Man without money is garbage, marriage is a large transaction

December 1st, 2011 by | Posted in Entertainment, Featured, Life Style | 70 Comments »

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Recently a viral video broke out on the Internet: In a crowded subway, a woman was angrily cursing at a man, apparently her boyfriend, sitting next to her. The woman speaking in a typical Beijing accent continuously scolded her boyfriend, said “man without money is garbage” and do not dream to marry her without money. Though being verbally abused in public, wearing a hat, boyfriend kept his head down quietly. Girlfriend did not stop cursing, and called the man “useless” for not responding. Finally, the woman said they are through and stormed off the subway. This video stirred up heated discussions, most people criticized the woman’s behavior, but some speculated it to be a publicity stunt. Fake or not, what it touches is definitely real issues in the society.

Look at you, you are useless, why am I going to marry you? You don’t have money. Man without money is garbage.

 

Look at you, you are useless, why am I going to marry you? You don’t have money. Man without money is garbage. And I am telling you, this morning when we are shopping, what’s the problem of spending some money? Being next to you feel like a joke, you know. You said you are going to take care of your parents, what about my parents? … I am telling you, no money… when I think of it I feel so scared, you know. Say something… You don’t even say anything, you are useless, you will have nothing in the future. You want to marry me? Forget it. Always like this… Say something… Ok, that’s it, we are through. Forget it. It is impossible now, I am moving out tonight. You are still like this? Forget it. Bye bye.

The following is the movie trailer for 巨额交配 “A Big Deal” direct translation is “mating of enormous amount (of money)”   mating(交配) is a pun of transaction (交易)which will start showing on December 2, 2011 in China.

Translation:

Question 1

How much money does a man need to have in order for you to marry him?

Woman 1: “Monthly income at least 5000 – 6000”

Woman 2: “Monthly income over 10,000”

Woman 3: “Monthly income over 10,000, I think this is the most basic in a big city.”

Man 1: “I think for most women they have to think about if they are good enough for asking so much. If she is like sister Furong, or sister Feng, why is she asking so much? Sister Feng even wants Edison Chen.”

Woman 4: “New house… car… then ok.”

Man 2: “No house, no car, no saving, then don’t even consider, it makes me angry, because I am like that.”

Woman 2: “I feel no house means not secure, therefore house is required.”

Man 3: “Do you know how much it cost to buy a house now around Sanhuan and Sihuan (districts in Beijing). Cheap ones cost 1-2 million, better ones for 3-4 million. What does that mean? If I have that much money I can find a Xiaojie (sex worker) everyday. Continue for 20-30 years and no repeats each day. For example when a girl is dating you and ask, ‘Do you have a house a car?’ you say no, and she says, “Then why are we still dating?” Then you can say, what do you have that I have to have a house and a car? Do you look like Ling Chi-ling, or Marilyn Monroe?”

Woman 5: “For sure have to look at the financials. My living standard is here, if I find someone who is here (lower) so when we get together I have to be here too, so for sure it does not work.”

Man 4: “I have confidence, what do I care to have house and car.”

Man 5: “Marriages not based on love are as if behaving like a hooligan.”

Woman 5: “Love not based on marriage are as if behaving like a hooligan.”

Man 3: “If You don’t have money, don’t have a house, I wont marry you. This kind of woman, If I meet this kind of woman, just one word. ‘Get Lost!’”

Question 2

How much money does a man have to have for you to have a kid?

Woman 3: “Saving more than 300,000, then I consider having kids.”

Woman 2: “Under the condition of having a house, must have 400,000 – 500,000.”

Woman 6: “If you want me to give birth, my conditions are: 1. minimum of 100,000 in savings. 2. we must have a house that my husband and I live in by ourselves.”

Man 3: “Get married and having a kid really cost that much money?”

Woman 4: “I feel that if you have a kid, you have to take care of him/her. If you can’t guarantee him a good living environment at least similar environment as kids of the same age around him. (if not) I feel the kid’s mind will easily be twisted.”

