Chinese Attitudes Towards Gay Marriage

This assignment analyzes Chinese people living in Australia's perspectives on gay marriage. It delves into demographic factors such as age and gender to identify any correlations between these variables and opinions on the topic. The study utilizes survey data to gauge public sentiment and presents its findings with careful consideration for ethical implications surrounding sensitive issues.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................2
2.0 Research Aim.............................................................................................................................2
3.0 Methodology..............................................................................................................................2
3.1 Research Outline....................................................................................................................2
3.2 Appropriate Method...............................................................................................................3
3.3 Sampling Technique..............................................................................................................3
3.4 Outline of the Features...........................................................................................................3
4.0 Results and Discussions.............................................................................................................4
5.0 Ethical Issues...........................................................................................................................10
6.0 Conclusions..............................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

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1.0 Introduction
The main aim of this research is to assess the debates between the Chinese people who
reside in Australia over the issue of same-sex marriage or gay-marriage. Gay-marriage refers to
the marriage which takes place between two people of the same gender (Gerstmann, 2017). The
equality of marriage refers to the fact that both the kinds of marriage – between same sex and
between opposite sex are considered equal. Around the 20th century, same sex marriage became
very common and that also without any legal recognition. With this increasing interest in people
for same sex marriage, the Australian government in 2017 has finally decided to run a survey for
the opinions of people on this issue (Olson, Cadge & Harrison, 2016). This proposal was rejected
twice before by the senate of Australia.
2.0 Research Aim
A very small part of the population of the country Australia has been considered in this
research to get a brief understanding of what the Chinese people residing in Australia think of
this same-sex marriage. Thus, the research is aimed to assess the opinions of people of China on
this major issue of gay marriage in Australia. Since, there is a huge increase of interest among
the people of the country to undergo gay marriage, it is hoped that most of the people of the
country would give positive feedback about this issue (Brewer, 2014).
3.0 Methodology
3.1 Research Outline
To undergo this research, a survey questionnaire has been designed and it has been
distributed to 25 people of the country chosen randomly. All the chosen persons were Chinese

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who resides in Australia. The research questionnaire contains a total of 15 questions and
responses of the participants were recorded. These research questions will be analyzed using
appropriate statistical techniques in Excel and then the results of the analysis will be compared to
the current situation of Australia.
3.2 Appropriate Method
The method that has been chosen here to run the analysis is the Qualitative data analysis.
This is the best method to analyze qualitative data obtained from the survey questionnaire. With
the help of the qualitative analysis, the data can be represented graphically from which any
person can have an idea of the situation that is of major concern (Rossi, Wright & Anderson,
2013).
3.3 Sampling Technique
The research was aimed to analyze the opinions of Chinese people on the issue of gay
marriage in Australia. Thus, 25 Chinese residents in Australia were chosen randomly in order to
fill the survey form. The responses given by the selected respondents were thus recorded for the
purpose of analysis. Random sampling technique was used to choose the respondents as the error
of sampling is minimized in this type of sampling (Best & Kahn, 2016). On the other hand, it can
be said that the sampling technique was not completely random as only the people of Chinese
nationality were chosen in the sample. This has been done in order to meet the research
objective.
3.4 Outline of the Features
The selected sample was asked specific questions on their demographic status. They were
asked about their ages, their gender and their nationality. In this case, the nationality of all the

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respondents was Chinese. The age of the respondents were divided into four groups – below 18,
18 – 25 years, 25 – 32 years and more than 32 years. The gender of the respondents had two
options – male and female.
For this research, a sample of only 25 respondents was selected. This sample size should
not be enough to draw any conclusion about the opinions of all the Chinese people residing in
Australia. Moreover, for this research, responses of only the Chinese people were considered. To
get a better view of the opinions of people on this rising issue of gay marriage, people of
different kinds of nations should be considered for future research.
In Australia, this issue of same sex marriage has been extremely prevailing as this type of
marriage has been taking place in the country even without any government recognition (Foster,
2016).
4.0 Results and Discussions
To run the analysis, at first the demographic conditions of the respondents were analyzed.
From the analysis in table 4.1, it can be seen clearly that among the selected respondents, 12
were female respondents and 13 were male respondents. Thus, it can be said there will be
opinions from both the genders equally. The distribution of the gender o the people have been
shown diagrammatically with the help of a pie chart in figure 4.1.
Table 4.1: Distribution of Gender
Row Labels Count of Your gender?
Female 12
Male 13
Grand Total 25

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48%
52%
Gender
Female
Male
Figure 4.1: Gender distribution of the respondents
The second demographic condition that has been analyzed is the age of the respondents.
It can be seen from the table 4.2 that most of the respondents belong to the age group of 18-25
years followed by the age group of under 18. Thus, it can be said that the responses that have
been received are mostly the perspectives of the young generation. The thought of the young
generation on the matter of gay marriage has been recorded in this research. Figure 4.2 shows the
age distribution of the respondents.
Table 4.2: Distribution of Age of the respondents
Row Labels Count of How old are you?
18-25 17
25-32 1
32+ 1
under 18 6
Grand Total 25

