He spends time going to different countries where he interviews people about their different stances on all sorts of topics and yet Aziz spends as much time talking about food as he does the topic at hand. The deeper Modern Romance gets the more I was left wanting more. It's actually a lot more detailed then I think most would expect from a comedian. He did case studies, interviewed individuals, and researched the topic. Aziz brought in not only his comedic tones but took a real educated look at the subject. It was not at all what I was expecting and yet I really enjoyed it. Aziz teams up with a Sociologist and looks at not only how people are falling in love but how relationships differ throughout the world.
Marriage used to be about raising a family – today it’s about finding true love.Modern Romance is a study on love in the modern age. So our grandparents and great grandparents cast a smaller net and married younger, but interpersonal aspects of relationships were different too. They sought a man with a respectable job and a good reputation.
And their parents often had a big influence on their choice of husband. Women rarely had access to education as they often left their families to go straight into a new family life with their husbands, at an age when their interests and personalities weren’t even fully formed. In the United States, for example, up until the 1970s the average age of marriage for a man was 23. “Adulthood” was thought to start earlier back then, so people were expected to get married earlier too. In the recent past, people also got married at a much younger age – and their parents often had a big say in it! Planes, trains and smartphones have allowed to us to form and maintain serious relationships with people in other cities, states, countries or even continents. How many married couples do you know who met because they lived close to each other? Probably not many. One in eight married someone from their building.Ĭompare that with today. In fact, in 1932, one in every six people in Philadelphia married someone from their own block. So they were more likely to find love in their immediate surroundings: their city, their neighborhood or even their building. Romance was quite different a few generations ago, for a number of reasons.įor one, people didn’t have mobile phones and there was less access to public transportation.
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