Loopy
Devil hunter in training
Maybe the lack of interest in marriage and relationships stems from my generation having the biggest number of parents divorcing.
Who wants to marry when they see their parents, people supposed to be role models for adult relationships, arguing and fighting with no care for the children That sort of thing really messes a person up, sometimes for life, espcially if the cause for divorce is one parent having affairs.
I know women and men who have messed up views of the opposite gender because their mother or father had an affair. It makes them distrust, label all men as cheaters only after sex, or all women being gold digging whores.
As for Japan and religion. It's not completely agnostic or athiest, though when asked, Japanese will usually shy away from stating their religious affiliation.
It is a religious place, but they do not shove it in your face like some places do.
Japanese are usually Shinto and Buddhist at the same time; they have festivals, go to shrine on important occasions, hold their ancestors in high regard, and have christian themed weddings mixed with traditional Japanese elements even if the people being married are not christian. They just like the image of the white dress and church.:tongue:
They just pick and choose which kind of tradition is best to follow for them. It doesn't mean they are godless or faithless. It's like how Japan adopts aspects of other cultures and then turns them into something more suitable to Japanese people.
Yep. Women traditionally were expected to be home, have babies and that was it. Even now some women are still expected to give up work when they are married. Surely a woman working would take some earning pressure away from the man considering how much Japanese men hve to work.
Aside from that, they saw their parents in loveless marriages for convenience. Then when children are raised, the two parents are like strangers and file for divorce. Who wants that?
Plus, Japanese men are made to work like wage slaves so they have no time to be with family. There is no love or affection because they are made to work too much because they have a family to support. So wives feel like all work at home is up to them, and men think that their only use is to be a bank. It's not a marriage of love, more like the traditional sense of marriage as a busininess contract.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/suicide.forrest.japan/
This article here basically says that men in Japan put so much of their identity into their job that, wehen they lose it, the man feels worthless. That kind of culture is toxic for men and women if men are killing themselves because they think they are useless. That's all down to men having all the jobs for so long, being told they are only useful if they are earning, can only have a wife if they have money. Why can't there be a balance?
A clean cut without a word may I add. That's how DMC3 Vergil rolls!
