| Maybe everyone should snap back to reality and think about the fact that this was going on 80 years ago, long before women were deemed equal to men. Back then, when the only way a woman could increase her wealth and her family's wealth was to marry into a richer family. For them this is all they could do to pay back to their loved ones all the time and money that they had put into them. Women saw it, back in the day, that this was their job - to give back to their family by marrying in a social level above or equal to their current ranking. And if this is one of the only ways in which they could get into a higher social standing...then they did not complain otherwise. They would paint their face, put on their dresses and learn their manners and dances with no arguments with their parents b/c they respected them enough to want to see their parents succeed and benefit from their marriage. You also have to realize that children in China and other European and Asian countries put respect of elders and well-being of their loved ones a lot higher on the list than the cut-throat Americans do. So your reality check for the night is that this is a different culture and a different time period than that of today. In the 1950s women wore skirts and it was frowned upon to wear pants; today, society has advanced to where women are seen as equals thus we wear pants. Times change and so do customs and cultures. |