Explain the key differences in the institution of marriage across cultures.
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As a human institution, marriage is defined quite differently across cultures. For example, in some non-Western and pre-modern societies, as previously noted, the community arranges marriage, and romance does not play a part. Virginity is often prized in many of these groups, although it is really more of male-enforced taboo. However, in societies such as the Trobriand Islands in the South Pacific, the spouses are expected to be sexually experienced and practiced in giving pleasure to their mates, before they get married.
In India and South Asia, it is considered very wrong for people to marry above or below their caste -that is, the social and religious status group of their family. Marriage arrangements may also be made for people of greatly different ages, as much as a generation apart, as it is among Aboriginal Australians.
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