For an anthropologist, the widespread failure to marry is a sign of impending disaster. All societies that survive are built on marriage because it creates kinsmen out of strangers; it turns hostile outsiders into in-laws. In Africa there is a saying: “They are our enemies, and so we marry them.”
Marriage helps families multiply their economic capital — and, perhaps even more important, their social capital. You and your wife’s uncle may not like each other, but marriage imposes a set of reciprocal obligations; you are at least partly responsible for each other’s wellbeing...
Marriage helps families multiply their economic capital — and, perhaps even more important, their social capital. You and your wife’s uncle may not like each other, but marriage imposes a set of reciprocal obligations; you are at least partly responsible for each other’s wellbeing...
Your life will be richer if on this day you will make an effort to: Mend a quarrel, Search for a forgotten friend, Dismiss a suspicion and Replace it with trust.
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