What´s Marriage?

What is marriage? Marriage is commonly known as a life commitment made by two people. The term marriage varies widely in different cultures all through the world. Marriage customs all over the world have differed from each other in various ways but they all symbolize the binding of two people. For young girls they have been dreaming of their wedding day and finding the perfect man. But for other young girls across the world they could be dreading their wedding day having being in an arranged marriage or being sent to a man whom they have never met. Some marriages are more commonly for love. This is not always true though while having a marriage was for power or money.

Of course marriage would not be the same everywhere just like food or music would not be the same everywhere in the world. In America people usually date for a time then decide to get married. It is more of a choice than a necessary thing. For the people in Niger, Africa courting is vastly different. A boy around the age of eighteen or twenty will sneak into the tent of the girl he likes and tickle her ear with a feather. If she wakes up and pulls the covers over her head he has been rejected, but if she moves her sleeping mat away from her parents he must stay and answer her riddles. The Blackfoot Indians of Montana have a similar ritual where if a boy likes a girl he would wait outside her tipi at night to show his interest. If she felt the same way she would make him a pair of moccasins, and if the parents permitted the courting the boy could sit on the same mat as the girl during the day (Droesch 2). In Samoa if the man like a woman he would have a Soa who was much like a middle man to go and tell the woman how lovely she was and if she wanted to set a date to ...

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...“ Men should not face the death penalty for rape. Boys make mistakes.” He is currently working to remove the law that hangs Indian men for rape. A colleague of Yaday has also defended him by stating “…women are to be guilty if they are raped or have sex outside of marriage.”

Women in marriage played the role of housewife and making the meals, taking care of the men. The role of the man was to make the money, to support his whole family, to be the man of the house. When googling ‘women in marriage’ almost everything that comes up is ‘How to make your husband happier’ or ‘Mistakes women make in marriage’. Though throughout the years these roles have been changing. Roles have been flip-flopped; men and women have become more equal. More and more tribes in Africa have modernized their marriage rituals and have created a more equal standing between the men and women.