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Critical Analysis Of Arranging A Marriage In India

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Murad Huseynli
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02.02.2016
Rough Draft Critical Analysis based on “Arranging a Marriage in India” "With you people, you know the boy so well before you marry, where will be the fun to get married? There will be no mystery and no romance."(Nanda, 2007) The article "Arranging a Marriage in India" was written by the American ethnographer Serena Nanda in 2007. In the article, the author focuses on mainly her own experiences and systematic tradition of Indian people 's. She wants to increase the awareness about arranged marriages. She chooses the way of arguing the tradition, and at the end of the day, she shows some values behind this tradition. The article, Arranging a Marriage in India, is an informative …show more content…

In this article, the author expresses her personal experience with respect to arranged marriages in India. The author notices so many differences with the tradition of her own country, as arranging marriage is not practiced in western societies, she finds herself in such a weird situation there. At the end of the day, she feels so curious about this issue; therefore, she researches and interviews many young people, as well as, observes the real ongoing circumstances related to marriage cases in order to identify why really Indian people choose this type of getting marriage. While Serena Nanda begins researching about arranging a marriage, initially she thinks that this kind of getting marriage is not the best practice. As she notes that people cannot get a happy marriage if they do not know each other enough, or if there are no mutual love relationships. However, she carries out traveling more in India and figuring out deeply about the arranging marriage processes. In many points, she becomes agreeable and even she takes an essential part in the arranging a marriage of her friend’s son and succeeds so that she feels expert in this process and begins to think another "arranging a marriage" for her others friends ' beloved

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