The topic of interpersonal relationships and the factors that enhance the longevity and strength of these have been well documented. Whilst there has been a steady increase in the occurrence of interracial relationships, it has not been matched by an increase in studies on the phenomenon and indeed very little empirical attention has been given to these relationships. Leslie and Letiecq (2004) highlight that the existing research on the phenomenon focuses primarily on the reasons individuals select partners outside of their own racial group. As interracial marriages are reportedly more vulnerable to divorce than marriages among same-race individuals, it seems important to examine the dynamics and quality of interracial relationships (Leslie & Letiecq, 2004). The goal of the study was therefore to explore the cross-cultural differences that inform the experiences, challenges, and strengths for partners in committed interracial relationships. In this qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual study, the author has explored and described the specific cross-cultural differences that the couple has encountered in their relationship and the impact that these differences have had on the quality of their relationship. Furthermore the study aimed to explore and describe the strengths the couple has drawn from these cross-cultural differences to enhance the quality of their relationship. A combination of purposive and snowball sampling techniques has been utilised to identify interracial couples who have been in a committed monogamous relationship of at least one year. The sample consisted of eleven individuals. Semi-structured individual interviews were utilised as the data collection tool, and Tesch‟s model of data analysis (in Creswell, 1998) has been employed. This model of data analysis consists of eight steps that have been used to analyse the data. Five themes emerged from the study: (1) cultural difference factors, (2) negative factors that influence the couple‟s coping with cultural differences, (3) positive factors that influence the couple‟s coping with cultural differences, (4) factors relating to cultural differences that strengthen the relationship and (5) recommendations to other interracial couples. The findings of the study make a meaningful contribution to couple counselling interventions for interracial couples, and also add to the body of knowledge on this sparsely researched topic.

Cross-group relationships are defined by romantic relationships involving two individuals from distinct racial or ethnic groups. For this paper, the terms “interethnic” and “interracial” are used as specifiers for the umbrella terms, “intergroup” and “cross-group.” Studies examining whether cross-group romantic relationships are more or less satisfying than intergroup romantic relationships have yielded discrepant findings. Through a systematic review and meta-analysis of 27 studies, we found that there are no significant difference between cross-group and intergroup relationship satisfaction (aggregate d = .024, 95% CI [-0.076; 0.123]). Tests of moderation found that the amount of Asian participants included in individual studies on cross-group relationship satisfaction is significantly associated with effect size d (β = .005, p = .02; 95% CI [.001; .008]).

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This thesis embarks on efforts to understand how effective is multiculturalism in addressing ethnic cleavages in post-conflict societies. Kosovo, as a post-socialist and post-war country, is the particular case analyzed in order to understand how multiculturalist policies have in the last fifteen years affected interethnic relations in the country. By embarking on a case study approach, I use two main methods, interviewing and document analysis, as a means of triangulation to reinforce the arguments used in the analysis and interpretation of data. Liberal multiculturalism as elaborated by Kymlicka is the theoretical model which is used continuously to give meaning to the empirical data analyzed. The success of multiculturalism is approached in two respects: first, I look at what went wrong during the implementation of such multicultural policies, namely, the approach of international community in addressing interethnic relations through the introduction of group-rights. Secondly, I look specifically at the elements of liberal multiculturalism and how did they affect interethnic relations for the last fifteen years. The thesis shows a shared blame for the persisting fragility of interethnic relations in Kosovo both to the approach of the international community, as well as to the multiculturalist model itself.

