Thursday, February 26, 2009

Asia Is Diverse; Specificity Counts When Dating On Asian Sites

By Jayde Johanssen

Asian dating as in industry is fragmenting. Its becoming more and more specialised. It makes sense really. Asia is so diverse that in many cases, the only thing Asian countries have in common is being Asian. Everything else is vastly different.

Asian dating sites use the cultures of Asia as a starting point, when searching for the people you want to meet and date. That is, if you go to an Asian dating site, there is the assumption that you are either Asian or want to date Asian people. If you are Asian and/or are interested in immersing yourself in Asian culture, it makes sense that you'd look for potential dating partners at these types of dating sites.

The relationships (in all forms of the term) you form in your life define the people who share you way of life. Your culture can define who the people in your life are. The people in your life can define what cultural rules you live your life by.

If this is part of your dating strategy, to be culturally specific, you need to be culturally specific. For example, you may know how to speak Japanese and therefore want to meet Japanese people. But as you do not know how to speak Korean, meeting Korean people does not interest you. This is just an examples to illustrate the point.

Using an example, if you join an Asian Dating site, you may want to be contacted by Japanese people, but at this site you will also be contacted by Koreans, Chinese, Indonesians and people from all the other Asian cultures which are not Japanese. In this example, you can narrow your search down and improve your chances of success by joining Japanese specific dating sites rather than Asian generic dating sites.

Reflecting this, at Dating Down Under we built the Asian Website reviews to be as helpful as we could. We start with an "Asian" page which is where you can research the broader websites, but then we branch off into the specific cultures within the Asian world. These are for you if you know exactly which culture you are looking for.

Writing the reviews in this manner, we believe gives you the best chance of finding a suitable dating partner. You can either review the broader websites, or drill straight down to the specific culture you are interested in.

Good luck with you search. Finding that someone special is quite a journey, often taking you to places you' never dream of. For the greatest success we often suggest to keep your search specific, simple and most importantly, safe. - 15615

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