Woman 2: “If the conditions are not met then I will not choose to have a kid.”

Man 5: “Therefore money is second. ‘Having 1-2 million then I have a kid’, the problem is you don’t need 1-2 million to have a kid, this kind of money is enough to raise him even.”

Woman 7: “First we need to be able to afford to give birth to him, just to give birth will cost 100,000 – 200,000. Then he has to go to school, he has to go aboard after schooling. Then it will coast 1-2 million. Then he has to get married, another 1-2 million. So to me, minimum is 5 million.”

Man 4: “I think what she loves is the 5 million not me. I will not marry her, very simple.”

Question 3

If a man doesn’t have this money, is he garbage?

Woman 5: “I feel in deed salary is a standard to measure man’s ability.”

Woman 3: “If I make more money than my husband, I will care.”

Woman 8: “Wanting a better life but hoping wife to make more money, that is for sure not acceptable.”

Woman 7: “The society today, money is the more realistic standard to measure a person’s ability.”

Man 4: “Then she should marry money instead. What she wants is not a man, she wants money. Her brain is rotten, full of glue. Her outlook on life is totally collapsed. She has no meaning living in this world, in my opinion.”

Woman 6: “In my mind, I can afford whatever I want to buy and I can afford whatever I want to eat , I think that’s enough.”

Man 4: “Typical rotten mind, talking nonsense. If my other half says all she wants is to eat anything she wants and to buy anything she wants, then I thinks she doesn’t love me at all she only wants is to have a contract to sell her body.”

Woman 1: “Why don’t you ask men directly rather asking women – do you think you should have money?”

Man 1: “I think men and women should be equal in this society. Why do men have to have so much money? Why don’t women make money and asking men to take care of them?”

Man 2: “I think this should be looked at from a future prospective.”

Woman 9: “He is saying that he will work hard, but I feel anybody can just talk and don’t act on it. There is no point, don’t just say it, do it and let me see the result.”

Woman 4: “If he has no desire to do better, depressed all the time and plays all day long. I think that is not far from garbage.”

Woman 2: “Satisfied with current condition, no special big goals and feels happy about the current living situation; I think this kind of man is garbage.”

Woman 6: “No desire to do better, no foundation and looks ugly, I think man like this is same as garbage.”

Man 3: “To woman that says ‘man without money is garbage’, I think this kind of woman is most suitable to work at a night club or become someone’s mistress so her chance of meeting garbage will decrease.”

Question 4

If you think man without money is garbage then is what between a man and woman a large transaction?

Woman 7: “(Marriage) is actually like negotiating a business transaction, must keep clear and rational. First thing is to protect oneself.”

Man 5: “If woman must sell themselves like objects, then ok, no problem. But I don’t care to buy it.”

Woman 4: “All the animals in the world, their mating are all based on materials. I think this kind of so-called ‘large money mating’ is needed. I think no matter human or animals, this kind of matting always require one to have something which attracts the other.”

Woman 5: “This is just like you are responsible for making money and support the family, I am responsible for looking pretty like the flowers. For example, I am going to demand you with my ability of making money. If you make 2000 a month, don’t expect her to have size 36 c cup chest, or 168cm-170cm tall, that is not realistic.”

Man 1: “Actually those woman who only look at money, those women who use their youth between 20-35 for a business trade, they are so sad. Her youth only lasts 5 years, she wants to trade her best thing as an object for a better value, actually very sad, they are very sad.”

Woman 5: “It’s not that if I find someone rich, for sure I will not have love. If given that I have true love and I find someone with money, why not?”

Man 2: “I think if women are so realistic, why should we give our true love? right?”

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  1. Ma Latang says:

    Absolutely none of those girls (with the possible exception of Woman 5) are remotely OK了吧 in the looks department.

    They’re asking for millions of renminbi? I wouldn’t pay more than 130 yuan for any of their services at a brothel.

    • Asian Guy says:

      No brothel will even hire them.

    • Massive Entitlement Issues says:

      The sense of entitlement exhibited by these women is overwhelmingly bizarre.

