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Benefit and Challenge of Intercultural or Interracial Relationships
Intercultural relationship includes two or more different cultures, which are beliefs, behaviors, and customs of different ways of life from all round the world. Interracial relationships on the other hand refer to the relationships from different races or ethnicities. According to the council on contemporary families, 14% of families in the United States are interracial.
One benefit of intercultural relationship is the experience gained of another culture. This includes learning new language, new beliefs and customs, and also new foods. Friends and families of those who are in the intercultural relationship became educated on the diverse cultures by spending time with couples. Intercultural and interracial relationships do spread messages of diversity acceptance to different communities. Accepting and loving people who are culturally and ethnically different from ones culture set good example and especially where the relationship results in interracial children. Intercultural relationships also gives people the opportunity to deal with false belief that people have about other cultures (Brislin, 2008).
One challenge of intercultural and interracial relationship is learning new cultures and traditions. Children born out of intercultural relationship face the challenge of misunderstanding and denial. While children are exploring their beliefs about other cultural groups, misunderstandings eventually occur. For example, children who deny existence of discrimination, limited nature of understanding and effects it has on targeted groups. Thus, when jokes are made about a group, the victim experiences them as painful, while the persons making the joke dismiss them as...

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The style of communication is similar between indirect and emotionally expressive style of resolving conflicts. Persons using these styles usually use strong metaphors, stories, and languages. They also view integrity of other people in terms of their degree of expressing emotions and are comfortable with confrontation talks.
These styles may vary according to culture for example in a culture where people are filled with emotions and displays their feelings outwards are likely to use emotionally expressive conflict style. The styles may also vary depending on culture with corrective orientation where the style mostly used is indirect conflict style, compared to those with more individualism culture that tend to be more comprising. Such cultures with individualism and more comprising are likely to use emotionally expressive conflict style (Christie, 2011).

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