Her Culture Bi-Monthy Magazine August/September 2015 | Page 49

Shanghai
Shanghai

The citizens in Shanghai are all
about speed: only 15% snooze
more than once, and their
bathroom habits are much more
minimal than other cities. They
spend 9 minutes grooming,
compared to the global average of
14 minutes. Half as many women
in Shanghai do their makeup when
compared to women in Moscow,
and only 5% of citizens use
deodorant versus the global
average of 61%. To speed up the
morning, only 8% of respondents
said that they take a shower or
bath in the morning (don’t worry,
it’s traditional to save that for the
evening time). This minimal
grooming pays off in the end: only
7% of citizens ages 18-29 claimed
they were anxious about their
looks; compared this to the

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London statistics of 20%,
mentioned previously.
Instead of in the bathroom, people
in Shanghai spend their morning
walking, stretching, and meditating
outdoors. 80% of respondents eat
breakfast in the home, more than
all other surveyed cities, and the
typical breakfast table conversation
revolves around the day ahead,
food, or the news. Instead of
morning coffee, they prefer soy
milk along with a “youtiao”,
otherwise known as the Chinese
doughnut. The face-to-face time
continues, since only 34% of
people use technology at all in the
morning, well below the global
urban average. Shanghai had the
shortest morning routine of all the
cities: only 56 minutes total.