(11-30-2015, 08:07 PM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote: Izzy I have to say this was what I wanted to say but I didn't have the necessary knowledge to write it.
While I was reading your post I was thinking about the Brazilian TV shows my parents used to watch when I was a child and the TV shows we watch now a days.
I remember that matrimony was a very important thing in the stories when I was a child. That was valuable for society in that time.
People started to see matrimony in a different way, not valuable anymore. It is just civil contract. This change in society can be seeing in the TV shows nowadays.
That is exactly your point about agents of change.
I am in my early 50s, but often I think I was better meant for a different time. My society and cultural is rapidly changing, a little too rapidly in terms of the normative pace that allows a society and culture to survive the changes it introduces.
In 1994 I made the mistake of working for someone, a small New England tech firm. the first day of my employment, I held the door open for a woman. Within two hours I found myself at the HR office for diversity counseling because I was a sexist for holding the door open for a woman; apparently this is some form of appalling behavior that diminished her sense of self-esteem.
To your point, honestly, I am not sure how long marriage will be the norm in what remains of my culture. It has certainly been denigrated.