Vietnamese Mail Order Bride (Singapore)

Will you pay S$10,000 to pay one of them?

Via an Al Jazeera documentary posted on youtube. The video below makes me sad. Both for the Vietnamese girls selling away their lives and the fact that more and more Singaporean men are resorting to “buying” their brides from poorer Asian countries.

The male to female ratio in Singapore is equal. Why are there not enough Singaporean women to go around? Are more Singaporean women marrying foreigners or choosing to remain single for live?

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In the video, a Vietnamese bride can be “purchased” on-the-spot for S$10,000. The girl on the right was only 18-years-old when she was sold to a 35 year-old Singaporean man who went to the matchmaking agency to choose his bride together with his mom.

What’s even more humiliating, the girls were made to visit a clinic in Singapore to get a certificate verifying their virginity before they can be sold.

While both the Vietnamese girls and the Singaporean men who entered into such marriages are willing adults, I wonder how many of such couples end up truly happy.

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Alvin is a marketer by day and blogger by night. He is a 100% geek who spends too much time surfing the web.

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  • Some Singaporean men are so immature and shallow.

    They view marriage as an opportunity to score a prize, a trophy they can show off to the world. Oh, my wife is a virgin. Oh, she does everything I wish for. She speaks softly, she does not have opinions, she does not argue. She worships my toes.

    Such men see wives as things, mere objects they can buy and own, no different from a car or a house. And they lack the maturity to view marriage and a spouse as something more, for companionship and for support.

  • "Faint heart never won fair lady."
    I would recommend Singaporean men to daringly go after Singaporean women.

    But, I think each have their right to pursue their form of happiness, including Singaporean men who chose to marry Vietnamese wife.

  • Money certainly make the world goes around. But Its just so insulting.
    Cant believe Singaporean are doing such a thing.

    Nothing to be proud about living in such a city with people of such mentality.

  • I believe the "Singaporean men" here are those in the lower rungs of the social ladder and hence, may have difficulty attracting our local women, who are generally perceived to have high demands and go after successful men. So I don't think they're all to be blame - Singaporeans are very realistic these days.

  • Vietnamese bride make better bride than Singapore Girls. There are two advantages: you help the girl out of poverty and you get a better wife who care for you by action like cooking, taking care of parents.
    Everyone want a piece of mind. Singaporean men are people who really think through simulation before comitting to action.

  • While in Singapore, most of the ladies station themselves at the Singapore Matchmakers' offices in the daytime and at night they can be found at either Joo Chiat or Geylang. I myself met some of them at 2 pubs inside Golden Mile Tower and they
    told me that they were from the matchmakers' offices upstairs.

  • Dear Matthew,

    My guess is that you want a servant, not a wife. You want someone who will kiss your feet when you get home and nod meekly when you speak with no opinions of her own. You want someone you can control and boss around and who will make your life easier by taking some of YOUR responsibilities off your shoulder.

    My guess is also that you don't understand the real meaning of "marriage" and "spouse". A "spouse" is your companion and someone who you should love and love you back. A "spouse" or "wife" is not someone you marry for convenience because she can clean your home. You want someone with opinions, who you can have fun with, who will tell you when you're being an asshole, and who will support you when you're feeling down. She should be your friend and your equal, not someone who waits on you hand and foot.

    So you see, Matthew, YOU are the perfect reason why women in Singapore shudder at the thought of the men in our country.

  • I believe the Singaporean men can look for vietnamese wifes as long as they are happy. People's happiness are their own business.

    Like Vijay Eswaran pointed some have diffculty attracting in these case, Singaporean "Chinese" women to be exact. So this type of situation takes 2 to clap.

    So kids, lets move on.

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