Posts Tagged ‘Extended Families’
When Cultural Expectations Collide During the Holidays: Strategies for Multicultural Families
Posted on Oct 06 2012 under Multicultural marriage, Previous Programs | Tags: accommodate, compromise, Conflict Connections, Cultural Identity, Customs, Daniel Huerta, Extended Families, Family Values, Focus on The Family, Holiday Conflict, holidays, Multicultural Families, Pattie Porter, Religious Beliefs, Traditions
The holidays bring together families with long-held traditions, customs and celebrations. These holiday traditions are founded in our roots…our cultural identity, religious beliefs, and family values. The customs and traditions are sacred. But what happens when two families merge a multi-cultural or interracial marriage? Each family brings with them their own cultural expectations with different values and priorities. The pressures to conform and to honor those traditions of the other family can cause stress and fracture points not only in the marriage but between the in-laws and extended families. Multi-cultural families have a unique need to bend, flex, compromise and accommodate one another’s contrasting ways.
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