Hello,<\/p>\n
I am a final year Chinese Studies student at the University of Sheffield, England, UK. I am currently doing a dissertation research project into Chinese-British interracial marriages, concentrating on mainland Chinese who marry British citizens.<\/p>\n
I have written a dissertation questionnaire which is below. I would very much appreciate it if anyone in a Chinese-British\/American marriage could do the questionnaire – it should only take about 15mins at the most.
\nPlease send the completed questionnaire back to: ega00evg@sheffield.ac.uk<\/p>\n
Thanks very much for your help!<\/p>\n
Emma Gutteridge<\/p>\n
QUESTIONNAIRE<\/p>\n
Sex: M \/ F<\/p>\n
Ethnicity: (Chinese, British, etc)<\/p>\n
Age:<\/p>\n
When you first met:<\/p>\n
1. Were you looking for a marriage partner when you met your spouse?<\/p>\n
2. How and where did you meet?<\/p>\n
3. What first attracted you to your spouse?
\n(Looks, personality, education, economics, all of these?)<\/p>\n
4. Why do you think your spouse was first attracted to you?<\/p>\n
5. Who instigated the relationship, you or your partner?<\/p>\n
6. What did you have in common \/ not have in common?
\n(Views, interests, personality traits, etc)<\/p>\n
When you got married:<\/p>\n
7. How long had you know your prospective spouse when you decided to get married?<\/p>\n
8. Why did you decide to get married?<\/p>\n
9. When did you tell your family and how worried were you about their reaction? What was their reaction?<\/p>\n
10. How did your friends react to your relationship initially?
\nHow did they react to your decision to get married?<\/p>\n
11. When and where did you marry?
\nWas the marriage difficult or easy to organise or apply for?<\/p>\n
12. Do you think it is easier these days to marry someone of a different nationality? Why?<\/p>\n
Married life:<\/p>\n
13. Where do you and your spouse live now?<\/p>\n
14. Where do you intend to settle and live in the future?<\/p>\n
15. What has been the reaction of people in the street towards you and your spouse (in the U.K., in China\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6)?
\nWhy do you think they reacted in this way?<\/p>\n
16. Did you expect that you would marry someone who was not of the same nationality as yourself?<\/p>\n
17. Do you know anyone else who is in a Sino-British \/ Sino-European relationship or marriage?<\/p>\n
Cultural differences:<\/p>\n
18. Do you think married life between two people of different nationalities \/ cultures differs to married life between two people of the same (or your) nationality?
\nIf so, how does it differ?<\/p>\n
19. Are there \/ do you notice many other interracial couples (Chinese and British \/ European) in China or the U.K.?<\/p>\n
20. Can you think of any general reasons why a Chinese person might choose to marry someone of a different nationality rather than a Chinese person?<\/p>\n
21. Can you think of any general reasons why a British \/ Western person might choose to marry someone of a different nationality rather than a British \/ Western person?<\/p>\n
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