In a word: Girls – be careful! For men who have taken the plunge into a foreign marriage, the verdict is in: Vietnamese women are the best. Their testimonies abound on Internet sites.
A happy newlywed from the eastern city of Nanjing writes of his Vietnamese bride: “[She is] not greedy, not lazy, not too free, not arrogant, not money-worshipping. [She is] pretty, hard-working, kind-hearted, and the key is obedient.”
In other words, his Vietnamese dream girl is everything that he perceives Chinese women are not.
Another Nanjing man was so impressed by the wife he acquired during a visit to Vietnam in September 2009 that he has begun a blog organizing tours for Chinese bachelors who hope to achieve similar conjugal perfection. About his marriages, he writes that “my ex-wife wanted Louis Vuitton bags and a new car from me, while my Vietnamese wife takes care of the laundry, cooking and cleaning — and even peels the shells off shrimp for me. For the first time, I feel loved and spoiled.”
Apparently, Vietnamese matchmaking agencies are now looking increasingly to China.
A representative of Wtovisa Vietnam Marriage Agency, located in Hanoi, recently told a South China Morning Post reporter that the agency may devote 70% of its staff to its booming China market. “In the past,” he said, “Taiwan and South Korea were the favorite destinations for Vietnamese women who wanted to marry foreigners. But we have seen a change since 2008. More and more men from the mainland are seeking wives in Vietnam.”
The blogger tells his followers that his romantic 15-day excursion to Vietnam put him out only 35,000 yuan ($5123), including the cost of the wedding and the 80-table banquet that followed. “Brothers,” he proselytizes, “drop the greedy, lazy and arrogant Chinese women who ask for property worth millions. Come to Vietnam for perfect wives.”
It’s a fact that many Chinese men have no choice but to look abroad for a mate. Thanks to China’s one-child policy, there simply are not enough Chinese women — greedy or not — to go around. Because of the traditional preference for male children in Chinese families, by 2020 China will be home to 24 million bachelors who have no prospect of finding a wife in their own country - a massive lonely hearts club with ominous social implications. Foreign brides are their only hope - and also, even if not by design, good social policy.
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