This post has been de-listed
It is no longer included in search results and normal feeds (front page, hot posts, subreddit posts, etc). It remains visible only via the author's post history.
I know that this is a very subjective question. Every responder will have his own opinions on the topic of the ideal partner in life.
I know that there is this YouTube channel by "Legion Of Men" that has made comments on a CNA report on Passport Bros (and I watched the original CNA video because I had already subscribed to the channel and that just dropped into my recommended videos), and that Legion Of Men guy seems to have the mindset of a Passport Bro while not admitting to be a Passport Bro. He basically provides commentary on the video and agrees with what it says. He doesn't really elaborate on that, though, until I watch a more recent video, and then he reveals what he truly thinks about American women and other Western women. It is all to support his claim that American/Western women are intolerable and American/Western men want out and get a foreign wife in Eastern Europe or Asia or Latin America. Funny how African nations are completely skipped over. Like, are Passport Bros ever interested in Africa? African women can be quite traditional there. Anyway, the Legion Of Men dude speaks of a girlfriend from Romania and how that girlfriend doesn't want to spend too much of his money, and he finds it endearing, and he mentions his plan to go to Thailand, probably to do videos and stuff.
I once watched a YouTube Shorts video in which the interviewer was conducting a street interview with Russian men and American men, and the American men behaved like the American women that Legion Of Men dude described, being extremely hesitant in being the sole provider of the family, wanting the woman to foot the bill, while the Russian men being interviewed held more traditional masculine views.
Anyway, I find that the Legion Of Men guy is over-generalizing western women and non-western women. Just because a woman lives in the western world or not doesn't necessarily define whatever values she holds, and this is especially true for the children of Asian immigrants. And I think Asian-American men and other Asian-diaspora men will have a much different take to what the Legion Of Men guy (a white guy) has to say.
These examples tell me that people -- men and women -- have expectations. Men and women have their own opinions of what they want to see in a partner, and if the partner doesn't conform to the expectations, then it's not a match. Sometimes, the expectations may be a traditional feminine role as homemaker, childcare provider, petcare provider, elderly care provider, cook, etc. Other expectations may be an equal role in finances and household duties. And honestly, I think all of this can be resolved by straight-forward communication, not assumptions based on a person's nationality or cultural background.
I mean, seriously, my own mother once chatted on the phone with a long-time best friend and that best friend told my mom about his relationship to his daughter-in-law who he thought was "ć˛ć厜ć". In other words, she was not brought up very well, and indeed, her parents didn't care much for her as a child and she was raised primarily by her rural grandparents in China. But she was a smart girl and tested her way through school and got enrolled in an overseas university, where she met her husband, also a Chinese international student.
I think it's easy for us to make assumptions based on a person's nationality or cultural background, for Passport Bros to make assumptions of western women or non-western women, but I think in many real-world situations, the real-world problems are very individual. I think the bigger issue is this: is the couple actually communicating?
Subreddit
Post Details
- Posted
- 1 week ago
- Reddit URL
- View post on reddit.com
- External URL
- reddit.com/r/AskMen/comm...