In many traditional countries of the Middle East and Far East, arranged marriages fulfill significant social and economic functions. This type of parental power is more common where devotion to tradition is greater than that of a woman's ... the norm, but the new working woman is changing the rules of the game". Matrimonial ads, in the classified section of several newspapers and magazines, have been running through many eastern countries. A nationwide survey done by an Indian magazine has uncovered that a sum of some 2,500 matrimonial ads come out every Sunday in the 13 top papers of the co...

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... , nearly 95 percent of marriages are arranged. Marriages which have been set by the parents have declined in popularity, but still occur frequently in Middle Eastern countries, like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Pakistan (Sumi, Kyoko). Many Indian families who have settled outside India still uphold this tradition. Often the ... child to marry this person even though they choose not to. Here in America, since arranged marriages are not as common as in the eastern countries, there are people (preferably men) who have been to jail for arranged marriages. Mostly older men take advantage of this ...

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The video were watched in class portrayed the typical Middle Eastern family. Many themes lay within the film, such as, the struggle between man and woman, the struggle of man and himself, and the yearning to grow up. The first, the ... ...

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... fruitful and multiply". Another ethic to consider is that of compassion for others. Though Judaism is filled with strong feelings of compassion for all living things, they traditionally, like most Middle Eastern religions, have placed the role of women as secondary to men. In order to live the ethic of compassion, one must treat all humans as equals. Solution to the Moral ... ...

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... of getting the statement that its ok to be in a nontraditional family setting. I really believe that within the marriage, everything should be 50/50. This is mostly because I come from a Middle-Eastern family where there is great emphasis on the woman staying home, taking care of the children, cooking and cleaning, while the man "brings home the bacon." This isn't fair because ... ...

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... , at the same time Gershom most likely assumed that a thousand years would be an eternity, but, that thousand year ban ended sometime around 1987. Apparantly Gershom was only speaking to Eastern European Jews (Ashkanazi). The Meditteranean (Sephardic) Jewish community continued to practice polygamy. Historically, polygamy has been practiced by woshippers of Islam. In the Koran (Islamic Bible) it states that a man ... more than one wife is relatively small, as many as one-third of the worlds population belongs to a community that allows it. There are many plural marriages in Africa, The M...

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