I'd known that Rajiv's parents had entered into an arranged marriage, and I'd always been curious about how the arranged marriage worked.
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Arranged marriage, American-style Arranged marriage is stigmatized in the U.S., where parents are largely deemed ill-suited for the task of finding marriage partners for their children.
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An arranged marriage is based on a premise of permanence.
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It was an arranged marriage, but also a risky one.
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Not your grandma's arranged marriage As a result of India's rising incomes, higher education levels and technological advances that ease communications, arranged marriage is changing there and among people of Indian heritage who live elsewhere.
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She loves romantic comedies, though her parents had an arranged marriage.
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So, in your view, an arranged marriage is more for convenience?
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Aged 13, Dirie fled an arranged marriage, eventually arriving in London.
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"We've already made jokes they need an arranged marriage," Clayshulte told CBS.
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When he chooses Gordon instead of an arranged marriage, they disown him.
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The couple had an arranged marriage, organized by their parents in 1972.
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There is indeed a link between arranged marriage and wider family obligations.
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The days of omiai, or arranged marriage, are more or less gone.
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Hakpal also said Qunun was trying to escape from an arranged marriage.
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If someone is getting an arranged marriage, don't assume they're unhappy. 30.
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But it has been instilled in me to have an arranged marriage.
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Which even in the 21st century still often means an arranged marriage.
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The sisters knew it was likely there would be an arranged marriage.
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Technically, it's about the arranged marriage between a 15- and 16-year-old.
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VICE: So you're married through an arranged marriage—how did that go down?
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Watch: An Arranged Marriage Ceremony with Romania's Teen Witches Things go horribly wrong.
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They subsequently collaborated on a film called "Difret," about arranged marriage in Ethiopia.
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"It was an arranged marriage, and it has not worked out," he said.
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Searching for something to blame for my family ills, I blamed arranged marriage.
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But in the end, her parents persuaded her to enter an arranged marriage.
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" He added, "Sometimes, when you want to marry, it is an arranged marriage.
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But in my family, you're encouraged to follow the norms of an arranged marriage.
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In fact, as any South Asian person can attest, this is textbook arranged marriage.
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Trump's first nomination to the Court, Neil Gorsuch, was an arranged marriage by comparison.
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Watch: An Arranged Marriage Ceremony with Romania's Teen Witches And I cut my hair.
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As Balagamwala grew up, she came under increasing pressure to submit to an arranged marriage.
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The conference, an arranged marriage of two dying leagues, has existed for only two decades.
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"Ours was like an arranged marriage, because our families were so similar," Katz told me.
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They often occur when a girl refuses an arranged marriage or chooses her own husband.
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But that next generation, my nephew's generation, very few to no one has arranged marriage.
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In the semi-arranged marriage, there may be room for a few solo coffee dates.
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She had left her arranged marriage to have a relationship with a close friend, Rahmat Sulemani.
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Seema Sinha never imagined that a Facebook account might ruin her chances at an arranged marriage.
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Meanwhile, his family keeps setting him up with women, in hopes of brokering an arranged marriage.
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In the original, African Prince Akeem comes to Queens, New York, to avoid an arranged marriage.
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Nashra Balagamwala was only 18 when she first faced pressure to enter into an arranged marriage.
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The apps were becoming a family, partly through divorce and arranged marriage but a family nonetheless.
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It's rumored that, at first, this arranged marriage was a bitter pill for the young beauty.
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The big picture: Trump is presiding over an arranged marriage between two industries previously at odds.
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They offered arranged marriage as an option if I really need it, like as a backup.
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But arranged marriage is still by and large the end game for many young, single Indians.
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A decade later, Suzuki brought over his Japanese bride, Yoshi, as part of an arranged marriage.
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There's talk of arranged marriage and tense family relations, but handled with a key ingredient: nuance.
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The senior Vaidyas had met in an arranged marriage in Gujarat, but love soon took over.
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No other choice There was no choice but arranged marriage for women in my mother's generation.
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How does this thorny episode fit into an ebullient musical about an American-Indian arranged marriage?
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There she wound up in a semi-arranged marriage to a son of a family friend.
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Everyone in my family, on both maternal and paternal sides, has chosen arranged or semi-arranged marriage.
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"Michael and I had an arranged marriage all summer," Hill previously said of filming Superbad with Cera.
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He has also spoken openly about his parents arranged marriage and his own quest to find love.
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Watch: An Arranged Marriage Ceremony with Romania's Teen Witches Listen: I was raised a Taoist, all right?
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And ironically, it's the game that has helped relieve her of the pressures of an arranged marriage.
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" As for her own arranged marriage, "If I have anything to say about it, it's not happening!
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"But it can't be an arranged marriage with someone she meshes well with on paper," he added.
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The man she has been pledged to is a dashing prince — but it is an arranged marriage.
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"There must be something for me in between an arranged marriage and an open relationship," she says.
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Various features of modern dating sites share similar 'match-making' qualities with the principle of an arranged marriage.
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She's running from past failures; his traditional Pakistani immigrant parents want him to agree to an arranged marriage.
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Because you have people who do this arranged marriage situation, and the marriages work and sometimes they don't.
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I was never told that I'd have an arranged marriage or that I could only date Chinese boys.
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She breaks her arranged marriage and heads off for adventure in a turquoise tank top and cargo shorts.
