I just asked her if she felt less happy after US bank Lehman Brother’s went bankrupt in september 2008.
Yes, of course, was her answer. Since that moment my happiness index plummeted to very low levels. Before all was ok, also thanks to Lehman Brothers but now….
“What’s the exact score now”, I asked. Well, at most 45. And before? “Well, at minimum 78”.
I followed up with, “Would you still marry me now, you know, considering the financial crisis and so..?”
“No, of course not. Don’t you know, foreigners don’t care about saving. They just spend it, they’re not responsible, they don’t want long term wealth”
“So what now”, I asked. “Well, better to divorce”, she said. “A score of 45 is less than 50 so no good.”
Yes, it’s hard but luckily fiction based on a brilliant article in the local waste paper aka Shanghai Daily that quotes research from the website Hongniang.com.
And so life in China continues to be lived in stereo types. Better think twice before marrying that foreigner!! (unspecified if he’s Asian, European, North/South American, African or god forbid Oceanic)
By the way, We’re still happy.
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Thanks to a tweet of http://twitter.com/fonstuinstra retweeting http://twitter.com/niubi
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