She is an angel and sometimes a little demon.
Today when I talked with my host parents, they said how they wish they are DINKY without the little demon.
DINKY?
Such a new vocab for me!
They explained that DINKY stands for "Double Income, No Kids". It refers to a high-earning couple who choose not to have children and are therefore able to afford a more expensive consumer lifestyle. How interesting! And this term was created by the YUPPIE culture.
What? YUPPIE?
Another new vocab!
Again, they explained that YUPPIE stands for "Young Urban Professional" or "Young Upwardly-mobile Professional". It refers to people in the middle class in their twenties or thirties.
In fact, we have similar expression in Chinese for these two groups of people too. Due to the raising social economic status of women in China/ Hong Kong, women nowadays have their own career and choose not to be a housewife. That's why there's a declining birth rate in Hong Kong, and there're more DINKY here in our country! Also we have such term for the young people who have high potential and mobility, and most of them are not married. I guess the concept is similar to YUPPIE too.
It's really interesing to learn these two words. But anyway, I'm not planning to be DINKY or YUPPIE because I really love children!
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Hi Kolby,
ReplyDeleteYep, at first new words like DINKY or YUPPY are hard to understand, but you sound like you have a good host family who can explain things well. So well, in fact that you already know the terms in Cantonese.
TNT
Dawn