Made me wonder if that was the reason one couldn't find much desi girls here in the U.S??:)))
As for the "many_bros_one_wife" system,it was kind of surprising initially to know that such a system prevails in North India.On hindsight though,it doesn't shock much because of the well known epic Mahabaratha itself depicting one such occurrence,though the motives may not exactly match.
As for the Indian males hanging around the street corners and nagging female passersby,I don't think that mentality would change even if the number of girls were to increase twofolds.It is a bane that the Indian society has endowed itself with for being unscrupulously hypocritical and conservative in the areas of sex education and the whole concept of male-female communication.
Finally,my 2 cents regarding the stigma attached to girls being a costly issue(pun unintended)and that they are not there to stay long in the household where they were born:
Although there wouldn't be a single modern day female to accept the above mentioned fact,it is kind of true even to this day.Right from the cobbler to the multimillionaire,the cost associated with the marriage of a girl in India is a gargantuan amount which needs many years of meticulously saved money and sometimes even many years of loan repayment to follow.This might be a chauvinistic comment,but then it is reality.The inherent capability of the girls might have increased along the years and they may match or exceed the males in terms of potential to succeed,but the ageold Indian traditions/society still makes sure that the responsibility of a father with a female child is much more than that of the one with a male child.
Nobody would need to dig into statistics to realize the fact that after the wedding,the father of the former category would have a greater void left in his life than the latter.Although I would like to have the above situation proved wrong,I don't feel it would happen anytime as I am unable to recollect any example of even a single girl living with her parents after her wedding!
-raapi
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