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From: sohail@terak.UUCP (Sohail M. Hussain)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Arranged Marriages Questions
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 13:01:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 13:01:31 1985
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> 
> 	Another friend of mine is off to India to do what
> 	he must: get himself a wife.  I asked him whether
> 	he had a particular girl in mind to which he re-
> 	plied, "My family will find a girl for me."
>  
> 	Has anyone ever wondered why "arranged" marriages
> 	are so popular with the 'educated' when 'love'
> 	marriages are on the rise?

Being 'educated', for people from our part of the world, almost
implies that the person came here to study, this ofcourse imples
that the person grew up 'back in the old country', and thus has
a lot of beliefs, and follows our customs and heritage.

This kind of a person would not really be happy with a 'western'
girl, or even a 'westernized' girl. So what is he to do. He can go
home and try to find a bride, fall in love, etc, etc. (though this
is not the kind of thing that this person would do), 

But falling in love takes time, and typically when this person goes 
home, he does not really have time for this, Lets face it, how long
a leave can you get, when you go home, a few weeks at most.

So what is he to do, he must rely on his family to find him a girl.

sohail
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