Around the world, intercultural contact prompted by modern globalization has reconstituted private dimensions of people’s lives. One such private dimension that has been significantly reshaped is that of kinship networks, due in part to the increasing feasibility and normalization of transnational marriage. This study examines perspectives of transnational marriage among adolescents and parents in northern Thailand, where such intimate intercultural relationships are increasingly common. Eighty Thai participants, evenly divided by ecological context (rural, urban) and generational cohort (adolescent, parent), participated in semi-structured interviews in which perspectives of Thai–foreigner marriages were discussed. Participants’ moral evaluations were examined quantitatively and moral reasoning was examined qualitatively. Quantitative analysis revealed that participants across ecological contexts and generational cohorts agreed that transnational marriage is mostly morally right and a little morally wrong. Qualitative analysis revealed differences across ecological contexts and across generations in the urban setting in values endorsed to support their evaluations. Rural adolescent and parent evaluations of transnational marriage were largely informed by local Thai values, urban adolescent evaluations were informed by autonomous Western values, and urban parent evaluations were driven by local and Western values. The distinct values endorsed across contexts and across generations in the urban setting point to how ecological realities—particularly exposure to and embeddedness in individualistic globalization discourses—shape perspectives of intimate intercultural relationships.

在世界范围内，由现代全球化推动的跨文化交往已经重新构成了人们生活的私人层面。亲属关系网络是一种已经显着改变的私人领域，部分原因是跨国婚姻的可行性和正常化程度不断提高。这项研究考察了泰国北部青少年和父母之间跨国婚姻的观点，那里这种亲密的跨文化关系越来越普遍。80名泰国参与者按生态环境（农村，城市）和世代队列（青少年，父母）平均划分，参加了半结构化访谈，讨论了泰国与外国婚姻的观点。参与者的道德评估被定量检查，道德推理被定性检查。定量分析表明，跨生态环境和代际同龄人的参与者都同意，跨国婚姻在道德上主要是对的，而在道德上则是不对的。定性分析显示，在不同的生态环境下，以及在城市环境中的不同世代，其支持其评估的价值观都存在差异。农村青少年和跨国婚姻的父母评价主要是由泰国当地价值观决定的，城市青少年评价是由西方自治价值观决定的，而城市父母的评价则受当地和西方价值观的影响。