Negotiating the Intra-ethnic, Intercultural marriage divide

GEUC 4011 VJ01Liu Yim FongWong Yi LingWong Kin Kei

Hung Man Chun

• Within a national or racial group of people

• Chinese

Intra-ethnic

• Marriage between or among people with different cultural background

• Hong Kong and Mainland China

Intercultural marriage

• traditional marriage between male and female, marriage between Hong Kong and mainlander

Marriage

• were born in HK and have grown up in HK until 18 years old

Hong Konger

• were born in Mainland China and have grown up in Mainland until 18 years old

Mainlander

Research Questions

Intercultural marriage•W

hat are the hurdles?

•How to maintain their relationship?

•How to solve the difference in their culture?

Relevance

Hong Kong as a global

city

Population of non-Hong Kong people increases

Marriage between Hong

Kong and mainland people

increases

Trend of globalizati

on

People with different cultural

background will be easier to join

together

Marriage between Hong

Kong and mainland people

increases

Methodology

• Interview• Questionnaire

Interview

• structured interviews for couples with different financial background

Couples

• Structured interviews for organizations that provide support for those couples

Organizations

QuestionnaireTarget• Schoolmates in university

Significance

• find out how people feel about intercultural-marriage

• find out how much people know about intercultural-marriage, eg difficulties faced after marriage

Tentative Conclusion

People usually think that their culture is better, and they may want their partner follows them(sense of superiority)

People who are well educated and have family members with similar situation can maintain a longer relationship

Intercultural marriage usually lasts shorter than marriage between the same culture

Tentative Conclusion

Implication

More intercultural marriage may cause more family disputes especially for people who come from the lower class of the society

WHO?

•Government? Social welfare department ? Voluntary society?

HOW?

•Workshop / professional advice on marriage

WHY?

•To maintain the stability of the society

Sep: conducting interviews with couples and distributing questionaires to fellow university students

Oct: analyzing interview and questionaires’ result

Nov-Dec: finalizing our project ,work on presentation and written report

Planned working schedule