Mail ordered brides

6 Weeks. That’s how long I can keep overworking my body both mentally and physically. Then my efficiency goes down.

I’ve noticed a strange phenomena here in Taiwan. There are adds for mail ordered brides everywhere. Thailand, China, Jamaica etc. Every 3rd world country surrounding us. You can often see signs of “mail ordered bride from “country” for only 800000$NT.” It is indeed love marriage sex and cheap labour all in one single package. Painless and effortless.

Then I started hearing all the stories about how people got ripped off by these brides. So I wondered, why? Isn’t our own woman good enough? Actually, it is because our men aren’t good enough that’s causing this. People, especially women here are very materialistic. Money is first and foremost, in the consideration of marriage and the old tradition of no sex before marriage has be forced upon the society by nagging, naggin and nagging.

Maybe the future generation will be better. Those younger than me are brought up in a more free environment touched by the western society. Sex is rampant and you can finally sue your parents for hitting you. We are, tradition and future, mixed in one.

But the Taiwan I remembered wasn’t like this. There used to be only us. Chinese who decided to live on a deserted island controlled by no one. Then the japanese took over and got chased away by the chinese democrats. There are only chinese here…. when we were poor. Then we got rich, and every people from every surrounding country wants to come here. Sort of like Canada and the US before.