"Even in English, a Language Gap"
Please write at least a paragraph for numbers 1 and 2, and number 3 if you can answer it.
1. What did you think of the article? Was it interesting? Challenging?
2. Can intercultural relationships work? What are some of the problems that can come up? Are there benefits? Are some cultures better suited for each other than others?
3. Have you ever dated someone outside of your culture or know anyone who has? How was your (or their) experience?
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ReplyDelete1. This article is little bit interesting for me. But if I have a deep relationship with foreigner, i can't fall in love with him. In case of friend ship is okay, that case is more easier to be friends even if there are some. differnt culture. Because we already lived in different country, we have different history, different culture, and we speaks different language.
2. Sure. Sometimes we can learn about their culture, and we can teach them about our culture. I think while someone live, the most important thing is to suffer everything.
3.No...... but if i do it, i'll be interesting..
1. It's intereting to me. I've never met foreign guy as a boyfriend, but I think it's not easy to keep the relationship.
ReplyDelete2. If I have a foreign boyfriend, maybe I can learn his country and culture more than I've known. Especially if I misunderstand something about his country and culture, it'll be very helpful.
And if I date a foreigner, it better suit Asian person to me because we have similar culture. I think it's same in European and American, too.
3. One of my cousin dated with Japanese girl. She was so kind and submissive. Her Korean was so good but she was trying to learn more because she really wanted to marry him. Unfortunately, her family opposed that, and finally she broke up with him. So I think it's really hard to get married to foreigner, especially in Asia.
1.This article was interesting and it showed me what I thought.... that a relationship between different culures can be difficult and worse if both don't have the same mother tongue.
ReplyDeleteespecially with time when the relation becomes more important.
2.Intercultural relationships can work but it depends of the caracter.The couple has to do compromises and needs to be careful that it will not be in only one way.
With and another mother tongue, even both speak English...they can't express their deep feelings about love and arguments.... Everyone is better in his own language. So maybe with years, if they want to speak about a common future or/and children.... the communication could be complicated with these two barriers.
However, learning about different cutures can be a personal enrichment.
3. I've never dated a foreign guy and I think it could be difficult for me. But it depends which culure.
One of my spanish girl friend got married a mulsim and he was very strict about his religion. She stopped lots of things for him.
She's a person who accepts and agrees.... maybe it's the secret which makes that it works.
1. For me the article was interesting. But I think that the girl didn't realized that her boyfriend was just a guy... Maybe the problems that she felt was not about the cultural differences. Maybe the guy wasn't so in love with her.
ReplyDeleteHowever, being in relationship with a foreigner is a huge challenge! It's very hard I think! Maybe for me, it could be impossible!
2. I think that a intercultural relationship could work! But it depends on the personality of everyone. Of course, people from different cultures will be different but they can match! They just have to know what they want and keep their own personality. If they are compatible, it can work.
Living with a men of another culture could be very interesting because you can learn a lot of things about his country, the way of living there, the tradition... If everybody respect each culture and try to understand if they're differences, I think that no problems can appear.
I don't know if there are some culture better than the other. I just think that if two people from different cultures can adapt each other, the relationship can work. But this fact is valuable with every kind of relationship...
3. I did once. He was from Tunisia. He was half Swiss and came in Switzerland to study for 2 years. Our relationship didn't work. But it wasn't because of the culture, it was because of our personalities.
I am Hiroaki
ReplyDelete1,I think it is interesting.because both having another culture and another commonsense.So it is very challenging also.
2,Intercultual rerationship can be work but I think it's not lasting long time.for example,In order to understand American, it is not necessary to be American.But understanding our own way is sometimes make misunderstanding.Though both get benefit because to know another culture.
3,No, but if in this situation,It is important to adapt or accept of foreign culture.
1. I think the problem in this story is not only the culture, he is also a lier.Yes the sotry is interesting but I read a book about a relationship with a foreigner and it can be more difficult than in this story.
ReplyDelete2. Yes meybe some of them can work but I think a lot of those relationship break up. There can be a lot of missunderstanding or diffrent customs in their culture which one of them can`t understand. But it is a benefit to lern about an other country and culture. Yes I think between cultures which are not too diffrent works better.
3. No, but my friend married a muslim guy she is happy with him, but she is very interested to learn about his culture and language.I think they have also some problems but which realtionship works without problems.
1. The article was interesting but I think it wasn't the good example to show the intercultural relationships because in this story they don't really show the big cultural differences, the guy was bad with the girl and of course when one of the member of the couple is like thant it can never works. I think it's a huge challenge to be in a relationship with someone who doesn't live in the same country as you.
ReplyDelete2. Most of the time, intercultural relationships doesn't work. But I think some people can handle with it. They can be very happy and can organize their relationship. I think it's almost impossible to be in a relation with someone who do not live in the same country as you. Yes maybe for the first month but it can't be constructiv or good if they stay each other in their country. Because like in this story, you can't trust someone enought to live like that or even if it's not the trust, you can't live when you see the person you love like once every 3 month. I don't know but I think it's not esay at all. And if they live together, sure it will be difficult because of the different cultures but it can be interesting and you can learn a lot with that. Then when they live together I think it depends of the personality. They must be able to live with that and accept. I think that europeans in general suits good with the americans.
3. I never date someone who's from an other culture so I don't know. But I think the most important it's that it depends of the personality of each other.