Brian US Posted March 24, 2011 at 11:27 PM Report Posted March 24, 2011 at 11:27 PM I asked a woman in Beijing the other day about the social pressure of having a house and car to get married. She said it's not required and not important at all. After a short pause she then said you should still have the ability to buy a house and car! Quote
rezaf Posted April 7, 2011 at 06:20 AM Report Posted April 7, 2011 at 06:20 AM It's not really possible to judge how a culture works by using values from other cultures. In China 孝顺 is what people are more concerned about not love. At the beginning this Confucius culture in China made me think that Chinese culture is just looking for an ideal world full of robots who should adjust their relationship with others according to a manual but now that I have started to read about Chinese philosophy I can see that Chinese culture is a very complicated structure that promotes balance in everything and that's why it doesn't urge people to go to extremes. Behind the cliches that surround the relationships between people in China there is lots of love like any other culture but they keep it on a tight leash as love can easily turn into hatred and enthusiasm can easily turn into indifference. Quote
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