Essays on Arranged Marriages

In her 2010 publication of Shanghai Girls, Lisa See provides her readers with a tale based on the perfect combination of two themes: immigration and culture. Pearl and May, two Chinese sisters residing in Shanghai, “the Paris of Asia,” create the center of the storyline that sees them move from China to the United States amidst a lot of political turmoil that wrecks havoc in both countries. Now, at the commencement of the novel, Pearl, the narrator, and her sister May enjoy the life of calendar models in Shanghai, but they lose their apparent autonomy when their father forces ...

Marriage is a tradition that is practiced and honored all over the world. It signifies the birth of a relationship that grants couples the privilege to build families and an enduring kinship ties. Studies show that people who are happily married have more desirable benefits and experiences than those who are unmarried, cohabiting, widowed, or separated (Shariff 557). Specifically, married individuals have better parenting styles, stronger support systems, greater economic security, greater financial resources, healthier psychological status, more desirable emotional wellbeing, greater physical health, and longer life. Marriage practices in Western countries are different from those of other societies. ...

The collection of stories called “Distant View of a Minaret” that was written by an Egyptian female author Alifa Rifaat had a huge impact on the understanding of sexuality in the contemporary Middle East. It’s been known the questions of gender and sex are often ignored in that part of the world. Due to a long history and a deeply rooted faith, people of this area lack democracy. Their societies have been built on conservatism, traditions and ethics that are very often unfair to certain groups of people of those societies. Those people usually include females, slaves and ...

Introduction

Arranged marriage is a marriage where families or parents choose marital partners for their children. Asia, Africa and India are considered to be areas where arranged marriage is a cultural norm, while Western part of the world is characterized by non-arranged marriages. Thus, two types of marriages co-exist in the modern world. Arranged marriages may be extremely significant in South Asia because their prevalence results in decrease of divorce rates. Nevertheless, modern attitude to gender roles makes changes in society, for example in 2013 Kunz wrote that "a recent report indicated that divorce rates in India are soaring among ...

Within India, a large number of people marry through the arrangement made by their parents. An arranged marriage is done when the family makes choices about the spouse of a family member. These choices are normally done by the father or the male head of the family. A couple gets together “according to their family’s wishes, and the focus is on accepting and adjusting to partners after marriage,” (Myers, Madathil, and Tingle, 187). In other words, in an arranged marriage, romantic love and affection are not prerequisites for a couple to marry – love and affection are instead expected ...