This is, in fact, an issue on which modern anthropologists have been divided, particularly among those north Indians who are held to practise hypergamous 'upward' marriage.
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This is, in fact, an issue on which modern anthropologists have been divided, particularly among those north Indians who are held to practise hypergamous 'upward' marriage.
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Readers can't help siding with Jane's heroines, so sympathetically portrayed in their efforts to get the right man, whereas Becky Sharp may well represent male distrust of scheming hypergamous females.
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Some Chinese citizens even praised male Chinese citizens they knew for having enough status, wealth, charm, and good looks to attract non-Chinese women, who were presumed to desire the same hypergamous relationships that Chinese women were presumed to desire.
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