介绍:
The campus version of the popular Chinese matchmaking show "If You Are the One" was staged in Nanjing University over the weekend. This is actually a final exam for the university’s relationship training course. Did anyone go home with a girlfriend or boyfriend? Let’s find that out in a second.
一场名为“红豆南国”的校园版“非诚勿扰”在南京大学火热进行。这实际上是该校“恋爱公开课”的结业考试。从“纸上谈兵”到实战，大学生们究竟表现如何呢？
Heyang: So guys, we’ve talked about this love and relationship training course in Nanjing University before. And back then we said it is a great thing. How did it turn out? How did these students do?
Luo Yu: For your reference, Nanjing University is one of the finest ones here in China, and it recently held the dating show to test students taking the school’s relationship training open class, as most of the graduate students have never been in love before.
The show was designed in the format of a popular Chinese TV dating show 非诚勿扰 "If You Are the One" with participants from various universities in Nanjing.
However, the result is only one couple successfully matched each other and received a 1,000-yuan "红包" from the school. It’s quite appalling from my perspective.
Heyang: Appalling, why?
Luo Yu: For one thing, only one couple succeeded. And for another, why most of the graduate students have never been in love before? It’s actually similar to the results of the survey conducted by Fudan, right? 72% percent of the students remain single when they are graduate students. Why is this?
Michael: I think from what I conceive it, it’s so much on you when you are in high school, when you are in university, to do well, to get good grades. And the culture surrounding that is such that I think for many people, they just don’t have time to pursue any sort of relationship. And I think it’s a bit of a rough deal that a lot of Chinese students get because you have so much pressure throughout high school, to get good grades and to get into good universities and then to study hard. And once you’ve studied hard, and you’ve got your degree and all of a sudden, now the pressure from your parents if you to get married. And if you haven’t had any sort of relationship before, and as we can see from the fact that this course didn’t even exist in the first place. These people need so much help to entering into a relationship. I think it’s a very sad indictment of modern Chinese society and the pressure young people are under right now.
Luo Yu: And plus, a lot of young students have got used to cyber space probably. So when it comes to face to face communication or interaction with the opposite sex, they tend to be shy.
Heyang: Ok, yes, certainly, there has been a bit of a problem for these students if you only live in the cyber world. That is not enough when you try to find a boyfriend or a girlfriend. There is face to face, even physical contact maybe. So yes, you need to know how to deal with a real person. The thing is so unfair for Chinese students. There is one small thing I want to bring up, that Michael that is different in China as what you see. That is in university, what I see is when students go to university after Gaokao, they are like prisoners released from jail and there isn’t as much pressure to study in university. So it&`&s the time for people to party and have fun.
Michael: So why don&`&t they?
Heyang: They do, not all of them do. I’m confusing myself right here. So you are seeing a different scene in the university.
Michael: But if this is the very fact that this course exists suggested a problem here that people are not interacting with each other or that sort of level. By the time they leave university, as we’ve heard just now, a lot of people who have never been in love. So why is this the case then if the people are, as what you say, going out and enjoying themselves, and going to a party something like that?
Luo Yu: We’ve seen different types of people, because this course is specifically designed for those students who don’t know how to start a relationship. And those people are pretty much nerds themselves, and so some of the techniques might be very helpful. However, the success rate is so low as just one couple succeeded.
Heyang: I urge this university to continue having this kind of training course. I think it’s useful for university students. Sometimes you just need to get out of your dorm and get away from your computer for a second and interact with real people.
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