Магистерская диссертация «Роль молодежных организаций в гармонизации межэтнических отношений и профилактике экстремизма в молодежной среде на примере Североуральского городского округа Свердловской области» состоит из введения, двух частей, заключения, библиографического списка, приложений. В теоретической части представлены особенности роли молодежных организаций в профилактике экстремизма в молодежной среде: основные понятия, теоретические подходы, проанализированы межэтнические отношения в молодежной среде: основные понятия и пути их гармонизации посредством молодежных организаций. В практической части описывается разработка программы по профилактике экстремизма и гармонизации межнациональных отношений с привлечением потенциала молодежных организаций Североуральского городского округа, обозначены особенности реализации и анализ программы по профилактике экстремизма и гармонизации межнациональных отношений в учреждении по работе с молодежью на примере Муниципального казенного учреждения «Объединение молодёжно-подростковых клубов Североуральского городского округа. В заключении подведены итоги в соответствии с поставленными задачами. Цель исследования – разработка программы по профилактике экстремизма и гармонизации межнациональных отношений с привлечением потенциала молодежных организаций Североуральского городского округа Свердловской области. Объем работы составил 94 страницы. В работе содержатся 4 таблицы, 8 рисунков, 1 приложение. В библиографическом списке представлен 61 источник. / The master's thesis "The role of youth organizations in the harmonization of interethnic relations and the prevention of extremism among young people on the example of the North Ural City District of the Sverdlovsk region" consists of an introduction, two parts, conclusion, bibliography, appendices. In the theoretical part, the features of the role of youth organizations in the prevention of extremism in the youth environment are presented: basic concepts, theoretical approaches, interethnic relations in the youth environment are analyzed: basic concepts and ways of their harmonization through youth organizations. The practical part describes the development of a program for the prevention of extremism and the harmonization of interethnic relations with the involvement of the potential of youth organizations of the North Ural city district, outlines the specifics of the implementation and analysis of the program for the prevention of extremism and the harmonization of interethnic relations in the institution for youth work on the example of the Municipal state Institution "Association of Youth and Adolescent clubs of the North Ural City District. In conclusion, the results are summed up in accordance with the tasks set. The purpose of the study is to develop a program for the prevention of extremism and the harmonization of interethnic relations with the involvement of the potential of youth organizations of the North Ural City District of the Sverdlovsk region. The volume of work was 94 pages. The work contains 4 tables, 8 figures, 1 appendix. The bibliographic list contains 61 sources.

Orientador: Paulo Eduardo Teixeira / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o processo de construção da visibilidade de Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira para o campo da antropologia brasileira, mais especificamente na elaboração do conceito de fricção interétnica, na elaboração do conceito de equilíbrio poliparadigmático na antropologia mundial, no papel das antropologias periféricas na renovação da disciplina, e nos itinerários intelectuais na fundação dos modernos Programas de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social do País. Para tanto, além de analisarmos as obras do autor que tratem especificamente de nosso objetivo, analisamos também duas perspectivas distintas que classificam o autor de diferentes formas, uma que entende que ser Cardoso de Oliveira o produtor da antropologia mais original feita em nossa história disciplinar, e outra que entende a sua contribuição, pelo contrário, como sociológica. / Abstract: This research aims to analyze the process of constructing the visibility of Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira to the field of Brazilian anthropology, more specifically in the elaboration of the concept of interethnic friction, in the elaboration of the concept of Polyparadigmatic equilibrium in world anthropology, in the role of peripheral anthropologies in the renewal of discipline, and in the intellectual itineraries in the founding of modern postgraduate programs in Social Anthropology of the country. To do so, besides analyzing the author's works specifically addressing our goal, we also analyze two distinct perspectives that classify the author in different ways, one that understands that being Cardoso de Oliveira the producer of anthropology more Original made in our disciplinary history, and another that understands its contribution, on the contrary, as sociological. / Mestre

