Maldive Marriage. Seriously weird!

They wouldn't be the first. Bottomline, caveat emptor

Hopefully, one realises that a single spoofy celebrant is not representative of the Maldives.

 

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You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

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Thats the general rule of comprehension. In one of the books I read, a Lakota woman named a white man as Maka Wichasha which made him feel very good and privileged to own a Lakota name, until he got it translated. It was Skunk man, for his body odor.

 

Can we infer from your remark that they do this all over Asia?
And that it is common practise?

When you are in a restaurant in India, will the waiter be calling you a swine and wishing you to have spotty children as he serves you?
Can you sort of expect that?
Do you only leave a tip if he has been up to standard with his insults?

I thought the French were rude, but this is a whole new level of obnoxiousness.

 

I think its pretty generic and global to use crudity against those who don't understand your language. Its one of the oldest forms of passive aggressive behaviour.

 

Yes, but not for an hour.
Don't you think it's a little bit excessive?

If I meet a French person, I practise my French on them.

Pourquoi n'avez vous pas la plume de ma tante.
Est-ce-que le chien est dans le jardin?
Non. Quelle domage!

 

So apparently hypocrisy, insincerity, duplicity, lip service, sham holiness, slyness, double-crossing, exploitation, debasement, vulgarity, discourtesy, prejudice, etc., etc., all shrouded behind homegrown hospitality and rural dignity, is simply classified as "passive aggressiveness".

How unusually prudish the response to such an exposure.

 

The words that come to mind are "much ado about nothing". Its one person's bad experience at a tourist resort. If you've travelled as much as I have, you'd realise that this kind of situation is easily avoided by using common sense. People seem to spend more time choosing vegetables for dinner than planning a wedding.

 

If it is a non representative bunch of nasty youths exploiting and insulting people that they resent because they are richer than themselves, then that is a whole lot different from it being a common practise.

If it was a common practise, it would make me avoid that country, whatever the scenery looked like.
You did say that you thought it was fairly normal, but perhaps you meant behaviour which is far less malicious than this.

It is not much ado about nothing.
Good people, unfortunately not all people, visit other countries in good faith to experience local cultures and befriend local people.
The local's behaviour was inexcusable.

If the tourists had come to exploit the local people, then they would have deserved what they got.
But this couple were only enjoying themselves, and by doing so preserving life on the Islands for as long as it can last.

 

I like it!

 

A lot of assumptions here. As far as both parties were concerned it was a great wedding, so memorable that the couple made a video and put it on youtube. Who knows what the motivations of the so-called celebrant were? Perhaps they felt secure in doing what they did because they assumed they would never be found out.

The way I see it, no one died, no one was injured or abused. All we have is the implication of malice which only came to light after the fact. But then, thats one of the chances you take when you trust some stranger in a foreign country where you don't even speak the language. Its not like the Maldives is some mutant location where there are only perfect people.

 

Yes, but is it a common practise in the Maldives, and perhaps as you suggest, the whole of the subcontinent, or is it a rare practise indulged in by people with some personal grudge against visitors?

If it is some aberrant behaviour by a few arseholes, then I would consider spending money in India. Otherwise I wouldn't go there.
I was considering a holiday in India.
This event has made me wary of the Maldives, and what you are saying is making me wary of going anywhere in India.

 

Frankly I don't know anyone who gets married in foreign countries where neither half of the couple knows the language. But that is obviously a niche that is just made for exploitation. No doubt they paid hefty sums of money - its the kind of thing which our god men and those who promise hashish dreams and "unique" ethnic experiences live by. Is it common? I doubt it since its obviously unique enough to make the news.

 

Yes, but would it just be people indulging in some marriage ceremony who would be mocked in India, or would it be anyone who doesn't understand the language.
Is mockery of people in a language they don't understand something people would naturally do, or something they would only use against people who had annoyed them?

 

I know loads, they combine a holiday with a wedding. I dont know anyone that went for huge sums of money for an "ethnic" experiance though, that sounds stupid.

 

They get married in a ceremony where neither of them speak the language? And this is a binding legal ceremony? I guess there is plenty of stupid to go around.

A thought just occurred to me. How do we know that this story is true? Does anyone speak the language of the Maldives?

 

Oh right I misread that, no the ceremony would be in English. Yeah i dont know anyone getting married in a foreign language completely. As for legally binding, I didnt think any ceremony was legally binding? Isnt uit just a ritual. You still have to register, or is that just a UK thing.

 

So its just a bit of frippery? They are not legally married? Well I guess that makes more sense, its just a kind of holiday gobbledygook