Religious Cast Differences Essay

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5.2 Middle class Findings from 9 participants belong to middle class are presented here. 5.2.1 Religious cast difference A married woman shared her experience based on religious cast difference and was responsible for psychological abuse against them. Pakistan has Sunni majority estimated 75-95% and Shia minority with an estimate 5-20% (wiki, 2017). Husband of one participant was Shia and she herself was Sunni. She told that she experience hindrance by her own family at time of marriage. Her family was not agreed on that shia-sunni marriage but atlast she succedded. The same reluctance was faced by her husband also from his family and that reluctance was faced as a form of abuse by her for a short period after marriage; My marriage was …show more content…

Our religious believe are change. I am sunni and my husband is Shia. In start of my marriage my in-laws tried that I should convert to shia cast but I did not want to convert. That was not continued for long as I had a support of my husband and soon people left to impose their belief on me. [12] 5.2.2 Love Marriage Among nine participants six of them revealed that their marriage is their own choice which was arranged by their parents. Consequences of these love marriages result in most marriages as discriminated behaviour of in-laws with their daughter-in-law or/and verbal and psychological abuse. Relations were more interwoven if the marriage was the result of relationship and also have some religious issue: My relation with my in laws was really difficult in early days of my marriage. There were problems in understanding due to different religious beliefs and also because of love marriage which is mostly not easily acceptable in many families. [12] We had love marriage and that is also a problem of being not liked by in laws. The difference and priority given to one daughter-in-law is very hurting for me. As she was beautiful and my mother in laws own choice she was given every freedom. [17] Discrimination on the basic of looks of women was also there as mentioned by participant number

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