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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: More Women Than Men Prefer to be Alone
- In-Reply-To: aaldrich@encore.com (Al Aldrich)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.043014.8806@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <11NOV199209183504@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1e1ce3INN4sg@news.aero.org> <14NOV199207542867@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov15.003303.2529@u.washington.edu> <Bxtq3F.EGu@encore.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:30:14 GMT
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- In article <Bxtq3F.EGu@encore.com>, aaldrich@encore (Al Aldrich) writes:
- >> One in two Japanese wives would rather be home alone
- >> than with her husband, according to a study. Only 21
- >> percent of husbands would rather be without their wives.
- >
- >I don't find this very surprising. If I was a Japanese wife in a culture
- >where the wife's social status on average is a little higher than the
- >family dog and is expected to wait on hubby, hand and foot, from dusk
- >til dawn, I would rather be alone as well. It is also not surprising
- >that the 79% of the men would rather have their `maids' around ,
- >then not.
-
- For some reason I think your comment tells more about USA than Japan.
-
- //Jyrki
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