Ok, so in upper castes of India the way it works is the parents come up with various candidates, the kids veto whichever candidates they don't like. In Indian culture you don't get married to the one you fall in love with, you fall in love with the person you get married to. Indian culture also takes the idea of worshipping your spouse to levels which are a bit more literal than in the US. The husband-wife relationship is literally supposed to mirror the god/human relationship.
They seem to have pretty good outcomes on the whole. People get married and then they start dating. I have read a number of accounts by Indians suggesting that they like this system.
And I have spoken to many Indians here in Australia that dislike this system. One was dreading having to go back home to get married to a girl he didn't pick.
I'd be interested to see the cultural shift over time for this topic. How many disliked arranged marriages 50 years ago, vs now? Would be interesting.
Japanese cartoons and classic sci-fi, mostly. I don't really like hollywood, or romance novels.
Is what you say good for society in general? Is it even better for the persons involved? If you answer yes without hesitation, you should question how much of your thinking has been shaped by the prevalent ideology on your country.
Well, on balance, I think you'd have to ask the people in forced marriages and also look at the outcomes for different societies in comparison to each other. However my opinion already stands, so asking whether I would answer yes to things I have already said that I agree with and then trying to use the immediacy of any response to try and spread doubt seems to be a little bit of a false construct.
For one, that would be a fake culture (the one youll claim o belong to). Cultures are made by populations, not a random guy.
Fine. I'll go find some disciples. Twelve of them preferably, just to annoy people. We'll be up to culture status in no time.
Second, the workaround is bs. Here's another version: "projecting cultural preferences onto other groups is bad, period, even if its acceptable in your culture".
Please will you stop projecting your cultural preferences about not projecting cultural preferences. I don't want to have to send my disciples round again. You didn't like it last time when they refused to stop singing.