Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Upside down
I read this article with regards to an African country called Guinea-Bissau. Talk about things being upside down and opposites with the rest of the world. In Orango Island in Guinea-Bissau, it is the woman who proposes to the man for marriage. While a man in the West would get down on his knee with a ring to propose, a woman from Orango Island would prepare a distinctive and traditional dish with fish as a way of proposing to a man. Yet lately, some of the men have followed the ways of the West. Ever since then, it seems that the divorce rate has risen quite considerably? Many of the elderly suggest that the young generation should go back to the traditional matriarchal ways where women propose to men. They argue, women make better and stable judgement when it comes to marriage. Nonesense right? Right.
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