I don't mean to bump myself or anything, but I made a post about relationships and arranged marriages that I honestly feel everyone should read. I know most people don't know how they work, so I thought I would shed some light on the issue, as far as I know from my culture.
If it's something you've ever been curious about, give it a read.
I'm not an expertise or anything, but I think to some extent arranged marriages (excluding the cultures that actually have parents playing the match maker), some could possible go wrong or either in the right direction. I guess it depends on the person that you parents have picked out and want you to marriage them. Maybe you do know him or her and maybe you don't know. Could arranged marriage be like the song Parental Control where the children go on blind dates according to the guy or girl the two parents liked?
It could end up being like that, yeah. I think most people are inclined to think anyone their parents chose for them, they could never like, but you never know. Like I said, forced arrangements do still happen. In the end, it all varies. Family does end up playing a huge role in arrangements, so if you have a particularly crazy or drama-filled family, things can end up going wrong.
Any marriage can go right or wrong, arranged or not. My great-grandparents on both sides were arranged, and my paternal grandparents were arranged. It's all a crap-shoot.
Speaking as a man who is approaching his non-arranged 3rd anniversary...