      These women talk about their “standard”. Where and how was this “standard” established? By whom? They are unattractive, and more importantly: Not charming.

      What gives them the impression they deserve anything at all?

      Of course — ultimately it doesn’t matter. They will all end up disappointed and miserable — but then again, they already are. If they can’t be happy with what they have — no emasculated slave-husband is going to help (even if they can find one).

      The man who talks about hookers has the right idea.

      If these women are going to commercialize the situation, then so should men. Rent. Don’t buy a depreciating asset. That honey, really is “garbage”.

  2. mty says:

    社会主义好,社会主义好

    poor girls, I don’t feel sad for us guys, because you shouldn’t want to have a hi-so whore as a wife.

    I don’t know, perhaps that’s not fair, they just want to have enough money for a stable life, for their children. But that’s crazily egoist – they seem to have their plan, which for sure, they didn’t think of themselves, they just copy existing ways, and than they wait for a guy, that can afford them and their »dreams« (don’t even want to call it like that, that’s a way to nice word to use for someone like that). If you want money, make it!
    And if maternity leave isn’t good enough in China, petition it with your government… but just asking for money is cheap.
    But than again – perhaps that’s what the girl means by her high standard, she wants someone at the same level as herself. But don’t you see that won’t work? Guys of the high standard don’t seem to care, to find a girl they love no matter how much she earns. Or am I wrong about that?

  3. Chloe says:

    This is embarrassing….why are Chinese women such leechers….It might be because of the sudden switch of communism to capitalism and rise in consumerism, everyone’s so focused on stuff, that love has taken a backseat.

    • 老外 says:

      Now I ain’t sayin’ she a gold-digga, but she ain’t messin’ with no broke nigga.

    • korean_guy says:

      Chloe

      “…why are Chinese women such leechers”

      If you know anything about Chinese culture (even pre Marxist and pre state capitalist) they were ALWAYS fond of money, to put it kindly. Just look at all their reference and superstition to fortunes, the shit’s mind numbing how much they love money.

      In China Chineseworship 2 gods: Chinese Communist Party and money. The problem with Chinese are that they have lust for money, which is the root of all evil. Couple that with immorality it results in a deadly combination (pun intended).

      TAP SUM BONG!

      • Marco says:

        Haha… Koreans are not so much different:
        http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15662324

        • Das Wienerkorven says:

          Korean women are worse, belive me I have dated quite lot of them

          • korean_guy says:

            Das Wienerkorven

            “belive me I have dated quite lot of them”

            There is no way to believe you’ve dated them since it cannot be proven (although Chinamen and sino-files have major fetish towards Korean women, major premium ass). Chinese diggers on the other hand is pervasive.

            TAP SUM BONG!

            • Das Wienerkorven says:

              Are you jealous?
              Its very easy to date korean women, they are like ants. Just go to seoul, plenty of them.

              • Kochigachi says:

                This is Internet, anyone can get away with lies. Beside, European women aren’t different from these Chinese women. This is reality in capitalist country. Deal with it.

              • korean_guy says:

                Das Wienerkorven

                “Are you jealous?”

                Yes.

                “Its very easy to date korean women, they are like ants.”

                And I’m freaking Donald Trump.

                “Just go to seoul, plenty of them.”

                Yes if you go to Korea there will BE Korean women you, and in great numbers! You know what? If you go to China there are shit load of Chinese diggers as well.

                Looks like much Kung Pao chicken fried in gutter oil got to your brain!

                TAPSUM BONG!

                • haha says:

                  This is how we know you’re not Korean, you moron. Have you even been to that lovely country you identify as home? Korean women would throw themselves off bridges if you could convince them that there was money at the bottom.

                  The average English teacher goes to Korea and gets ass than he can shake a stick at.

                  Hell, even random video game go to Korea and get laid. I guess it’s cause they played Starcraft though?

                  You’re pathetic. Go get a job or something.

                  • korean_guy says:

                    haha

                    “Have you even been to that lovely country you identify as home?”

