Delayed Marriage and its Problems

By Paul H. Landis; McGraw-Hill

It is commonly stated that the age of marriage in the United States has been delayed because of the development of industrial culture. This statement is nonetheless untrue. This is probably due to the fact that frontier conditions were not conducive to early marriage. On the other hand, there is little question that urban-industrial civilization has in the industrialized part of the world delayed the age of marriage beyond that which characterized most primitive peoples.

Youth problems involving sex delinquency, too great intimacy in dating, and to some extent problems of social diseases and prostitution, are frequently excused or explained on the ground that the age of marriage has been greatly delayed for American youth in this generation. If one takes youth as a whole, this view is in error, since as we have seen there has been little change in the age at which young people marry; and such change as there has been has been in the direction of younger marriage.

However, it is probable that the reasons for delaying marriage today are somewhat different from what they were a generation ago. This may have some significance. It is also likely that the general social situation which the unmarried youth faces today is so much different as to make the person who delays marriage face a different series of problems from those faced by the single person a generation or two ago. The delayed marriages of earlier generations in our agrarian society were probably in the major percentage of cases due to the fact that the young man had gone out to the frontier and would not consider placing a wife in a frontier situation until he had knocked the rough edge off the hardships that the environment required. After he had broken the land, built a home, and perhaps acquired a degree of economic security on the land, he went farther east and found himself a wife or asked the girl he had previously known to come and marry him. This was true also of the European immigrant; usually not until he had established himself did he bring his fiancee.

As society has become more urban, the delay in marriage among most classes is caused by such factors as economic necessity or a desire to complete one's education, but during this period there is free association with members of the opposite sex. Dating and more or less intimate contact with members of the opposite sex rather than isolation characterize the unmarried person's experience. This situation probably is responsible in a considerable part for such problems of delayed marriage as we now have among youth in the United States. There is the constant stimulus of a desire to marry, or at least to perform all the physical functions of marriage, and at the same time an overruling necessity to continue unmarried. The educated group, especially, find it necessary to delay marriage until the late twenties when they have completed college and have made a start in their chosen professions.

In spite of the fact that youth, on the average, are marrying earlier than a generation ago, the fact remains that modern economic industrial life puts serious handicaps in the way of marriage. Periodic economic crises, deter thousands of marriages simply because many young people dare not face the responsibilities of establishing families without assured incomes.

Top 10 Healthiest Foods

Saying I have put together a list of the top 10 healthiest foods may seem like I am telling you there are magic foods. We all know there are no real magic foods.

The road to total health is not in a pill or any one magical food.

Still, there are foods whose nutritional content is so powerful and the benefits of eating them so amazing, that they are often referred to as "super foods".

This healthy food list consists of foods that are exceptionally nutrient dense. That is, they have more nutrients per calorie than most other foods.

They have also been proven to contain vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that prevent disease: from cancer and heart disease to arthritis, eye diseases and many more.

These super foods are perfect for low fat heart healthy cooking and most make excellent low carb cooking choices as well, if you are going the low carb route.

Below you will find CookingNook.com's list of the top 10 healthiest foods, arranged alphabetically, with a brief note about the health benefits of each.

The 10 healthiest foods are foods that are so amazingly good for us that we really should include them in our diets on a regular basis for optimal health. I have included tips on how to add more of these wonderful foods to your every day menus on each food's health benefits page. Have a look and see if there are ways to add these healthy food choices to your table more often.

Just click on the first link for each food listed to read why each of these "super" foods is so good for us and how they help to create health.

The delicious recipes that are listed in the second link after each super food description feature our top 10 healthiest foods and show you how easy it can be to make healthy food choices while enjoying the great flavor these super foods bring to the table.

Cherry Blossoms in Korea

One of the most famous cherry blossom festivals in Korea every year is located on an island in the middle of Seoul called Yeoido. Although the island is only 8.4 square kilometers in area, and the area where the cherry blossom trees are located is a mere fraction of that, the island boasts more than 1400 cherry trees which line a 6km boulevard, and which are visited by over 2.5 million people a day during the festival. As you might imagine, it is very crowded, although crowds will be smaller in the early morning, or in the evening. Night is a very special treat when the cherry blossoms are illuminated, and young lovers stroll beneath the branches.

