Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
I believe in traditional marriage.
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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