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The Gypsy Matchmaker - Ch4
Hayley_baby
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Well this is interesting...:o
Definitely don't agree with getting 13 year olds married they shouldn't live here if they wanna do that tbh & if they do why not wait till their 16 ( even if I dont think 16 is old enough).
Definitely don't agree with getting 13 year olds married they shouldn't live here if they wanna do that tbh & if they do why not wait till their 16 ( even if I dont think 16 is old enough).
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Girls are nothing but slaves to 14 year old boys!
Who knows very weird culture.
I'm glad Essemay (sp?) family said no, she could do a lot with her life then being married at 15 they're right.
"We live in a new world now"
"This early marraige is no good"
Lovely to hear a change of heart and approach, given opportunity and information....
Yes but she is a female in a male dominant culture. She won't generally be listened to.
Let's face it, what they call culture is just a backward culture stuck in the past and refusing to update at all.
I can't go to any country with the excuse "Well I can do that in my country", so why should they? If you don't agree with a countries laws, then don't go there! I wouldn't!
It was clear the grandmother didn't want to marry off the girl due to recognising the opportunities she could have getting an education and independence. You can call their culture immoral and weird, but that was a huge step in a positive direction if you ask me. That girl actually has a chance to become more than just a baby maker.
Now if they just just have a change of heart about the thieving, swindling, poncing etc. They might be more accepted.
So all they have done is to move on to finding someone who will ignoring the one that won't!
So no change has been affected as a woman's views are irrelevant to them.
You're being very cynical if you can't see why the girl being given a chance to make a life for herself on her own terms is not a good thing. Furthermore, you're overlooking the fact that a woman made the final decision of that meeting, not the man.
Interesting that Shenko never worked all the time he'd been in the UK, didn't pay rent for eight months, drives what looked like a good car, but yet was willing to pay £5000 for a wife for his 14 year old son. Delighted they did get evicted in the end and hopefully they won't get a penny of housing benefit. (Edit - I think I'm getting Huko and Shenko mixed up).
As for all the time and resources wasted one even just the two families featured... Too much for people who contribute nothing to society.
The only ones who should be making any final decision are the ones who are getting married ( or not) & not at that age.
Shame grandma didn't give her other granddaughter a chance to make a life on her own terms.
And you are just taking one very small happening in a very negative hour long programme for some reason known only to you and pretending all the rest doesn't matter and should be ignored.
One wonders what you agenda is in trying to tell a whole thread that it's being negative because of one very small happening in the programme that you have failed to comment on the rest.
So I reject your silly accusation of me being cynical and label myself as someone who watched and commented about the entire show and all the very negative things shown in that hour.
If only they had "claims" to a part of the world where our Government could send them to do as they please, like we did with the Jews.
The fact that the women of the girl's family acknowledged they live in a country with different customs and different laws and changed their own to comply with the "new world", showed more forward-thinking than you have in this thread.