Kaospilotpatrik’s Weblog

The background story of India and love is the very much matriarchal society witch still is India. This is changing by the minute when money is the new religion. We are talking about the urban areas where expertise and education is much more important than the old casts and marriage status. The teenagers has to deal with this and I compare it to the social clashes that you might see in Sweden, where dating among Swedish inhabitants as teenagers is an everyday thing, or as common as ketchup. But at the same time some children of immigrant’s might face problems where their two worlds collide into a new world order. This because their parents are used to pre agreed marriages.

So the internet in India is growing. So is the influence from other countries where love and the freedom to express love is all over the news. So of course Internet dating becomes a “safe” place to communicate and learn how to meet people of the other sex. This makes it also more possible to make friends of the opposite sex without having to deal with the interference of the rest of the family or society.

Some 51 percent of the Indian Urban inhabitants with access to the Internet use internet dating sites “48% frequent matrimonial sites, and 44% belong to the social networking site Orkut. 37% of all Indian internet users undertake both online matrimonial and dating/friendship activities, up from 9% last year. “[1].

Text messaging is also huge, even bigger actually. This is because the dating sites require more money to use than a mobile phone and the cost of a text message. Today, almost everybody has a mobile phone in India

As I see it is of huge importance that men and women from an early age learn to form relationships. These relations are the ones who will form the society of tomorrow. If India wants to be a part of the new world economy, they have to learn how to communicate and form relations in all forms of society. The gender class is a huge issue here, and there is a clear distinction for the rights of women and men. The cities is getting more and more westernized in the matchmaking and dating area but still has a long way to go.