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Costums and rituals for getting married change depending of the culture, and

Colombia being a country with so many cultures has a lot of these. Ive
described some of the customs and rituals that some indigenous families have
done for this purpose. Wayuu-North of Guajira: In the culture Wayuu gets
married is a deal for the girlfriends familly, because the girlfriends uncle
demands to boyfriends family cattle, clothes and jewerly in exchange for he
can get married with his niece. On the other hand, The wayuu women enclose
the girlfriend, they remove all girlfriends hair, and they teach all her tasks as
husband. Embera-Choco: Before the matrimonial union, the youngs have
already known and even they have had sex. After the boyfriend talks with his
father for that hell talk with girlfriends parents., then the girlfriends parents and
the boyfriends parents have a meeting with girlfriend. In this meeting she
decides if he wants to get married, if her response is yes, then the bride and
groom hold hands, and the families and the community accept the couple. As is
these, therere a brunch of customs and rituals for getting married and is
important know about these because we should undertand and tolerate them.

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