It could be said that most individuals experience stress if they enter a relationship in which cultural differences are involved. These commonly take the form of differences in religious background, taste in foods, ways of keeping house, managing money, negotiating power. Migrants can bring particular issues to the relationship, such as homesickness. The family of origin of each individual will also influence them through direct pressure and expectations, unconscious beliefs about the rightness of things, and differences in expectations about how much time will be spent with family of origin – to name just a few of the major struggles … Continue reading Cultural differences