Just kidding, no worries - but really, you sound super judgemental about a thing that is absolutely not an elementary knowledge outside scholastic circles - which this is not.
I’m absolutely sorry but to hear that the concept of a dowry is not elementary knowledge sounds absurd. It is a matrimonial tradition that has spanned numerous cultures across the globe and has played important role in the political negotiations across history.
It is kinda base level knowledge for having an understanding of historical contexts.
Idk, I’m with the other commenter that it is surprising to hear of anyone who doesn’t know about it, unless you’re, like, still a teenager in middle/high school.
Not as a topic of their own right but it is something that should come up during discussion of different periods where the dowry played a key part of the culture of those times, such as the feudal age.
Many of the political happenings were negotiated with the dowry being a key tool for nobility vying for power and favor through marriage between families.
Yes I am a fucking academic for knowing about dowries, a fundamental part of most societies, most likely including yours, till well into the 20th century.
But what really was a problem for me was not your ignorance but your prejudice in assuming its a strictly Indian thing.
Genuinely curious as to where this isn’t elementary knowledge?
Are you from a region that never had a similar practice or one where it has become inconspicuous, e.g. father of the bride “giving away” their daughter?
This is the first time you hear about dowries, a tradition existing all across Eurasia for millennia?
https://xkcd.com/1053/
Appearently so, would that be a problem to you?
Just kidding, no worries - but really, you sound super judgemental about a thing that is absolutely not an elementary knowledge outside scholastic circles - which this is not.
I’m absolutely sorry but to hear that the concept of a dowry is not elementary knowledge sounds absurd. It is a matrimonial tradition that has spanned numerous cultures across the globe and has played important role in the political negotiations across history.
It is kinda base level knowledge for having an understanding of historical contexts.
Idk, I’m with the other commenter that it is surprising to hear of anyone who doesn’t know about it, unless you’re, like, still a teenager in middle/high school.
To my memory, dowries weren’t gone over at all in my public school education.
Not as a topic of their own right but it is something that should come up during discussion of different periods where the dowry played a key part of the culture of those times, such as the feudal age.
Many of the political happenings were negotiated with the dowry being a key tool for nobility vying for power and favor through marriage between families.
Yes I am a fucking academic for knowing about dowries, a fundamental part of most societies, most likely including yours, till well into the 20th century.
But what really was a problem for me was not your ignorance but your prejudice in assuming its a strictly Indian thing.
Oh wow a geek with rabies
Beats being a dumbass, I guess.
Genuinely curious as to where this isn’t elementary knowledge?
Are you from a region that never had a similar practice or one where it has become inconspicuous, e.g. father of the bride “giving away” their daughter?