"Americans men must be careful not to engage the services of marriage brokers, which are very common in Asia, and used by hundreds of thousands of couples. American zimber (?) law makes an American man who marries a foreign bride a human trafficker, even if he only uses an online dating site that charges membership fees."
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So, how much do American feminists care about foreign/universal women's issues? Clearly, not very much. So, feminism is more marriage trade protectionism than human rights issue. I hope someone points this out to Hillary.
This youtube video also points out that in Asia marriagable women are a hot commodity and thus valued financially with a dowry [clearly the writer speaks of S.E. Asia not South Asia where instead there is a groom price]. So, a woman who wants to marry a foreign man is likely to have some significant fault in terms of her marriage market appeal. Otherwise she would marry a local man, no?
Something to consider when marrying a Khmer woman. I suspect many Khmer women marrying a foreign man have short term gain in mind rather than traditional status/economic advancement. I also suspect that women who have worked in bars or already have a child out of wedlock are more likely to marry a foreign man, even a low-status one such as an ESL teacher.
But what do I know? I am not the marrying kind.
It would be interesting to discuss the differences in attitudes by families, society, and the women themselves - Khmer vs. Vietnamese, in the choices between marrying local men vs. foreign men, and low vs.high status, and all the ethnic and financial permeations such as short and long-term earning potential, trade-offs etc.
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Actually its bride price here not Dowry, it is Dowry that is common in South Asia:hermespan wrote:
This youtube video also points out that in Asia marriagable women are a hot commodity and thus valued financially with a dowry [clearly the writer speaks of S.E. Asia not South Asia where instead there is a groom price]. So, a woman who wants to marry a foreign man is likely to have some significant fault in terms of her marriage market appeal. Otherwise she would marry a local man, no?
Bride price, also known as bride token, is an amount of money, property or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the parents of the woman he has just married or is just about to marry. Bride price can be compared to dowry, which is paid to the groom, or used by the bride to help establish the new household; and dower, which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage. The bride price agreed may or may not be intended to reflect the perceived value of the woman.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_price
Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower. While bride price or bride service is a payment by the groom or his family to the bride's parents, dowry is the wealth transferred from the bride's family to the groom or his family, ostensibly for the bride. Similarly, dower is the property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage and which remains under her ownership and control.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry
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So what you are saying hermespan is that the courtship options available to you are Wat Phnom yama whores or shaven headed, clit pierced, hairy pit sporting bulldyke's.
I suppose you could also consider one of those Japanese robo fuck-dolls, or even suicide.
I suppose you could also consider one of those Japanese robo fuck-dolls, or even suicide.
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Sorry about your untreated syphilis.hermespan wrote: Comments?
That's like, your opinion, man.
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