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These days lots of young Japanese do omiai, literally, "meet and look." Many
These days lots of young Japanese do omiai, literally, "meet and look." Many
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2023-08-28
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These days lots of young Japanese do omiai, literally, "meet and look." Many of them do so willingly. In today’s prosperous and increasingly conservative Japan, the traditional omiai kekkon, or arranged marriage, is thriving.
But there is a difference. In the original omiai, the young Japanese couldn’t reject the partner chosen by his parents and their middleman. After World War II, many Japanese abandoned the arranged marriage as part of their rush to adopt the more democratic ways of their American conquerors. The Western ren ’ai kekkon, or love marriage, became popular; Japanese began picking their own mates by dating and falling in love.
But the western way often found wanting in an important respect: it didn’t necessarily produce a partner of the right economic, social, and educational qualifications. "Today’s young people are quite calculating," says Chieko Akiyama, a social commentator.
What seems to be happening now is a repetition of a familiar process in the country’s history, the "Japanization" of an adopted foreign practice. The Western ideal of marrying for love is accommodated in a new omiai in which both parties are free to reject the match. ""Omiai is evolving into a sort of stylized introduction," Mrs. Akiyama says.
Many young Japanese now date in their early twenties, but with no thought of marriage. When they reach the age — in the middle twenties for women, the late twenties for men — they increasingly turn to omiai. Some studies suggest that as many as 40% of marriages each year are omiai kekkon. It’s hard to be sure, say those who study the matter, because many Japanese couples, when polled, describe their marriage as a love match even if it was arranged.
These days, doing omiai often means going to a computer matching service rather than to a nakodo. The nakodo of tradition was an old woman who knew all the kids in the neighbourhood and went around trying to pair them off by speaking to their parents; a successful match would bring her a wedding invitation and a gift of money. But Japanese today find it’s less awkward to reject a proposed partner if the nakodo is a computer.
Japan has about five hundred computer matching services. Some big companies, including Mitsubishi, run one for their employees. At a typical commercial service, an applicant pays $80 to $125 to have his or her personal data stored in the computer for two years and $200 or so more if a marriage results. The stored information includes some obvious items like education and hobbies, and some not-so-obvious ones, like whether a person is the oldest child.(First sons, and to some extent first daughters, face an obligation of caring for elderly parents.) [br] What is the purpose of the last paragraph?
选项
A、To tell the differences between an old and modern nakodo.
B、To provide some examples for the traditional nakodo.
C、To offer more details of the computerized nakodo.
D、To sum up the main ideas and provide a conclusion.
答案
C
解析
末段首先提到日本网上婚介所的数目:大约五百个,接着提到一些大的公司,包括三菱,就为他们的雇员开设了一个婚介所,随后说明电脑相亲服务所需的费用以及需要输入的个人信息等内容,由此可知,最后一段仍在继续介绍和补充电脑相亲服务的相关细节,故答案为[C],同时排除[D]。[A]是第六段主要讲述内容。[B]未在末段提及。
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