It's a mindset matter determined by sociocultural tradition in a certain society, I guess. This morning, I heard a young Chinese woman say in a television report that she needs to marry a rich, powerful man. The social status of a man to marry still seems to a play key role in this mindset pattern, and all these emotional things like feeling of love then seem to count a bit less. It is a similar mindset pattern that you can still find definitely in Korean and Japanese cultures, and probably in a couple of other cultures (e.g., Vietnamese), too.

In China, abortion in case of a female foetus seems to be still quite common. Demographically, it means there are more men than women, or in other words: There is a shortage of women. In that case, it works like everything else on a "market": women can afford to be really picky!

I can't argue with your assessment. Do you feel that FT's are wittingly or unwittingly helping this sorry state of affairs to continue? Is the other poster of the same opinion-we should ask him, no? Is working for an evil regime(as you believe it to be) aiding it, helping to sustain it? In your opinion(and we should also ask the other poster) should oral English teachers boycott China? Would that be the right and the honest thing to do? Or, is grumbling all that we should contribute- will that be sufficient to save our mortal souls? Are FT's taking the devil's own pieces of gold?