'I want to explain arranged marriage to white people'
bbc.com
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As if ”white people” were some magical group of people who share ways of thinking amongst themselves.
Also, I haven't read the piece yet, and the headline is a bit bait-y, but there is nothing inherently evil in that title. If there is a particularly low correlation between being white and being in (or understanding) an arranged marriage, then the whole thing may be objectively reasonable.
I repeat: I haven't read it yet.
Edit: having read it it's not in the least bit "racist". It's quite interesting and makes a clear distinction between "arranged" and "forced" that I had not thought about clearly before. Facts: it's a whole new world out there.
It’s also government owned (partially BBC America, World etc. are separate entities and if you are in the UK you can’t even access bbc.com)
The BBC World Service has always been a Foreign-Office paid-for propaganda arm, but the rest not so.
I don't believe the UK government owns the BBC: but please show me otherwise.
There are explicitly state-controlled entities in other countries, with an editorial line deferential to the state.
No UK government ever likes the BBC's line much, whatever the government's political colour, which I regard as a GoodThing(TM).
Seriously BBC is as state owned as it gets in the west, to be more specific it’s a statutory corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation
BBC world is actually not tied directly to the British government.
And how exactly have you managed to avoid paying a license since any TV monitor and today a device capable of running iPlayer counts for the license.
And not necessarily forced actually - especially not when royalty did it.
Unfortunately mixing race with culture is really common these days.
Both my paternal and maternal grandparents' marriages were essentially arranged.
It’s interesting (but not surprising) how people of the same race and religion can have very different cultures based on the region of the world they were born or grew up in.
Malaysians like my parents who are Indian genetically/ancestrally (been in Malaysia for multiple generations though) and Hindu by religion date in high school, Pre-marital sex is not uncommon and some speak openly about it just like here in the “West”, and usually get love marriages.
Same applies to Malaysian Chinese Buddhists and also to a much much lesser extent Malaysian Malay Muslims.
But in South Asia, Indian Hindus and Pakistani Muslims (not all of course) have this arranged marriage notion (Although I’ve been told it’s less common now) and dating in high school in very rare and I’m guessing Pre-marital sex is either very rare or you can’t talk about it openly because of social stigma.
Same race from a genetic point of view, same religion,
But different views of feminism, sexuality, and dating.
Not surprising of course.
As an American myself my views are mostly “Western” since I grew up here and I guess my parents were pretty progressive (at least on this issue my mom went against her parents to marry my dad).
The society in which you grow up in plays a large role in how you end up seeing the world and people around you.