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- Title: Is It Just Cultural? Exploring (Mis)Perceptions of Individual and Cultural Differences of Immigrants Through Marriage in Contemporary Taiwan (Report)
- Author : China Media Research
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 262 KB
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While migration that results in the mixing of individuals and groups of differing cultural patterning has happened across the span of human history, recent decades have witnessed a rapid increase in such mixing. The end of the Cold War, increased global economic integration, the growth in national and international transportation networks, and the rise of global communication technologies have all led to an integrated and "flattened" world whereby citizenship in one nation no longer either limits or enhances an individual's opportunities (Friedman, 2007). Knowledge of what is moral, ethical, and religious is not gained solely through the teachings and examples of community leaders, but is now discoverable by individuals through the internet and a website that could come from anywhere (Roy, 2006). Therefore, today's young person is not limited to pursue only those opportunities found in his or her community or nearby urban center, but can see, imagine, and pursue opportunities wherever they may be found across the globe. Transnational or cross-border marriage is one way increasing numbers of people pursue individual opportunities. While in the recent past a woman growing up in rural China may have entered into an arranged marriage with a man living in the village next door (A. Wolf, 1968), today she has other opportunities. She may move to coastal China, work and support herself in a factory, and marry someone of her own choosing, choose to delay marriage, or not marry at all (Chang, 2009). A Vietnamese woman through family connections may arrange marriage with an ethnic Vietnamese man living in the United States (Thai, 2008), or she may contact a marriage "broker" and consent to marry a man who has paid a fee to the broker to come to Vietnam from Taiwan in order to meet and choose a suitable spouse (Wang, 2007). Likewise, a woman living in China can find a website that offers her contact information about men living in North America, and then exchange emails with one or more such men, and may eventually decide to marry one of them (Constable, 2003). Thus, while women of previous generations were limited by their geography, educational attainment, and family's economic support, today's women have far more opportunities. Through both interpersonal contacts and mediated ones, e.g., television, telephone, and the internet, they can imagine, gain knowledge of, and pursue opportunities of life and marriage in lands far from home.
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