Posted on 03/16/2016 7:18:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Photojournalist Allison Joyce was on assignment for Getty Images in her home of Bangladesh last summer when she passed a huge wedding tent being set up alongside the road. Curious what was going on, she asked a passerby who told her the wedding was set for the next day, and thousands of guests had been invited. But the detail that struck Joyce was the fact that the bride was only in the sixth grade. The next day, Nasoin Akhter would be married off to a man twice her age. Joyce returned the next morning with her camera, and was welcomed into the ceremony.
"Photographing her wedding was obviously sad," Joyce told Refinery29 of Akhter's big day. "She didn't seem like she was under any misconceptions about what was happening to her. She was quiet and withdrawn the entire day, even when surrounded by her friends."
"In a lot of ways, it felt familiar, like the weddings I attended in the U.S.: Guests were dressed to the nines; happy couples mingled around; children were dancing in the streets to pop music.
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It could be worse, she could be an 8 year old Muslim forced to marry a 45 year old man.
Is this a 70 year-old headline from West Virginia?
15 years old should have been in 9th grade and here in the inner city already a mama for some dude and on welfare or the waiting list for her second abortion. Whats the matter? Are those people slow or something?
Probable ages of Mary and Joseph at the time of their wedding.
Yep and play second fiddle to a goat.
One of the many great contributions to mankind from the British Victorians was the concept of “childhood.”
Islam’s got a long way to go.
Wile I abhor the circumstances it doesn’t seem the groom appears any happier than the bride. BTW great photographs.
However --
I think much of the world's problem today come from busybodies who try to correct things like this:
Saddam Hussein is a bad man? Here, let us invade your country and then engage in Nation Building. Trust us: we can fix you.
Mohmar Ghadafy is a bad man? Here, let us help you overthrow him and leave you to yourselves.Trust us: you'll be better off.
You like Western Civilization? Shakespeare? Beethoven? Well, that stuff is crap. We'll force Maya Angelou, Snoop Dogg and Andrea Dworkin down your throats. Trust us: Diversity will give you better culture.
Hey, in Muslim countries they do a lot of stupid stuff. But I don't want to fix them. It's not my place. And a lot of these "improvements" from other cultures turn out to be a big problem.
Not our business, too many buttinskis in this world, and the US has 90% of them.
That doesn’t resemble Islam. It resembles Hinduism.
I was talking to an Indian woman on the plane several years ago when I travelled a lot. She was around 25 years old and was on her way back to India. She loved being in the US, and she loved her job, but she’d reached the age where it was going to be difficult to find a husband for her.
Indian girls look forward to being married off, and it’s a shameful thing if they can’t be accepted by some man, and married. It shames the whole family!
My daughter and I tried to convince her to stay her in the US, that she’s a beautiful girl, and would have NO problem finding a good husband for herself, of her own choice. But, she didn’t want that. She wanted her cultural familiarity and traditions.
The girl looks sad in the pictures, but that doesn’t mean she was sad. Perhaps that’s how the seriousness of marriage looks in that culture. She may be working to look like a modest woman as opposed to a trollop.
And her husband, though he’s 30, is a fairly decent looking man. At least he’s not grey haired, sweaty, over weight, jiggly...he might get that way later, but at least he has some eye appeal! He’s of age to be able to provide for her, and from the looks of it, she needs it. Her home is very poor looking. Chances are, her family had to pay a small fortune for this husband for their daughter, and it could be she’s darn lucky she has him. She is a very beautiful girl, that’s for sure.
I hope he takes good care of her, and makes her as happy as a woman can be in that culture.
Yes that pic of them sitting side by side is a picture of unhappiness. He probably has another woman he wants to marry.
That’s what I was going to say. They both look positively glum.
They have several facial similarities. I wonder if they’re related?
Every society from the ancients up had a concept of childhood. What they didn't have was a state between "child" and "adult". At some point you went from a child directly to an adult and it was in the early to mid teens usually. At that point, you worked, married, had a household, everything adults do.
The victorians gave us "adolescence", that state between the two. Not quite a child but not ready for full adult priveledges or responsibilities. Originally it was considered to only last a few years but it keeps getting longer and longer and longer.
Seems to be about age 25 now.
Very well said!
Your notion isn’t quite right - yes, every society differentiated between child and adult, but it was the Victorians who began the notion that children should be insulated from adult problems, had “innocence” that needed protecting, and began a separation of children from “adult” concepts - particularly labor (and hard labor at that) and marriage.
15 years old and in the 6th grade? I can see why they get so many H-1B visas.
Before you get all exercised, in her book “Adios America” Ann “Bone Rollercoaster” Coulter claims the average Indian IQ is 80.
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