Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures?

• meekah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, yeah, but what’s the point of calling something an arranged marriage when it’s actually just parents acting as an old school dating app

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Obviously because parents behave differently to dating apps.

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    • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But then it’s still just arranged dating at best. Maybe the parents look for someone who is interested in entering a marriage in the first place, but that doesn’t make it an arranged marriage IMO.

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      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        that doesn’t make it an arranged marriage IMO

        Amazing.

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      • Devi@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It's not dating exactly, but there are dates involved. The parents pick someone that you're intended to marry, they bring them round and go "here, we think you should marry this person". You get chatting with them, go out for some dates, in the modern age you're probably texting each other etc, but it's not like western dating where you're just seeing how it goes, you're deciding if you want to marry.

        After a short while you would say 'yup, this seems good'.

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