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It even has a name — naked marriage' It even has a name — naked marriage' "More and more people are getting married without a car or a house," adds Zhu. "There are so many doing it; it even has a name – 'naked marriage.' " Naked marriage is a rising phenomenon, especially in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai where property prices have risen nearly fivefold in the past decade. "A house and a ceremony are very important," acknowledges Li Xin, a 20-something customer service agent who married her husband, Li Lian, without either earlier this year. "But when he first said he loved me he told me all about himself, including how much he earned. I could do the [math]. I knew he would not be able to afford an apartment. Different priorities in 21st-century China Young urban parents born after 1980 pay more attention to their own well-being than earlier generations did, suggests Professor Feng. "They think that a 's life occupies a large part of family life, so if they have two their own quality of life will go down." Their generation is more than twice as likely as the average Chinese to want only one , Feng has found. ----- In Chinese tradition a groom would bring his bride to his family home, where she would eventually become matriarch. In modern cities, that tradition has morphed into an expectation that the man will buy his own home – often with his parents' help – to share with his wife. ----- After years of waiting fruitlessly for the housing market to cool, Zhu and Jia decided to get married this year, prodded by their friends and parents and conscious of passing time. The couple dispensed not only with the house and car that would normally come with a wedding but with the traditional ceremony, too. They paid just 9 renminbi ($1.50) for a marriage license, got their papers together, and went to the registry office. "Every girl wants a romantic wedding, but happiness is more important than anything else," says Jia. "I just want the two of us to be together." (from news) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Time will probably usher in an aged society far faster with the new era thinking, People may well become even more selfish and more material focused because of the grooming methodology. This seems to push toward raising a generation of people who are strictly about self and their individual single grooming objectives, with a focus for economic aims as the dominant objective. The same trend happened in America, where this selfish push and the economic aims became the dominant objective, intimately the social model cracked, the family concept is splintered, and cut throat mentality now seems to dominate a great span of social function. Change .... what might it unfold to present as a global phenomenon |
