Bride Kidnapping

The Tradition of Bride-Stealing

Final Draft

Prepared by: Tynyshbekova Kundyz, 20121099

Course: Academic Reading and Writing II

Reviewer: Olga Gladkova

Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research

Spring 2014

Abstract

This research is about bride kidnapping tradition and people’s view toward it. Bride stealing is existing from an early time in Kazakh culture. However, bride-napping tradition has serious consequences. The major consequence of this tradition is destroying of young people's lives. The main point of this research is to find out major reasons of this tradition and attitude of modern people toward bride abduction. The interviews and surveys which were conducted were helpful to find the main reasons of bride stealing. From the survey of 9 questions it was clear that young generation of women is against this tradition, while most of men are ready to kidnap a girl. The findings of this paper show that usually the reason of abduction is a lack of money (80% of participants).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction…………………………………………………..3

2. Literature review……………………………………………...6

3. Methods………………………………………………………10

4. Results………………………………………………………...11

5. Discussion…………………………………..………………...17

6. Conclusion…………………………………………………….18

References………………………………….………………….20

Appendix…………………………………..…………………..22

1. Introduction

Maral, a 19 year old girl from Shymkent, was interviewed by correspondents of the Republican newspaper Caravan and told very sad story that absolutely changed her life. One day she was returning after school. Suddenly, somebody grabbed her and put into a car, and there were three men. Maral was shocked and did not know what to do. They came to somebody’s house. After that she...