Mrs. Crowhill and I have been watching Timeless, which is a fun TV show you can see on Hulu. (I was going to call it “decent,” but that word has connotations that don’t apply.) <\/p>\n
In episode 24, “The Day Reagan Was Shot,” a young Denise Christopher is arguing with Lucy Preston and Jiya Marri about marriage. Preston and Marri ask if Christopher loves her betrothed. (They’re trying to talk her out of the match.) Christopher — a Hindu from India — says that in Indian culture, marriage comes first, then love. <\/p>\n
The thoroughly American Preston and Marri object to this, and Christopher replies, “what’s the divorce rate in America?” India has a very low divorce rate<\/a>. <\/p>\n Correlation does not imply causation, and the low divorce rate in India is probably more the result of their poverty than their assumptions about love and marriage. <\/p>\n Still … it’s interesting to think about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mrs. Crowhill and I have been watching Timeless, which is a fun TV show you can see on Hulu. (I was going to call it “decent,” but that word has connotations that don’t apply.) In episode 24, “The Day Reagan Was Shot,” a young Denise Christopher is arguing with Lucy Preston and Jiya Marri about … Continue reading “First comes love, then comes marriage … but not in India”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}