kafenes wrote:Sotos wrote:
Yes I am. Nowadays they're not that strict. A lot of mixed marriages between GC and AC lately. If my son or daughter said to me they met someone they love and want to get married, the last thing on my mind would be their race. My late wife (married in 1978 in Larnaca) was Australian and my parents adored her like their own daughter and never had any race conflict.
Going back to the picture, my grandfather would tell me stories of Asia Minor when they weren't allowed to practice their language, religion or music, so had to be done secretly. I wonder if this kind of things still go on in the world today.
Sure does go on in India still. Even in the cities where the people are educated, things like this happen, though it is mostly in the villages.
Parents insist on the their children marrying from the caste or religion. They would go to great lengths to make sure they do, usually it would be some psychological tactic. The parents would say that the family honour would be lost if the world came to know about the inter-caste or inter-religious marriage. Some would even threaten to commit suicide if the marriage took place, sometimes they would not hesitate to kill if the marriage happened.
People are so much stooped into the caste system, that it is difficult for them to come out. No matter how educated they are, they find it difficult to break out because of the social pressures.
One of my friend had to go thorough this and I was there as it all happened. The parents of his girlfriend were so opposed to them getting married because they were of different castes, even though they were of the same religion. They tried all that they can to break the relationship.