                    Are Chinese immoral and dangerous peasants? Yes

                    “Korean women would throw themselves off bridges if you could convince them that there was money at the bottom.”

                    So would everyone if they are convinced, but the truth is only ones who ARE convinced are Chinese peasant diggers.

                    “The average English teacher goes to Korea and gets ass than he can shake a stick at.”

                    An average English teacher can get a concubine a day in China for as long as he has $24 in his wallet.

                    “You’re pathetic. Go get a job or something.”

                    Chinese are depraved and my job is to bring Chinese into civility one Chinaman at a time.

                    TAP SUM BONG!

                    • lolzors says:

                      LOOOOOOOOL AHAHHAHAHAHAHA YOUR’E SO FULL OF SHIT YOU MUST BE DROWNING IN IT. How does it taste? Oh wait, but you’re used to it by now so it’s a waste of my time to ask. You probably can’t even answer since you’re choking on it.

                      No life scum. My advice to you: stop crying and bitching just because you’re an ugly fuck and have no social life. Leave your room. Try saying these things to a real person. Get shot. End up in the hospital. Die. THE END.

    • Asian Guy says:

      No, it has nothing to do with what you said. This is just how Chinese culture is.

      • B-real says:

        Right remember back in the day women used to choose men who could work and men the same thing. Looks and money or love were not a factor because everybody looked and had the same shit. But as the environment changed and society left these bitches behind and men had prospects to choose the quality of woman and vise versa love stayed out of the equation. Nothing really changed in the process of marrying in China just the amount of shit the women can get out of the man and his family and the option to opt out via divorce.

        The reality for most of these women in China that they are full of shit and would take anything short of what they want when they realize the man of their desire is not interested in them when they reach a certain age and their value has plummeted or was never there to begin with. Regardless of women and their status in China a marriage should be an equal union but ultimately has proven to be legal prostitution and human trafficking once a child is born along with extortion in the event a boy is born or divorce is evident.

        Like chinese holidays marriage in china has proven to be highly profitable. Houses get bought cars get bought, cars get rent, flowers get bought, wine, liquor, beer, cigarettes, food and money changes hands over and over in the sake of saving face is a perpetuated scam and a faux in their society.

    • Paola Eisner says:

      Leechers? It’s called having standards. These women will not attach themselves to someone who cannot care for them the way the want it, and in the meantime, they take care of themselves. What’s wrong with that? Who cares if the guys are upset? They can find themselves girls with lower standards–like one of the women said, it would be probably an uglier girl. Or just not marry! If these women don’t want to fall in love with a guy who can’t support her, it’s their choice to refrain.

  4. Bo Wang says:

    Why does Woman #7 look like a man? The other ones are meh.

    • indo guy says:

      i thought she’s a man saying girl opinion. Damn… i think if she’s a real women and talking like that, should be executed

  5. Das Wienerkorven says:

    Ehh its same in the western world, whatever girl wants a man without money? The thing is, in China, if you don´t have house you really will live in the street!

  6. Alec O says:

    First video I’d already seen, but the second video was really interesting. Problem is that over the last twenty years Chinese people are becoming either really rich or staying really poor, with not much in the middle. It’s a fight to the top and these women want to ensure their place in the new rich.

  7. James says:

    Poor women, when they go outside of their small regions to look how other women hold the attitudes towards romances, they will feel how sleazy they are, I guess they will conceal in a small corner. What a shame on them!

    • Paola Eisner says:

      Is it sleezy, or is it realistic? Romance is really not the most practical thing if you end up attached to a guy who expects you to stay home taking care of children on his low salary–a romance like that might not last very long, and would be worthless. They know what they want and are out to find that–there’s nothing wrong with that. If you have different goals, look for someone who agrees with you.

  8. Curt says:

    They must all be big city girls. I know a lot of beautiful girls from Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan etc. who aren’t like that at all. And yeah, those girls are uglier than most of the street walkers trolling around Shenzhen.

  9. Asian Guy says:

    The children raised by these Chinese women will be even worse than them, and that’s how one can tell why the Chinese are getting worse generation after generation.

