The Asian internet dating convention was held in Beijing, China last week. Here’s the pics. Notable dating site presenters included the CEO’s of leading social networking site YeeYoo, and dating sites Baihe, SinoFriends, Bharat Matrimony, Love21. Also speaking were payment services companies 99Bill, and YeePay, along with innovative mobile applications company Pingco. The final executive panel agreed that for 2005 Asian online dating market stood at $50 million to $200 million US depending on whether or not mobile flirt applications were included. This is up from estimates of $40 to $100 million for 2004. Asian market analyst iResearch will present firmer numbers later this year. In short, the Chinese market is hot, but is somewhat limited by lack of trust in, and availability of, online billing mechanisms. Mobile billing is capped by China Telecom at 10 to 20 Yuan a month (8 Yuan per US$). Next years Asian internet dating convention will most likely be in Tokyo in May 2007 and will cover mobile dating. – Mark Brooks
Interesting to read:
PATTERNS AND UNIVERSALS OF ADULT ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT ACROSS 62 CULTURAL REGIONS Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs?”
JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 35 No. 4, July 2004 367-402
http://www.bradley.edu/academics/las/psy/pdfs/schmitt%5B1%5D%5B1%5D.etal.2004.romatt.jccp.pdf
“Abstract:
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17804 participants from 62 cultural regions completed the Relationship Questionnaire (RQ), a selfreportmeasure of adult romantic attachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically valid within most cultures.
Contrary to expectations, the Model of Self and the Model of Other dimensions of the RQ did not underlie the four_category model of attachment in the same way across all cultures. Analyses of specific attachment styles revealed that secure romantic attachment was normative in 79% of cultures and that PREOCCUPIED ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT was particularly prevalent in East Asian cultures. Finally, the romantic attachment profiles of individual nations were correlated with sociocultural indicators in ways that supported evolutionary theories of romantic attachment and basic human mating strategies.”
and also
Different from other countries, where women population are nearly 1.15 times the men population (there is always more women than men) Chinese Population will be severe unbalanced until next / for to 20 years. (until 2025)
There will be nearly 40 million men more than women!!!!
There will be nearly 40 million single-men looking for single-women.
Perhaps they will have to contact non-Chinese women.
They will need interracial/international dating!
Kindest Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@argentina.com