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I have a project for my psychology of women course, and I need to have information on how different cultures veiw marriage, dating, and love in general.

Any links to articles would be greatly appreciated, and if you have any links to videos that talk about marriages in different cultures that would be great.
India condones arranged marriages as do other countries but in America we want love or we dont want marriage..
Some cultures have arrange marriages. I find that weird.
Marquesans are interesting.
Malinowski studied the Trobrianders. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=RNQ9AAAAIAAJ&dq=malinowski+trobriand&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=fgcNPSRelQ&sig=N4lzN1NP3QtxED_AEQYgEcSfgxs&ei=XsaLSf-gC4jINPGsxbML&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#PPA112,M1">http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id= ... #PPA112,M1</a><!-- m -->
Some American Indian tribes used arranged marriages.
And last bu not least, the Japanese have their "omiai" (pronounced "Oh-my!" ? :-)