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My dream is to have an arranged marriage where I fall in love with my spouse over time.
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Unable to provide for her, Robert's grandmother agreed to an arranged marriage for the then-15-year-old.
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I would say most people who view arranged marriage as sort of an outdated way of doing things.
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The second of five daughters in Gujarat, 21-year-old Patel moved to London for an arranged marriage.
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She described herself as a Pakistani girl in Cleveland whose parents were pressuring her into an arranged marriage.
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On Netflix's "Dating Around," a man named Justin belittled Gurki Basra for her cultural beliefs and arranged marriage.
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A teenage girl, Rukhshana, who was forced into an arranged marriage, was later caught fleeing with a lover.
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The novel opens with an arranged marriage in Yeongdo, a fishing village at the southern tip of Korea.
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Not only is Valentine's Day a pretty big deal now -- there are specials at florists and displays at stationery shops and tinsel-wrapped candy everywhere -- the encroachment of the "semi-arranged" marriage, on the realm between love and arranged marriage, seems to have altered the path and pattern of both.
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He meets widows who are open to an arranged marriage, but he seems to be looking for something more.
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She wants to choose her own husband, and refuses a loveless arranged marriage filled with sexual hypocrisy — a masquerade.
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She and her husband, Wei, had an arranged marriage years ago; they now have settled into a comfortable rhythm.
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Today arranged marriage is almost unknown in Japan, and children feel little obligation to take in their aged parents.
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It was an arranged marriage, so we have to assume that there was a sort of pull — there's tension.
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After fleeing Mali to avoid an arranged marriage, she returns to perform her first-ever concert in the country.
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"My oldest [daughter] was also placed into an arranged marriage, as I was when I was 18," she said.
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She enjoys sleeping with city boys, but has promised to marry her cousin back home in an arranged marriage.
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Whether we were pawns of fate or unwitting participants in a chromosomally arranged marriage, Jess and I quickly bonded.
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She was born in India, where her parents, Vijaya and Dwarika Prasad Keshari, came together in an arranged marriage.
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It seems like the two are a perfect pair before Shae becomes jealous of Tyrion's arranged marriage with Sansa.
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So in India — my husband's from India — and we went to my nephew's wedding in December, and it was crazy because my sister-in-law, that generation — my husband was the first person in his family to not have an arranged marriage, and so my sister-in-law had an arranged marriage.
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My mother and my father were an arranged marriage, and at the beginning, my mother didn't like him at all.
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His Sikh parents, who met through an arranged marriage, do not value wealth as paramount nor do they live ostentatiously.
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All of the dates I've been on in my life have been 'meets,' or Indian arranged-marriage meet-and-greets.
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Arranged marriage was the norm in Japan before the second world war, and many retired Japanese lived with their children.
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Watch: An Arranged Marriage with Romania's Teen Witches She wanted to investigate these stereotypes by photographing real witches in Romania.
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She wanted to become an engineer after she graduated, but was pushed by her parents to accept an arranged marriage.
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She soon has her first sexual experience with him and gets pregnant—something she's hoping will derail her arranged marriage.
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Having failed in their repeal effort, Republicans are now in something of an arranged marriage with the health care law.
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That dating/marriage market, there's these big players that have brick-and-mortar stores that are more about arranged marriage.
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"I believe very strongly in the idea of an arranged marriage," she tells me over the phone one recent evening.
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In the original, Murphy played an African prince [Akeem] who comes to Queens, New York to avoid an arranged marriage.
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But in Ms. Masilo's "Swan Lake," the issues of homophobia, arranged marriage and domestic violence are part of the picture, too.
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I'm talking about Emily, but also the many Pakistani women that Kumail's parents hope he will accept for an arranged marriage.
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He was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, to a pair of Montenegrin immigrants who came to America after an arranged marriage.
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They're soldiers, recruited at a young age in Russia for an arranged marriage that over the years became a real one.
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I still wouldn't want an arranged marriage, but I no longer think the Western way of doing things is better, either.
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She's been on the run for the last two years, fleeing an arranged marriage with the son of a rival house.
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That year, he wrote an essay about a woman who had slit her throat rather than consent to an arranged marriage.
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Film Club In this short documentary, a teenage girl in Afghanistan resists her arranged marriage so she can stay in school.
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Mr. Raja is the son of Pakistani immigrants who had an arranged marriage in Britain when his mother was only 15.
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He actively pursues this young woman, whom he finds beautiful and intriguing, even though he's already committed to an arranged marriage.
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I'm 26, run a $3-million fashion company, and I don't date the way most Americans do: I want an arranged marriage.
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With arranged marriage, there is a very clear procedure and a road map that everyone follows: Girls have the ultimate veto power.
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He's also the first person in our family that I know of to be engaged for love rather than an arranged marriage.
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The film follows the free-spirited woman who flees her arranged marriage and finds refuge among a rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus.
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But seeing my parents own marriage and how happy they were got me accustomed to the idea of having an arranged marriage.
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If a Muslim woman doesn't wear hijab or is against arranged marriage, that doesn't give you the okay to hate on them.
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I know enough, just peripherally, to know that it could have been a bad arranged marriage, so I feel really very lucky.
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"It wasn't so much as an arranged marriage, as I guess a lot of people would think," said Mr. Learey, now 22.
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The concept of arranged marriage — a practice both she and Ms. Nair have personally avoided — also presented a new chance for revision.
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"It seems to be more depressing, as some women are there for years, waiting for years, until an arranged marriage," she said.
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Born in pre-Partition India to an educated Muslim family, she started traveling soon after her arranged marriage to Saad Hashmi, a diplomat.
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Mohan met Shafali's mother, Vanita, through an arranged marriage in the Indian city of Mumbai and they settled in Abu Dhabi in 1964.
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By the time of Drogo's season 1 death, it is clear the arranged marriage has flourished into a powerful partnership of mutual admiration.
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Ukpong (Hubert Point-Du Jour) and Abasiama (Chinasa Ogbuagu), joined in an ill-conceived arranged marriage, are student newlyweds in Houston in 1978.
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Most of the boys who are open to arranged marriage don't want Western-minded women who are independent or ambitious in any way.
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More than five years later, she's back with something that has helped her get out of an arranged marriage — a board game. Arranged!
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She secretly collaborated with Andrew Morton's "unofficial" biography; she admitted that being trapped in an arranged marriage had driven her to attempt suicide.
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IS offers salaries, an arranged marriage (sometimes to a slave-woman) and the opportunity to run amok and feel self-righteous about it.
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The original Alice is a young girl, whereas the live-action Alice is 19 years old and attempting to escape an arranged marriage.
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Rubinstein, born Chaja, was the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish kerosene dealer in Kraków, who left for Australia to escape an arranged marriage.
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Alicia Vikander, as a 17th-century woman unhappily in an arranged marriage (with Christoph Waltz), has an affair with a painter (Dane DeHaan).
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Many of the film's critics said it reinforced problematic stereotypes — foreign parents with accents, threats of arranged marriage and girls reluctantly wearing hijabs.
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Basra's parents, who come from the Indian state of Punjab, had an arranged marriage and met for the first time on their wedding day.
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Most compelling to me was the character of Isra, who moved to Brooklyn from Palestine as a teenager as part of an arranged marriage.
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Zheng Dingguo and Huang Chenfeng have been together since their arranged marriage in 1972, and are continuing to stand by each other through illness.
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Retsuko's mom is determined to set up her daughter with arranged marriage prospects, including a handsome polar bear boasting the sharpest, most angled eyebrows.
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The story is about opposed tribes, their attempts to make peace and two lovers who rebel after one is steered into an arranged marriage.
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The tenant and his employee are clearly having great sex, but he lets his parents introduce him to other women for an arranged marriage.
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"I couldn't imagine a universe where I ended up accepting an arranged marriage, but I also couldn't imagine telling my parents that," he said.
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"A lot of times when you're in an arranged marriage you don't meet someone from down the street, you end up moving," she said.
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They expect him to enter into an arranged marriage, and after Kumail rejects their latest prospect, they go to his apartment to confront him.
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At the time Mr. Nanjiani, a Pakistani-American, was hiding their relationship from his parents, who wanted him to enter into an arranged marriage.
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Here are the top three: This breaks up the very poorly arranged marriage between this president and members of the establishment Republican communications team.
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Unhappy in an arranged marriage, she joined a revolutionary group, began wearing men's clothing, and left her husband and children to study in Japan.
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Why these Indian millennials are choosing arranged marriage In many ways, young Indian women are no different than young women in the United States.
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If I had grown up in Eritrea, I would have had an arranged marriage, and, by 21, I would have pushed out four kids.
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According to local authorities, Bibi starting formulating how to poison her husband after she was forced by her family into an arranged marriage in September.
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Police said Bibi set out to poison her husband after she was forced by her family into an arranged marriage in September, Sky News reported.
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Unlike the Marschallin who, as young girl, was forced by her family into an arranged marriage with an older man, Sophie refuses to marry Ochs.
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Some parents encouraged anachronistic sexual behavior like arranged marriage, if only to save their children from having to endure the complicated emotions of modern romance.
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Tim Naftali: If Gorsuch was an arranged marriage, Kavanaugh is Trump's love match Monday night Donald Trump made his own choice for the Supreme Court.
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She had fled an arranged marriage to a much older man and eloped with a young lover in a Taliban-controlled district in western Afghanistan.
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Tamara, he suggested, is not happy about her coming (and likely arranged) marriage, and the Demon is her psyche's way of dealing with the situation.
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Nazer and Alibava had an arranged marriage two years ago, but friends say they have no doubt that the couple soon fell deeply in love.
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Focusing on the early days of her arranged marriage, Anita comes fully to life on the page, her disappointment, disgust and determined optimism spilling over.
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To battle these "rumors," Yusef decides Omar will meet with a possible candidate for an arranged marriage, a local girl named Zahira, whom viewers never meet.
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Sansa even contemplating a relationship with Tyrion seems to indicate that five seasons after their failed arranged marriage, these two may just have a future together.
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I guess failing that, it is still preferable to settle for some mediocre arranged marriage because I don't understand how I would find a love marriage.
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She met Rahman at university, and theirs was a love match, but the practice of arranged marriage is very much thriving in their homeland of Bangladesh.
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Eckel's grandfather was from the same village in Shenzhen as Madison's grandfather and also traveled to Jamaica, where he wed Eckel's grandmother in an arranged marriage.