  10. shenmeniao says:

    an ugly girl making unreasonable demands is an exciting prospect for insult.

    when these rubes get what they want, they can look forward to endless misconduct from their rich counterpart, and a nice long life of unhappiness. So, step out of the way, let them fall, enjoy the show.

  11. shenmeniao says:

    Hey Key, how about a post on the requirements of Chinese men. Its only fair…

  12. vonskippy says:

    I wonder how many of those women’s parents would have qualified?

    Sounds like “true love” isn’t even in the top 10 for those gold digging women.

    With attitudes like that, how do they even get a date, let alone a real relationship.

    • dongshizhang says:

      an age old secret among men trying to get laid: lying to women

      keep it quiet…

    • Paola Eisner says:

      :< I really don't get what's the big deal here. They have standards for who they want to date, who they want to give their heart to. If they don't find anyone like that, it's their problem, but it's likely many of them will and be happy. What's wrong with knowing what you want? What is "true love" anyway? It can come in a lot of different situations. I'm sure a woman happy with her man will find it a lot easier to fall in love with him.

  13. Huzhang says:

    My fiancee is hotter than all of them put together

    >you are responsible for making money and support the family, I am responsible for looking pretty like the flowers.
    >let’s be realistic

    None of you look pretty like flowers, and therefore aren’t worth shit.

    BAM.

  14. Kochigachi says:

    This is reality when there are 30 million surplus men in China and it will get worse. S.Korea and Japan isn’t different infact they have dealt with this many decades ago, but learned to attract women from third world countries, so there’s no problem for them. If Korean women says crew you poor buggers then Korean men can find nice homey Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese women, if Japanese women says screw you Japanese small dick, then Japanese men can get Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Brazilian women etc.. Chinese men should look for Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur, Zhung, Miao, Hui, Cambodian, Vietnamese women.. they’re plenty of them willing to get out of their rural hometown. These shameful Chinese women can find some Western losers and screw themselves.

    • Paola Eisner says:

      Haha. They’re not shameful–they just have standards. Your examples are just precious, though. Japanese men looking at Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Brazilian exc? What do you think those women look at Japanese men for? It’s highly likely the Japanese men have much higher salaries than the women would have found in men from their own countries. So the women want to improve their lot, and the men are sore. Too bad for the men. And maybe the Chinese women with this mindset will find a richer Western man and be perfectly happy with that. What is it to you?

      • voiceofhome says:

        Good culture in the east, kill all the girls and women before they mate with whiteys and blacks.

  15. Ash says:

    I actually agree with the women. I think it’s wise to make sure you’ll be able to have a comfortable life. If great if there’s love but you need some technical thinking as well, especially as so many couples struggle with finances and everyone seems to get divorced in the end. In fact I just think marraige is a neccesairy setup in life- no more no less. Or maybe not all that neccesairy because I’ll never get married.

  16. V.B. says:

    Hey girls, like we say in Europe and US: shut the fuck up and get a job.

    • dede says:

      Quite true, STFU and get a job AND A LIFE.

      Achieving yourself trough other people and their money is the ultimate sore loser stigma.

    • Paola Eisner says:

      What if the guys are looking for stay-at-home moms? Of course the women will look at income.

  17. Michael says:

    Why don’t the women get rich themselves?
    Then it is an one step process that they can control instead of a 2 step process fraught with many uncertainties.
    They would have a secure financial future instead of risking a divorce when they lose their looks or if they become widowed.
    Once they are riched themselves, they can choose to look for love instead if that floats their boat.

    • Paola Eisner says:

      Don’t you think if they’re rich themselves they might have even higher standards and want someone up to their level? There’s nothing wrong with having standards.

  18. voiceofhomer says:

    From BBC news “lax adoption laws, which they say have created a thriving underground market for buying children.”

    Buy and sell, the Chinese way to riches.

