Month: March 2021

DATING CORNER

Introduction

Today in china, many people find themselves too busy to pursue romantic relationships on their own. This is a very worrying trend for their parents, so in order to combat this, some parents have decided to write down their children’s information and romantic requirements on pieces of paper and bring these pieces of paper to parks located through out China, in order to form an off-line personalised match making service with other children’s parents.

China is clearly one of the world’s favorite countries for forced marriages. According to the “Survey Report on the Status of Forced Marriage in China” released in 2016, more than 70% of the respondents had the experience of being forced into marriage by their parents. The rate of forced marriage among young people aged 25 to 35 is as high as 86%, and even 3% of young people are forced to marry by their parents before they reach the legal marriage age.

Outline the Question

Intervention

• do the experiment 

—attend the dating corner (the same person but different salaries) and communicate with parents who in the dating corner and look at how parents react to high or low salary. 

( video link: https://youtu.be/OFtrvsqYCHY)

Who are my stakeholder?

In aiming to distinguish who the stakeholders involved in the change I am looking to make are, I split my stakeholders into 2 categories. The first being ‘Experts’ in the arena of matchmaking in the marriage market. The second category being ‘User’ this is looking at the young people who are qualified to enter marriage or are about to enter marriage and parents who force their children to marry.

• Young people
• Parents
• Matchmaking practitioners : matchmaker / agent for dating corner / agent for dating apps / agent for dating TV show