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But then she discovers his plan to defy his arranged marriage to the American heiress Martha Dunstable (Alison Brie) and elope with the commoner Mary instead.
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On Friday, as part of the SummerStage performance series, the company performs dances from Mali and Senegal that celebrate an arranged marriage between the two cultures.
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Would everyone still be Team Gurki if she had ended the date as soon as Justin told her he thought her parents' arranged marriage was terrible?
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Mr. Sewani studied to be a civil engineer and in the mid-1980s met his wife through a newspaper advertisement seeking suitors for an arranged marriage.
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Glory of the Midnight Sun, a romance about an arranged marriage, was given an elevated on-site feature because Wattpad had detected a trend in Muslim fiction.
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Clarkson never denied that working with RCA CEO Clive Davis was contentious, calling the relationship with RCA "an arranged marriage" she was forced into after winning Idol.
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Still, he's reluctant to broach the relationship to his family, especially since his mom -- who still believes in arranged marriage -- keeps surprising him with eligible Pakistani girls.
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Tamaki says that when she was in her early 20s, her father wanted to talk about omiai, the matchmaking process that would lead to her arranged marriage.
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It was an arranged marriage, meant to encourage interagency harmony; if it worked, the White House would be spared the job of ordering Defense to approve transfers.
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Decorum states that you either have an arranged marriage, or invite a boy's mother to meet your family and ask for your hand before starting a courting process.
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After Atlanna returned to Atlantis to protect the secret of their family, Arthur is told, she was executed for attempting to escape her arranged marriage to the king.
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When I was younger, and all throughout middle school and high school I always thought I wanted an arranged marriage, but it's because I went to religious schools.
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They also collide spectacularly with an old way of life, in which girls are kept in seclusion until they can be transferred to another family through arranged marriage.
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Who knew that Khal Drogo and Daenerys' arranged marriage back in season 1 of Game of Thrones would wind up in a series the best Instagram posts, ever?
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The family meaning the world — because you're black, because you make very sensitive music, because you're a very sensitive soul, it was like an arranged marriage or something.
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Or Ashok, an aspiring novelist, telling his father that while it's true his peers have largely abandoned arranged marriage, he'd still like his parents' help finding a spouse.
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Unfortunately, the ballet was confusing as well, especially when Juliet in the third act, or the 1990s, was still at war with her father over an arranged marriage.
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The only reason they allowed me to learn stitching and embroidery was, they said, 'Oh, that will be a good attribute when we go to the arranged marriage.
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They'd had an arranged marriage in India, and he warned her she'd be deported from their new home in the United States if she told anyone he hit her.
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The Pakistani-born Nanjiani's parents wanted him to enter into an arranged marriage, meaning they wouldn't approve of Gordon and the two struggled as Gordon respected his family's traditions.
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In an effort to keep their daughter in line, Tura's parents forced her into an arranged marriage with a family friend while she was still in her mid teens.
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Experiments like one in Bangalore, luring migrants to fill factory jobs, collide with an old way of life that keeps women and girls in seclusion until an arranged marriage.
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THE INTERVENTION Clea DuVall wrote, directed and appears in this comic drama about four couples on a weekend getaway that turns out to be a covertly arranged marriage intervention.
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The movie follows reluctant 17-year-old María as she gets closer to the date of her arranged marriage with a much older widower who already has three kids.
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When Nasrin announces her intention to enter an arranged marriage, Sahar decides to explore gender transition with the hope that becoming a man will allow her to marry Nasrin.
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His mother, Frances (Segal) Frankel, had come to the United States from England at the urging of a sister for what Professor Fromson later described as an arranged marriage.
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A new bride (the fierce Florence Pugh), trapped in a sexless arranged marriage to an often-absent husband (Paul Hilton), begins an affair with a stable hand (Cosmo Jarvis).
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After repeatedly interrupting Basra to mansplain about his ideas about relationships, Justin criticizes Basra's previous arranged marriage, while not understanding the cultural pressures Basra was facing at the time.
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She moved into less familiar territory with "Wife" (1975), taking as her main character a young Bengali woman who rebels against her arranged marriage after moving to New York.
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At 19, Ms. Weisz entered into an arranged marriage, but she opted for divorce after four years because of her increasing differences with the strict Hasidic way of life.
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It's the story of a young couple who fall in love in Europe and how the young man goes to break up her arranged marriage so they can be together.
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I had always assumed an arranged marriage meant your parents showed you a bunch of suitable men and you got to choose which one you wanted to end up with.
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I think it's hard to find boys in arranged marriage meets who are remotely supportive of a woman working in any activity other than the PTA or non-profit work.
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It was there that Carmela had an arranged marriage at age 17 to a man who'd immigrated to the US from an Italian village near where her family was from.
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Being a woman in her early 20s who had only just begun to (secretly) explore the world of casual dating on Tinder, the modern arranged marriage process felt bizarrely streamlined.
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At age 15, she wed (via arranged marriage) my wealthy grandfather (the scion of a dried fish business), and she relocated over 400 miles south to his hometown of Wonsan.
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Unbeknownst to others, the Greshams have lost their fortune and matriarch Lady Arabella has a scheme to regain it via an arranged marriage with her son and an American heiress.
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Tweeting the secret to keeping passion burning will be the longest-married Americans, John and Ann Betar, who eloped in 1932 to avoid an arranged marriage her parents were planning.
