I know there a lot of different ethnic minorities and various cultures working in California, but I can’t imagine which one does this tothe extent it’s becoming a “problem” as noted in the article.
What culture is doing this re selling their young teen daughters into arranged marriages?
Gypsies?
No idea. I wouldn’t be particularly surprised if it’s white people, but otherwise I’d venture to guess Chinese. I don’t think you would see any other groups out in the farm areas except Mexicans, and I don’t believe Mexico has any sort of arranged marriage history. (Of course, I didn’t think China had much of one either?)
Crack ho’s
Fundamentalist Muslims?
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
Hmong?
Otherwise, based on the location, I’d guess Mexican migrants.
Since part of the ‘bride price’ was a hundred cases of beer, not that fundamentalist.
From here:
From Wikipedia, on the racial and ethnic makeup of Greenfield, CA:
Well, Wikipedia says Greenfield, CA is 87% Latino, but a more interesting tidbit is that a lot of those Latinos are members of an indigenous tribe from Oaxaca. There’s a dead link in the footnotes to an article in the Salinas Californian entitled “Indigenous beliefs feed culture clash”. I’d be interested to see what that article said.
Heh heh. Beatcha!
Awww, man, I went on a Google excursion, all set to find you that article and earn cub scout points, but, unfortunately, it appears you must subscribe and pay a fee to read it now that it is archived. 
Shucks, I wanted to read it, too.
Yep, he’s Oaxacan.
I don’t know why, but every time I hear about Oaxaca, it’s in regards to something downright creepy.
Except their cheese, that’s pretty decent stuff.
Native Mexican, but doesn’t speak Spanish? Wow.
Considering how many Native peoples there are in Central and South America, including Mexico, it’s entirely possible for them to live their entire lives in their native language and never have to know Spanish. I was talking with a woman in Hartford CT who was a Spanish-speaking Latina, and one day she was asked to translate for a client at her office. She tried several times and gave up – the client was an Indian and didn’t speak any Spanish.
Mormon Fundalmentalists?
If the individuals discussed were indigenous peoples of Mexico, then reports of an arranged marraige would make sense. Or at least they wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility. Many cultural groups in that area are descended from original native cultures (i.e., not Hispanic or from the U.S.), several of which have a long history of arranged marriages. You don’t hear about it quite as much as you would in places like India, but it does happen quite a lot, especially in that area of Mexico.
As mentioned, there are regions of Latin America where the native is still dominant demographically as well as culturally – the Spanish and their descendants were only a ruling overclass, with a mestizo middle management, but the populace remains of the aboriginal national group. So they retain these sorts of marriage customs and traditions, and out in a backwater area of a rural state, the Mexican authorities probably allow the native communities to do things their own way rather than expend the resources to make them conform to Hispanic Mexican ways; then when they immigrate into the USA, they don’t get the memo that around here the authorities DO make a point of suppressing this sort of behavior.
I was going to guess that the article referred to the Hmong as well. I gather that a dowry is still paid and arraigned marriages (at what to us seem like very young ages) are not uncommon in that culture.