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Bribes help women get better husbands. Unlike USA marriages in India is about family ties and hence it is important that an uneducated unattractive women gets a
by Karishma1234 9y ago
Bribes help women get better husbands. Unlike USA marriages in India is about family ties and hence it is important that an uneducated unattractive women gets a good husband. She has to pay the premium of dowry to get a husband who otherwise will not marry her.
An educated engineer girl in India can easily marry a waiter without dowry but her inherent greed for wealth makes her seek someone who is even richer and she pays for that using dowry.
Dowry system is essentially greed of females and not males.
- thechao 9y agoI’ve not experienced social dating outside of the southwest of the US, but if you don’t think social, familial, educational, and income factors don’t heavily weigh into marriages, here, then you’re 100% wrong, and need to meet both my mother-in-law, and mother. Also, be aware that past a certain age, women here can pretty much expect full-time interest by their “aunties” in arranging dates to meet potential suitors.
- Karishma1234 9y agoI am pretty sure you are in top 5% people by education, income and thinking. But people like you and me don't really count when we are talking Indian statistics. It is that farmer in Bihar who counts more. As income levels in India rise this will rapidly go away. But then we are at least 30 years away from that. P.S. These are not really big problems as the op-ed intellectual yet idiots make them out to be.
- gawkface 8y agoThe concept of arranged marriage and bribes aka dowry is not a girl's fault, it's the society's / cultural stupidity, the greed of parents to earn money off their son and take revenge for the dowry they pay for their daughters How could you reach such a tangent cause for an effect?