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Do some people in the US look down on a guy who marries a woman from another country?
Yes, of course some do! No matter WHO you marry, somebody will "look down" on you!
She is 10 years younger than you? you're a cradle robber!
She is older than you? you're looking for a mother.
She is taller than you? you're looking for domination.
she is shorter than you? you're looking for somebody to dominate.
She is wealthy? you're looking for money.
She is poor, and you are wealthy? she is a gold-digger
etc.
I see no reason to be concerned about some total strangers response to who you marry! If that is such an overriding concern, I recommend you remain single!
unless you are native american, we all have foreign traits
my family (the italian and spanish) side has been here since 1640,, the austrian side, since 1890, add in a mix of native and black and you have me. but I will always be a New Yorker (at least my attitude)
In Los Angeles (where I live) there are many Western European women who specifically move here to become au pairs in order to meet/interact with/date men who are in the entertainment industry (or other lucrative industries) It is actually a career suggestion for young women looking to meet wealthy men.
Example: Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods....she was a nanny on the PGA
If people tend to be superficial, other superficial people will gravitate towards them. Not every au pair is making a beeline for the honeycomb, and LA isn't the rest of the US. People marrying for position, wealth, etc., is nothing new, and American women do it too. The US is a drop in the bucket on the human time-line. We aren't a special case and we aren't the only country where that sort of thing goes on. In some places, people don't have any input on who they marry. At least we are afforded the right to make our own decisions, even if they may turn out to be mistakes and even if others form preconceptions about us due to our choices.
No offense, we usually agree on most things, but I sense something fairly deep-seated with you in regard to this issue, and I have a feeling that no matter what I say, you are going to counter it with more assertions of evidence to the contrary. We were nearly all immigrants once. If not for an American prairie woman marrying my great-grandfather, who was from Norway, I wouldn't be alive. People looked down on them too.
Well, if the fella is some gross, toothless, and overweight slob and the women is some slender babe from Russia met over the Internet or from an ad in some magazine, I dare say the matrimony is going to inspire some snickers and wisecracks. And eventually some pity.
Other than that, I think the question inane, stupid, and ultimately nobody's F****** business.
If people tend to be superficial, other superficial people will gravitate towards them. Not every au pair is making a beeline for the honeycomb, and LA isn't the rest of the US. People marrying for position, wealth, etc., is nothing new, and American women do it too. The US is a drop in the bucket on the human time-line. We aren't a special case and we aren't the only country where that sort of thing goes on. In some places, people don't have any input on who they marry. At least we are afforded the right to make our own decisions, even if they may turn out to be mistakes and even if others form preconceptions about us due to our choices.
No offense, we usually agree on most things, but I sense something fairly deep-seated with you in regard to this issue, and I have a feeling that no matter what I say, you are going to counter it with more assertions of evidence to the contrary. We were nearly all immigrants once. If not for an American prairie woman marrying my great-grandfather, who was from Norway, I wouldn't be alive. People looked down on them too.
Sorry but nothing deep seated in my take on this topic just general personal observations and a family situation where a woman from the Phillipines married then used a relative very badly to get her family to this country, sent tons of money back to her country and burned through a lot of hard earned savings. I simply think that some American men believe that by marrying foreign women they are getting problem-free fembots.
However, in the big picture, I really could care less who marries whom.
Sorry but nothing deep seated in my take on this topic just general personal observations and a family situation where a woman from the Phillipines married then used a relative very badly to get her family to this country, sent tons of money back to her country and burned through a lot of hard earned savings. I simply think that some American men believe that by marrying foreign women they are getting problem-free fembots.
However, in the big picture, I really could care less who marries whom.
Yes. This is the type of understandable bias I was suspecting. This is why we screen juries for bias.
Well, if the fella is some gross, toothless, and overweight slob and the women is some slender babe from Russia met over the Internet or from an ad in some magazine, I dare say the matrimony is going to inspire some snickers and wisecracks. And eventually some pity.
Other than that, I think the question inane, stupid, and ultimately nobody's F****** business.
This is is most likely an angry American woman who probably has been divorced several times and taken antidepressants for years.
I used to work with a woman of Irish descent (born in the '30s) who was forbidden to date "outside the race". To her family that met Italians in particular.
Unless you're getting a mail-order bride, I don't see why anyone would care.
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