The propensity of individuals to frame organizations and set up family units is ordinary of the entire humanity. It is imperative to take note of that in setting up these marriage organizations, some type of custom is completed (Hutchinson). In addition, there are both momentous similitudes and contrasts of thought, thoughts, and imagery crosswise over societies in these customs (Monger). America is a various nation and its marriage conventions have been impacted by distinctive societies. This paper investigates marriage traditions in America and different nations.…
Thesis: This article demonstrates that parent’s role in Chinese marriage customs have stayed the same since time immemorial.…
Compared to the United States, whose marriages are more based upon spouse compatibility and the idea of being in love, Japanese marriages differ greatly, as most of them are arranged. Mr. Torida, a Japanese cattle farmer, when asked if he loved his wife of 33 years, responded in a way that would shock most couples living here in the United States, "Yeah, so-so, I guess. She's like air or water; you couldn't live without it, but most of the time, you're not conscious of its existence." But with unparalleled statistics on family and marriage in Japan, it seems as though something is working to keep these marriages going strong. For instance, the couples in Japan have a divorce rate of less than 24%, compared to the United States’ 55%, and only 1.1% of mothers are unmarried, matched to our 30.1%. According to interviews of couples in Japan, marriages in the United States are much more fragile than the arranged marriages of Japan. If something goes wrong, a disagreement comes up, or the couples simply fall out of love, the marriage ends and divorce seems to be the only solution. In Japan, the secret to strength in marriage is based on three factors: low expectations, patience or “gaman”, and shame.…
As a husband, who had many excuses to divorce his spouse, such as “barrenness, licentiousness, failure to serve parents-in-law, loquacity, theft, jealousy, or serious disease,” these are the “7 grounds of divorce.” If the wife has met one of the grounds, the husband can divorce. However, the “7 grounds of divorce” could not apply on the husbands, women had no right to divorce. After a law code had published in late 1920 and early 1930, which arranged marriage had been repealed, sale of women were prohibited, and widows could be remarry. Moreover, women had the right to divorce if abandoned by husbands, suffered physical abuse, or attempted sale into prostitution by the husbands. In the mean time, husband could not launch divorce for barrenness, loquacity, theft, or jealousy. The Marriage Law of 1950 had protected women from many terrible behaviours, such as arranged marriages, concubinage, dowries, and child brides. According to the book, polygamy still exist in ancient China, which a person can have two or more spouses in a marriage; however, around 1990, China is only permitted monogamy, which is two partners in a marriage. When the 1950 Marriage Law has established, due to annoyed by the husband had concubinage, and saw some women had been abandoned by their husbands after the long year of war, it encouraged a trend of divorce. As men had chosen his wives in the past of China, women are going to choose their partners right now. Other than gaining the right of divorce, the Marriage Law had given women freedom to choose. In the article, it indicated that youths have freedom to choose their own marriage partners, and women attempt to divorce and possess properties ownerships. Nowadays, according to the news, as the growing divorce rate is increasing, which reflects women are gaining more social and economic freedom. More than 70% of divorce are…
In the tribal villages of eastern Africa the Maasai marriages are arranged by the elders without ever first consulting the bride or the mother of the bride to be. Unlike, that of my own culture in the United States of America, where I am free as a citizen to choose whomever I may choose to marry and when and if I may marry. Polygyny is that of which is practiced in the Maasai culture, as an ideal that is achieved only by that of the elder men of the tribe. Unfortunately, as a result ofthemen being much older at the time of marriage, most women become widows, knowing that it is understood that they should never remarry again. Although, I myself practice monogamy, as it is tradition in my culture and that of what is expected by me, my community, and my family.…
From the day of birth girls growing into women knew of no other life but serving men, Most girls didn’t go to school, as Chinese didn’t find it important that women got and education. There marriages were arranged by their fathers and once married the women served her husband’s family and often became a servant of the mother- in-law forbidden to disobey any of her wishes.…
To set them apart in another way, the Indians “openly engaged in premarital sexual relations and could even choose to divorce their husbands” (10). “Under English law, a married man controlled the family’s property” (10). In Indian gender relation, the women take charge; on the other hand, the English men make the…
The woman’s qualities and features were primarily how she was chosen for marriage. However, her relatives played a major role in the man’s decision to marry her. Most marriages in…
