Relationships

Conclusion

This chapter has been focused on the exploration of some common intercultural relationships. It is important to consider intercultural relationships within the societies in which they develop. Because of cultural norms, participants in intercultural relationships must develop unique strategies to appease the "outside world".

This chapter looked at the benefits and challenges of intercultural relationships along with some cultural patterns to note. We lamented the sparsity of interculturally focused research and wished that there was more available. Hopefully, the take-away is that intercultural relationships can be filled with many kinds of differences and many kinds of similarities. The key to these relationships is often an interesting balance between the two plus the specific people involved.