Tradition / Fiddler
Something I thought was very strange was how the people from “Fiddler On The Roof” separated their genders based on rules of the Jewish faith and tradition. Males were not allowed to dance with females, they were not allowed to date, and they weren’t even allowed to hold hands. In addition to staying away from the opposite gender, they also had to have arranged marriages. I think that having an arranged marriage is very unfair, I know it’s the tradition for many cultures, but I think that because of it, people are missing out on a lot of experiences. There’s no dating, or getting to know the person is safe and that you truly have feelings for them before you may, or may not, get married to them. Which is why I’m very thankful that in our culture we don’t have to have arranged marriage. We may follow the tradition of asking the father’s permission, but that’s a lot nicer / easier than being completely unaware to who you’re going to marry until the day you walk down the isle.
I agree that it is really nice that in today’s society and especially in our culture that we get to date and get to know the person that we are going to be spending the rest of our lives with. However it has been proven that some arranged marriages work out extremely well because the parents are better able to look at their children and evaluate what they lack and what their partner needs to have to make a marriage work. Still, having someone else decide such a momentous thing for one’s self is rather terrifying.
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