Posted on 04/30/2003 3:51:12 AM PDT by WaterDragon
American men use Russian women for self-affirmation. The latter seem to be liking this fact
Marriages between Russian women and American men are very successful and harmonious, Olga Makhovskaya, the senior research assistant at the Psychology Institute in Russia's Academy of Sciences says. When an American man switches from the model of American family where husband and wife are partners equal in rights to the model of an Orthodox family, he thus raises his own significance. In Orthodox families men are given more authority and are more respected. It is certainly an advantage for a man and raises his social and psychological status. In a word, American men seem to have tired of the feminism propagated by American women, and it is frequent that they seek Russian women to start families.
Russian wives in America give up the traditional model of the Russian Orthodox family which relieves them of a heavy burden of responsibility and gives a chance to have a normal life in a family where the range of responsibilities is more definite for them: children, family affairs and housekeeping. At that, Russian women enjoy more attention and support from husbands.
As psychologists say, now Russian men undervalue the essence of family. The whole of the burden, housekeeping, upbringing of children, earning of money are shifted onto women. And, at the time when Russian women have so much responsibilities, their husbands spend their time dozing in front of TV sets in desperate attempts to find out the meaning of life and to understand the truth of the universe. They merely disregard everyday problems that are essential for their families as they consider the above mentioned idle thinking to be of higher importance.
That is why, as Olga Makhovskaya thinks relations in families between Russian and American partners are more harmonious. Each party gets what it wants to have. Husbands get authority and status, and wives are given, in exchange, peace in family and well-being. "Families of this kind where husbands are Americans and women are Russians prove to be long-living, as the roles in the family are clearly distributed and the mechanism operates good, although these are mixed families. In such families each of the couple is ready to make concessions and on the whole, wonderfully performs the role."
In addition, as researches held by Olga Makhovskaya reveal, marriages between Chinese men and Russian women are also very successful. ?There are tens of thousands of such marriages in Russia's Primorye region in the Far East. Chinese men are hard-working, they don't abuse in alcohol drinking and bring their wages home. In a word, they have lots of advantages by contrast with Russian men." It is sad, but the researches don't mention for whom Russian men suit wonderfully.
One time a friend of mine was getting married in Virginia. I worked in DC at the time (WORST job I ever had) and one of the guys in the office who was black brought his black girlfriend to the wedding and the reception where I and my fellow workers also were. Anyway, (as the black co-worker told me later) his girlfriend was freaking out on the way to the wedding. She somehow expected it to be like some sort of minor league Klan rally with a bunch of white bigots angrily glaring at her for "intruding" in on the wedding party. I didn't know about that at the time. All I knew is that I noticed she was withdrawn at first which I attributed to shyness. Anyway, my usual (and in this case drunken) clowning helped removed her preconcieved fears. Plus everybody else was in an equally jovial mood which calmed her down after a while and she soon had what she later described as one her most fun days ever.
American men seem to have tired of the feminism propagated by American women,
What qualifications did they look for in an American man? Oh, the usual secondary sexual characteristics: a fat wallet, a passport, and a house.
Hey, I can qualify for that!
--Boris
? Give up on what? It's a matter of maximizing happiness - and if the liberal clowns of of this country (including all the Oprah crowd) puts Hitlary in office - the fight is OVER - (bring on the "re-education camps") and I will go where I'll be a helluva lot happier.
Cynical humor from one's lover may tend to take the starch out of the old noodle.
Plus, most of them are gay.
--Boris
Hmmm... I think you have a point there. It is hard to listen to a female comedian on the stage making fun of various boyfriends and their approaches and then later approach the same female comedian who will view you with a jaundiced eye, only to know that whatever you do would likely become comical grist for her stage act. That isn't probably what one is thinking conciously but deep down one knows this to be true... Great analysis!
Sure. The vast majority of comedy involves laughter at someone else's expense. Men don't like being mocked, and they figure dating a professional mocker would be a living hell.
Another thing about Argentine women is that they may only be 5' 3" but they are 10 feet of attitude. Its something American males may not be used to. They are a handful.
Hey! I thought they were only interested in me! I got this very nice, earnest, plausible e-mail from this guy. Do you think he was not who he said he was? Was it not legit?
LOLOL!
I knew this woman who owned a hair salon. The woman doing the nails was a Vietnamese married to the American. After she worked there a few months, her husband made her quit. Apparently she was learning way too much from the American women who worked in that Salon.
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