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Christiane Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World Season 1 Episode 2
Why these Indian millennials are choosing arranged marriage (CNN)In many ways, Naina is no different than millennial women I know in the United States.
She is 20 and finishing a degree in psychology at a Delhi university. She wears Zara skinny jeans and H&M T-shirts and hangs out with her girlfriends at one of Delhi’s myriad American-style malls and coffee shops.
She listens to R&B and EDM on Apple Music; her favorite song is “She Will Be Loved” by Maroon 5. Cable TV is so yesterday; she streams shows and movies on Netflix. Her favorite? “Something Borrowed,” in which a young woman falls in love with her best friend’s fiancé.
But when it comes to marriage, Naina’s views might shock American women her age. She reflects a way of thinking long engrained in the culture of my homeland: Your parents know best.