  19. So Sad says:

    Well men are now a dime a dozen in china. There’s a severe gender disparity in China where there are vastly more men than women (thanks to the One Child Policy) and according to studies over 20 million men will not be able to get a mate. This gives women more choice over who they want to marry. Of course they will select the best mates (men who has the wealth and power). This is sad to hear but it’s only natural selection at work. The best (smartest, strongest, richest) survives while the poor and destitute die out of the gene pool.

  20. Holly says:

    I’m 168cm, have a 36C chest, and my Chinese boyfriend only makes 4000 a month. I’m happy enough. I get angry when Chinese women are so materialistic. I think it’s such a horrible and coldhearted mindset to arm yourself with. The more beautiful they are, the more they demand. I’ve even seen some really ugly Chinese women with terrible personalities who demand thousands from potential suitors, even though I wouldn’t give you 2d for any of them. But, on the other hand, I can’t blame these women. Most Chinese men cheat on their wives. If they are poor, they go to KTV bars and pick up cheap whores. If they are rich, they keep second, 3rd, even 4th wives. I really don’t think many Chinese men think of women as equals in almost any way. Either way, it’s a horrible way to treat your wife, putting her health at risk from all sorts of nasty STDs while you gallivant off and screw whoever you can. So, a lot of women don’t have sex with their husbands. They allow them to find whores, as long as the man compensates them with lots of STUFF e.g. LV handbags, an iPhone etc. It’s an awful way to treat each other and equally repulsive. But it’s a fair deal, right? No wonder they have become so coldhearted. I think if a you choose a man based on salary, you become nothing but a commodity. So he can treat you however he likes! How unfortunate.

    • 老外 says:

      Hi, Holly! I like your attitude. :)

      I can relate. I’ve met countless Chinese women who behave this way; putting money before love every single time. Out of all the women I’ve met, only one of them said she would marry someone if she loved them. The rest of them? They wanted money or compensation in some way or form.

      “I want someone who can take care of me, and give me the life my mother/father/parents/family/etc gave me. It’s okay if he doesn’t love me, as long as he can take care of me and be kind to me. I’ll never marry for love.” I hear this EVERY SINGLE TIME from my friends, and the girls I’ve dated. They basically want daddy. Their parents taught them to behave this way, and they’re only doing what they’ve learned.

      It doesn’t help that a lot of Chinese women have really bad daddy issues. I’ve only met one Chinese lady without daddy issues, and she’s the one who didn’t care about money. Many fathers wanted a boy, and this desire becomes increasingly obvious as the daughter gets older.

      But you know what? I’ve met even more American women who are just like this, or even worse — especially women from my generation. The difference is, Chinese women will tell you the truth up front about what they want from a relationship. Most American women know it’s wrong, and they won’t tell you about their true intentions until it’s too late.

  21. Fennec says:

    Chinese women are disgusting. At least a hooker would give you good sex for money…

    And shame on the people who bitch about appearance, would it be justified if they all were hot?

    • Paola Eisner says:

      Why is this disgusting? If the man is looking for a wife to birth his child, look after it, and stay with him, and he expects her to not have a job in order to do these things, she should rightfully work to get a man that would give her a standard of living similar to that which she grew up in or that which she wants.

      • Eww.. Go away Paloma says:

        Paola — If I may dissect your comment:

        1) Because a woman grows up with a level of wealth, she therefore has the right to pursue it in a mate.
        2) Because a women “wants” a standard of living she has a right to pursue it in a mate.

        Never mind the grotesque cast system that the first comment legitimizes — it is the second comment that is at issue:

        If we are to accept that marriage is a means of attaining something that one “wants” other than love — then one must accept that this dynamic applies equally to men and women.

        And if we are to accept that what men frequently want is a young beautiful woman — then one we must accept that men will become increasingly dissatisfied as their women grow older and less attractive.

        So by your own justification of getting what one “wants” from marriage (other than love) there is a perfectly valid justification for men to toss out women when they have served their purpose to the man — which is to be pretty.

        Unfortunately — most women want an absurd contradiction: They want to marry up (ie: marry money), but they want the man to express devotion and love. In other words, they want (and you want) to be the winner in the equation.

