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who can answers theses questions about how different america and India are .when it comes to love and marriage i wanna know what you think?

In America, we marry (by choice/a commitment) the person we love (a feeling). In India, the primary concept of marital love is commitment to a relationship. In America and the west, we marry the person we have the deepest feelings for at the time. Because our view of marriage is often built upon a feeling, when the feelings leave, we often do as well. As you can imagine, America consequently has a high divorce rate, while India remains low.

1. What are the strengths of the Indian view of love? How does commitment impact relationships, marital and otherwise?

2. What are the dangers of the Indian perspective?

3. What are the strengths of the western idea of love? What is the impact of choosing to love people we have loving feelings toward in marriage and otherwise?

4. What are the dangers of living according to feelings?

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  • Ariel
    Lv 6
    5 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    1. Brings honor to their families, there are strong family ties with the wife often times moving into her husband's family complex which has many generations living in it. 2. High rates of depression, there is an emphasis on fertility and producing children right away which presents a health problem for young mothers and rates of postpartum depression, lack of choice for the woman and her family must pay a dowry to gain respect. 3. Freedom to choose, more options, family usually doesn't pay a dowry, but one family side usually pays for the wedding. 4. People can lie and feelings can change.

  • Laurie
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    You are inexperienced and naive.

    SOME people here in the US marry the person they have the deepest feelings for, but other people marry... because they are lonely, because they are pregnant, because they are seeking financial security, because they want a place to live, because they want help raising their already-existing children, because they need health insurance, because they want to get away from their family, because they want to replace a missing parent for their children, because they want to have sex and don't believe in sex before marriage... and so on. There are dozens of reasons people marry... and it's NOT always because of "deep feelings".

    Furthermore, married people separate for a whole host of reasons... it's NOT always because "the feelings leave". Sometimes people leave because they have been abused, or they are involved with drugs, or because they find someone they like better, or because they are tired of paying the bills, or because they are bored, or because they do/do not want children, and so on.

    Furthermore, the "western idea of love" is not necessarily related to the "western idea of marriage".

    One of the reasons America has a high divorce rate is because, compared to some other countries, divorce in the US is an easy process. That is not true in India. Furthermore, women have more economic independence in the US than in India, where often girls are uneducated. Therefore, another reason there is more divorce in the US than in India is because, in India, many women CANNOT support themselves or their children; If they divorce, they starve. Furthermore, in many parts of India, women are considered to be property and are "owned" by their husbands; they are not ALLOWED to divorce. In those areas and social castes that are allowed to divorce, sometimes the couple must live separately for a year prior to divorcing... and they cannot afford to do that.

    So, don't oversimplify the differences and reasons for marriage and divorce, comparing the US and India, by blaming it all on "different ideas of love" and assuming that marriage, or divorce, is always based on "feelings". Both the US and Indian societies and cultures are complicated societies, and your overly-naive, overly-simplified, and overly-romantic ideas tell me that you need to do research -- MUCH more research about both. In addition, try to incorporate some critical thinking. You are making unsupported assumptions... and that is NOT educational.

    Oh, and there is no such word as "wanna".

  • Liz
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Here's a difference: India is one country, America is two continents containing a couple of dozen different countries.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    go to the library TO DO RESEARCH FOR YOUR OWN HOMEWORK..

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