Ramesh has come to Canada from India to seek his college degree.When he is a senior,his parents tell him that they have arranged his marriage to a young woman named Nalini.They provide him with a detailed description of her personality and goals in life,and she seems to have all the qualities Ramesh would like in a wife.Ramesh tells his parents he will marry her.Ramesh's Canadian friends tell him he is crazy to consider marrying someone he has never met,but Ramesh says that he is from a/an _____________ culture and that ___________________

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The answer is C because Ramesh's statement that "not all cultures see love as an essential prerequisite for marriage" suggests that he comes from a collectivistic culture, which values family and community over individual desires. This also explains why he is willing to accept his parents' decision to arrange his marriage without having met Nalini. The fact that arranged marriages are common in his culture is also mentioned in the passage, but it is not the main reason why Ramesh is willing to marry someone he has never met.

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