Dan Wang: prediction

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…These marriage markets in Chinese parks, the parents come or maybe grandparents. They help put up ads for their kids. How effective are they? It’s very effective for the parents who feel like they’re doing something for the kids. I am not sure that they have actually produced a lot of excellent marriages. Now, I think that one thing that China clearly does so much better than the rest of the world, especially America, is that it is great to be an old person if you are in China. You go out to the park. There will be many people doing some sort of ballroom dancing. They’ll be practicing Tai Chi. They will be dancing haphazardly to music from America that they cannot understand. They’re doing all sorts of calisthenics. There’s a lot of community. You can be playing Chinese chess. You could be playing mahjong. People will just come to talk to you. My elderly grandfather spoke to anyone in the yard, mostly because he was deaf. He was just able to yell at them. Marriage markets are something like calisthenics. It’s just something that old people do to hang out in the parks. I don’t think it produces many great marriages, because I think young people are not very interested in having their parents set up their spouses for them. For our final segment, just a few questions about you. Why was it the clarinet that you decided to learn how to play at a very high level?…

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