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How was Taiwanese marriage for money over love ? New York times, 2021-11-18 ("What makes people happy" ): Most world people in a Pew Research Center survey said that family made them the happiest, such as the Australians (56%), New Zealanders (55%), Americans (49%), English(46%), Swedish, Italians, Canadians etc ranked family first, their percentages are about 3-4 times of that (15%) of Taiwanese, the % in Singapore and Japan is about 2 times of that in Taiwan. Taiwanese ranked Material well-being above family. According to Wikipedia (2021-11-28): The number of crude Divorce Rate in Taiwan is higher than that in most countries of Asia & Pacific, such as Vietnam, Mongolia, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand etc. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_demography ). Mainland China's divorce rate was worse than Taiwan's. Telegraph (UK, telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8714097/China-tries-to-stop-women-marrying-for-money-rather-than-love.html) reported the situation was so bad ("Most pretty girls now try to trade on their beauty. It is an unhealthy trend" ) that the Chinese government is now trying to restrict it and stop women marrying for money.
Are Taiwanese
poor so as to
choose money over love ?
According
to
Credit
Suisse, Research Institute (June 2021), Taiwanese' "Median
wealth per adult, 2020", USD 93,044, is higher than Americans' USD79,274 (credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/global-wealth-report.html). Furthermore,
the percentage of college degree Taiwanese is more than that of Americans.
A very famous writer, Eileen Chang (張愛玲), has a saying : "Marrying for financial security is nothing but being a prostitute for long term". However, <the China Times >, Oct. 30, 2010 : "Sneering at the poor instead of the prostitutes" (「笑貧不笑娼」) is Taiwan's social value system . The Liberty Times, 2015-5-15 , talk.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/1318118 "Welcome to the times" ─ "Laughing at the poor instead of the prostitutes" 。 The 'gold-diggers' or pretty swindlers back to the future to barter with the rich guys ─ each takes what he/she needs and gains what he/she worths ─ huge money or a green-card (permanent residency in the US worths USD 1.5+ millions)...... Those "high-end" materialistic girls at heart are similar to "low-end" mail-order brides. Wikipedia (2021-12-21, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail-order_bride) "Motivations and stories" reported that most of Asian mail-order brides come from 5 countries including Taiwan. Medium (US, 2017) said "Often, people who do not marry for love are judged for their decision". Daily Mail (UK), 2021-10-21: A British woman is accused of 'teaching her daughters to be gold diggers' after admitting she'll advise them that wealth and earning potential is more important than marrying for love... some took it as far as comparing it to 'sex work'. Money matters in marriage. But money can't buy you love (Wall Street Journal at 2020-11-21, Brigham Young University, 2012). Friedrich Engels (German philosopher, critic of political economy) : marriages based on love are moral. New York Times, 2014-3-9: "In the days of old, the economic basis of marriage was made explicit... Now it has been replaced by romantic love". Pew research Center, 2013-2-13: Americans believe that love is the main foundation of marriage. (pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/02/13/love-and-marriage/) Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, 2016-6-10: "marriage is regarded as strictly for those who've declared their romantic love"'。 People's Daily online (China), 2012-10-29: According to mainstream values, true love is a precondition for good marriages...money marriage is the "hell of soul" worse than the "tomb of love". Rodman (MarketWatch, 2019): "when life gets tough — and it always does — it's the love that will sustain you, not the cash". Debts might bring unhappiness to marriage, but a research ( 2014 ) in Emory University found that wealthier couples don't necessarily last longer than those who earn less, and the more you spend on a wedding ceremony, the shorter the marriage. Many marriages of the celebrities in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China are short - such as Alexander、Leehom Wang(王力宏): 8 years˴ Barbie Hsu(大S) 10 yrs.˴ Gillian Chung (阿嬌, 鍾欣潼）1 yr.˴ Huang Xiao Ming (黄晓明) 5+ yrs.˴ Stella Chang (張清芳) 15 yrs.˴ Winnie Ho (何妤玟) 8 yrs.˴Belle Yu (于美人)15 yrs.˴ Fukuhara Ai (福原愛) 4+ years. China Times, editorial, 2021-12-30 (chinatimes.com/opinion/20211229004676-262101?chdtv): Politician 楊秋興 said 80-90% of Taiwan's lawmakers have affair (or sex scandal, "緋聞").
