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The only man I obeyed was my father.

I wish I had you for a daughter. Wife, daughter, they all ignore me. LOL

Had a neighbor who was blond. She used to baby sit for us. She had never had a date...for good reason. She was not pretty. She met an Iranian who went bonkers over her. All his friends started to call and tried to date her. Iranians love blond hair. I always thought she was nuts to like the guy. But when a person gets tossed aside and then finds out she has something going for her, it's hard to tell her, she's not very pretty.

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Thank you. What a sweet compliment.

I agree. Women need to be told they are beautiful from time to time. The old saying is true, Women give sex for love, and men give love for sex.

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But when a person gets tossed aside and then finds out she has something going for her, it's hard to tell her, she's not very pretty.

And that is a point that almost never gets mentioned in these threads.

Many of the Asian woman looking to marry American men are considered "unmarriageable" or have poor prospects within their own cultures for reasons that American culture does not share. Among the Asian women I know who married American guys, this is a common theme; the women marrying cross-culture are often not considered average/normal women for that culture. There are a lot of things that are considered detractors in Asian culture that are considered neutral or even attractive in American culture. Given this, it is easy to see why they might want to meet American men -- they want to sell themselves in the market where they have the most value.

Of course, this works both ways. Culture and marriage is a free market to a great extent. People naturally try to maximize their own value in that market.