Mail Order Brides

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I think that the free replacement guarantee was to put the mind of the groom at ease that he wasn't being scammed (i.e., paying for a wife, who would run back to the procurer, who would arrange a marriage with a new sucker).

China has a serious shortage of women, and some Chinese men are looking to Vietnam for wives.

http://travel.cnn.com/shanghai/none/vie ... ing-889067

http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/none ... men-910547

Meanwhile, at the Katong Shopping Centre in Singapore:

http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index ... z2lrKI72s5

For 6000 USD it seems cheaper to go there and flirt directly..

Good point. I think that the main issue is that Singaporeans get very little time off work. With very little free time, there is little chance for getting any hanky-panky or jiggery-pokery. Selecting a wife at the mall is much more expedient.

Perhaps they won't have time to spend with the parther either..

The wife will be kept busy taking care of his parents.

Since the discussion has moved to Vietnamese brides, here is a Korean drama that some of you might enjoy:

http://www.gooddrama.net/korean-drama/hanoi-bride

no one is worth $6000.

That's an abiguous statement.

Is it too much, too little, or is it that the whole concept of a human being as property is a problem for you in some way?

Personally, I'd agree more with the third statement if it didn't take money to live in this society, and substantially more than $6k/year at that.
In that sense people are worth the sum of the money they earn, cost, and receive.
As a client/employer/friend recently put it to me: "We're all slaves."
Which, in a capitalist society like this one, is true enough.
We're all slaves to this made up thing we call money, and by extension and implication those who control its flow.

My ex brother in law has been married to his mailorder bride for about 6 years now. after being married to my monster of a sister, he was terrified of marrying another American woman.
He also was blessed with a new 8 year old daughter [now 14] And yes, before moving here they were poor.
Carl is now super happy, as is his wife, who is launching a fashion line, and his step-daughter who is in all of the gifted programs at her school [she came here speaking no english] and is a cute and perky little cheerleader. All three of them are happy. My sister is still a monster,but that has nothing to do with mail order brides.

@vickygleitz, In which way is she a monster? From which country did your ex brother in law get his mailorder bride?

As for money, as long as we must eat and clothe ourself we must slave to something.