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Katherine is a young woman in rural England in an arranged marriage to Alexander (Paul Hilton), a man of some means who seems to have nothing but disgust for her.
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But the single biggest reason they dropped out was "family pressure" — in a culture that still overwhelmingly favors arranged marriage, families prefer to keep women of marriageable age at home.
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Her dream was to fall in love, but the arranged marriage in 2006 with a man she had met on a trip to her father's hometown did not work out.
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"Tanna," filmed mostly in Mr. Dain's tribal village and the surrounding jungle, chronicles the fate of two star-crossed lovers who rebel after one is steered into an arranged marriage.
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As the crown prince of Rajpipla, a socially conservative 1,500 square mile princely state in North West India, Prince Manvendra obeyed his parents and entered into an arranged marriage in 1991.
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In the tender and insightful First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story, Huda Al-Marashi writes about reconciling her expectations for a grand romance with her arranged marriage.
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"Wearing fake engagement rings, getting a tan or being seen with male friends in public, [these are] the things I had done to avoid an arranged marriage myself," she told Mashable.
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Throwing in a plot about an arranged marriage for the queen of Tiuri's kingdom is perhaps an excuse to engage more with its women characters, but the plot goes literally nowhere.
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I think there are two extremes—white men who don't give you any attention because they think you're all set for an arranged marriage, or will only go for Muslim guys.
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The following year, the couple traveled to India with Mr. Jaswa's parents whose own arranged marriage had been celebrated there by 3,000 just days after they had been introduced in 1978.
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After the nuns tried to pressure Andrée into an arranged marriage at 15, she escaped the orphanage, bloodying her feet as she clambered over a wall capped with shards of glass.
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He begins dating one of those women, a grad student named Emily (Zoe Kazan), but keeps the relationship hidden from his parents (they are expecting him to agree to an arranged marriage).
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" According to The New York Times, the film follows "a teenage girl in Pakistan, who fell in love with and married a man thereby defying family orders to enter an arranged marriage.
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The 30-year-old has taken her fight across Africa and the United States, where she was sent at age 15 for an arranged marriage with a man she had never met.
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But I'd do things that none of them did, like go to parties, or speak out about girls' and women's rights, or about the fact that I didn't want an arranged marriage.
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And if those daughters don't see a life for themselves with the husband chosen for them, it can be tough to get out of the arranged marriage—a process steeped in tradition.
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Somehow, Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) convinces the strict King Jaffe (James Earl Jones) to let him travel to America in order to "sow his royal oats" before entering into the arranged marriage.
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Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel by Caribbean writer Jean Rhys that details the life of a woman whose arranged marriage takes her from her home country to a terrifying new home.
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Marriage, or an arranged marriage, to be more specific, was the unceasing background hum to growing up in India—one that grew louder and louder the further I progressed into my 20s.
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As a child, I read books in which a plucky heroine escaped from an arranged marriage, and I've read a reasonable amount of adult-focused fiction that addresses the subject as well.
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The Big 12 was already a Frankenstein's monster, cobbled together in the mid-1990s as an arranged marriage of the fragile Big Eight and four Texas teams from the disintegrating Southwest Conference.
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Haikara soon came to mean, more positively, sophisticated and progressive; the beloved manga series "Haikara-san ga Toru" chronicled the adventures of a Jazz Age "Miss Modern," who resisted an arranged marriage.
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And over the course of the series, Dany has gone from a refugee forced into an arranged marriage as her brother's political pawn to one of the most powerful women in the world.
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Surachate said the father — whose name has not been released — denied physically abusing Alqunun or trying to force her into an arranged marriage, which were among the reasons she gave for her flight.
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Under Disney, an allegory of arranged marriage in which Beauty's consent was the fantasy became the story of a woman whose captor eventually softened enough that he didn't punish her for challenging him.
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Alan was brought in as basically an arranged marriage shortly after, coming from a wealthy family who would help save some of the Preakers the embarrassment of having a child out of wedlock.
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Kumail (Nanjiani) and Emily (Zoe Kazan) embark on a quintessential millennial relationship with one unaddressed complication: Kumail's family is Pakistani Muslim and are dead set on setting him up with an arranged marriage.
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The novel is told from the perspective of Bronte's "madwoman in the attic," Antoinette Cosway, who has been given away in an arranged marriage to a very different Rochester than Bronte fans recall.
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Sumandeep Kaur, a pale, straight-backed woman of 24, was three months into her arranged marriage when she realized that her husband, from a prosperous farming family in Rajoke, had resumed using heroin.
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The two men's values are not easily mapped onto their ages: when his once-rebellious childhood sweetheart, Hatice (Hazar Ergüçlü), agrees to an arranged marriage, Sinan displays a misogyny never evinced by his father.
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The series also features 16-year-old Jediva, who was abducted by a man in South Sudan and escaped, and Sasha, 17, who escaped an arranged marriage in Burundi so she could attend school.
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Her neighbour Leela (Aahana Kumra) is about to get into an arranged marriage she doesn't want while at the same time being involved in a toxic relationship with a man who refuses to commit.
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In sporting terms this had been an arranged marriage and after five consecutive Winter Games together the NHL, feeling unappreciated and taken advantage of, told the IOC their players would not compete in Pyeongchang.
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Having suffered through an arranged marriage, she said, she was forced to pay off her husband, with a sum of approximately $18,000, to get divorced; a philanthropist helped her come up with the money.
