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Originally Posted by Koir
Not very many revisions, Yuri. As for who controls the money, I would think it has to be the person who knows the most about finances. It's not restricted to specific genders. Still, it's fairly rare for me to see the man of the family handling finances. I'm probably old-fashioned.
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Koir, hi. Thanks as always!
I don’t understand why you said you were old-fashioned.
Until about 50 years ago, women didn’t control the money in Japan. Isn’t it the same in your country? Controlling the money of women is new.
Or, you meant you will control the money because you are studying accounting?
Many Japanese don’t know about finances and some of them hate to know it because they believe that having or thinking much money is bad, somehow.
They believe that rich people must have done some evil.
Japanese schools never taught about money except in economics schools, while I’ve heard that western schools teach basic finances to their students. Is this right?
“So I asked many friends who controlled their purse strings.”
My original sentence was wrong. I wanted to say “
I asked them, “Who control the purse string in your family?” What should I have said? I don’t know what to say.
So I’d like to change this sentence to “So I asked many friends.” Because some of them were men and they didn’t control their purse strings.