Cultural Differences In Communication In Intercultural Marriage By Tiffany G. Renalds

marriage documents. A. Kawamura’s most challenging experience would be that of trying to adjust with her husband’s in-laws. It was different for S. Takase as she stated she is already immersed with her husband’s culture prior to getting married, so the culture gap and communication were already developed. She instead points out that she believes in sharing cultures, and not adjusting to only one culture. She shared her Philippine culture with her husband so that her husband would also understand her views and also get to know more about her roots. She strongly believes in opening up her culture with her husband as opposed to only learning her husband’s culture. In Communication in Intercultural Marriages: Managing Cultural Differences and Conflict for Marital Satisfaction by Tiffany G. Renalds, her study showed that Asian women had misunderstandings due to difficulties in

It is a universal problem, that every race faces working and/or living on foreign soil. The discrimination and stereotype does not target Filipinos but the Southeast Asian race as a whole. The stereotype and discrimination towards Filipino women stemmed from the year the mail-order-bride industry was popular. According to Kathryn Lloyd’s Wives for Sale: The Modern International Mail-Order Bride Industry, it is the mail-order-bride industry, which started the stereotype that Filipino women can be cheaply bought due to the fact that many women want to migrate to other countries for better opportunities. The mail-order-bride industry took advantage of the vulnerability of Filipino women and thereon, many Filipina became victims of these agencies. Lloyd also observed that there is an “abuse of the economic and power dynamic between the consumer and the product.” Also Eviota was quoted in Lloyd’s journal where in she said