Dating Is A Purely Western Concept, And There's No Such A Thing As Arranged Marriage

[Mesopotamian]

Just letting everybody knows that Dating is a purely western concept. In the eastern culture, it is not common that men and women goes out to places for the purpose of knowing each others and trying to form a future family. Whenever you see two people sitting at restaurant, cafe, or holding hands in places other than the west, you can't say that they are dating.

The purpose of dating as I understand it is to go out with as many people as you can in order to find "the right one", but in place other than the western countries, that idea isn't welcomed. 

People in lower stages societies don't even have distinct personalities of their own as they are indoctrinated into their cultures , so there's no need to get to know each others before marriage, and the concept of engagement is there just so that there will be time to prepare for the wedding to take place.

Also I've heard about the term "Arranged marriage" and you might think that if people were not dating freely, then their marriages are going to be arranged. The truth is that that these marriages in reality are imposed, not arranged. There's nothing that's arranged about them, yet they are imposed on young people, and the latter have no say at all when it comes to the details.

Living in Iraq, I don't personally know any married people where they went through that freely, always imposed marriages. A man reaches a certain age, one of his parents or both tell him that he needs to marriage, then they present him with a bride of their choice..

 

[petar8p]

Is this some kind of rationalisation as to why you cannot have a perfect life you imagine? 

 

Because it sounds like one.