A look at Bulgaria's "bride's market"

Have you watched the entire video? They start out in a very typical sensationalist tone decrying “a market where brides are sold” only to admit at the end that it wasn’t really a market at all, but a big speed-dating service, a watered down way to try and keep their ancient ethnic tradition in a modern world. In centuries past women were married off with no choice, but from what I saw the women do have some choice now (they even interview one woman who opts out of the entire Roma tradition and remains single.) Nobody here is defending slavery, I think articles 16 and maybe 27 apply more accurately to this situation.

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