On this website you´ll find a find a fine collection of articles concerning long distance and bi-cultural relationships. Select in themes the subject that you are interested in, or click on articles to see all articles.
Please feel free to send me your comments, experiences, articles, and please forward it to your friends or family that may be going though a similar situation.
En este sitio encontrarás una fina selección de artículos sobre relaciones a distancia y biculturales. Selecciona en themes el tema que te interesa o haz click en articles para ver todos los artículos.
Sientánse libres de enviarme sus comentarios, experiencias o artículos. No olviden mandarla a esos amigos que están pasando por una relación o a distancia o bicultural, talvez los pueda ayudar a entender y salir adelante con la relación.
Auf dieser Seite finden Sie eine Auswahl wissenschaftlicher Artikel über Fernbeziehungen und bikulturelle Partnerschaften. Bitte wählen Sie bei themes ein Thema aus oder klicken Sie auf articles um alle Artikeln angezeigt zu bekommen. Wenn Sie sich in einer derartigen Fern- oder bikulturellen Beziehung befinden und sich über Ihre Erfahrungen austauschen möchten, zögern Sie nicht, mir Ihre Kommentare, Erfahrungen oder Texte zu schicken!
How to Tell If Your Long Distance Relationship is at Risk
Lately, I have notice a lot of frustration and indifference from close friends that are going through a Long Distance Relationship. The distance is a significant factor, but also the lack of common goals or plans for the future. It is difficult to help them or to say if it is going to work or not, it depends on their effort and priorities in life. I found this interesting questionnaire that helps to determine how difficult an LDR could be and will help pinpoint areas within the person and within the relationship that may be particularly at risk from the separation.
Read it here: The Separation Inventory
2.05.09 | | CommentsFeminist Views of Cybersex: Victimization, Liberation, and Empowerment
“Cybersex can be defined as a social interaction between at least two persons who are exchanging real time digital messages in order to become sexually aroused and satisfied. This article first describes video- and text-based cybersex as a new kind of sexual encounter with its own particularities. Then the feminist literature on cybersex is reviewed revealing two basic perspectives: The victimization perspective interprets cybersex as a heterosexist practice, and focuses on how women and girls as individuals and as a group are harmed by online-harassment, virtual rape and cyber-prostitution. The liberation perspective, in contrast, focuses on the options computer-mediated communication offers women and girls who actively seek sexual pleasure online. From that viewpoint, cybersex frees females to explore their sexualities more safely and to enjoy more sex, better sex and different sex”.
This article, from Nicola Döring , criticizes both the victimization and the liberation perspective and offers an integrative empowerment perspective that acknowledges power discourse as an essential sexual issue online and off.
Read the complete paper here: Döring, N. (2000). Feminist Views of Cybersex: Victimization, Liberation, and Empowerment. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 3 (5), 863-884.
And what about the Gay Long Distance Relationships? (GLDR)
We always talk about how difficult the LDRs are, but there are special kinds of LDR that make them even more complex. This is the case of the Gay Long Distance Relationships. I know many cases of GLDR, however there are not many articles in the web talking about that. In the following article Ivi writes about her experience of a bicultural 4-year long relationship at the distance with another woman. Read the complete article here: And what about the Gay Long Distance Relationships?
Sensation: a Presence Enabler for Long-Distance Relationships using Skype and Visual Presence Representation
“In this paper Eric Wahlforss and Alexander Ljung describe “Sensation”: “a system that enables two persons to establish a non-intrusive audiovisual link between one another, utilizing Skype for audio transmission and subtle pulsating lights for presence indication. Sensation is not a phone, not a conference system, and – most importantly – it is not about connecting just spaces. The Sensation is a presence enabler in longdistance relationships, connecting people who happen to live far apart. It is intended as a realistic near-future consumer product, as such affordable and easy to use”. Complete PDF and Foto here: Sensation: a Presence Enabler for Long-Distance Relationships using Skype and Visual Presence Representation
Biculturalism unpacked: Components, individual differences, measurement, and outcomes
Are you bicultural? How could you mesure your “biculturality”? In this research, Veronica Benet-Martinez and Angela Nguyen introduce the concept of biculturalism and unpacks its components. They discuss ways of measuring biculturalism and explain new concepts, like BII or Bicultural Identity Integration. A magnific paperwork in the framework of the discussion about globalization, migration and integration.
Read PDF: Biculturalism Unpacked: Components, Measurement, Individual Differences, and
Outcomes. Nguyen, & Benet-Martínez. (2007). Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Misunderstandings
Even if you know your partner´s culture “very well” there will always be misunderstandings that could lead to conflict. When there´s something that your cultural knowledge does´t really understand, our minds try to twist the incoming information to make it fit in our worldview. “Since different cultures have very different worldviews, cross-cultural communication is especially likely to change meaning between sender and receiver, as the sender may have a very different worldview from the receiver.” The following article explains about the source of misunderstandings and how to avoid them.
Misunderstandings. By Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess. September 2003. Source: Beyond Intractability
An experimental study of bilingual couple´s communication
Language practices by bilingual couples has not been deeply investigated yet. Piller makes an excellent approach of the methods that could be use when researching on how bilingual couples communicate.
An experimental study of bilingual couple´s communication. Ingrid Piller. University of Hamburg(PDF, 1,94MB)
25.04.08 | biculturalism, binational families, communication, experiences, multicultural | CommentsAllophilia and Intergroup Leadership
Why not promoting liking of other groups instead of keep talking about prejudice and tolerance? I find that Todd Pittinksky developes a very interesting approach of reducing problems like racism, sexism, discrimination and you know the rest… and he argues that the necessary approach is not to replace prejudice with the neutral stance of tolerance. He uses the concept of allophilia, that provides a powerful anchor for a new framework for understanding intergroup leadership. “To help solve some of our most pressing domestic and global public problems, social scientists must develop an equally sophisticated understanding of intergroup liking and love.”
Allophilia and Intergroup Leadership. By Todd L. Pittinsky. 2005 (PDF, 200KB)
Individual bilingualism
In this paper, François Grosjean, from the Neuchâtel University in Switzerland, describes the bilingual person and addresses such issues as bilingual language behavior, the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of bilingualism, as well as the psychology of the bilingual individual. He also introduces the bicultural person and discuss topics such as bicultural identity and bicultural behavior.
Individual bilingualism. F. Grosjean. Elsevier, 1999
Relationship Conflict: Is it cultural or psychological?
Sometimes conflicts come from cultural differences, but in other cases, the psychological factor is decisive…“When you are trying to decide if a conflict with your spouse is cultural or psychological, assume the stronger your emotional response to the conflict, the more likely some psychological factors are involved. “
Relationship Conflict by Harriet Cannon (PDF, 1,03MB)
11.07.07 | advice, communication, multicultural, romance, tips | Comments
