Mark differences, similarities or defects It is a bit obnoxious but it is so human that it is impossible to escape. Any traveler traveling through America will end up talking about what Chileans, Argentines, Cubans or Americans are like.
The same happens when one travels Europe and also when visiting Asia. The geography and history of each land shape the idiosyncrasy of its people, so when thinking of powers such as China and Japan We are wondering What are the differences between Chinese and Japanese girls?
China and Japan
China is not an expansionist country. It has not been particularly bellicose. Are you thinking of Tibet? Yes, but it was part of their territories long before the European incursion, so there is a long debate there.
What I mean is that the Chinese people are a navel-gazing people, so to speak. You have not been very interested in the outside world and their contacts have been sporadic, interested, and often compelled by the restless powers of Old Europe.
I always imagine that Marco Polo and the following European travelers must have felt or thought when they stumbled upon the glamor and style of the Chinese imperial court. What a marvel! Almost like traveling to another planet.
Japan, on the contrary, like an arrogant dwarf, he has always set his gaze on his marine horizons and has wanted to go beyond them. It is a warrior people, although today he is very calm, and throughout history has occupied and conquered more than once Korea and annexed a kingdom that eventually became the Japanese Okinawa.
Chinese culture is ancient and so rich that it has ended up influencing and shaping the cultures of its neighbors. They all copied from her and that's why kanjis Japanese are the Chinese ideograms, just to give an example.
Chinese women
As I said before, geography and history shape human beings. Chinese women have seen their lives transform over the centuries but basically they underwent the biggest and best changes during the last years of the Dynasty Qing, the Civil War and when the Communists won and the People's Republic of China was founded.
Despite all that, marriage and reproduction remain an important part of women's lives. Arranged marriages were the rule before the revolution and it was from a 1950 law that the government tried to transform female subordination prohibiting concubines, bigamy and polygamy, for example.
Then came the Only Child Law, in the 70. Of course, there have always been, there are and will be differences between the countryside and the cities.
Today, hand in hand with the idea «One country, two systems«, Chinese women living in cities are very similar to Western women but still have not managed to escape from the family mandate of the children and the family and they face these double functions like the rest of the women of the planet in a patriarchal world.
The situation of women in Japan has not been very different. Japanese women have been subservient to parental control their entire lives. And if there was no father, that of the brother. Arranged marriages were commonplace and the situation, as in China, it just changed in the XNUMXth century and especially with the American occupation after the Second War.
But despite Japan being a developed country, here women they continue to charge less than men for the same tasks. Although the law of the one child does not weigh them down, the costs of supporting children are so high that they only have one or two children and the eight-hour workdays are easily extended to ten or twelve.
A Japanese man expects from his women modesty, a certain shyness, courtesy and that he takes care of domestic roles. The younger generations do not follow this strictly but it is something that is still perceived.
I would not say that Japanese girls are total geishas, ​​that is the image of the West, but inside doors and sociological analysis through here the same thing happens as in the rest of the world. We have come a long way, girls, but there is still ...
Differences between Chinese and Japanese girls
First, it must be clarified that this list is not intended to offend anyone. They are generalities because it is difficult to talk about a society without being a member of it. These questions that we will talk about now are based on personal observations, comments, stereotypes, opinions of Chinese, Japanese and foreigners. So please don't be outraged.
A good starting point or touchstone for making a list of differences and similarities is political history: the Chinese Revolution greatly influenced the role of Chinese women in society. Legally, they occupied from one moment to another the same status as men and that was very important.
On the other hand, Japan quickly transformed into an industrial power as well that Japanese women have known for decades that they live in one of Asia's greatest powers. Outwardly they are kind, quiet and somewhat shy women, but it is enough to live a little in the country to discover journalists, politicians, artists and very active street women, who are not silent at all.
Japanese girls often marry boys their own ageAfter finishing university, and together they start a life of work, with few children and a lot of effort. The couple is important and so is the work. Although there are mixed marriages, it is not the most common. Foreigners may be curious but it is rare that they choose one to marry.
In China, the opposite is true. Many say that If a Chinese woman has the possibility of marrying a foreigner, it is something that she will take advantage of. They have a closer relationship with their in-laws and mothers-in-law continue to carry unwanted weight in the marriage.
Nowadays there is a lot of consumerism, there are not few news that reveal that more and more Chinese girls choose to marry older and wealthy men, rather than evenly with people his age. Her parents' insistence on money and financial security is strong.
Here I make a personal observation because I have a Chinese friend: a sister married an electronics technician and they did not like him at all because she did not have and would not have enough money. Another sister married an American company manager and they did not put a but. Whatever they say, the money to the Chinese they are very interested.
So what differences can we find between Chinese and Japanese girls? I invite you to laugh and think together:
- Chinese women hate their mothers-in-law while Japanese girls consider them their second mothers
- Chinese women are very conventional in bed while Japanese women are quite active.
- Chinese women bark at their husbands when they come home late while Japanese girls are more understanding, although sometimes they do not come from work but from the bar where they get rid of work stress.
- Chinese women accept and seek marriage with foreigners while Japanese girls come to consider it a disgrace.
- Young Chinese women prefer older men, already established and wealthy, to marry. Japanese girls usually pair up with someone their age.
- Japanese mothers teach their daughters to find a husband and to relate well to the in-laws while Chinese mothers insist on their daughters to control family and husband affairs.
- Japanese women can tolerate a penniless man but they don't deal well with cowards or weaklings. The Chinese in reverse.
- Japanese women tend to be lenient with their partner's infidelity while Chinese women are very lenient with their own. In fact, in China extramarital affairs for women are the order of the day.
To finish it must be said that both women are fighters, they know how to help their families and historically they have lived difficult times, of war and hunger. They have seen their men go out to fight and not return or come back lost, they have gone out themselves to work long hours and even today, as happens to all women in the world, they do not recognize the double work that involves having a family and a wife. profession.