In
Science
Daily (Feb. 8, 2012), Brigham Young University noted
: "Couples
where both spouses are materialistic were worse off on nearly every measure.
When both partners are materialistic, they are better off financially –
but money is a bigger source of conflict for them".
Telegraph (UK,
2011-8-21),
says: In China,
"almost half of all divorces see a court squabble over the
family assets". Wall Street Journal, 2020-11-21: 'getting and losing money activates the same pleasure and pain centers in the brain, respectively, as falling in love and having your heart broken'. Education should be a better means for "poverty alleviation" or getting money. According to Wikipedia (Dec. 25, 2021), 45 percent of Taiwanese aged 25 to 64 hold a bachelor's degree or higher. By contrast, the percentage of Americans is only 37.5% in 2020 ( statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attainment-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20about%2037.5%20percent,population%20had%20graduated%20from%20college. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Taiwan#:~:text=Due%20to%20its%20role%20in,a%20bachelor's%20degree%20or%20higher. ) But it appears lots more Taiwanese than Americans try to get money by using marriage, although some do need a marriage to be wealthy in modern Taiwan.
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n STATISTA, 2021-11-24 (statista.com/statistics/1078824/taiwan-crude-divorce-rate/): The crude divorce rate of Taiwan stood at 2.19 couples per 1,000 population in 2020. The divorce rate peaked at 2.51 couples per 1,000 population in 2010. The total number of divorce registrations in Taiwan decreased to around 51.7 thousand in 2020 (STATISTA: In 2020, the resident crude divorce rate in Singapore was 1.7 ) ; Statistical Handbook of Japan 2021: the divorce rate (per 1,000 population) in Japan was 1.57 ; World Population Review.: S. Korea 2.1, Mongolia 1.3, Qatar 0.4 (Divorce Rates by Country 2021 worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/divorce-rates-by-country)) n TAIWANnews, 2020-7-11: One-third of Taiwanese divorces take place within 5 years of marriage, setting a new decade high, The average duration of the marriages of the couples divorcing last year was 8.17 years, (taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3964637) n TAIWANnews, 2019-6-23: An average of 149 couples file for divorce per day in Taiwan in 2018 (taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3730261)
According to Wikipedia (2021-11-28): The number of crude Divorce Rate in Taiwan is higher than that in most countries in Asia & Pacific, such as Vietnam, Mongolia, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand etc. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_demography ). United Daily (聯合報), 2021-11-29: Since 2016, Taiwan became the most "youngsters Never-Marry" or "young peopele marriagefree" country。udn.com/news/story/7340/5923528?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2 |
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★ Housing & marriage
n
United
Daily
(<聯合報>),
2021-6-17: udn.com/news/story/7340/5537697?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
medical expert 楊志良's project found out: under the circumstances of low salary
and high housing price, it will be less and less marriage and child born。(楊志良研究計畫顯示: 在台灣普遍低薪及房價過高的情況下，未來不婚不育的情勢，只會更加嚴峻。近數十年來，女性受教育及就業比率已大幅提升，社會地位也是如此，但因性別分工，男性需承擔養家活口的社會認知仍深植人心。女不嫁，尋求自由是主因，但無房、無
力養家，男不娶，才是不婚、不育的首要原因。) n finance.yahoo , 12-30-2020, (finance.yahoo.com/news/retire-taiwan-costs-visas-more-215449948.html), SmartAsset (smartasset.com/retirement/retire-in-taiwan) Purchasing an apartment in Taiwan, is significantly more expensive than in the U.S. An apartment in a city center in the U.S. will cost an average of $292 per square foot, according to Numbeo. In Taiwan, it costs an average of $761 per square foot to purchase an apartment in a city center. When it comes to renting, Taiwan is still significantly cheaper than in the U.S. In the average city center in America, a one-bedroom apartment costs an average of $1,346 per month. In Taiwan, the same apartment costs about $485 per month. If you were to choose a three-bedroom apartment, it would cost $2,156 in the U.S. and $1,132 in Taiwan.
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