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Re: What would a kid think? (Re: Concerns with Racial Attitudes and Lego)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:35:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Selçuk Göre writes:
> Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> >
> > I know a couple from Bengal (in India) that had an arranged marriage! • Didn't
> > meet until their wedding day. I had no reason to think you weren't being
> > serious!
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> It's very popular here in Turkey, especially in small towns and
> villages. The couple knows each other before the wedding generally, but
> it is not needed the marriage to be the decision and or desire of the
> couple (not of the girl, especially). If the fathers of the both sides
> agreed on marriage (depend highly on the money -"baslik money"- given by
> boy's father to the girl's father) the marriage will be realized,
> otherwise not. Tradition, huh?.. I call it TRADE...
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> Selçuk
I checked with my friend at work from Iraq (note that he identifies himself as
Assyrian) and confirms that arranged marriages were still happening there as of
20 years ago (when he decided he didn't want to die for the glory of Saddam and
left for America). I'll have to check with another co-worker who is Persian
(Iran) who didn't want to die for the glory of the Ayatollah K.
It was interesting to note that my friends who had the arranged marriage say
they are lucky because they fell in love with each other, but NO WAY were they
going to arrange anything for their daughter. :-)
Bruce
Bruce
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