Art history can leave us with more and greater impressions of past culture than we consciously have of our own. With the single parent family as a typical 21st century phenomenon, many who endured the heart-ache of a broken home syndrome may reject committement or marriage and family never realize how cherished this institution was in history.…
In some societies women are treated according to ancestral customs and tribal tradition, but in Islam they are treated with full respect and honor. Islam preserves women's honor and dignity, and requires that she must be treated with respect and honor. Her femininity should not be exploited in any way, rather she is to be regarded and treated as human individual whose sexuality does not enter into her relationship with any person other than her husband. In Islam marriage cannot take place unless the female freely agrees to it and a dowry is given to her. Islam puts priorities for the husbands and wives. The responsibility for providing for the family is on the husband, while the responsibility to care for the house and raising the children is on the wife. These are the main priorities, but cooperation between the husband and the wife is required and highly…
Chen-Yu also explained that when it falls on the year you were born it was considered bad luck in ancient times and people were given red clothing items by elder members of the family to help balance bad luck with good. The red items worn for good luck could be socks, scarves, or even underwear.…
Many Chinese families have the Chinese tradition held as a priority in their family. One of these practiced Chinese traditions is arranged marriages which are a way of parents not giving their daughters a chance to choose who their future husband will be. The idea of arranged marriages had been practiced in Kingston’s home, Kingston was a fourteen-year-old who had been away from her parents for many years training to become a woman warrior. The day when she had started her menstrual cycle she was not living with her parents. Those she had stayed with while training decided to console her they allowed her to look into a gourd for just that day;when she looked in the gourd she had seen that “[there] was a wedding. [Her] mother was taking to the hosts: ‘Thank you for taking our daughter. Wherever she is, she must be happy now. She will certainly come back if she was alive, and if she is a spirit, you have given her a descent line” (Kingston 31). The age of fourteen was not the youngest age an arranged marriage would be arranged in China, so many young Chinese girls have been deprived of the opportunity to choose the one they would willingly want to spend the rest of their lives with. Specifically, in one Chinese village, a village matchmaker had gone to a young girl’s family to find her, her future groom. Lindo, the young girl, knows others outside her walls or even country do have their chance of choosing who they will be spending their life with, but “This was not [her] case. Instead, the village matchmaker [went to her] family when [she] was just two years old” (Tan 50). Since many young females are forced into arranged marriages the young girls are taught by their mothers to learn…
In fact, the unhappy marriages have a lot in China’s old society. Usually the couple’s marriage was arranged by their parents in old society, and the couple did not have right to choose their lover. In old society, divorce was immoral. Divorce was injurious to morals, even would affect their future. The couples were forced these pressures from public opinion and family that they could not divorce. Therefore, many couples were forced to keep their unhappy marriage all their live.…
The most important relationship in American family is that between husband and wife. Philosopher, historian, and literary essayist Thomas De Quincey defined marriage as "a union between two persons, who lived in harmony so absolute with each other, as to be independent of the world outside." While according to what Confucius said, "Marriage is the union (of the representatives) of two different surnames, in friendship and in love, in order to continue the posterity of the former sages, and to furnish those who shall preside at the sacrifices to heaven and earth, at those in the ancestral temple, and at those at the altars to the spirits of the land and grain." It seems that Chinese spouse get married for carrying on the family line.…
Both common and royal marriages were essential to Babylonian society, though they differed in their purpose and design. The central purpose of marriage between commoners was to hold the population together, serving as a mechanism to hold men accountable for their actions and ensuring that all families were provided for financially. On the other hand, the main purpose of royal marriages established an interdependence between Babylonia and Egypt, a strategic alliance shaped by political motivations and dynastic concerns. Royal marriages usually consisted of a pharaoh marrying one of a Babylonian prince’s close relatives. As evidenced by the Amarna letters, this connection allowed Babylonian kings to have contact with Egyptian pharaohs so as to learn from their cultural ideas and more closely bind the two nations together.…