Gold Digging 101: School Offers Course for Girls on How to Marry Rich Men

If it's just as easy to fall in love with someone rich as someone poor, then not all girls in Beijing, China, have gotten the message. Some of them are paying $3,000 for a 30-hour course at the Moral Education Center for Women that teaches “techniques to make them more attractive, from how to put on make-up in the most flattering way to how to spot a liar by looking at his facial expressions?” Girls also brush up on how to read a man’s character, hone their conversational and traditional skills, and get pointers on pouring tea.

Wealthy, eligible bachelors spend around $4,500 as an introductory fee to meet girls who complete the course. The school boasts that there have been 30 matches that resulted in marriage.

According to Reuter's,  the school’s founder, Shao Tong, said the school encourages women to become “the best they can be by giving them a goal.” China is said to have an increasingly affluent middle class.

“We are nurturing internal qualities and developing potential,” said Shao Tong. “But if I were to advertise the school saying I would like to teach you how to build a good family and to better yourself, lots of girls would rule it out because they feel that they are agreeable and qualified enough. So then I thought, why not be more straightforward by saying: do you want to marry a rich man?”

In some ways, the matchmaking part seems not so different than an offline or online dating service in which people are paired according to their shared interests (in this case their common bond would be the love of money, I suppose). And the school seems not much different than an old-fashioned finishing school, I guess.

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