Modern Romance Chapter Summary

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Modern Romance: Searching for a Soulmate

Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari is a book about the difference in dating experiences across cultures and ages. He teams up with sociologists and uses social media and interviews as two of the main ways of obtaining information. The topic that has interested me the most while reading the book was the in the first chapter, Searching for a Soulmate. I expect difference in experiences in my two groups: my dad and my twin brother. Modern Romance says that it was most relationships, within the study group (Philadelphia) that majority of people had married someone under a 20 block radius. I expect that my two interviewees with lay outside that of that majority. My first interviewee is my dad. He is 50, male,
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While my brother is from the Twin Cities and is now at Gustavus. So from the start, the starting locations have huge population differences, leading to a difference in possible dating choices. The Twin Cities are much larger than a southern Iowa city of Burlington. The biggest difference that I noticed was difference in distance for their respective partners. My brother went to highschool with his current girlfriend. She lives about 10 miles away from him in the summer and 70 miles during the school year whereas my dad lived a few hundreds miles away from my mom during the summer and at the same school during the school year. The biggest similarity between the two was how they met, both at school. While one was at college and the other in highschool, it is still very similar. Also the school size is very similar. Right around 2500 people. The cause of the differences is distance and population, and the similarity is the setting. My findings somewhat line up with the book, although it is hard for me to do an actual comparison due to several key factors that are generationally different from the book. The ability to travel, and the social media/communication ability was either lacking or nonexistent in the population Aziz looks at in his first chapter. Most people did not attend college, whereas an increasing number of people are doing so now. But if you equate a college campus to a town and use the same