Saturday, October 25, 2008

Assortative Mating

"On a lighter note, the Minister Mentor touched on what he calls assortative mating, that is, finding a spouse at your level - something he strongly believes in. He said: "I have explained this. I think I lost votes after I explained the awful truth. Nobody believed it, but slowly it dawned on them, especially the graduates, that yes, you marry a non-graduate, then you worry about whether or not your son or daughter is going to make it to the university."

(Click here to read full article from Channel NewsAsia.)

-_-

Read it as you will.

Does anyone, besides me, think that there are so many layers of wrong in this?

Maybe it will sound right only if he has his little own matrix to play with.

And why does he sound more and more like a soothsayer?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

it's contradictory. what the hell happened to meritocracy?