Apr.30.2007 India’s social choices amuse me
I always thought marriage was some sort of sacred union between two people who love each other and yada yada entrapment, half your possessions, etc. Leave it to India to figure out what the deal really is…just something you do so you can have kids in a somewhat normal setting and so that a woman doesn’t have to work. And, yes, also realize that men are completely interchangeable in the equation, so long as the money is right.
Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom’s more sober brother instead, police said Monday.
“The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guests when the bride’s family and local villagers chased him away,” Madho Singh, a senior police officer told Reuters after Sunday’s marriage in a village in Bihar state’s Arwal district.
The younger brother readily agreed to take the groom’s place beside the teenage bride at her family’s invitation, witnesses said.
At least they’re up front about it. One thing kind of confuses me though…isn’t India at the forefront of emerging economy? If so, why are there villagers chasing drunken grooms away with pitchforks? And why did they chase him away? He was drunk, not Frankenstein. Or, if he was Frankenstein, maybe you shouldn’t have agreed to let your daughter marry Frankenstein in the first place. It tends to be a bit shortsighted to sell your daughter’s hand in marriage to the parents of something made of corpses and electricity. And sure, his brother Frankenberry looks great now in comparison, but wait until she comes home to find him in a compromising position with Count Chocula.
Long story short, I don’t like curry, Sallie Mae’s customer support, and Frankensteins. And that’s why I shan’t be having an Indian child. That and genetics.
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