Posted on 07/31/2010 9:13:39 PM PDT by chasio649
Las Vegas bookies give better odds on a nickel slot machine hitting the jackpot than a single white female meeting and marrying a single white male in the Middle Kingdom. -China Daily/ANN
Sat, Jul 31, 2010 China Daily/Asia News Network
Yellow Fever. [ yel'lo f'var]
1. A viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes in South America and sub-Saharan Africa
2. An intense attraction for Asians by Caucasians
It's the Mount Qomolangma of obstacles, the nightmare on bar street, the reason why single white females cry in their half-price drinks on Ladies Night as they're passed over for the long black hair and short skirts of their Chinese sisters. As the bar chanteuse croons, "I've got the fever" the male expatriates sing lustily in reply ".yellow fever!"
"I'm a reasonably attractive, intelligent woman who, like these guys thought out-of-the-box and came to China. And we share the same native language. Why those girls over me?" laments a single white female. Why indeed. China has long been known as a single (sometimes married) white man's playground while at the same time being a single white woman's wasteland.
Las Vegas bookies give better odds on a nickel slot machine hitting the jackpot than a single white female meeting and marrying a single white male in the Middle Kingdom.
What is it then that attracts expatriate men to Chinese women? Is it their petite size, willingness to submit to their needs, eagerness to help their men succeed? Duh, yes.
Rightly or wrongly, Chinese women fully expect their husbands to be the provider and will take a backseat in order for them to be successful. Of course, for the male expatriates, dreams of lives like a bed-of-roses are abruptly pierced with thorny predicaments when meeting future in-laws. But differences aside, many such couples press ahead with the multiple bridal ceremonies and receptions. Chicken breast is on the wedding menu for guests in his hometown, while the head and feet are served up to friends and family in hers.
>> Should more expatriate women seek our local Chinese men?
Now with the male-female ratio in China decidedly greater on the male side, why don't more expatriate women increase their dating pool and seek out local Chinese men?
Well even if the single white female is relatively conversant in Chinese, there's a physical obstacle. It's embarrassing when your boyfriend's jeans are smaller than your own. It may harken back to that "hunter-gatherer" thing, but generally, women want men who are tall enough to see over their foreheads (Tom Cruise excepted).
Chinese men, unlike Chinese women, are more risk-averse and less comfortable swimming in the uncharted seas of cross-cultural relationships. Chinese men are more tradition bound and especially in the age of the one-child family, bear a heavy filial duty to their parents. Sons are expected to take care of their parents, but in reality it's the wife's duty to serve the in-laws. And Po po and Gong gong are none too happy when laowai girlfriend plans to kidnap their son to Phuket for Spring Festival instead of staying at home and rolling jiaozi with them. Yes, parents can be a buzz kill.
And true or not (but mostly true), expatriate women carry the reputation for being very vocal about what they think and want. Few are the Chinese men who will put up with losing face over inadvertent statements made by their expatriate girlfriends. So unless the single white female is fluent in Chinese and understands the culture, a Chinese man will be reluctant to start something he knows will end badly.
With all these advantages to Chinese women, what's a single white female to do? There's fading hope in quasi-social networking cocktails or maybe another awkward evening matched up with the only other single at your friend's dinner party or worst yet, waking up in someone's hand-me-down IKEA bed in a fourth floor walk-up after a mind-numbing night of vodka shots at the local pub.
Yes girlfriend, if China will be your life, then go native; if not then, better luck back on your home turf. Match.com is waiting.
Yes, the girl you post appears as if she has the correct, uh, politics. She also appears to defy the laws of physics. Sweet mother of mercy!
How is post 51 “creepy”?
Whatever, big fella. Some people hate ice cream, too. All I know is that if I were single again (which I hope never to be), it’d be someone like her that I’d be chasing.
That’s another thing about Asia: they don’t have the horror of middle-aged-man/young woman marriage we do.
I don’t think it’s creepy....but threads like this usually start a war...it did in the older days of FR ;)
Does she have size twelve shoes to keep from toppling over?
A joke I was told during my first trip to Asia and one I have never repeated to my wife.
About the look of the ladies in old movies.....HEAR HEAR. The female of the species seems to me to be preoccupied with self above all, few have that touch of class, and have forgotten to live in the now.
I call bs on that one.
If there weren’t Japanese words accompanying that vid, how could you tell those were Asian women’s backsides shaking at you? If you went to any college campus in the South, you’d find stock just as good.
Wow. You were born in about 1966 based on your info, so that makes you 44 and she is supposedly barely 18 and 5 months old. She could be your daughter.......she looks 12. Leave her alone.
What horror? A difference in age is normal for me and was for my father, my youngest half brother is more than 30 years younger than me. It's just that the picture in post 33 looks like a twelve year old kid.
You already seem to know who she is so you had a complete image of her as a mature teen age woman, but I didn't, I was reacting to that first photo of her that you posted.
I was expecting to see Shirley Sherrod listed as the author.
Winner, Winner..
Chicken dinner.
>If there weren’t Japanese words accompanying that vid, how could you tell those were Asian women’s backsides shaking at you? If you went to any college campus in the South, you’d find stock just as good.
90% look like that in Japan
19% look like that in a “Southern college,” and I can affirm that because I got a master’s degree from one.
When I was single, I had a strong preference for the woman that was close by.
When I'm in Idaho I want a potato.
Female scientist, actress comments, on sci-fi movies of the 1940s and 1950s started wars here?
How can you watch a video where they misspell “opening?”
My grandfather, who had the wisdom of Soloman, once told me that a bird in the hand was better than the hand alone.
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