婚姻过程中都会涉及到文化冲突问题。文化冲突问题能否顺利解决，决定着跨国婚姻的成败。本文拟从跨国婚姻为切入点运用跨文化交际的相关理论分析跨文化婚姻不断增加的原因，影响跨文化婚姻幸福的因素，以减少跨文化夫妻间的跨文化交际障碍。通过研究跨国婚姻的现象，使人们对跨国婚姻有更深刻的认识和了解。

关键词:跨国婚姻；文化差异；跨文化交际

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Definition of intercultural marriage 1

1.2 Reasons for the increasing intercultural marriage 2

1.2.1 Economic factors 2

1.2.2 Cultural influence 2

1.2.3 Ideological behavior 3

2. Transnational marriage problems 3

2.1 Cultural Environment 3

2.1.1 Individualism and Collectivism 3

2.1.2 High-context and low-context 4

2.2 Concept of love 5

2.2.1 Purpose of marriage 5

2.2.2 Spouse criterion 6

2.3 Sense of family 7

2.3.1 Family relationship 7

2.3.2 Educational idea on cultivating children 8

3. Suggestions to transnational marriage problems 8

3.1 mutual understanding 9

3.2 Cultural exchanges 9

4. Conclusions 10

Works Cited 11

Bibliography 12

The Analysis of Transnational Marriage from Intercultural Perspective

1. Introduction

With our accession to the EU and the growth in immigration, there are greater numbers of transnational marriages. However, because of culture gap, some transnational couples are more likely to meet some problems in marriage than the normal couple from the same nation. High divorce rate, family violence and other social problems are all potential threats to transnational marriage. Generally speaking, the probability of failure for intercultural marriage may be increased because of a lack of common social networks (Parkamp;Adelman, 1983). Therefore, it is high time to discuss those conflicts and problems in order to give rational and wise advices to those intercultural couples who are in urgent need of help.

1.1 Definition of intercultural marriage

Transnational marriage, is a kind of marriage between two people from different countries. According to Carley Dodd (1997), one of the famous professors of Intercultural Communication．In his book Dynamics of Intercultural Communication, he defines intercultural marriage like this：

Intercultural marriage, sometimes called dual cultural marriage comes in various forms，including rural urban inter-ethnic，interracial，national and global macro cultures，transnational social classes，transnational religions，and transnational regions of the United States. Where there are significant group differences that mark the marriage，we choose to call it intercultural marriage，and refer to the partners as intercultural couples.

In a word, transnational marriage is a marriage beyond marital relations between national boundaries and people in different countries, due to the different cultural environments, values, cultural psychology, aesthetics and religious customs, which brings difficulties to transnational marriage.

1.2 Reasons for the increasing intercultural marriage

Great changes have taken place in China since the opening to outside world. In the process of globalization, cross-cultural exchange becomes more and more frequent. As a result, the number of transnational marriage registration in China is increasing year by year, and has been involved in many countries and regions. The concerned reasons are mainly as follows: economic factors, cultural influence and ideological behavior.

1.2.1 Economic factors

No matter in the past or the present, the factor of economy, is regarded as the essential reason for transnational marriage. Just because ancient China was in an underdeveloped productivity, so this factor has not attached enough importance. However, with the development of productivity, great changes have taken place in China since the opening to outside world. Globalization has boosted the growth of trade in the world, more people have the opportunity to work in a transnational corporation. Trade matters more in today’s integrated world than ever before. Working in a foreign country, you’ll have a better chance of dealing with foreigners. In addition, driven by concerns for material benefits, together with people’s desire for superior living conditions abroad, more and more people choose to live and work in a foreign country.

1.2.2 Cultural influence

The cultural factors also made a great contribution to the development of transnational marriage. According to the relevant materials, as early in Tang Dynasty, in order to set up cultural exchanges, princess Wencheng and princess Jincheng married to Tubo one after the other, pioneering the inter marriage between Han and Tibetan people. For now, in In the process of globalization, with the frequent cultural exchange among countries, different cultures intend to be merged. The western culture achieved a good intercultural communication in the world. A large of the western books and films were introduced to China. As a result of the attraction by exotic cultural, transnational marriage has gradually sprung up in today’s world.

1.2.3 Ideological behavior