Hansel and Gretel Revisited: Quixotic Reflections of Online Dating

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Quixotic Reflections of Online Dating

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Pages:: 25–50

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004401303_002

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Abstract

The unprecedented wave of immigrants relocating to western societies makes this a propitious time for interdisciplinary research to focus on identity negotiation. Studies in multicultural contexts offer fascinating insights into the complexities of human interaction, revealing that – irrespective of age – dynamic remodelling of identity still occurs (Blackledge & Pavlenko, 2001; Giguère, Lalonde, & Lou, 2010; Mahtani, 2002). The transitional processes of acculturation in Australia from the sixties onwards provide compelling evidence that our social interactions are in stark contrast with those within our cultural group. Placed in relief with the host national group, the perceptions of self, derived from these interactions thus give rise to the dynamic negotiation of our identity. The traumatised childhood of young migrants whose identity was transformed through ‘intercultural mirrors’ projecting racism and discrimination can leave residual effects on intimate adult relationships. This chapter explores the impacts of the quixotic images projected from online dating through the lens of a fifty-something, Franco-Australian professional, Coco. Her ethnographic chronicle and introspection place her identity reconstruction through intercultural contact with her suitors under the microscope,¹ and documents simultaneously how those mirrors are effecting dynamic changes to sociocultural norms.

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Intercultural Mirrors

Dynamic Reconstruction of Identity

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004401303

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 07 May 2019

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Foreword

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Expansion of Self through Intercultural Experiences

Chapter 2 Hansel and Gretel Revisited

Chapter 3 Doni Doni Kononi Danala – Little by Little the Little Bird Builds Its Nest

Chapter 4 Migration and Making Sense of Place

Chapter 5 Mirror Mirror: What Culture Am I?

Chapter 6 Spreading Roots Globally, Losing Roots Locally

Chapter 7 Barceloneta as Heterotopic Mirror

Chapter 8 Reflection and Aspiration

Chapter 9 Becoming a Person through Intercultural Communication

Chapter 10 Affect Mirrors

Chapter 11 List Yourself

Chapter 12 I’m So Normal, I Must Be Different

Chapter 13 The Decentred Delegate

Chapter 14 Scotland the Brave?

Chapter 15 Intercultural Mirrors and Cultural Humility

Chapter 16 Cultural Observations and a Conversation about Drawing by a Wandering Artist

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