A partir d’une ethnographie réalisée à bord de quatre navires différents, la thèse invite à une réflexion sur la notion de fluidité commerciale entendue comme recherche permanente de la continuité et de la circulation des marchandises. Se détachant d’une analyse globale du flux, la thèse s’intéresse à la manière dont celui-ci se construit, se négocie, se refuse au cœur de l’activité des marins embarqués. Parce que la genèse de cette fluidité trouve ses origines sur terre, la première partie offre un éclairage sur les multiples acteurs gravitant autour du navire : Etats, armateurs, affréteurs, intermédiaires, et organisations de contrôle, constituent le « macro-système-technique » du fret maritime qui alimentent, affrètent, assistent et contrôlent le navire. La deuxième partie montre comment la prédominance de cette logique de fluidité s’est traduite par la mise en place d’un marché du travail international, dont l’objectif est d’avoir à disposition un facteur travail libre, pouvant suivre les fluctuations des navires. Source d’instabilités nouvelles, cette ouverture des marchés nationaux du travail appelle toutefois à de nouvelles régulations. Enfin, la troisième partie montre que, du fait de collectifs de travail éclatés, des risques du navire, et de l’impératif de continuité, l’activité des marins de commerce se caractérise par de multiples formes d’arrangements et de bricolages. Isolé et replié sur son huis-clos le navire apparaît comme une entité prise au cœur d’un réseau complexe, faisant intervenir de multiples acteurs. Dans ce réseau, la continuité s’obtient au prix de négociation et de compromis fragiles. Elle se nourrit d’un contrôle rapproché du navire et de l’activité des marins, qui ne remet cependant pas en cause l’isolement du bateau puisque, sur bien des aspects, cet isolement est une condition centrale de cette fluidité. / Based on an ethnography realised aboard four different ships, the dissertation encourages reflexion over the notion of commercial fluidity, understood as the the ongoing search of consistency and the movement of goods. Instead of working on an overall analysis of the flow, the dissertation focuses on the way this flow is built, negotiated and is denied within the work of the seamen. As this concept of fluidity was originally conceived on land, the first part of the dissertation provides insights into the numerous players revolving around the ship and its activity: States, shipowners, charterers, intermediaries and monitoring organisations form the « technical macro-system » of the maritime freight by supplying, chartering, assisting and monitoring the ship. The second part demonstrates how the prevalence of this system of fluidity resulted in the development of a global labour market aimed at having an free labour factor that is able to adapt to the fluctuations of the ship. Leading to new instabilities, the opening-up of national labour markets requires on the other hand the introduction of new regulations. Last but not least, the third part demonstrates that, as a result of the fragmentation of labour collectives, the risks associated with vessel navigation as well as the necessity of maintaining consistency, the activity of merchant seafarers is characterised by many types of arrangements and deals. Isolated and folded on itself, the ship appears as an entity involving many actors and located at the heart of a large and complex network. Within this network, consistency is obtained through negotiation and delicate compromise. This consistency is driven by a close monitoring of the ship and the seafarers activity, which does not undermine the isolation of the ship however since this isolation is a condition to fluidity.

