Arranged Marriages vs Marriages Made for Love

Compare and Contrast

Most people compare and contrast two things when they are trying to find out how two things are similar or different. Sometimes people compare and contrast to try to see which is better. In Gitangeli Sapra's essay, "I'm happy with an Arranged Marriage" she compares arranged marriages with "Marriages made for love." Sapra argues that arranged marriages are superior to regular marriages because there isn't any bias, you aren't able to judge someone based on their physical appearance. Sapra used statistics that 40% of marriages made on their own still end in divorce (Sapra 4). Even though Sapra does use strong evidence and personal experience to convince the reader, I still feel like she would have a bias because she grown up to this practice. Arranged marriages are normal to her whereas to many people it's a strange practice. With this in mind I feel like she would always argue that it is better even when there is concrete evidence proving otherwise. For example the statistic she used above may seem like a large number of divorces  but if a statistic was found for the amount of men an women in a arranged arranged that they didn't want to be in, or want to get out of, i think there's a strong probability that the statistic would be just as high. Even though their rate of divorce is low, doesn't mean they marriages aren't failing. In Arranged marriages there are many factors that are apart of the arrangement, and getting a divorce is never an answer in this culture. There seems to be more information on what different about them, especially the side she agrees with the most.