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Lithuania | Tolys Laurinaitis ([personal profile] cautious_knight) wrote2010-05-05 04:36 pm
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video; backdated to shortly after Meriken's "let's find America a date" post.

Are there really no simple social rules in the future that people do still follow?
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[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
They usually are the ones who give their child away, after all.

[identity profile] 2ndhandlion.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's more tradition. Women can lead their own lives.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
...What do you mean by that?

[identity profile] 2ndhandlion.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
women can't be given away, because there father's can't really won them, even if they think they do.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
They would still marry into the husband's family.

[identity profile] 2ndhandlion.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
It's really just a name. Titles, as such, don't have meaning anymore in most of the world.

[Says the guy who married a princess... but he beat the crap out of her betrothed and they eloped so it's different...]

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Does family have any meaning there?

[identity profile] 2ndhandlion.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. It's just not a power structure. It's who you care about and rely on, and who you have responsibilities for.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-05-06 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
But-

It's hard to grasp the concept of that, but it doesn't sound that bad.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
A lot of safety and security gets lost by that, though.

[identity profile] 2ndhandlion.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
It depends. I always looked after my brother, because I'm older and I needed to be responsible for him.

But if my wife had obeyed her father, she would have been the 12th wife of a man she despised.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Why would he have married her to him?

[Marriages are often due to politics or ensuring a girl's economic safety...]

[identity profile] 2ndhandlion.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Because he was wealthy and powerful, and her father feared him.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
And he wanted to marry her?

[identity profile] 2ndhandlion.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Because she was beautiful, and a princess.

[identity profile] watchful-knight.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
But her father can't have been a strong king.

[identity profile] 2ndhandlion.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
No, he wasn't. he was wealthy, but he was loosing his power because he was weak.
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