Dans le sud du Gabon et le Congo limitrophe, les Pygmées Babongo constituent un groupe disséminé dont l’homogénéité demeure à démontrer. Ils ont jusqu’à récemment fait l’objet de peu d’investigations scientifiques, vraisemblablement en raison de leur apparente moindre adéquation avec les stéréotypes associés aux Pygmées en Afrique centrale. Fondée sur une ethnographie focalisée sur les monts du Chaillu, cette thèse contribue à leur meilleure connaissance. Le partage, par ces Babongo, des institutions sociales et culturelles de leurs voisins non-pygmées Mitsogo et Masangu invite d’emblée à penser l’analyse en termes de relations interethniques. La thèse s’attache ainsi à caractériser la relation Pygmées/non-Pygmées, qui se distingue de la relation entre non-Pygmées par sa qualité foncièrement bivalente et asymétrique. Deux cadres d’analyse sont mobilisés à cette fin : le « pays mobongo » (sing. de babongo) et la musique principalement rituelle. L’expression analytique « pays mobongo » souligne en termes géographiques le rôle central des Babongo dans la reproduction d’une société pluriethnique malgré leur statut de cadets sociaux. La musique, dont l’expertise est créditée aux Babongo, est envisagée comme un mode de communication articulant un contenu et une relation. Différentes échelles d’observation sont mobilisées : le matériau sonore et ses règles ; la performance ; la performance dans sa récurrence. Ce jeu d’échelles permet de considérer tant la production que la perception de la musique. Il interroge également en termes communicationnels les régimes de plasticité du changement musical. La logique de la relation Pygmées/non-Pygmées émerge quant à elle du plan méta-communicationnel de la pratique musicale rituelle. L’analyse de cette dernière met en évidence les perspectives babongo et voisines sur la relation interethnique, ainsi qu’une analogie entre les relations Babongo/voisins et femmes/hommes. En outre, la bivalence caractéristique de la relation interethnique est suggérée comme relevant notamment de la co-adhésion des Babongo à deux systèmes normatifs. Il apparaît enfin que ce qui distingue les Babongo de leurs voisins les rapproche en définitive d’autres populations pygmées d’Afrique centrale. / In southern Gabon and neighboring Congo, Babongo Pygmies form a dispersed group whose homogeneity remains to be demonstrated. If they have received little scientific attention until recently, this is probably because the stereotypes associated with Pygmy groups elsewhere in Central Africa do not seem to apply easily to them. Based on an ethnography focused on the Chaillu mountains area, this thesis contributes to a better knowledge of this population. The fact that the Babongo (sing. mobongo) have the same social and cultural institutions as their Mitsogo and Masangu non-Pygmy neighbors makes it tempting to analyze their interrelationship in ethnic terms. The thesis aims to characterize the Pygmy/non-Pygmy relationship, which is distinct from that between non-Pygmy groups, by its fundamentally bivalent and asymmetric qualities. The argument makes use of two analytical frameworks: “mobongo land” on the one hand, and mainly ritual music on the other. The conceptual entity “mobongo land” emphasizes in geographic terms the central role the Babongo play in the reproduction of the multi-ethnic society that inhabits this area, in spite of their lower social status. The Babongo are considered skilled musicians, and music is treated here as a means of communication linking together a content and a relationship. Various levels of observation are made use of: the musical material and its rules of composition, its performance itself, and the recurrence of performative events. Considering these various levels allows for both the production as well as the perception of music to be taken into account. It also frames the plasticity of musical change in communicational terms. The underlying logic of the relationship between Pygmy and non-Pygmy communities emerges from the meta-communicational dimension of musical practice in ritual contexts. Analysis of this practice highlights the perspectives held by the Babongo and their non-Pygmy neighbors on their interethnic relationship, as well as the analogy that exists between the Babongo/neighbor relationship and that held to exist between women and men. Additionally, I suggest that the characteristic ambivalence of the interethnic relationship in mobongo land derives above all from the Babongo’s compliance with two normative systems. In the end, it appears that that which most distinguishes the Babongo from their neighbors ultimately moves them closer to other Pygmy groups in Central Africa.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:54:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WanderleyGA.pdf: 1182626 bytes, checksum: fab31d702fe03512e0c198a8c52efd6d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-28 / This dissertation present an analysis of the interethnic conflict between Makuxi and Wapixana at the current moment in the Maloca of the Adobe, Aboriginal Land Fox-Mountain range of the Sun, in the State of Roraima. The theoretical field was boarded in the Ethnology, pursuing situations in local history, with edges in ethno-history. The research elapsed of the deepening necessity on the social relations and aboriginal politics, for the intercultural professional exercise of educator, appealing the bibliographical survey and participant comment as method; not directive interviews, photographs, filmings and daily register in of field, as techniques carried through in the period of 2006 to 2007. Although to inhabit in the same area and to establish marriages between itself, individuals and groups express tensions, aggravated with the landmark and legal recognition of the area, which generated inter dispute and intraetnias, mainly with the intrusion of farmers, rizicultores and the form of governmental influence. A relation of rivalry, individual and collective was evidenced, suggesting the strengthenig and not it fractionly, of the fights external politics, interns and in way to the cultural diversity and social adversity / Esta disserta??o apresenta uma an?lise do conflito inter?tnico entre Makuxi e Wapixana no momento atual na Maloca do Barro, Terra Ind?gena Raposa-Serra do Sol, no Estado de Roraima. O campo te?rico foi abordado na Etnologia, perseguindo situa??es na hist?ria local, com margens na etno-hist?ria. A pesquisa decorreu da necessidade de aprofundamento sobre as rela??es sociais e pol?ticas ind?genas, para o exerc?cio profissional intercultural de professor, recorrendo a levantamento bibliogr?fico e observa??o participante como m?todos; entrevistas n?o diretivas, fotografias, filmagens e registro em di?rio de campo, como t?cnicas realizadas no per?odo de 2006 a 2007. Apesar de habitarem a mesma ?rea e estabelecerem casamentos entre si, indiv?duos e grupos expressam tens?es, agravadas com a demarca??o e reconhecimento legal da ?rea, a qual gerou disputa inter e intra-etnias, principalmente com a intrus?o de fazendeiros e rizicultores e a forma de influ?ncia governamental. Foi constatada uma rela??o de rivalidade, individual e coletiva, sugerindo o fortalecimento e n?o o fracionamento, das lutas pol?ticas, internas e externas em meio ? diversidade cultural e adversidade social

The purpose of this thesis was to examine the attitudes of Vietnamese Americans towards Vietnamese interracial marriages. It also sought to extend previous research in this field and incorporate insights regarding the literature of Vietnamese, Vietnamese- American, and American culture to the literature that addresses the question of interracial marriage. The research question of this paper was, "What are the attitudes of Vietnamese Americans toward interracial marriage between Vietnamese Americans and other races?" The methodology used was a self-administered anonymous questionnaire given to a limited group of Vietnamese participants in California to gather their views on this subject. The results suggest that the Vietnamese surveyed are more accepting of interracial marriages than the literature would suggest.