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As Pankaj Mishra pointed out in his 2013 essay on the global novel, many of these writers are likely to be as leery of nationalism and global capitalism as they are of arranged marriage.
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After finishing her RCA contract, which came with her "Idol" victory and was an unhappy partnership she refers to as her "arranged marriage," she is making what she considers her first real artistic statement.
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Set in the late 1700s, it revolves around a romance between a noblewoman reluctantly having her portrait painted to impress an arranged-marriage fiance, and the female portrait artist commissioned to do the job.
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Having ended the arranged marriage, Lim arrived in Seoul in January 2014 and soon found fame as a TV star on talk shows and reality television, including shows that featured defectors from the North.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Five years ago, designer and illustrator Nashra Balagamwala left Pakistan for the United States to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, and to avoid an arranged marriage.
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Balagamwala, who's previously worked for board game giant Hasbro, first came up with the idea of making her game, after making a list of all the things she had done to avoid an arranged marriage.
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If he chooses Emily, Kumail effectively will sail away from his home — a home which, judging by his brother's very happy arranged marriage, is just as capable of producing love as a Western marriage is.
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Robert enters into an arranged marriage with Elizabeth de Burgh (Florence Pugh), who is thoroughly unwowed by the match, and spurns her husband's bed, not from maidenly trepidation but as a test of male mettle.
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And while Mr. Obama is a doting father and dutiful husband who maintains close bonds with his childhood friends, Mr. Modi abandoned his arranged marriage decades ago and has no children or any public friendships.
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He is the only person on the show who makes scornful jokes about Indians stereotypically being doctors and lawyers, about arranged marriage, about the name Fakir and how non-Indians can make fun of it.
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"Arranged marriage is a source of comfort for most parents here as they feel that the existing close ties between families will strengthen the new relationship," said Salman Sufi, an aide to Punjab's chief minister.
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Men, in Pinker's analysis, seek to control the sexuality, and more generally, the reproductive capacity, of their wives and girlfriends (and for that matter their unmarried daughters, preserving their value in the arranged marriage market).
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Inspired by a true story, "Toilet" is loosely based on the experiences of a poor woman in central India, Anita Narre, who six years ago found herself in an arranged marriage to a field hand.
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"As in an arranged marriage, there's not much time for the faculty and staff to 'date,'" said Professor McCay, whose 121-year-old institute completed its merger with larger New England College in the summer.
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I didn't see "The Big Sick" as a rejection of South Asian women, but rather a rejection of arranged marriage, a difficult and searing subject for some of us who have experienced it up close.
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Her account stitches together stories told by hundreds of women she has interviewed, from wealthy Saudi teenagers celebrating an arranged marriage to activists leading social change in Egypt, challenging familiar, inert depictions of Arab femininity.
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The Nuristan case recalled a 2014 case in which a young couple from Bamian Province eloped to escape an arranged marriage, but last year fled to asylum in the United States to escape family retribution.
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She's galvanized by her arranged marriage to Ramsay and the sexual abuse he put her through; she's one of the show's strongest characters, a girl made into a woman by means of circumstance and survival.
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Daenerys has faced similar barriers, ranging from being forced into an arranged marriage to Khal Drogo in season one all the way to her title being called into question because of Jon's male birthright this episode.
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When she learns her Nai Nai (grandmother) is dying of cancer, she joins the family in traveling to China, using a cousin's hastily arranged marriage to a recent girlfriend as an excuse for a family gathering.
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As her community plots an arranged marriage between her 10-year-old daughter Zainab and a village leader, Allah Rakhi decides that she won't let her daughter suffer through a child marriage like she once did.
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"My parents have since felt that courtship isn't biblical enough, and that if they really wanted to use an example from the Bible, they would use arranged marriage, where there is no emotional attachment," she says.
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Perhaps it was his good looks or her desire for adventure and independence that persuaded Hisaye Katayama, a college-educated woman from a well-off family, to agree to an arranged marriage with a young stranger.
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But the Pakistani-born Nanjiani, who was also facing family pressure to enter into an arranged marriage, stuck by his then-girlfriend while simultaneously trying to placate his parents and keep his relationship with Gordon a secret.
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In their version, much of which is in Feldman's native Yiddish, we see a young woman, Esther Shapiro (Shira Haas), flee an arranged marriage that sours as she struggles to consummate the relationship and produce a baby.
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In addition, celebrating Valentine's Day gives the upwardly mobile urban couple's love the legitimacy of individual choice -- with roses, chocolates and jewelry adding a bit of luster to the worn and antiquated patina of an arranged marriage.
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It also sparked criticism of its portrayal of South Asian women, and defense of its critique of the practice of arranged marriage — which Nanjiani has used as an opportunity to push for "more stories" about South Asian people.
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In addition to the traditional tenets of conservative Christianity (abortion is murder, gay sex is an abomination, premarital sex is a sin) it also promoted the concept of courtship, which is a half-step removed from arranged marriage.
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So virtuosic is the curator's touch, it can take a few minutes to spot the contemporary piece salted within the display — but once each pairing is isolated, the carefully arranged marriage of aesthetic correspondences is goose-bumps-worthy.
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With a cast primarily made up of locals who had never acted before, the Romeo and Juliet-type plot centered around a forbidden love who find themselves entangled in trouble after one is led towards an arranged marriage.
