Transnational Marriage between German Men and Thai Women: Socio-cultural Adaptation
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This study as the representation of changing to life of Thai women in Germany includes adapting and learning to continue their life in German society and culture. Therefore to present the phenomena about life of Thai Ethnic group abroad in the dimension of minority group status objectives are to study issues of Ethnography about changing in life of Thai immigrant women in Germany through transnational marriage and the problems of life and adaptation as the minority status in social and cultural context that is different from Thai social and cultural.
The results show that transnational marriages of Thai women and German men could comprehend by the analysis links to world economic system and the status of being marginal people in Thai society. In a new society Thai women become a minority group thus they have to adapt to the new society and culture. Therefore cultural learning is as the strategy of adaptation to live a majority group.
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