„Leftover Women“!?

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I have checked my fb today and saw a few videos from other fb pages. One of the videos are from ASIAN BOSS, a cultural insight in Asia. The topic was about „ leftover women“. Have you heard about these words? Very discriminating I should say towards Chinese women. I was shocked when I have seen this video that I have to share it with you. The interview was done in Shanghai with the local people and their views about the unmarried women. „Leftover women“ are unmarried women from 30 years old and beyond. They are women who nobody wants. They are either successful or not, beautiful or not, rich or not but are still tagged with these words. Most of these women have a lot to offer but they have not found the men they could marry especially that their parents have a lot to say in their lives even if they are adult people. Men usually marry women who are in their 20s for bearing a child. For these men, women in their 30s are so old for bearing a child. Btw, Chinese unmarried men in their 40s and above are called „Golden Bachelor“. Chinese parents have a huge part in choosing their children’s wife or husband to be. They have a kind of market in Shanghai for advertising their daughters and sons future life partners. They have high standards in choosing the husbands of their daughters. The husband to be should have a house, a car and a good salary. Men are „nothing“ if they don’t have these qualifications. No wonder that many Chinese women are not married at all. Watching the interview I thought that I am lucky that I am a Filipino by birth and that Filipino children are free to choose whom they are going to love and marry. Of course parents advice their children if the woman or man is not good for them. Anyway, I have learned a lot today of some culture in other Asian countries like China and South Korea. Thank you for reading. Have a nice Monday. The photo has nothing to do with this post. It is just the landscape from where I walked last Friday for 5 kilometres.