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Asians generally tend to be conservative when it comes to dating-you cannot blame the fact that arranged marriages were once a common tradition.
Although they do not generally advocate long-term engagements either, they certainly are new to speed dating.
After all, they are the types who value relationships as investments, which certainly cannot be entered into just for fun.
However, in modern times, it seems the novelty of dating has also caught on.
It might be attributable to the growing trend of career-minded professionals who prioritize their work to the point of neglecting their social lives.
It may also be attributable to the tendency of yuppies to delay marriage and the common fear of commitment in relationships among the youth.
Let's face it, they hardly see strong faithful relationships nowadays, which probably encourage them to think they might not as well enter into one.
As such, there are a lot of urban professionals who sadly remain single, instantly becoming the market for speed dating.
Although speed dating, in its original sense, is a large event where several unattached men and women gather and meet potential partners in a matter of minutes through an organized rotation of "short dates", it has evolved the Asian way.
Speed dating has particularly gained interest in some Asian countries like Japan, because of the thrill and novelty it evokes, which is a far cry from conventional dating practices.
It has also been adopted in some countries like the Philippines because of the influence of Hollywood culture, which heavily popularized speed dating as a fashionable way to find one's ideal mate based on first impression and compatibility.
Speed dating though has also morphed into other ways of dating, which too is rather "quick" in nature.
We can see the evidence in the Asian dramas, where the typical rich heir has to find a wife-any wife-in order to have his inheritance.
You might have seen it in the likes of Coffee Prince, where the main male character goes through a series of blind dates akin to speed dating just to satisfy his grandmother's wish for him to get into a serious relationship and settle down.
It is not common only among men-it seems even Asian women are also prone to speed dating, especially office ladies who are already in their late twenties or early thirties.
This was seen in Witch Yoo Hee, where the successful advertising executive had all, except a relationship.
As such, she was also subject to speed dates, where fortunately, she met her love interest in an unconventional way.
Dating has also taken the form of group dates, where ladies invite bachelors to cocktails, in the likes of Japanese drama Hotaru no Hikari, with the intention of matchmaking.
This type of dating has indeed evolved, despite its being a fresh concept-in fact, in some online speed dating sites, majority of its members are actually from Asian countries.
It has also become more acceptable as big events such as the recently concluded 100 Bachelors: The Perfect Ladies' Night Out in the Philippines, are organized by online dating communities.
Although they do not generally advocate long-term engagements either, they certainly are new to speed dating.
After all, they are the types who value relationships as investments, which certainly cannot be entered into just for fun.
However, in modern times, it seems the novelty of dating has also caught on.
It might be attributable to the growing trend of career-minded professionals who prioritize their work to the point of neglecting their social lives.
It may also be attributable to the tendency of yuppies to delay marriage and the common fear of commitment in relationships among the youth.
Let's face it, they hardly see strong faithful relationships nowadays, which probably encourage them to think they might not as well enter into one.
As such, there are a lot of urban professionals who sadly remain single, instantly becoming the market for speed dating.
Although speed dating, in its original sense, is a large event where several unattached men and women gather and meet potential partners in a matter of minutes through an organized rotation of "short dates", it has evolved the Asian way.
Speed dating has particularly gained interest in some Asian countries like Japan, because of the thrill and novelty it evokes, which is a far cry from conventional dating practices.
It has also been adopted in some countries like the Philippines because of the influence of Hollywood culture, which heavily popularized speed dating as a fashionable way to find one's ideal mate based on first impression and compatibility.
Speed dating though has also morphed into other ways of dating, which too is rather "quick" in nature.
We can see the evidence in the Asian dramas, where the typical rich heir has to find a wife-any wife-in order to have his inheritance.
You might have seen it in the likes of Coffee Prince, where the main male character goes through a series of blind dates akin to speed dating just to satisfy his grandmother's wish for him to get into a serious relationship and settle down.
It is not common only among men-it seems even Asian women are also prone to speed dating, especially office ladies who are already in their late twenties or early thirties.
This was seen in Witch Yoo Hee, where the successful advertising executive had all, except a relationship.
As such, she was also subject to speed dates, where fortunately, she met her love interest in an unconventional way.
Dating has also taken the form of group dates, where ladies invite bachelors to cocktails, in the likes of Japanese drama Hotaru no Hikari, with the intention of matchmaking.
This type of dating has indeed evolved, despite its being a fresh concept-in fact, in some online speed dating sites, majority of its members are actually from Asian countries.
It has also become more acceptable as big events such as the recently concluded 100 Bachelors: The Perfect Ladies' Night Out in the Philippines, are organized by online dating communities.
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