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IOW, the "good" guys have found a nice girl and settled down.

I don't think I agree with everything you've said, but the point of American men looking elsewhere for brides isn't a new story.

Back in the early days of my Navy career, it was pretty common for men to actively seek and court Oriental/Island women, affectionately (and probably bigot-like) referred to as "rice-burners." Many men found the concept of marrying a "corn-eater" unfathonable.

In general, their attitutudes toward American women could be summed up as "not worth putting up with." That was well over 20 years ago. So the Russian bride syndrome isn't anything new.

"In general, their attitutudes toward American women could be summed up as "not worth putting up with." That was well over 20 years ago. So the Russian bride syndrome isn't anything new."
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It seems that the process is accelerating and that is what is drawing attention to it. I suspect that women who are the children of immigrants, or are immigrants themselves, are probably more conservative in their view towards lifestyles than women who are products of the "modern" culture.

"In general, their attitutudes toward American women could be summed up as "not worth putting up with." "

I thought by this time this thread would have several hundred posts, with some of the usual suspects hurling invectives with abandon, while avoiding the issue which your above statement points out.
Heck, ask an American female in an unguarded moment about what she thinks about how her counterparts act and she isn't all that glowing in the report. Granted, this anectdotal from my experience. Additionally, some of those females who I've had this conversation with then run out and engage in the same behavior they just disparaged.

It appears that the marriage strike is growing. There are other instances of your stereotypical 30 year old living in his parent's basement, but I think that is much less the problem than the fact that the current environment is fairly hostile to men when a relationship goes bad. This is made worse by a legal system that originally was formed to help women based on an older set of values, but then hijacked by opportunists who have turned it into a way to punish men just because of their gender.

If compared to a casino in Vegas, would you dare want to gamble there, knowing that the odds are highly stacked against you?