Arranging marriage of India

In India, almost all marriages are arranged by the parents. Marriage is as much a concern of the families as it is of the individuals. In man cases, the bride and groom do not meet each other before marriage. If they meet, they meet for a shirt conversation parents do not compel their children to marry a person whom they selected. If their children don't like, they search another one.
The writer is an American. So, she found the system difficult to believe. She thought the cultural of arranged marriage oppressive. She was very much curious to know how young Indian would take it. She met Sita who was a collage graduate student. She had been waiting for over a year while her parents were arranging a match for her. The writer asked her how she could marry whom she had never seen and known well. Sita replied that her parents never arrange a marriage for her without knowing about the boy and him family. Her parents would not marry her into a bad family. She told her that American known about their partner so well before marriage so their would no be mystery and romance after marriage. So, she continued that American girls were spending all their time worrying about if they would meet a man and get marriage but Indian girls would have a chance to enjoy theirs life and let their parents do that work of worrying for them.
Sis years later, she returned to India again. She meet many Indian couples whose marriage had been arranged were living a happy marriage life. But her marriage friends in U.S. were alre in the process of divorce.
In Indian, she also participated in arranging marriage for her friend's son. Her friends were in the process of arranging for the marriage of her eldest son. He was well-educated, nice looking and carrying out his father business. The writer was sure that he would easily get a partner for him. Her friend was so selective that did not arrange the marriage for her son if she found a small weakness in the girl or in her family she did not like to arrange the marriage from the big family where there were five daughters. Next she rejected a family simply because the girl was fat and wearing glasses. And even a girl was rejected because she was traveling alone in the city. They thought she was independent. Independent girl was not accepted by her family.
Two years later she again returned into India. Her friend was still searching a girl for her son. At that time, the boy was close to 30, and her friend little worried. The writer met family with marriageable daughter. The girl low studied fashion design in the college. She was pretty. Her parents had not allowed her to go out of the city to find out her career. So, she was running a small dressmaking boutique. After a year, the boy was going to marriage with a girl.