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Mating shows flaunt wealth
By Qianjiang Evening News |
June 7, 2010, Monday
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FEWER and fewer young people watch TV nowadays, except when it comes to red-hot matchmaking farces that are essentially vanity shows.
"If You Are the One" - a new sensational TV program of Jiangsu Satellite TV Station - is said to have scored the nation's highest viewership ratings of late. It features 24 young women standing in a semicircle to tease and judge one male candidate.
In this program, participants often put on a passionate show not of love, but of wealth, material desires and lust. Flirtatious girls and giggles seem to dominate.
Thanks to this great era in which we live, we can easily gratify our desire to peep into others' private lives, as people now voluntarily air their dirty linen in the public spotlight.
He or she would never shy from telling you (whether a lie or not) how many houses and cars he or she has, and how many lovers he or she has encountered and abandoned.
We live in excellent times. You don't have to consider whether these men and women on stage are telling lies or speaking the truth. All you have to do is watch some farces to enliven your otherwise dull life.
Dull, indeed, are the lives of quite a few young people born in the 1980s and 1990s, both on the stage and in the audience.
"If You Are the One" - a new sensational TV program of Jiangsu Satellite TV Station - is said to have scored the nation's highest viewership ratings of late. It features 24 young women standing in a semicircle to tease and judge one male candidate.
In this program, participants often put on a passionate show not of love, but of wealth, material desires and lust. Flirtatious girls and giggles seem to dominate.
Thanks to this great era in which we live, we can easily gratify our desire to peep into others' private lives, as people now voluntarily air their dirty linen in the public spotlight.
He or she would never shy from telling you (whether a lie or not) how many houses and cars he or she has, and how many lovers he or she has encountered and abandoned.
We live in excellent times. You don't have to consider whether these men and women on stage are telling lies or speaking the truth. All you have to do is watch some farces to enliven your otherwise dull life.
Dull, indeed, are the lives of quite a few young people born in the 1980s and 1990s, both on the stage and in the audience.
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