Ladies make your pick, worldwide!

Laos has a law that forbids extramarital contact between foreigners and Laotian (read women). Assumptions are enough to get foreigners incarcerated for a long time. I guess Lao looks with disgust on the Thai sex industry and marriage market and wants to avoid the same destiny. This points to a not very much talked facet of globalization: the increasing worldwide mobility of women. Women from the Philippines for example tour China as live bands. Japanese women who are fed up with the typical chauvinist male Japanese travel and study abroad in order to meet more enlightened Western men. In the Philippines my friends Alex and Goga got a first hand view of the flirting skills of the local ladies, all hunting for Western men. Why? As one can easily see in Bangkok not because they are all so beautiful, even though one now sees also younger Western men with Thai girlfriends or wives. No, because as Alex puts it: Western men go to work, bring home money, do not beat their wives and tend not to visit brothels all the time. Western men are so attractive because they are more stable and less chauvinistic than Asian men. Where ever I go in Asia I find ladies who ask me immediately if I am married or have a girlfriend. Asking them why they want to get married to a Western they say they do not like the local men (the Western lifestyle might be luring too). Basically women from underdeveloped countries from around the world have discovered the value of Western men and globalization has given them access to this very attractive resource. To certain extent this international exchange endorses the women liberation in Asia indirectly. There are also websites matching Asian women with Europeans for a fee. Additionally are remittances from the women working and living abroad a significant source of hard currency income e.g. in the Philippines higher than FDI. So Laos might just be a bit foolish to forgo such attractive income. On the other hand a booming sex industry like in Thailand is not to everyone’s likings. But globalization also seems to work in the industry of love. And there is more bad news for the ladies in the West: According to Swiss studies cross-cultural marriages do not last less long, in the contrary. Here are a few websites for you lonely white guys out there: www.asianeuro.com or www.mythailove.com (and sorry ladies, no, you won't find me on any of those services)

Comments

[heidi]

Why do you not talk about the other side, i.e., why are western men increasingly keen on Asian women? Isn't it maybe exactly because of the opposite reason, namely that they can allow themselves to be more chauvy and less faithful to them than to western women? It's just that both of them still meet on a pareto improving area, because the extremes are too far away... I would not EXACTLY talk about LOVE in this context.