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" Nor did she spare the personal life of the prime minister, who left his wife for politics soon after an arranged marriage decades ago: "He can't take care of his wife, but he will take care of Indians?
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Another problem in Pakistani culture is the idea of arranged marriage which I am completely against, as marriage should be a commitment of love and not just something that is done just because your parents tell you to.
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Speaker Halima Robert of Malawi, 17, is living proof of that message: She was forced into an arranged marriage at 15, but through the help of USAID, was able to get out of the marriage and return to school.
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Searching for the equivalent of an arranged marriage in our romantic day, Tyler ingeniously has found the one situation in which arranged marriages are acceptable in American life—in order to get a green card for a deserving alien.
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The series starred Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Soviet spies paired together by their bosses in an arranged marriage and sent to the suburbs of Washington, D.C. "You nurtured and loved this show and we love you guys," Weisberg said.
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Based on: "Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots" by Deborah FeldmanRelease date: TBASynopsis: A young woman named Deborah leaves her strict Orthodox Jewish community and an arranged marriage in New York City to live a secular life in Berlin.
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In fact, many fear that all that extra schooling was a parental ploy to improve a daughter's prospects not in the labour market but in the arranged-marriage market, part of the all-important quest to snag a suitable boy.
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Most of us are familiar with the life-ruining consequences of playing Monopoly with your family or significant other, but it's a rarer game that actually comments on family life and marriage—especially one that tackles issues like arranged marriage.
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The Khmer Rouge's stated policy was to increase the country's population, and in a society with a tradition of arranged marriage, the regime assumed the role of parent to an entire people as part of its utopian project to remake Cambodia.
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They also know the challenge of trying to tell your parents, who likely had an arranged marriage, that you are dating someone — and the equally dicey situation of explaining to your partner why it took so long to share the news.
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Rosie Gray of BuzzFeed News recently reported that Free the Delegates backers were exploring the possibility of rejecting Trump's VP pick to instead nominate someone they viewed as an authentic conservative — an "arranged marriage," as one source described it to Gray.
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She documented her repressive upbringing, the arranged marriage she entered into at 17 and her decision to take her young son and leave the community in her best-selling memoir, "Unorthodox," which was published in the United States in 2012.
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Uzma Jalaluddin's Ayesha at Last (Berkley, June 4) is a modern, Muslim retelling of Pride and Prejudice, about a young woman who doesn't think she wants an arranged marriage — until she meets the devastatingly handsome (if judgmental) Khalid, who is dedicated to tradition.
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She currently cares for one 15-year-old Syrian girl who desperately wants to be with her 25-year-old husband, whom she wedded in an arranged marriage, and told me other girls have even run away to be with their spouses.
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Silicon Valley's Kumail Nanjiani stars in this romantic comedy that seems to twist free of the genre's tropes with a focus on the culture clash that happens when Nanjiani falls for a woman and bucks his parents' plans for an arranged marriage.
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"Our children are in school and I've helped pay to educate my husband who is now a computer operator for the state government," said Kanjarya who, like most women in Mayapur, had an arranged marriage and first met her husband at their wedding.
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For years, she had been traveling the same cloistered, unrelenting path on which many female members of her branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism find themselves: arranged marriage at 216, a domineering, sometimes abusive husband with whom she would have a bevy of kids.
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If the situation is suitable or I'm having a mid-life crisis in my late 20s—like my love life is shit—and I feel that [arranged marriage] is something I have to do to move on, I would definitely do it.
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The case of the woman, identified as Farah, became a cause celebre in Italy following the recent strangulation death in Pakistan of Sana Cheema, an Italian of Pakistani origin who police suspect was killed by her family because she refused an arranged marriage.
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A teenage Texas girl found "safe and sound" this month after her parents reported her missing in January had actually fled their abuse, according to authorities who say she refused to go along with their plans to place her in an arranged marriage, PEOPLE confirms.
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Watch: An Arranged Marriage Ceremony with Romania's Teen Witches When it feels right, stop shuffling and draw 12 cards from the top of the deck—starting with any that jumped out—and lay them down in a circular clockwise pattern, as on a round clock.
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According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, about 500 Pakistani women are killed each year by family members who believe their honor has been damaged if a female relative refuses an arranged marriage, socializes with men or even claps and sings at a wedding.
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An eye-opening scene sees arranged marriage defended via the example of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. (A religious faction in Tanna considers Prince Philip a divinity.) Despite its best efforts, "Tanna" drifts into a mode of exoticism that renders it an ultimately frustrating experience.
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It was tied up in an ancient pain left over from when she was corralled into an arranged marriage after being badly beaten by her father with a steel rod for shaming the family when, instead of marrying someone chosen for her, she tried to flee.
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Last year, her sister was placed into an arranged marriage with a young man from a family Allison's parents met at the new church, one they had joined after their previous one was starting to feel too liberal (the pastor was allowing his daughters to get jobs).
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A writer could learn a great deal about how good people can become enmeshed in their own wicked deeds from the excellent story "Fresh Complaint," in which a middle-aged physicist is sexually entrapped by a young woman desperate to be released from an arranged marriage.
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It's like an arranged marriage: I don't hate it, I love it, but I had to learn to love it, and the reason I did was that, every time I've done a film, it's been the least expected move—either in my opinion or other people's opinion.
