Source: Global Times
BBC (BBC) article on October 26, original title: In the dating scene in the United States, politics is increasingly playing the role of "breaking up couples" 55-year-old Angela Hammonterry thinks she is very conservative. She supports guns and Trump . However, these may trip her up when it comes to love. "The first person I met after my divorce looked great," she recalled, "until I found out he was a damn Democrat!" They dated for three months and parted ways a month before the November 2020 presidential election. "I can't stand it anymore, and in my opinion, a relationship won't last too long without the same political view." Now, she checks voter registration information on Google before date, purely to ensure she won't eat with Democrats anymore.
Research shows that Ms. Hammonterey is not the only one who treats marriage and love relationships like this. In 2020, a survey conducted by the "Yuguan" poll company and the British magazine "Economist" found that 80% of Americans believe it is more difficult to date people who support opposing parties now. Experts say that vote for who has risen to one of the most important factors in love. This challenge is particularly severe for singles living in places where they belong to political minorities. For example, it is difficult for young people who worked in the White House in Trump's administration to find their favorites in Washington, DC, which is dominated by liberalism. Once, then White House adviser Daniel Huff ordered a cocktail to wait for the other party during a date. But when his date learned where he worked, he quickly chose to leave. The experience inspired him and his White House colleague John McInty to take action, launching a dating app that was only allowed to be used by conservatives earlier this month, where users must fill in standard information such as height and gender to register. To add certain personality traits, they can fill in prompts in their profiles, including “My Favorite Liberal Liars” and “My Favorite Conservative Authority”.
In predominantly conservative areas of the United States, liberal women find dating to be equally challenging. In "Crimson" (referring to the majority of locals supporting conservative Republican - Editor's note), when 32-year-old liberal woman Nora Murphy realized that she was a political minority locally, she found that dating locally would not work at all.
This gap is only one of the symptoms of polarization in the United States. According to the Pew Research Center in the United States, "From the ideology , Democrats and Republicans today are more strangers than at any time in the past 50 years." Last month, a CBS investigation found that most Democrats and Republicans did not simply regard each other as political oppositions, but as "enemy." Researchers believe that as more singles become couples with partners with similar political views, these same political views will be passed on to their children. (Author Jansen Amesto, translated by Ding Ding)
