In some cultures, marriages are arranged by a third party of elders in families or communities in order to ensure couples are advantageously matched (the advantage being coming from the same community, financial reasons, to strengthen family connections and offspring, and more).
I think in the U.S. and in the West, we look at that as some weird, antiqua…
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