Northerners not attractive for Shanghai’s choosy singles
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SHANGHAI singles, it seems, don’t like garlic — at least, not in their future husband or wife.
A survey by the Shanghai Matchmaking Association released yesterday — ahead of its major matchmaking festival bringing thousands of hopeful singles together this month — found only 3 percent would accept a partner from the northern provinces, with the rest preferring anywhere else in the country, or from overseas.
People in south and north regions have different living habits and life styles, which is the major reason behind such preference, the association said.
The singles say the different living habits, culture and temperament of northerners would create major obstacles in dating and marriage.
“I cannot accept a man from the northern areas to be my future husband because he may eat garlic and not have a mild temper from my impression, which will lead to quarrels and contradictions,” said Lily Wan, a 28-year-old single advertisement company employee.
She says her parents feel the same way.
“But a man from Zhejiang Province is okay because people in neighboring cities share the same living habits and attitudes as we do,” she added.
More than 77 percent of single Shanghai interviewees said they hope to marry local people, and 19 percent want their future partners to be from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, or foreigners, according to the report.
Only three percent of the respondents said they could accept partners from the north.
The report covering nearly 2,000 singles aged between 18 and 40 years old in Shanghai aims to reveal the demands and dilemmas of singles in Shanghai during their dating and marriage process, said the association’s director, Zhou Juemin.
“A sense of belonging to the same regional culture will bring people together and makes it easier to get along with each other. However, it is probably not easy for people to find someone with the same beat in such a big metropolis with cultural diversity,” she said.
Careers, too, make a big difference.
People with jobs involving communication have a richer love experience and a wider social circle than those in areas such as technology, the study found.
More than 76 percent of those surveyed working in technology and research and development said they had had no boyfriends or girlfriends, while 80 percent of those working as consultants said they have had more than two and 14 percent said they have had at least four.
“People working with software and programs all day long have a small circle of friends and they have fewer chances to know more people,” said Zhou.
Most respondents said they could not accept a partner with a low emotion intelligence quotient (EQ) — the ability to understand their own and others’ emotions — and 12.1 percent said they wanted their partners to have a strong sex drive.
More than 68 percent said they did not want to have sex during early dates, but believed it would come naturally as love developed over time. The number of women feeling that way was twice the number of men, because of the higher level of social and traditional concerns for women, the report said.
But the report did find Shanghai singles are increasingly living together to “trial” marriage and determine is they are the right pairing.
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