TY  - BOOK
AU  - Popova,Elena
TI  - Through Aliens' Eyes: A View of America and Intercultural Marriages
SN  - 9780875866413
AV  - HQ1032 -- .P67 2008eb 
U1  - 306.84/50973 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Algora Publishing
KW  - Popova, Elena, -- 1963-
KW  - Intercountry marriage -- United States
KW  - Men -- United States
KW  - Women -- Russia (Federation)
KW  - Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions
KW  - Russians -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Through Alien Eyes - A View of America and Intercultural Marriages -- Table of Contents -- "How did you get to the United States?" -- Serious Stuff: Food -- Legends of the Sex Drive -- Pets, the True Love -- Isn't That Custom Strange? -- Myths and Standards -- Several Horror Stories -- Searching Where the Grass is Greener -- "A Nation of Victims" -- The Globe of America -- The War of the Worlds -- Borrowed Lifestyle: American Extravagance -- "Moose and Squirrels!" Or Images of Russians -- Demons She Fights: Adjustment Period -- The Show Must Go On -- Watch Your Language -- To Execute or to Pardon? -- A Woman at the Door -- The Competition of Congregations, or Which Christian is more Christian? -- Analyze This -- When Martians and Venusians Clash -- Russian Men vs. Their Western Counterparts -- The Land of Loneliness -- Meanings and Means: "Just Click Away" -- Lies, Love, and Humiliation: Visa Stories -- Technically Speaking -- What the Statistics Reveal -- Goods and Services -- Hook #1: Appreciation -- Hook #2: Appearance -- Hook #3: Dating Statistics Will Not Let You Down - Guaranteed -- Hook #4: She Will Relocate Anywhere -- Hook #5. The Legendary Success of Marriages -- Hook # 6: We Have What You Need -- Creating a Victim -- Tactics of Violence -- First Person Stories -- Love: Russian Style -- A Young Wife's Diary -- From the Horse's Mouth, Or So Horse Says -- Back on Track -- Russians Talk -- Snapshots -- Resurrection Killed -- Needle in Haystack -- "That's Life" -- Storybook Endings -- Bridges and Dividers -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography
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