GUEST37101 | To those posts that say Shanghai girls are the same are girls anywhere, based on the goodness of humanity as a whole; it should be obvious that is an oversimplification (an optimistic, but pragmatically naive outlook.)
If you want to generalize, it would be more fair to say that people worldwide make mate selection based on community expecations and their own status, be it looks, status, wealth, education or morals. Consider a middle class girl from Manhattan, she would be unlikely to settle for someone who does not meet her expecations based on her upbringing, they would need to be attractive to them, maybe funny, have a good job and have some upward mobilitiy or education. She would be less likely to have a very high expecation of simple wealth, as that wouldnt be necessary to have a good relationship, end up perhaps getting married, with a home in the suburbs, raising their children happily in the middle class. This is because the middle class in he US is a relatively comfortable and satisfying place to be.
Now consider someone in a high end Asian country, the some westerners would consider to be catagorized as 2nd world given the continuing large gap between rich and poor with shaky politcal and judical systems. Here a girl that may be considered middle class in her country, may not be satisified with this end result, especially as the rich get richer, and your positition within the middle class is uncertain (i.e. in China the difference between lower and higher middle class is larger than in the US or Western Europe).
20 years from now, if you settle for a nice person with average qualities, your family status may be in jeopardy.
Now note, that I am not using these simple examples to classify an entire country, but rather to show the difference in what may be considered a "average" attitude.
That being said, statistical distribution would give us some humble, and some ambitious people in any population. But even without scientific study, it would be obvious that different populations will have different distri butions, based on societal norms and expectations. Above I spoke about oversimplificiation, but here we are rather providing averages. It would be highly likely, due to the importance of business, money, and compeition in the current China, that women and men would be encouraged by socital expcations to look for those with better educations, status, business conections and wealth.
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