Dialogue models of the subjects of international marriage market (Russia-USA)
Abstract
Dialogue models of the subjects of international marriage market (Russia-USA)
Incoming article date: 02.12.2014In our days the following processes are considerably noticeable: rising communicative - dialogue processes among different gender cultures, intensification of the processes of "publicity" - placing private life for public observation by means of Internet and so on, distinct manifestation in cross-national migration asymmetry and aspirations of Western actors to domination and manipulation, aspiration for “zapadnotsentrizm” among some young Russians, noticeable dialogue determination by characteristics of the national gender-based mezo - and micro-social orders and others, equally important. In this context, the key value factors of micro-social order we consider: 1) activity/initiative; 2) family-centered; 3) economic status; 4) health; 5) morality; (6) aesthetics/appeal; 7) intellectual level. These factors can also be called the main aspects of the personality of the subjects of the marriage market (men and women), which are quite significant in the dialogue and consciously used by actors when looking for a partner for future family life. Modern Western culture (American and European), in general, presupposes spread of gender equality, and in Russia there is such attitude among women, including many marriage migrants. But, as the results of our research show, the Western men (as subjects of the marriage market and certain socio-psychological group, selected mainly on the parameters characteristic of the Patriarchal gender order) do not support the current U.S. and Europe gender order in love/romantic relationships.
Keywords: dialogue model, dialogue distance, intercultural dialogue, modelling of marriage-family behavior