        That is disgusting — as it is a disingenuous rationale for marriage.

        Ergo — you, Paloma — are disgusting too.

  22. an lushan says:

    Chineses don’t really have souls. It’s not correct to blame this on communistic deprivation or state capitalism or the humiliation at the hands of 19th century imperialists or whatever the apologists are saying this week. Just think: these are people, if you can call them that, who burn monopoly money (and sometimes little mock-ups of flat-screen televisions) TO SEND TO THEIR DEAD FAMILY MEMBERS. This is the closest they get to any appreciation of the sublime. And in life, no ideal amounts to anything higher than a perfect pragmatism, the eternal mediocrity of the median kingdom.

    • Paola Eisner says:

      For the record, the Chinese people I’ve known are all upstanding citizens and good friends. There is no one without a soul. I am suspicious that this attitude springs from jealousy over Chinese success.

      • lee says:

        “I am suspicious that this attitude springs from jealousy over Chinese success.”

        whoaa seriously? we jealous? ahahaha, ok fine I hv my standard too, Im willing to meet their standard but the question is, did they meet my standard? naaaaah…

  23. chris says:

    The video only interviewed 9 women and you don’t even know their backgrounds. i’m sure you can find ppl like them in every single country in the world and there’re no way the interviewees could represent the whole China. the problem is the materialism not the nationality. so stop commenting about China or anything that you don’t know.

    • C10 says:

      I agree with you that both the sample quality and quantity does not warrant the interview as “statically significant”, but from my personal Chinese experience (as an American-educated 1.5 generation Chinese) the points made in the video is very close to the truth for females of the Chinese society. I refer the show “非诚勿扰” to you if you want to see large amounts of anecdotal evidence. Materialism is prevalent in other nations, but not to a degree of social institutionalization as it is in China. Sure, many chicks in the States are materialistic as hell, but there those girls are generally looked down upon by the general population. In China, ALMOST all girls who did not have an upper class up-bring will be materialistic to a great degree and girls who have achieved their goals through marriage will be the pride of her family and the envy of her friends and colleagues. Sketch.

      • Paola Eisner says:

        In a society where women are valued less as men or at least expected to some extent to stay home, take care of children, and not work, these are the tools available to women to improve their lot. Men use their tools to improve their lot; there’s nothing wrong with women doing the same.

  24. lee says:

    lets face it….women’s are materialistic no matter how they look….well, those ladie’s above are all fuglies lol.

    • Paola Eisner says:

      And men aren’t materialistic? *People* are materialistic, Lee, not just women. The majority of us want to improve our lot and work to do this, like these women in the video.

      • LOL says:

        ” like these women in the video.”

        I think you misspelled “whores”

      • lee says:

        ok paola,let say i agree with you…now if i spend that much money,i make sure its worth,but…are they worth? naaaah, their standard is money,my standard is beauty (so no more love/feelings/inner/attitude involved here..?) i need my money worth eh..

  25. Jane says:

    One thing I’ve been wondering- If marriages are based on cash/ materials, why do they bother to get married at all?

    Make your own money, you don’t have to sell yourself and you’d definitely get your pride.

  26. Justin says:

    I totally agree that women that use a man’s income as a standard are all just whores. If she won’t love you when you are poor then she won’t love you when you are wealthy. A guy that works hard at his chosen profession should be enough. Assuming a guy with a small income is some kind of slacker is just stupid. What about the talented but struggling actor or writer. It might take years for them to get their big break? What about the Aid worker who by fallowing his passion he does great things but makes very little money.

    Also if a woman stands by and gives her man the support and love a husband should have fro ma wife than as a team they can do just about anything. When it is all about what he can do for her there is no wonder why some men leave their wives for younger women.

    To the point now. The main reasons I can guess that the unattractive women in the video think they are worth millions are Most women overvalue themselves and there are far more men than women in china so the ugly greedy ones in china do have more value just because there are not enough women to go around. Move them to a country that doesn’t kill baby girls than the story is different.

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