You know the marriages where a random viet person who's not very experienced with the opposite gender visit their homeland to marry another random. What are your opinions on this? I think it's a bad idea just cause they don't know eachother for $hit.

A random met a random . They were made for each other !

TyCooN

Love is very interesting. You cannot control it. You cannot tell love what to do.

That isn't love they barly know eachother it's not even lust either. I call it DESPERATION!

TyCooN

I don't see it as desperation. I see it as the power of love, the dream of love, the foundation of civilization.

All right I'm just going to , you had me there for awhile troll.

Tycoon

Have you been in love yet?

People thought Romeo and Juliet were crazy for loving each other.

For me, I think Romeo and Juliet were lovable, not crazy. Romeo and Juliet were willing to give up their lives for love.

That is very powerful, very significant, very extraordinary in ordinary life.

wait why do you always type my name and put a smiley after it in every post

I am always willing to give up somebody else's life for love

Are you talking about arranged marriages? Although I am not in favor of arranged marriages, I do favor arranged meetings. Who knows, it might work out....

Plenty Vietnamese girls marry Taiwanese , Korean , Singaporean & Others . Do not underestimate the power of Love.
As for Vietnamese guys , they stay home with Uncle Ho

I was in Vietnam one week ago and I got a chance to visit a park in Thanh Da district. There were six Vietnamese brides with six Taiwanese grooms posing for wedding pictures. It looked kinda fishy that they were all traveling together. I have never seen so many brides standing next to each other. Hmmm...

I had asked my cousin about such arranged marriages and was surprised to find out that most of the time, the parents had put their daughters up to it. While traveling through China with a tour group, I had met a Chinese man living in Cho Lon who would often act as enterpreter for these couples. He described a client coming in and then the girls would line up for inspection. The client picked his bride and they both sat down for a little chit-chat. Basically, it's no different from a meat market. Sad indeed.

I was talking about things like that.

Plus when a viet guy who has no game at all goes to vietnam for like one month and finds a bride to get married with. She then marries him because it's a free immigration to a better land.

Things like this aren't love.

Its almost a form of human-trafficking.

Some human traffickers, i.e. gangsters, from Taiwan use sham marriages as a vehicle for shipping their victims to Taiwan.

its wrong especially when young viet bride marry someone that is their father or grandfather age......

some guy stop me down at da mall and ask me to write a letter to his wife in viet bcoz he is not viet and don't understand any at all, he showed me the pict and she was pretty and young and da guy was like ewwwww and old.

Today, as i was shopping in Vietnamese town, i saw this "grandpa" with and a young girl, she look so damm young, around 19, my age, she looks very very very younggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. She was looking around like she never been there before and ........i know that she just got here from VN. She was walking nervously next the to old ********.
I dont know what to say when i saw them. Its s sick that the Viet Kieu are taken advanatges over those poor Vietnamese girls.
F*** Theyre criticising the cOmmunist of exploiting the Vietnamese people while theyre doing the same thing. F******.
...it wasnt the first time..........................

ntn1987:

There is a lot of hypocrisy going around, and hypocrisy and greed transcend every shade of political opinion (in fact, hypocrisy and greed transcend every religion, too, but that's another story) - People will say what they want, they will say what they believe and go ahead and do what they want, even if what they want contradicts what they say. Hypocrisy and greed are not political diseases, they are diseases of the heart.

can you blame it all on the old guys alone? i mean it's part of the women's/parent's decisions for her to go to ameriKKKa too

Many Viet Kieus risk their lives escaping Vietnam by boats.

Now, many Vietnam women take risk to have better opportunities.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/overseas/?cat...mp;newsid=18762

^yesterday news

Many Viet Kieus had risked their lives escaping Vietnam by boats.

Now, many Vietnam women know Uncle Ho is all they "ve got

Vietnamese people need to set up professional agencies in Korea, Taiwan, and China in case that Vietnamese wives in those countries need help due to their husbands abusing them. This is one of several ways to help these Vietnamese women.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/arch...3/31/2003300149


Increasing number of South Koreans marrying foreigners


AFP , SEOUL
Friday, Mar 31, 2006,Page 5

Advertising More and more South Koreans are marrying foreigners due to a shortage of local brides and a change in Koreans' attitudes, according to government figures released yesterday.
The statistics showed the number of marriages to foreigners jumped 21.6 percent to 43,121 last year compared with 2004.

Out of every 100 newlywed couples, 13.6 couples were married to foreigners, according to the National Statistical Office (NSO).

Changing perceptions

Yang Mi-soon, a senior researcher at the Rural Resource Development Institute, said international marriages are on the increase due to a shortage of Korean brides and a change in South Koreans' perceptions of foreigners.

As of the end of 2000, there were 105 Korean men for 100 women, she said.

The NSO said 72 percent of international marriages involved Korean men and foreign women. Chinese brides topped the list at 66.2 percent, followed by Vietnamese with 18.7 percent and Japanese with 4.0 percent.

The number of weddings with Vietnamese women jumped by 136.5 percent to 5,822 last year, the NSO said, compared to a mere 95 in 2000.

Marriages between foreign women and Koreans engaged in farming, fishing or forestry rose from 1,814 in 2004 to 2,885 last year, the NSO said.

This means that out of every 1,000 Korean farmers who married last year, 359 married foreign women compared with 274 the previous year, it said.

Yang said that because of the country's economic strength, increasing numbers of women in other Asian countries tend to develop "illusions about South Korea and they are willing to marry Koreans for their Korean Dream."

"Koreans' conservative perceptions about foreigners has also been changing as there are growing numbers of exchanges with other countries and many Koreans travel or study abroad," she said.

She warned, however, that foreign brides often face serious problems adapting to a new life in a country with a different culture and atmosphere.

Sacrifices

Aside from cultural differences and language barriers, foreign women feel heavily burdened because of the sacrifices and role expected of them as a wife, mother and daughter-in-law in a traditionally Confucian society, she said.

"There were even some cases in which foreign brides were subjected to violence by their spouses. They either flee to shelters for them or return home," Yang said.

After stories about Filipinas who fled from their violence-prone Korean husbands became known in the Philippines, professional agents found it increasingly difficult to find prospective brides there.

"Then they turned to Vietnam. That's why the number of Vietnamese brides has been increasing so fast over the past few years," Yang said.
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My uncle just married someone back in Vietnam. I didn't know her until she come over the States. Luckily she was not a random person my uncle's parents hooked him up...They knew each other before..
Then about my opinion on oversea marriage? I don't think that's a good idea at all. It's like a desperation and very haphardzard for the love life. Who knows if the wife/husband is really loyal...I heard stories that many couples divorced after half a year or so. Very depressing, but there is really no remedy.
- In some cases the process do help many people.

arranged marriages used to work in the old days . Not anymore

I agree, sometime its impossible to know if they married for money, love, or a new life. Most of the couple just know each other for less than 1 month.....if not 1 week, how can you fall in love in such a short amount time??
Oversea marriage has put countless of Vietnamese-American (especially in California) into jail for "human trafficking".........I have no problem with them marrying for love, but..........sometime its impossible to tell....

my friend's wife ran away after 365 days

and he considers going to VN to find an other 1 ?