| Nick: Sorry that you took exception to my remarks. I agree with most of your comments and since you made two posts, I will come back and attempt to clarify. For the record I am half of a "mixed couple". I was married to a Shanghainese woman ten years ago today and we have had a happy life. She is a few years younger than me but not decades younger. She doesn't look like Gong Li or Zhang Ziyi but when she smiles at me as we meet after a day apart, I think she is beautiful. But we don't look like Beauty and the Beast. We both have Bachelor's degrees. I flatter myself that I am similar to the western husbands described here by Ben as "highly intelligent and caring as well as interested in other cultures". But what I was seeing outside the Portman was couple after couple where the guy was 30 or more years older than the woman, with a male/female mass ratio of 3:1 or greater. It just had "Anna Nicole Smith" written all over it. I found it commercial and disturbing. Of course I wouldn't be rude to these couples or sneer at them in the street. But I do have a negative opinion about them and I shared it here. Maybe we'll just have to agree to disagree? |
Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners