What are intercultural relationships?
Although just a few decades ago intercultural relationships were illegal in major countries like the United States, today we encounter them everywhere we look, and we will have an honest discussion about them.
Learn more about the benefits and challenges of intercultural relationships by reading us to the end.
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What are intercultural relationships?
One of the main consequences of globalization is multiculturalism. Nowadays, it is very likely that we will come to live with people from other parts of the world.
First of all, it is of vital importance that we take culture as that mold that will shape us during the first years of our life, and that will then accompany us throughout our life cycle.
When we speak of different cultures, we are not necessarily referring to people living at opposite ends of the world, since intercultural relationships can occur even between two people from the same country with a different sense of culture.
For example, in many Latin American countries there are indigenous civilizations that have their own space within the territory where their laws and customs are very different from those of the rest of the population, and they are recognized and respected as a different and, in many cases, original culture.
This could lead us to the fact that a person from the same country, but who is outside that culture, establishes a relationship with another who does. In this sense, we would be talking about intercultural relations due to the difference in customs, laws and even language.
This could be taken to a much more global example where, for example, a person from Venezuela establishes a relationship with someone from Germany. When living together on a daily basis it will be obvious that the cultural clash that will exist between the two is inevitable.