Love & Culture : English

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!

Allophilia 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)

24.03.08 | communication, identity, multilingualism, tips, understanding | Comments

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

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19.01.08 | biculturalism, bilingualism, books, multilingualism | Comments

Relationship Conflict: Is it cultural or psychological?

elationship 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

Raising children bilingually

Why, What, Who, When, Where?

Raising children bilingually and biculturally should be something that ultimately brings you satisfaction and joy. This doesn’t mean you won’t hit many bumps in the road and at times feel like you are the only person in the world speaking your language.

“Ask Yourself: Why, What, Who, When, Where?“

In this article, Corey Heller, from the Bicultural family Network , explains some inicial considerations about raising kids bilingually and to help you start things off on the right foot.

21.06.07 | biculturalism, bilingualism, binational families, family, multicultural, multilingualism | Comments

Cross-cultural communication in intimate relationships

What is a cross-cultural intimate relationship? What does it has to do with globalization?
The author focuses on one type of intimate relationship, namely romantic and sexual couple relationships and analyses couples in which the partners come from different national and/or linguistic backgrounds. Globalization has a main role in this research concerning the increasing international mobility, international data flow, and international cultural exchange.

Cross-cultural communication in intimate relationships. Ingrid Piller, Basel University. 2007(PDF, 120KB)

15.06.07 | binational families, communication, multicultural, multilingualism |

Favorite Myths about Bilingualism

There are a lot of myths about being a bilingual person. Maybe you are bilingual and you did not know… A bilingual person uses two languages in the everyday life; but it does not mean that this person knows the two (or more) languages equally well and optimally.
Read the following article, written by an expert, and find out another perspective about Bilingualism.
Favorite Myths about Bilingualism by François Grosjean.

8.06.07 | biculturalism, bilingualism, binational families, identity, multicultural, multilingualism | Comments

Mobile Device against Cultural Shock / Juego móvil contra el choque cultural

The University of PortsMouth has developed a mobile phone game to help overseas students deal with culture shock of life in Britain.

Complete article here / Articulo completo aquí

Académicos de la Universidad de PortsMouth han desarrollado un videojuego para móvil, que intenta reducir el choque cultural de los estudiantes extranjeros que van a estudiar a Inglaterra.

28.05.07 | communication, cultural shock, new technologies | Comments

Gender and Multilingualism

The authors of this paper do a brief explanation of how the use of “multilingualism” in direct relation with gender, economic production and social reproduction in the context of globalization.
“Globalization has been described as consisting of flows of goods, capital, communication, and people. Many of these flows throw people of widely different linguistic and cultural backgrounds into contact, be it the flows of information and mass media, or be it actual people flows as in migration and tourism.”
Globalization, Gender and Multilingualism. Ingrid Piller and Aneta Pavlenko, 2007(PDF, 68KB)

23.05.07 | binational families, communication, multilingualism |

Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism (Book)

This book is also from F.Grojean, the same author that wrote Individual Bilingualism . I find his papers very interesting and profesional. You may also want to take a look to this paperwork:

Life with Two Languages contains a wealth of interesting information which, to my knowledge, has not been put together in one source before—particularly in such a cogent and succinct manner…a thoroughly enjoyable treatment of the phenomenon of bilingualism. Comment by: C. Richard Tucker, Director, Center for Applied Linguistics

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5.05.07 | biculturalism, bilingualism, books | Comments