Missing The Boat Analysis

Every culture and religion have varying different opinions regarding many days to day activities. These can vary from what kind of food they eat, the clothing they wear, and even their relationship with others. In many cultures, the most important relationships come from a family so it can be difficult when family members do not see eye to eye. It is especially hard for Fatima who is trying to balance between the U.S. culture that she is surrounded by and the culture coming from her Pakistani Muslim family. This becomes increasingly difficult when her mother Khulsoom is trying to get her to marry when Fatima is not as in love with that idea. Khulsoom, who was born in Pakistan, has responded to U.S. culture by, on the one hand, selectively participating …show more content…
For example, according to patheos.com by Merium, most marriages are arranged or even semi-arranged. As an overall of Pakistani traditions, it is very rare for two people to get married because of love. Jessica Bennett in “Missing the Boat: A case for marriages” states in the article by Merium that marriage makes it harder for a person to leave and especially more difficult when the marriage is arranged. This is most likely because it is believed that traditional marriages are contributing to sustaining a halaal relationship. Many young people describe going against this strict tradition to marry the partner of their choice usually for love, which is a huge …show more content…
According to Tom Herd in his article “Marriage Rights: A Short Story” starts out by explaining how far we have come. For example, in 1664, some of the biggest laws were on interracial marriages which were outlawed and often times even considered a “disgrace”. Through America’s history of marriage laws, there were issues with Mormons and their polygamy tradition of marriage, divorce had been an on and off issue, and same-sex marriage which has recently been brought up to the supreme court and was made into a federal law. Today, there are not many barriers to marriage. According to Href in his article “More Americans Waiting Longer to Marry” Americans are doing just that, waiting longer to get married. In 1970, most Americans were married by the age of 24 and now many are waiting much longer. Herf came to the conclusion that this is because twice as many women are going to college now than there was, many children have divorced parents and want to make sure that when they make that commitment to another person that it is forever, and because many people are putting off marriage for their careers as