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Parasocial relationship? Celebrity obsession from the US, Korea, Europe and China

The Bridge to China

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Choosing a Parasocial Relationship Over a Real Life Connection

I think a lot of men in our day and age, I don't know about it in China, but definitely in the United States, they become obsessed with certain models. And so it makes interacting with real world women difficult for them. It is people, there are different social experiments that are carried out where they have two pictures of two body types. Most of the boys would pick the girl that's not like unrealistically skinny. They like, you know, women that look just, they could be a little human. But then there are videos where the person that's asked to choose wants absolutely the skinniest person.

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