I believe that there are more advantages to having cross cultural relationships. Every culture has its own beliefs and different ways of thinking; by having an open mind to others’ perspectives, we open our eyes to opportunities. An opportunity to watch the world through another’s eyes; maybe helping you see things differently (better or worse), and making …show more content…
It really helped me to understanding culture and cultural values. I have visited the city before my research. It was very fun with gain knowledge and actual experience for studying values and culture.
I studied about high and low context cultures while studying American culture and values. I found that American culture is low context culture. American low context implies that a lot of information is exchanged explicitly through the message itself and rarely is anything implicit or hidden. American People following low context cultures tend to have short-term relationships, follow rules and standards closely and are generally very task-oriented.
As far as my understanding, American culture supports the relationship and love before marriage and have more love marriages than arranged. Relationship before marriage is strictly prohibited in Muslim country cultures but as far as America is concerned as it is country having more individual independence for relationships and love