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it's an article alright, from 2009, found here, word-for-word copy/paste --
http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/advice/a3386/asian-trophy-wife/
next this guy will be selling us a mail-order bride.
i suggest, do not click on any links he posts, haha.
also spammed on reddit and a dozen e-dating websites, word-for word, all in the last week or so, except for the last paragraph
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So do these marriages last? Kenneth Agee, marketing director of Foreign Affair say," these marriages have almost twice the success rate of domestic marriages, much less likely to end in divorce"
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90dayfiance, you are creepy, in any culture.
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So do these marriages last? Kenneth Agee, marketing director of Foreign Affair say," these marriages have almost twice the success rate of domestic marriages, much less likely to end in divorce"
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90dayfiance, you are creepy, in any culture.
aww ... ♥
me too!
and we are a trophy wife, even chosen from a land of foreigners
me too!
and we are a trophy wife, even chosen from a land of foreigners
“Hallelujah!
For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.
Fine linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear.”
For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.
Fine linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear.”
90dayfiance is a TV show about Americans using a 90-day visa to bring fiancés to the US to marry them. Usually, it is a man bringing a woman over from some other country.
I used to live in Indonesia, and I met my wife while I was there. There are advantages to marrying Asian women. I think I met one woman who identified as a 'Feminist' while I was there. She was educated in the west. Women there really value taking care of the home. I used to work in an office with a bunch of housewives and a few guys, and the women were always cooking and talking about cooking and taking care of things at home. Even though they had careers, it was a different vibe. The culture is family oriented. Virginity before marriage seemed to be the norm. Even jokes about sex were typically about married couples. It was generally accepted by the culture that wives were supposed to submit to their husbands. And there wasn't the PC sensitivity to gender issues (or racial issues) there that you sense in the west.
I was at a bus stop near a college campus a few years ago, and there was this college kid there, a girl about 18 years old or so. I asked her what time it is and said a few comments to strike up a conversation. She didn't want to talk, which was fine, but she had such an attitude. I wasn't trying to flirt with her or anything, just making conversation. But I've read that young men find that young women in the US nowadays have this unfriendly attitude when they try to start conversations. They get met with a scowl. I know what they are talking about, and maybe it was less of an issue when I was younger. I don't know. In Indonesia, if you strike up a conversation with a stranger, usually the strangers are warm and friendly. Some of the other Asian cultures are a bit more 'stiff' in some ways, but still people were generally friendly to me, including women when I was young and single.
When I was in Korea, some Korean women were open to dating foreign men. I dated one briefly. But the idea of marriage was controversial, and parents may or may not approve. I knew one expat who had eloped with a Korean woman whose parents later accepted him.
But in Indonesia, which has a lot of ethnicities and people of mixed local ethnicities, plus Dutch and Chinese mixed in, Caucasian expats are seen as desirable partners. It doesn't hurt that managers in Indonesia could earn a few dollars a month and low-paid expat English teachers could have higher salaries than them. Indonesians were colonized by the Dutch who used to be at the upper level of society in terms of power and economically. With the 'foreign mystique' a Caucasian man could go there and be considered more attractive than he is in his own country, and find women who are typically more conservative and more marriage-and-family focused than women in his own country.
I didn't analyze all this and try to find a wife abroad. I was overseas when I was during the years of my life when I was interested and looking for a wife, and God answered my prayers and gave me an excellent wife.
I used to live in Indonesia, and I met my wife while I was there. There are advantages to marrying Asian women. I think I met one woman who identified as a 'Feminist' while I was there. She was educated in the west. Women there really value taking care of the home. I used to work in an office with a bunch of housewives and a few guys, and the women were always cooking and talking about cooking and taking care of things at home. Even though they had careers, it was a different vibe. The culture is family oriented. Virginity before marriage seemed to be the norm. Even jokes about sex were typically about married couples. It was generally accepted by the culture that wives were supposed to submit to their husbands. And there wasn't the PC sensitivity to gender issues (or racial issues) there that you sense in the west.
