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Originally Posted by wyndslash
Can't quote extensively since I'm typing on my iPod touch but well, I certainly understand hating being a girl sometimes. My mom always used to restrict me from doing certain stuff because I wasn't a boy. And the non-entity thing came from the thought that I couldn't find anything good from being human, maybe. And the gay guy thing came from a certain curiosity about how it feels like to, you know. And sometimes my parents talk of love in a marriage as an afterthought only. Oh, they do think it's important but apparently it comes after the qualifications that the guy must be Chinese, of a certain age range and has an acceptable job. I'm just tired of it.
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It could be worse. Consider cultures where the "arranged marriage" is the norm. Such matings are not love matches between boy and girl - they are political and economic alliances between families, made by the families for the benefit of the families. The feelings of the prospective bride and groom are not a factor in the decision, and the arrangement may have been made before the betrothed were even old enough to
have feelings about it.
What you grow up in is what you consider right and proper, and folks from cultures where the arranged marriage is the norm look at marriages made for love as insanity. From their perspective, it
is.
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Dennis