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Travel Updates -
Rambles
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Written by JipSee
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 16:16 |
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In most cultures, with your wedding vows come the traditions. In Christian traditions, you must take a "marriage class" from a priest (that's never experienced marriage, of course) and then "donate" money to the church of your liking. In Chinese traditions, the bride and groom-to-be must host a tea party for their in-laws-to-be. Well, in Indonesia's Java Island, the humble people have taken a more green approach. Now, this is no new tradition brought on by the worries of global warming currently brewing; they've been involved in this tradition for many centuries. Read at the Travel how they get married and divorced.
In Java Island, if and when you decide to marry, prior to thoughts of a honeymoon and starting your life together, you must engage in some one-on-one therapy with your new spouse and Mother Nature -- You want to get married, you plant 10 trees together as a new couple. The fun part, though, comes if you are crazy enough to consider divorce. Forget the monotonous process of annulment. Here, you get divorced, you plant 50 trees- TOGETHER!
Now if the U.S., with its increase in divorce rates were to take on this tradition, could you imagine the rainforest we'd be living in!?
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