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But this arranged marriage looks as uncomfortable as it sounds and signals a precarious prelude to a convention that holds the potential to catapult Trump into greater acceptability before the Democrats and their all-star lineup of heavy hitters pick him apart at next week's Democratic National Convention.
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The arid lands and immense nights inspired the early 218th-century Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca to write his greatest drama, "Blood Wedding," based on the crime story in 191934 of a runaway bride who fled her arranged marriage on horseback to be with her true love.
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These semi-arranged marriages, particularly popular among the growing urban middle class, seek to add a little of love's mystery to the once standard arranged marriage, whose closely chaperoned interactions leave little room for romance and where the two being wed do not know each other at all.
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These stories center on women of color who resist easy categorization — a therapist who is drawn to but disgusted by her young patient, a scholar desperate to justify her affair with her terminally ill best friend's husband, a woman remembering the girlfriend she abandoned when she accepted her arranged marriage.
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Chernow presents a convincing case that neither the rings nor the corners ever touched Grant directly—the Treasury continued to sell gold despite the arranged marriage—and that, in any case, the scandals have been oversold to history by a toxic combination of snobbish New England mandarins and sinister revanchist rednecks.
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The ads feature women like Naja co-founder Gina Rodriguez (of Jane The Virgin), the soloist in a top ballet company, a Harvard Business School student, and a software engineer, and a woman from "a conservative Muslim Bangladeshi family who stood up against being forced into an arranged marriage," Girald said.
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From Aunty's point of view, arranged marriage is just more rational, and now that I'm able to see it from her point of view, finding a partner purely through romantic means seems more illogical—especially as I notice incompatibilities in my own relationship and the relationships of those around me.
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Definition: Form of LocomotionQuality: Rhythmic Rating: Violent We all know the quintessential high school experience of driving way too fast way late with your three best bros, down a deserted country road playing metal as loud as you can crank it, running towards an arranged marriage and a giant floating cackling space skull.
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They include Bart Vickers (Jay Klaitz), a shlubby math teacher with a secret crush; Sully Sullivan (Paul Whitty), a police officer with Broadway dreams; and Rummesh Patel (Manu Narayan), a nerd who wanted to be a pediatrician but was instead pressured into entering his father's dermatology practice — and, imminently, an arranged marriage.
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Weisberg and Fields joined me to talk more generally about the process of making The Americans over its first five seasons, including the very early days of their partnership (itself an arranged marriage of sorts) and the casting process that led to Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys crafting one of TV's most believable marriages.
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In 1740, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve wrote the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale that's become so familiar, framing it as an allegory of arranged marriage: a beautiful young woman handed off to an ugly, rich noble who demands she leave her father and live with him forever (complete with a lavish bride price).
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If Netflix -- a British-led show -- manages to ask serious questions about how the palace handled an arranged marriage between a naïve 20-year-old and the 34-year-old playboy ordered to settle with her, it will mark a significant pushback after years of a successful and controlling royal PR push in Britain.
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A defiant teenager (Dior Ka) — the first in her rural Senegalese family to be formally educated — tries to save her 11-year-old sister from an arranged marriage to a much older man in this film, which was conceived by its director, Jeremy Teicher, as a folk tale based on real events and using local, nonprofessional actors.
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"In the new season of FX's drama The Americans," it reads, "the arranged marriage of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings grows more passionate and genuine in the midst of the escalating Cold War, Paige's budding romance with Matthew, the son of their neighbor, FBI Agent Stan Beeman, further complicates matters since Stan — Philip's best friend — remains the greatest threat to the Jennings' safety."
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It was far easier for a man than a woman to make it as an artist in 1920s and 30s Paris, or anywhere else for that matter, and much else was arrayed against Flora: notably an arranged marriage and a family hostile to her artistic ambitions, coupled with limited, at best, opportunities for a single mother in mid-century America.
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It includes the San Francisco-set mystery "Chan Is Missing" (showing on Tuesday), in which a cabdriver and his nephew search for a man who appears to have absconded with their savings; and the period piece "Eat a Bowl of Tea" (on Monday), which takes place in New York after World War II wherein an American veteran (Russell Wong) enters into an arranged marriage with a Chinese bride (Cora Miao).
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It may be that the third rule for updating Shakespeare is "Don't choose a comedy," because expectations about love and marital connection have changed significantly in the last 400 years, at least in Europe and America, but Tyler works around the arranged-marriage setup brilliantly by making the suitor formerly known as Petruchio a Russian research assistant on a special visa for people with "extraordinary ability," who is working for Kate's father.
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Ensign, who now teaches at the University of Washington, traces several years in the late 1980s when she headed up a bare-bones medical clinic for the homeless in Richmond, Va. At 25, she has studied at Oberlin and Harvard but is still beholden to the legacy of her Bible Belt family, which is "riddled with Christian zealots, ministers and missionaries" and has put her in a "sort-of-arranged marriage" to an aspiring preacher.
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" But at the iHeartRadio Album Release Party with Kelly Clarkson at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles, the "Love So Soft" singer clarified those comments had more to do with having to smile through the "arranged marriage" of her first post-Idol record deal and the stresses of her career rather than her weight: "People are always pushing us, but we're also pushing ourselves and you don't really know your limits until it's too late sometimes.
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