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Everything has multi-aspects, besides those advantages, there are also drawbacks. Inter-caste and inter-religious (interfaith) marriages are also like that. Inter-caste and inter-religious is not a rare issue in society. In many places over the world, this issue are still not accepted. Many people gives a lot of advantages of inter-caste and inter-religious marriage to protect and support it. However, we also need to look at the issue from different directions. Beside the advantage, there are many extreme problems go along with this issue. Inter-caste and inter-religious marriage can cause problems in family and society that leads to protestation of the social norms and rules of family and community, many tragedies due to conflicts and objectivism, and the increasing of divorce rate.

Inter-caste and inter-religious marriage means against norms and rules of family and society in many places. If people choose their partners from different religions or different castes to marry, that means they choose a difficult life. According to an evidence in an article about inter-caste marriage in India, “in retaliation, the family, community and state agencies like the police and the law courts treat love as a criminal activity and lovers as criminals in order to control and destroy them” (Dasgupta, “Why Rizawanur Die”). These norms and rules have already persisted in many communities for a long time that is not easy to change. Therefore, the couples in this issue have to face many difficulties and obstacles. Family, community, society, they look at them as the criminals if they choose inter-caste or inter-religious marriage. Instead of blessing from parents and relatives in wedding, inter-caste and inter-religious couples have to face deterr...

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...ily and the norms of community and society. It also cause many injuries and deaths because of conflicts and retaliations, it becomes tragedies for many couples and families. Moreover, inter-caste and inter-religious marriage is also the reason of the increasing of divorces. Besides the advantage, these facts and problems about inter-caste and inter-religious should be considered seriously. It is not in a day or two, it persisted in society long time ago, for a long time till now and it is not easy to change at all.

Works Cited

Dasgupta, Rajashri. “Why Did Rizwnur Rehman Have to Die?”. Economic and Political Weekly. Economic and Political Weekly, 2007. Web. 7 March. 2014.

Yinger, Milton J. “A Research Note on Interfaith Marriage Statistics”. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Journal for the Scientific of Religion. n.d. Web. 8 March. 2014.