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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I worked with some Indian girls (not native american but India) that were in arranged marriages, as that is still their culture even if they live in America....they were very happy
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Even if many are happy with the arrangement, "it's their culture" doesn't make it right. When a child is raised from a young age to accept that she won't have a choice in her future, it's going to take a lot of willpower and courage to overcome it. I still consider myself psychologically harmed from my strict and religious upbringing, and it sometimes takes an overwhelming effort to not just fall back on what I had assumed to be true for around 16 years. If I didn't have people who opened my mind to other ways of thinking, I might very well have continued accepting what I was brainwashed into thinking to this day.
I don't endorse an absolute view of most things, but I have no problem asserting that subverting an individual's free will in order to achieve conformity and keep with tradition when doing otherwise would not cause harm is entirely wrong in all circumstances.