One student answered that maybe couples learn to fall in love as their marriages progress. Toward the end of the post-activity discussion, Lalani asked, “So when does love emerge in an arranged marriage?” Wharton sophomore Alex Lee mentioned that in some cases, the person to be married can “date several different suitors and have some say in who you want to marry.” Students with personal experience also mentioned that arranged marriages fall on a spectrum, and that not all arranged marriages were necessarily as blind as those simulated in the activity. Others shared similar stories of family members who had not been raised in places where arranged marriage was common but had nevertheless carried on the tradition. They’d come to appreciate why arranged marriages are acceptable.” Lalani explained that his “cousins have had arranged marriages… grown up in America, but they’re okay with it. “We didn’t have that spark,” College and Engineering junior Chris Chow said of his and his partner’s “marriage.”Īs the discussion continued, it became clear that for many students in the room, arranged marriage was neither a foreign nor unimaginable concept. In some cases, the problems were somewhat less concrete. One couple, for example, proved incompatible in the end: neither wanted to be married to someone with the same career, but both were pre-med. You already know what the goal of the relationship is when you first start dating.
With everyone gathered in a circle after the “dates” had ended, the reports on these hypothetical marriages began. List of the Advantages of Arranged Marriage 1.
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