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You haven't been to China have you.

Do you have any idea how many women from Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia etc. etc. etc. are DESPERATE to get into China? SOLELY for the purpose of latching onto a man? Even African women are trying to get in on the action.

Student visa my @$$! Not unless they are studying for an M-R-S degree!

I have seen this first hand.

A shortage of 30 or 40 million women?

Believe me when I tell you . . . the Chinese Government knows this won't be a problem.

It really won't. Believe me.

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I have been to China, but not to the regions we are talking about (and given your response I doubt you have been to these areas either.) While I am certain there are many women desperate to get into China for an MRS degree, I am also certain that they are looking for an educated upwardly-mobile man who has good future prospects; these women are not trying to get into China so that they can marry a poor, unskilled rural worker whose condition is no better than the one they left in the first place. It is this latter group who are screwed in this situation. These men have little to offer a prospective mate and the smaller pool of women have no need to settle for a local villager when they can gain the benefits of supply & demand working in their favor. Please explain why women from surrounding countries would consider a cross-cultural marriage to a man whose general poverty matches their own...

Korean women are desperate to get into China?

I doubt it. Koreans look down on Chinese. They view them as dirty and uncouth.

Korea is a far richer country than China. There is no economic reason to migrate there.

North Korea is richer than China?

Are you serious, or is your comment meant to be facetious?

This is the comment I was replying to:

Do you have any idea how many women from Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia etc. etc. etc. are DESPERATE to get into China? SOLELY for the purpose of latching onto a man?

North Korea is essentially a closed country. Of the few North Koreans that manage to escape, how many of them do you think are escaping primarily to find a husband?

I'd say none of them.

I probably should have specified South Korea originally. But the specification isn't really needed due to the closed nature of the north.

As for South Koreans, my original comment still stands. South Koreans look down on Chinese.

So then the problem is exported to other countries. Two of those countries you just named have fundamentalist Islamist elements.

Islamic countries have already had this problem - what do you do when rich, powerful men have 4 wives, and female children are lower priority for food, medical care, etc, so there are already fewer of them and extra-marital sex is frowned on?

Well, many of those young men band together and go and live in the mountains... We call them Taliban.

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