Something that surprised me and intrigued me greatly is the topic of the arranged marriage that the Himba culture participates in. The families of both parties are very much involved in the picking of the bride relative to the groom. If we were to relate this to a similar, more well-known situation in the 21st century, many marriages in Asia are also arranged as read from an article published in PschologyToday by Ph.D psychologist Jefferson Fish. But a major difference that I was perplexed by was how the behaviors of the Himba women differ greatly than the women in most arranged marriages in the society listed prior. The promiscuous behaviors exhibited by the Himba women such as having sexual relations outside of wedlock, I would have thought
