Arranged Marriage In Cambodia Essay

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My experience of growing up in another country, I have learned the fact that arranged marriage was still powerful. The purpose of arrange marriage is keeping relationship last longer. Back in Cambodia, relationship need to start through family, and no one able to break the rule because it is part of Cambodian culture, which I believed was right. Almost eight years of my living in the United states, I have learned what I believe in the past was wrong. Arrange marriage should not be allowed because it would cause painful marriage life. One reason arranged marriage infringe the difference between the two parties. For some of those who forced to marry someone in the different language, encounter many issues. Many women who were …show more content…

Marriage is not an obstacle to stop either one of the spouses to have another hiding love. For those who date someone before they become the victim of an arranged relationship are at a high risk of cheating. If the couple uses to date someone before they are married, they would still continue to date that person because there is no love involving in their married life. For those men in the culture that lower the value of women, they normally betray the wife. Even after the first marriage, those men are still adding a second and third wife. Although some countries create the law against multiple husband or wife, but hiding relationship still exists. Cambodia is one of the countries which is not allowing more than one husband or wife. There are still many men and women out there who have multiple couples. Those who disagree, believe that arranged marriage last longer. It is true that arranged marriages could last longer, However, the spouse would not be able to encounter what a happiness feels like. Marriage requires both parties to have characteristics in common because they need to combine two different lives into just one. If one of them does not match another, how could we combine them into one piece? The couple should spend time to learn from others personality as well as allowing them enough time to adopt each other bad

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