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Mail-order bride(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail-order_bride) TaiwanIn Taiwan, mail-order brides come primarily from Mainland China and Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam. The ages of the women mostly from Vietnam range from 20 to 28 years of age. On average, Taiwanese men spend 10,000 US dollars on this kind of marriage; however, only 500 to 1,000 US dollars will go to bride's family and the remaining will go to marriage brokers on both sides. Brides who come from Mainland China are known colloquially as dalu mei ( pinyin: dàlù mèi, literally: mainland sister). The marriages and immigration are arranged by licensed marriage brokers. Spousal immigration is the only legal form of immigration from Mainland China to Taiwan. Although from Mainland China, dalu mei are not normally considered members of the Mainlander minority on Taiwan. There are also some mail-order grooms from Mainland China to immigrate to Taiwan, although this is much less common. Pro-Taiwan independence parties such as the Taiwan Solidarity Union have expressed concerns that brides from Mainland China and their children will adversely influence Taiwan’s political landscape as they acquire citizenship. However, these attitudes are not universal even among pro-independence supporters, and President Chen Shuibian of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party made a particular point of welcoming these brides at his campaign activities in 2004. Also, there was a poll that suggested that Mainland Chinese brides tend to vote for the same political party for which their husbands vote. Many commentators have pointed out that the immigration of foreign brides from Mainland China and Southeast Asia is already changing the ethnic composition of Taiwan, in that mail-order brides and their children already outnumber Taiwanese aborigines. Some now consider foreign brides to be Taiwan’s fledging fifth ethnic group and are interested in observing how Taiwan’s demographics will gradually change by this group. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of Vietnamese stores and restaurants in Taiwan that are operated by Vietnamese brides. Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior has also published domestic violence-prevention materials in Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Thai, as well as a general guide to life in Taiwan in Khmer. Other AsiaIn addition to Taiwan, South Korea and Japan also have been accepting large numbers of foreign brides. In the case of South Korea, many of the brides are Vietnamese, Mainland Chinese, or ethnic Koreans from China. Japan accepts many brides from China, the Philippines, and Thailand. They have become common in recent years especially among rural bachelors who cannot find wives in their small towns. South Korea also has a notable gender imbalance, with an excess of available bachelors relative to single women. The implications for the ethnic composition of South Korea and Japan are similar to those for Taiwan, although somewhat less severe as those countries are considerably more populous. Mainland China itself has become a source for mail-order brides, due to gender imbalances. These tend to come from poorer parts of China, North Korea, or Burma, which are considerably poorer per capita than China as a whole. Trafficking and criminal gangs feature prominently here. India too has seen considerable mail-order bride activity, mainly within the country but also drawing women from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal where the per-capita income is less than India as a whole. This phenomenon is projected to become much more acute in both China and India over the coming decades as a huge excess of boys born after the advent of cheap ultrasound (used in sex selection) grow up and start looking for wives. By most estimates, the number of excess boys will run into the tens of millions. |
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