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18-25 25-32 32+ under 18
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
1 1
6
Age of respondents
Total
Figure 4.2: Distribution of the age of the respondents
The third factor that will be discussed here is whether there are any homosexual people
around the respondents. Very little percentage of the people has said no. Thus, it can be said that
most of the respondents reside near a homosexual. Thus, it can be said that the homosexual
people of Australia reside near the Chinese community. Figure 4.3 shows the distribution of the
homosexual people residing near the Chinese respondents.
Table 4.3: Whether any homosexual people reside nearby
Row Labels Count of homosexual people around you
Maybe 9
No 6
Yes 10
Grand Total 25

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36%
24%
40%
Homosexual people residing nearby
Maybe
No
Yes
Figure 4.3: Whether any homosexual people reside nearby
From table 4.4, it can be seen clearly that the respondents do not prefer in discriminating
the gay people from the normal people. Most of them have said that they never discriminated
anyone preferring gay marriage and a lot of people never thought about the matter. Thus, it has
been seen that a very little of the Chinese community in Australia cannot agree to the idea o gay
marriage whereas most of them have accepted this issue. The responses are shown
diagrammatically in figure 4.4.
Table 4.4: Preference of gay marriage
Row Labels
Count of Have you ever discriminated someone because they prefer to same-
sex marriage?
Never think
about it 6
No 12
Yes 7
Grand Total 25

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24%
48%
28%
Preference of Gay marriage
Never think about it
No
Yes
Figure 4.4: Preference of gay marriage
The next issue that will be studied is whether there is more preference towards
discrimination of gay marriage with respect to gender. From table 4.5, it can be seen clearly that
there is not much difference in the thoughts of males and females over the discrimination of gay
marriage. This distribution of the opinions of males and females are shown diagrammatically in
figure 4.5.
Table 4.5: Gender and discrimination about gay marriage
Count of Have you ever discriminated someone because
they prefer to same-sex marriage? Column Labels
Row Labels
Never think
about it No Yes
Grand
Total
Female 3 6 3 12
Male 3 6 4 13
Grand Total 6 12 7 25

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Female Male
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Sex and discrimination about gay-marraige
Never think about it
No
Yes
Figure 4.5: Gender and discrimination about gay marriage
The next issue that will be studied is whether there is more preference towards
discrimination of gay marriage with respect to age. From table 4.6, it can be seen clearly that
there is some difference in the thoughts of the people of different types of ages. Here, most of the
respondents are young and the people aged under 18 years have not shown any discrimination
towards the gay marriage issue but the people aged between 18-28 years have shown
discrimination over this issue of gay marriage. The older people have not much thought about the
matter or have not discriminated anyone over this issue. Figure 4.6 clearly shows this
distribution of the opinions of different age groups of the respondents.

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Table 4.6: Age and discrimination about gay marriage
Count of Have you ever discriminated someone
because they prefer to same-sex marriage? Column Labels
Row Labels
Never think about
it No Yes
Grand
Total
18-25 4 6 7 17
25-32 1 1
32+ 1 1
under 18 1 5 6
Grand Total 6 12 7 25
18-25 25-32 32+ under 18
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Age and discrimination about gay marraige
Never think about it
No
Yes
Figure 4.6: Age and discrimination about gay marriage
5.0 Ethical Issues
In order to run a research, a few ethical issues have to be kept in mind. These issues are
very important to conduct a survey analysis. The major ethical issues that the researcher needs to
keep in mind are Confidentiality of the respondents, Safety of the research and Sensitivity of the
issue.

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 Confidentiality: The respondents taking part in the survey are sharing a lot of
information to the researcher. They may not be comfortable in doing so for safety issues.
Thus, the respondents must be completely assured that the responses of the survey will
not be assessed by anybody who is not directly related to the survey.
 Safety: Care must be taken to carry out the research and careless mistakes must be
avoided. The results of the research must also be stored safely.
 Sensitivity: The issue considered in this research is extremely sensitive. Thus, it has to be
kept in mind that the results must be presented in such a way so that nobody ends up
getting hurt personally after the research.
6.0 Conclusions
This study has been conducted based on only the Chinese population in Australia. The
selected respondents were equally distributed as males and females. Most of the respondents
included for the research were found to be of age less than 25 years. Most of them reside in the
neighborhood where homosexual people also reside. The respondents do not much discriminate
this issue of gay marriage. No such discrepancies have been observed in terms of gender for gay
marriage. The people of the age group of 18-25 years have shown a little discrepancy in the
issue. Moreover, the Chinese people do not have any problem with this rising issue of gay
marriage or marrying people of the same sex. Here, responses are mainly based on the teenagers
or the young generation. If the older aged people were considered in the study, the result might
have been somewhat different. The older people of the community might not accept the fact of
same sex marriage gladly.

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References
Best, J. W., & Kahn, J. V. (2016). Research in education. Pearson Education India.
Brewer, P. R. (2014). Public opinion about gay rights and gay marriage.
Foster, N. J. (2016). Legal implications of same sex marriage for Christian life and ministry.
Gerstmann, E. (2017). Same-sex Marriage and the Constitution. Cambridge University Press.
Olson, L. R., Cadge, W., & Harrison, J. T. (2016). Religion and public opinion about same‐sex
marriage. Social Science Quarterly, 87(2), 340-360.
Rossi, P. H., Wright, J. D., & Anderson, A. B. (Eds.). (2013). Handbook of survey research.
Academic Press.