If we're going to bash arranged marriages, Stalin is out!
When I was in my mid-twenties living with that aforementioned Punjabi family, they called me upstairs to their kitchen table one night and offered me $20,000 to marry a Punjabi woman relative from Toronto to give her American citizenship. They told me to divorce her after 2 years if I wanted to. I said no.
I'd have taken the deal. At that time, at that age, thats a huge chunk of change. What's two years?
I'd do it right now.