Communications (Essay Sample)

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Intercultural relationships are affairs that involve individuals or groups with dissimilar cultural views. Interpersonal relationships, on the other hand, comprise strong interactions between people or groups who understand each other at personal levels. The latter relationship arises from love, social commitments, inference, or solidarity between the parties involved. The former relationship comes up after the respective parties knowing how they appear before other people with different cultural beliefs. The matching hypothesis, which says that successful relationships are mostly for people attracted to individuals who are as good as them, requires people to choose their friends/partners wisely (Dwyer 74).
Eve’s intercultural relationship with Dennis, who originated from Africa, dated back in the year 2009. They took the same course at Oxford University. Eve did an intensive research on Dennis’ background. She managed to accept their cultural differences and developed a friendly relationship with Dennis. Dennis’ initial beliefs were acceptable. This saw their bonding happen very fast, and it was possible for them to participate in an intercultural communication. The main source of the bond was their similarity in the sense that they both disliked jealousy and anyone talking ill about religions. They also believed that cultural affiliations were individualistic orientations and it was worth experimenting for any possibility of having a successful relationship/friendship, and respect the idea of collectivist orientation that supports cohesion.
Given the proximity of their houses, they could visit each other at their homes. Their intercultural relationship developed into an interpersonal relationship. However, Eve was subjected to a culture shock when realized that Dennis was a proponent of polygamy. Eve regretted having met and got intimidate with him. Although he had Eve’s preferred personality, Dennis’ culture was truth bias and full of deception. Polygamy has contributed to the passing away of many people due to domestic and interpersonal violence. It has also caused sudden deaths. Women, who are victims of polygamy, commit suicides when they do not feel loved by their husbands. They prefer terminating their lives to watching their husbands avoiding them and paying attention to their co-wives (Karis and Killian 107). Dennis’ culture was circumscribing the powers of women within their society. Initiating a withdrawal/avoidance process was the best thing for Eve to do because integrating Dennis’ culture into her customs was unattainable.
Eve knew that Dennis’ cultural attractiveness to her was fading away, and her perception of their homogeneity was wrong. Their relationship was stagnating rather than improving. She knew that Dennis would apply Machiavellian tactics in life and marry another wife. Eve had ruled out marrying anyone subscribing to polygamy. This was the genesis of their hurtful messages that they sent to each other. Their conflict kept on intensifying on a daily basis, and differentiating them from a disorganized couple was difficult.
The relation between Eve and Dennis falls on the social penetrati...