{"id":324,"date":"2000-12-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-12-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/19\/2000-12-19-forced-arranged-marriage-an-issue-in-denmark\/"},"modified":"2000-12-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-12-19T12:00:00","slug":"2000-12-19-forced-arranged-marriage-an-issue-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/12\/19\/2000-12-19-forced-arranged-marriage-an-issue-in-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Arranged Marriage an Issue in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2000\/12\/18\/world\/18MIGR.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>ARHUS, DENMARK, December 18, 2000: Ali Simsek, like millions of Turkish immigrants drawn to Europe came to Denmark in 1970. His family joined him but in all the years, Mr. Simsek never learned a word of Danish or forsook Turkish customs. When his oldest son, Bunyamin, turned 17 in 1987, Mr. Simsek arranged a marriage for him with Sorgul Ceran from Turkey, a daughter of an old friend. But after the birth of a child and the completion of Bunyamin&#8217;s education, things quickly soured, failure owing to unsettling contradictions of their lives.&#8221;My wife was wearing a veil, a problem for me in Denmark, as my friends are Danes,&#8221; he says. This is one case of why forced arranged marriage is a target of ridicule across Europe. &#8220;Immigrants must adapt to Danish cultural norms,&#8221; said Nils Preiser, a senior Interior Ministry official. Bunyamin, now 30, is a Danish-speaking citizen at ease with the give-and-take of Western society, an olive-skinned Muslim in a land of Vikings. Some people call him a &#8220;Nydansker,&#8221; or &#8220;New Dane,&#8221; a term that sets him and others like him apart. &#8220;Like many second-generation immigrants, I have two identities,&#8221; he says. Arranged marriage is also an issue in the UK where too often the match is forced.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE ARHUS, DENMARK, December 18, 2000: Ali Simsek, like millions of Turkish immigrants drawn to Europe came to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}