I was at a bus stop near a college campus a few years ago, and there was this college kid there, a girl about 18 years old or so. I asked her what time it is and said a few comments to strike up a conversation. She didn't want to talk, which was fine, but she had such an attitude. I wasn't trying to flirt with her or anything, just making conversation. But I've read that young men find that young women in the US nowadays have this unfriendly attitude when they try to start conversations. They get met with a scowl. I know what they are talking about, and maybe it was less of an issue when I was younger. I don't know. In Indonesia, if you strike up a conversation with a stranger, usually the strangers are warm and friendly. Some of the other Asian cultures are a bit more 'stiff' in some ways, but still people were generally friendly to me, including women when I was young and single.
When I was in Korea, some Korean women were open to dating foreign men. I dated one briefly. But the idea of marriage was controversial, and parents may or may not approve. I knew one expat who had eloped with a Korean woman whose parents later accepted him.
But in Indonesia, which has a lot of ethnicities and people of mixed local ethnicities, plus Dutch and Chinese mixed in, Caucasian expats are seen as desirable partners. It doesn't hurt that managers in Indonesia could earn a few dollars a month and low-paid expat English teachers could have higher salaries than them. Indonesians were colonized by the Dutch who used to be at the upper level of society in terms of power and economically. With the 'foreign mystique' a Caucasian man could go there and be considered more attractive than he is in his own country, and find women who are typically more conservative and more marriage-and-family focused than women in his own country.
I didn't analyze all this and try to find a wife abroad. I was overseas when I was during the years of my life when I was interested and looking for a wife, and God answered my prayers and gave me an excellent wife.
Maybe the poster is promoting the show by the same name. A Foreign Affair, mentioned in the article, is a company that takes men (usually old white guys) from the US and sends them over to Russia and other countries on tours to meet lots of Russian (or other ethnicity) women to date, marry, etc.
It's tacky to advertise stuff like this on a forum like this. But I don't think matchmaking, international dating sites, or trips to meet potential spouses should be illegal or considered 'human trafficking.' Tricking a woman to go to a foreign country and either getting her legally married or pretending to, and then having her work as a slave in a restaurant 80 hours a week or work as a prostitute... that should be illegal, and is. If the woman legally marries a man to get a greencard and lies and says he hit her or just leaves him after she has her greencard, that should be illegal as well. But the laws are set up where it is easy for a woman to do that in the US. If she claims abuse, she can get on the fast track for a greencard, or so I've read.
I notice, not on this forum, but elsewhere, that some people seem to think that if a couple doesn't date, fall in love, and get married the modern American way, that there marriage must be some kind of sham. But lots of cultures have used matchmakers or had their parents do matchmaking for thousands of years. Indians still do. If western men want to use some kind of matchmaker, that's up to them. I think that's kind of crazy if they hire someone who has no incentive to see that they get a good match. But I don't think it should be illegal or considered human trafficking.
There is a TV show now where so-called 'experts' match up two strangers and have them get married and ask them if they want to stay married or get a divorce after 5 weeks.
It's tacky to advertise stuff like this on a forum like this. But I don't think matchmaking, international dating sites, or trips to meet potential spouses should be illegal or considered 'human trafficking.' Tricking a woman to go to a foreign country and either getting her legally married or pretending to, and then having her work as a slave in a restaurant 80 hours a week or work as a prostitute... that should be illegal, and is. If the woman legally marries a man to get a greencard and lies and says he hit her or just leaves him after she has her greencard, that should be illegal as well. But the laws are set up where it is easy for a woman to do that in the US. If she claims abuse, she can get on the fast track for a greencard, or so I've read.
I notice, not on this forum, but elsewhere, that some people seem to think that if a couple doesn't date, fall in love, and get married the modern American way, that there marriage must be some kind of sham. But lots of cultures have used matchmakers or had their parents do matchmaking for thousands of years. Indians still do. If western men want to use some kind of matchmaker, that's up to them. I think that's kind of crazy if they hire someone who has no incentive to see that they get a good match. But I don't think it should be illegal or considered human trafficking.
There is a TV show now where so-called 'experts' match up two strangers and have them get married and ask them if they want to stay married or get a divorce after 5 weeks.