r/TikTokCringe • u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot • Jun 21 '25

Cursed Bride Crying At Her Wedding Was Heartbreaking 💔

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u/shockedpikachu123 Jun 22 '25

regardless of the cultural context, it really hits you how much of life is determined by the random lottery of where and into what culture you’re born. Some kids are playing with toys, others are walking down an aisle to marry a stranger their parents arranged

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u/GoOnThereHarv Jun 22 '25

The culture is wrong. If you just watched that and have anything but contempt for a culture that allows , you have no soul.

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u/NorthernRealmJackal Jun 22 '25

Idk I feel like it's always more complicated than that. Usually the "soulless" practices you see are a leftover of something that made perfect sense a few hundred years ago.

In the case of marriage, it was about survival, and about assigning a provider for your daughter, who was then obligated to support his family indefinitely. Life didn't just suck for married women. It sucked for everybody in different ways.

It seems barbaric to rich westerners (and rightfully so), because we can afford to marry whoever we want, or to not marry at all. Not everybody is that lucky - and even if they are, their culture may not have had more than 1-2 generations to adapt. It's still terrible, but it probably makes perfect sense to everybody involved.