Marriage

Marriage definition varies into different places, cultures, religions and social relations. But basely marriage is said to be the joining between two people, although there exist some cases in which people could marry with an animal as a dog or with something else. Marriage represents a basic element of many societies because it is suppose to be the roots of the families that form the society.

There exist many types of marriage, as I mentioned before, that are different depending many factors with which it could be involve. In class we were discussing, comparing and giving our opinions about those different types of marriages. We could see that it is very interesting how some cultures see marriage, and how different can be the marriage from what we are accustomed to think.

The marriage can be described from different perspectives; cultural, with its special traits, celebrations and laws, religious, as sanctification or as a commandment of God, and in many other forms. There exists marriage based in unequal relations, one (principally the men) have authority above the other. Other marriages are arrange, the familiar, economical or other external forces precede and control the marriage. It does not matter how old and young are the people, they can marry. Marriages in which one of the people is many years old than his or her partner, this are named May-December marriages. Even in some cases people had married with dogs, it is incredible but is true. Everything is in the cultural teaching in the societies, and marriage is not an exception. So we can find very different traits, definitions and other things about marriage depending its context.