If you are planning to visit Seoul during the cherry blossom festivals, the festival on Yeoido is quite simple to find. To get to the boulevard you should take the subway to Yeoinaru station which is on line 5, or the purple line. Once you arrive there, take exit one. You can call Seoul's tourism promotion division at (02) 670-3410 for more detailed information.

The cherry blossom festival in Yeoido doesn't only involve flowering trees, but also all of the wonderful things that you might associate with any kind of Korean festival. There is any type of food you could possibly desire, from cotton candy to silk worm pupae. There are crowds (of course!), musicians, performers, evangelists, bicycles built for two and lots of traditional Korean tourist knick-knacks. There is also some really neat art, much of which incorporates flowers, such as the jeans to the right. There were give-aways and face painting, and even classic rock -- like The Drifters Under the Boardwalk -- being played over loudspeakers as you walked along.

In spite of the festive atmosphere however, the cherry blossom festival is not quite all fun and games for all the people of South Korea. The watching of cherry blossoms and the cherry blossom festivals that surround them were started in South Korea during the Japanese occupation during World War II, and thus is bittersweet for many Koreans, especially those in the older generations. Some older survivors of the Japanese occupation, which lasted 35 years and which was not kind to the Korean people, still remember a time when the cherry trees were symbols of Japanese oppression, and cannot forget. Most Korean people however, have looked past crimes committed during WW II and have embraced the cherry blossoms as their own. It doesn't hurt either that in the 1930s some Korean and Japanese botanists discovered that the trees -- although planted and cultivated by the Japanese during the occupation -- were actually native to Jeju-do, an island off the south coast of Korea, and cannot actually be found anywhere in Japan.

 Besides the Yeoido Cherry Blossom Festival there are also a number of other cherry blossom festivals in Korea and throughout the world in the early spring. There are a large number of cherry blossom festivals in Japan and China, but they are also found in the United States and in Canada.

A list of cherry blossom festivals in Japan can be found here at about.com.  

The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival is the largest cherry blossom festival in Canada, while the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. is the largest cherry blossom festival in the United States.

Korean Style

Korea is..
With top industries in IT, semiconductors and mobile phones, Korea is thought of by foreigners as a nation of cutting-edge technology.
But most foreigners are missing out on a larger part of Korea.
According to a survey conducted last year by Anholt-GMI of 25,000 people worldwide, out of 38 countries, Korea ranked 32nd in brand value. The people of the world rate Korea similarly to countries such as Egypt and South Africa.

We must raise international awareness of Korean culture
Korean culture is the way to raise Korea's national brand value and status.
Korea must become a cultural superpower through products that are based on tradition. Koreanstyle is an attempt to make Korean traditional culture into a recognized brand. In order to raise international awareness of Korea, we have introduced a broad spectrum of traditional culture.
Now, more steps must be taken in order to promote Korea.

What comes to mind when people think of Korea?
Chinese opera is the international image of Chinese culture and kabuki is the international image of Japanese culture. So, what is Korea's international image?
We must find cultural traditions that can symbolize Korea, which people will bring to mind when they think of Korea.
We are trying to use those traditions in order to create Korea's image and explore the potential of developing those traditions into industries.

Happy Newroz

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Korean Shipbuilding Industry in 2011, waiting for warm spring day ...

MKE(Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea) forecasted the shipbuilding industry in 2011 is highly likely to regain No. 1 status for new orders which China has had for 2 consecutive years. It¡¯s because optimistic outlook of container ships and marine plants in the demands in 2011, which our country has seen the strength of and positive elements such as marine fuel regulatory or so. 

In addition, it is judged that China's shipbuilding industry is in the face of the bad news such as inactivity of bulker market that is China flagship species, industry restructuring pressures due to sudden enlargement of institution, rise of labor costs and weak price competitiveness due to appreciation of the renminbi. 

Of course, it should not be overlooked that on the basis of China's huge foreign exchange reserves, providing ship financing to strengthen relations with European countries and ship owners, and being increased for the orders of value¡©added products such as LNG vessels could become a variable. 

MKE announced that vessels and equipment exports in Korea on 2010 reached up to 49.8 billion U.S. dollars to achieve the biggest performance, but the world shipbuilding capacity in 2011, would stay in 4,540 CGT having more decreased 9.5 % than in 2010, and domestic shipping and shipbuilding exports would be amount to $ 4.7 billon U.S. dollars with falling 5.6%.