airport staff in Britain have been alerted to detect
up young victims are potential victims of forced marriages
basically 15 to 16 year olds that are flown
out I've a Briton to South Asia so they can
get involved in an arranged marriage is a really really sad story
the UK has dealt with this for a very long time now but their is an
organization known as karma Nirvana
that is trying to help these kids out in the way that they do it is they ask the
the kids the teenagers I should say to tablespoon
and hide it somewhere in their pants and then when they walk through the metal
detectors the metal detector will go off because the spoon
and then they will be taken to a private area where they will be searched and
then they can tell authorities hey
my parents are trying to marry me off you know to some
unknown person in South Asia so and its kinda incredible that they've use this
as a last resort but apparently it's been successful
karma Nirvana says that they get about 6500
calls or cases each year which is
insane and that's not to say that every single case
actually does result in the family trying to marry a daughter or son of
but they say that they deal with that inside last year the Foreign Office is
forced marriage unit dealt with some
fifteen hundred cases eighty percent of which were men
now I have said this is a cultural issue because
here so it's really trippy for those who don't know my parents were an arranged
marriage
now %uh there's all the difference in the world are like people think I
arrange marriage will so that its involuntary right
but know says it was cultural thing all across the world for so long
it was an amount it was just simply what happened right and
and so for example with my mom my grandmother would ask for every time so
people would come by and ask for her hand in marriage
and my grandmother had a vote my mom had a vote my grandfather obviously in a
vote
right and my mom would say here mean I would rather not
certain times and then when my dad came in while he was such an obviously good
looking guy and that's where I got the Jays
could it in honestly my grandmother really like them
to answer it every so funny thing right my grammar like him because he had gone
in education
abroad any and even though he was not well to do
at all he was like you very middle-class
in a small town in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border
she was like I see potential in so maybe there's a veces my grandmother
okay and my mom was like
well he asked for TN kinda rude way I don't know about this guy
but later when they spend some time together he knew
I wanna hold your hand by the Beatles she's like not bad
not bad okay this guy's a little call
Jake I want to congratulate you on turning this very sad story it's like
the sweetest story ever
thank you are no problem and making a totally about me
okay yeah let me let me just say it like that that story is great
they end up loving each other or whatever and that's not really a forced
marriage
in these situations these 15 or 16 year olds are just sent off to South Asia to
marry someone
that they've never met with the parents have already made the decision for them
so that's totally different that's exactly why I want to make that
distinction
so not every arranged marriage is a forced marriage so forced marriages by
definition
are not right right your settings on whose underage
to I mean to marry a guy who's usually by the way over a trade
and menu consummate the marriage I mean there's so many things that are wrong
with this
totally s oh well that's why they have to resort to tricks like this
the fact that happens so often is really discouraging
and isn't this silly any cancer culture to say this portion
how you're doing arrange marriages the Force Maj spark a clearly wrong you
gotta just with the times
and and by the way just come on have some
compassion for your kids you're really gonna send them away
to do this thing that which they're clearly opposed to
and any group in a totally different context to take them out of their
culture
and Sam so you back a couple hundred years back into a different culture
where things are not in your control you don't have free will and you'll be
married off to this older guy
obviously not right I hope good people
through the good worker organizations like this is Sarah the parents can begin
to look at what they're doing and see that it's wrong