I've seen an episode from Ricky Gervias's "An Idiot Abroad" satire-documentary, where this British guy was trying out a dating matching service in India around 2009 and you had to provide this exact kind of personal information, since as a man you were judged mainly on those factors: academic titles, career, salary, wealth, family background. Some parts of Asia seem very status and wealth oriented to me. Brutal and sad.