Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures?
meekah@lemmy.world 6 months agoI 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
Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures?
meekah@lemmy.world 6 months agoI 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
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Obviously because parents behave differently to dating apps.
meekah@lemmy.world 6 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.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Amazing.
meekah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
so no argument as to why it would actually be an arrange marriage, despite the described scenario not necessarily ending in a marriage?
Devi@kbin.social 6 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'.
meekah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean I’m aware that this isn’t like western dating but it’s still not an arranged marriage. Saying that this is an arranged marriage is like having your parents pick out a hairdresser and calling it a haircut.