Society and Family

The most common outward factors impacting intercultural relationships and marriages are the approval of the family and the society in which the couple lives. Sometimes the families of the partners display denial, opposition, conflict and lack of approval for their kins partner. Specific issues regarding the family including generational gaps in ideology and how the wedding will be held which ties into how tradition will or will not be practiced. Many intercultural couples report conflict arising over issues of how to carry out child raising and religious worship as well. Dealing with racism from outside sources is also a common area of possible conflict. Currently 70% of the Untied States population has no problem with inter cultural relationships. Reasonably, 30% have meaning protest to interpairings. This is unlike of the fact that 40% of Americans have dated someone outside of their ethnic group.