أفضل 10 حقائق عن النظام الإلكتروني عرائس Top 10 Facts About Mail-Order Brides

Mail-order bride is a label applied to a woman who publishes her
intent to marry someone from another – usually more financially
developed – country. Historically, mail-order brides were women who
listed themselves in catalogs and were selected by men for marriage.
Sometimes the men and women involved were citizens of different
countries, e.g. women from European countries moving to the United
States during the 18th and 19th centuries, and sometimes they involved
citizens of the same country. This list looks at ten facts about mail
order brides that you may not know.
10The Sweet Escape




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Most people think that Russian brides are desperate women who want
nothing more than to marry a foreigner (preferably American) to get the
hell out of Russia and start a life. But in fact, this is almost
always incorrect. Russia has a man shortage; there are roughly 8 men
for every 10 women in a culture which is very marriage-oriented.
Consequently, many Russian women are compelled to look outside of Russia
for a husband. As one mail order bride company says: “[Russian Brides]
feel as if you were one of the guys who would approach her at a bar:
where she can say, “yes” if she likes you, and “thanks, but no, thanks”
if she doesn’t.”
9Dangers Involved




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Being a mail-order bride can be very dangerous. There are at least
four recent cases of American men murdering (sometimes quite brutally)
their mail-order bride. But it does go both ways: there is also a case
of a mail-order bride murdering her American husband. Before involving
yourself in the mail order marriage industry, it pays to really consider
the reasons behind your future wife or husband using this method to
find their partner for life. You might get lucky and meet someone
leaving their home country for the reasons cited in item 10, but you
might be one of the unlucky ones who ends up dead. here is the
description of just one such case:

Anastasia King, a young woman from Kyrgyzstan, was found
strangled and buried in a shallow grave in Washington state in December
2000. At the age of 18, Anastasia had received an email from a
38-year-old Seattle man, Indle King, from a mail order bride website. He
flew to her country and they were married soon after. Two years later,
after considerable strife, Indle wanted another bride. He was allegedly
unwilling to pay for a divorce so he ordered a tenant in their
Washington home to kill Anastasia. Weighing nearly 300 pounds, her
husband pinned Anastasia down while the tenant strangled her with a
necktie. Both were convicted of murder.

8Divorce Rates




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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
reports that “…marriages arranged through [mail order bride] services
would appear to have a lower divorce rate than the nation as a whole,
fully 80 percent of these marriages having lasted over the years for
which reports are available.” The USCIS also reports that “… mail-order
bride and e-mail correspondence services result in 4,000 to 6,000
marriages between U.S. men and foreign brides each year.”
7American Frontier




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The concept of mail-order brides was first seen on the American
frontier during the mid-1800s. Men from the East were migrating West in
hopes of claiming land, farming, establishing businesses, and finding
gold. Most of these men found financial success in the migration West,
but the one thing that was missing was the company of a wife. Very few
women lived in the West at this time, so it was hard for these men to
settle down and start a family. Their only choice was to attract women
living back East; the men wrote letters to churches and published
personal advertisements in magazines and newspapers. In return, the
women would write to the men and send them photographs of themselves.
6How To Meet




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At least two types of “international marriage agencies” exist. The
first type sells female clients’ contact information and encourages men
and women to correspond prior to meeting. The second type offers “group
tours” for men who want to travel around a foreign country and meet up
to a hundred women at social events organized by the agency. If an
American male wishes to use the first type, they must supply mental
health information and criminal history, and, if they do make a match,
will eventually be required to meet the bride in person before she can
obtain a US visa.




5Strange Education




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Johns Hopkins University offers a course called “Mail Order Brides:
Understanding the Philippines in Southeast Asian Context” which is
supposedly a deep look into Filipino kinship and gender. Why a person
would want to study this subject is beyond me, but there must be at
least a small amount of demand out there.
4Unfriendly Attitudes




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Since 2003 Australian Federal Government’s resolve to decrease what
was deemed ‘inappropriate immigration’ by then-Prime Minister John
Howard has gained momentum. Initial reactions to the program were mixed.
The Australian public further embraced their government’s policies
following the media frenzy of the Jana Klintoukh case; this case first
exploded into the public’s view when current events program, Today
Tonight, aired footage of a young Russian-born Australian, claiming she
was imported via an Internet site and was used as a ***ual slave by her
‘husband’ while being confined to his Sydney home.
3Mail Order Husbands




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The Philippines prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating
marriages between Filipinas and foreign men. The Philippine congress
enacted Republic Act 6955 or the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law in 1990 as a
result of stories that appeared in the local press and media about
Filipinas being abused by their foreign husbands. Because of this,
Filipinas often use “reverse publications” – publications in which men
advertise themselves – to contact foreign men for marriage on behalf of
the Filipina women.
2Big Profits




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There is a lot of money to be made in the mail order bride industry.
In Taiwan, mail-order brides are sourced primarily from Mainland China
and Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam. The common age range for Vietnam
women range from 20 to 28 years of age. On average, Taiwanese men spend
USD $10,000 on this type of marriage; however, only USD $500 to USD
$1,000 dollars will be received by the bride’s family and the
remainder taken by marriage brokers of the groom and the bride. That is
a damn high profit margin.
1Dishonest Marketing




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On November 18, 2004, a federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland awarded
Ukrainian mail-order bride Nataliya Fox $433,500 ($341,000 of which were
punitive damages) against international marriage broker Encounters
International and its Russian immigrant owner, Natasha Spivack (pictured
above). Spivack arranged Nataliya’s marriage to an American man with a
history of violently abusing women and who, after being matched with
Nataliya, abused her over the course of their marriage. The jury found
the marriage broker guilty of fraud, unfair and deceptive trade
practices, willful and wanton negligence, unauthorized appropriation of
Ms. Fox’s name and likeness, and defamation. The jury found the mail
order bride company (Natasha Spivak) liable for failing to tell Nataliya
about a federal law that allows foreign nationals to escape abusive
marriages without fear of automatic deportation, and for actively
misleading her about her legal options. The jury also found EI (Natasha
Spivak) liable for misrepresenting that it screened male clients when it
did not; and publicizing Nataliya’s marriage to Mr. Fox as an EI
“success” story, without her permission, even after she fled to a
domestic violence shelter.