Matching Making - A Multicultural View

Last time when talking with friend, I encountered the
phenomenon of matching making in different culture.

Three major cultures emerges as our topic, the chinese,
the indian and jewish culture.

In china, matchmaking is still popular, especially
in rural and city slum dwellers. In india, it is
common throughout the class hierarchy. In modern
day Israel, it is common among othodox folks.

there is an article about the israeli case yesterday
on New York Times.

here is a snippet.

Ancient Rabbi Becomes a Modern Israeli Matchmaker
By JOSEPH BERGER

Published: June 22, 2004

MUKA, Israel, June 15 — In these days of
matchmaker.com and television's "Bachelorette," there
are thousands of men and women in this country who
look for love in a decidedly old-fashioned way: they
pray at the tomb of a rabbi who has been dead for 2,000 years.

...

be aware this "shrine" is very close to the "golan
heights".

Anyway, can this traditional way of matchmaking
competing with the modern "social network" such as
friendster? I think as long as the information
technology hasn't infiltrate the rest 3 quarters
of the global population, the people in bangledash
will be still living their own way looking for
matrimony.