The Perceptions of Arrange Marriage by Young Pakistani Muslim Living in a western society especially the United and Canada was in part was written by Arshia U. Zaidi who is the Assistant Professor at the University Windsor Ontario Canada. The article will examines about the perception of arrange marriage by the second generation females Muslim from Pakistan who happened to live in the western society while their former culture back home still trace it root from the demand of their families here in the western society. When it comes to love, everyone has a choice to marry whoever they want to. But as the Zaidi stated in this article, not so fast by the way of traditional method and the rural way of life in South Asian countries who have a length strong advocate of arrange marriage in their culture. In this article the main focus will be mainly based on three themes: An Attitude toward Romantic of Mate Love Prior to Marriage, Preferred Method of Mate Selection, and finally Reason for Engaging in An Arranged Marriage. The article will examines the advantages and the disadvantages of why arrange marriage is good in comparison to that of the western society way of getting marriage.
The first reason why the attitude toward romantic love prior to arrange marriage by many Pakistanis Muslim females who live in the Western society was that, love supposed to be arranged by the two couples who happen to know each other first before the can get marriages. The other reason why many Pakistanis Muslim females rejected their parents arranged marriage was simply because most of these females knew only one culture and that is western society culture where by free will of choice rule. The South Asian females who have come here to western world understand this culture better than their parents but their parents still wants them to continue with their traditional culture of arrange marriage which is contradicting in real world among these westerners women. The advantage of having a free choice to marry whoever is the fact that you do not have to worry about what type of relationship that you are about to enter because you already knew the person you have about to marry in person.
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The second advantage of why arrange marriage is not a right choice when it comes to preferred method of Mate selection versus that of self-choice is, most of the Pakistanis Muslim females that were interviewed in the Zaidi article were asked which choice to prefer between the mate selection marriage and the self-choice? Majority of them selected the self-choice because join-venture is better than the force marriage whom a person you are about to marry does not knew you physically before you meet them. In reading the article, the opinion of the interviewees agreed with mine due to the fact that love does not have to be dictated. You can marriage whoever that shares your view in this world no matter the color of their skin or what religion they belong to because at the end of the day we are all human being. As Zaidi stated in the article, even in the country like Pakistan and India only rural and traditional marriage are still favor more to, compare that to those who lived in the urban areas who are moderate when it comes to marriage.
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Third but not last, arrange marriage has some advantage especially during the old days or back in time when tribes and clans used to rule the world. Some may think that arrange marriage is not a right choice during this era, but still the traditional way that some people are bonded does not permit self-choice to happen often. Back in the old days, arrange marriage keep the clan and tribe closer because in case if for example, if your son or daughter marriage far away, the parents normally worry about the safety of theirs. Here once the arrange marriage happen, the parents will be the one to choose the bride or groom and they first have to knew the parents of the person their daughter or son is about to marriage to. Which to the view of many westerners society is still not fully understand when it come to the collided of the two cultures which are; the civilized society and rest of the developing world mainly those of South Asian countries who are still keeping their cultures intact.
In conclusion, marriage supposed to be a self-choice not the one that supposed to be forced upon by someone else. As discussed from the above main points, you cannot buy love because it is something is abstract and does not have a spirit only you can make it to be spirit. There may be all kind of loves but the attitude toward love prior to marriage; the preferred of method of mate selection; and the reason for engaging in an arranged marriage are the ones that captured might have captured my attention when going through this article written by a very insightful Professor Zaidi. Anyone who is interesting in reading this in the future is highly recommended.
Reference
Zaidi, A. (2002).
Perceptions of arranged marriages by young Pakistani Muslim women living in western society. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 33(4), 495-514.
02-48-102 Social Institution and Social change: Sociology.
Critical Review One Topic: Perceptions of Arranged Marriages by Young Pakistani Muslim Women Living in Western Society. By Arshia U. Zaidi
Submit To: Michelle G. Student: Puoch Dit Date 01/06/2013
