T-shirts with English on them here say incomprehensible things. Today two girls had on "Fashion Yashion" shirts. Many have random words like "garden, evening, moon" in what might have been a sentence but lost something. The best one lately was "Brimming Hum." A large city in AL? Spilling over with song? No one has a clue what their shirts say and even if they can read the words they do not know the meaning. Just the shapes look nice. Makes me wonder what we are advertising in the US when we wear shirts with unknown Chinese characters...local Shanghai used car dealerships?
Today I compared experiences on the topic of dating. The law in China forbids any male under 22 and any female under 20 from marrying. The class is all professionals who thought dating should start after college and marriage at 25 is fine. One child by age 30 and that phase is over. About 1/2 the married class members still live with the husband's family so grandma does all the cooking and cleaning and child care while both partners work. The few college students and HS graduates in the class think the dating age should be younger - 17 or 18 with marriage at 25. Times are changing as the world shrinks.
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