Can You Really Just Go Online and Order a Wife from Some Other Country?
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While people have been sending messages back and forth to arrange marriages sight-unseen throughout history, the slightly more modern concept of mail-order brides is generally considered to have originated during the days of the American Frontier- a region that, for a time, was decidedly lacking in members of the female persuasion. At the same time, the east coast of the U.S. had something of a surplus of single ladies, especially following the Civil War.
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My uncle got a "mail order" bride from Vietnam. She disappeared two weeks after getting here. :D The company got him a second one....she was a wonderful lady and stayed with him until he died. But we never stopped making jokes about "I need a replacement! I kept my receipt!"
Sad yet not, sounds like ge dodged a bullet with that first one.
I hope the first wife is Ok and did in fact just run off 🥺.
I hate to laugh Charles but that's really funny.... Carpe Viva
This comment this is dark but actually made me laugh hysterically. Yeah hopefully she Truely alrite but she has some explaining to do 😂 omg 💀😭
@@TruckingTendencies True, but no foul play. My uncle was a half-blind drunk idiot, but she really did run away on her own. He was in the Air Force and in Germany in 68/69, but was obsessed with all things Vietnam. Tried to convince people he was a Vietnam Vet even though Germany was the closest he ever got. The lady just took off after less than 2 weeks. Guess she was using the program as a cheap way to get herself to the US.
But #2 was awesome & she stayed with him until he died. She's still in contact with my parents.
My grandfather came to the US in 1911 from Italy. About 5 years later he sent a letter to the mayor of his town asking if any single girl would like to come to America. The mayor asked around and sent him 3 names. He recognized my grandmother's name and told the mayor to "ship her over" .My grandmother came to NY with her uncle and for 6 months they courted. After they were married, had 9 children and were married for 65 years until my Grandfather died.
Fascinating, thank you for sharing this
did they love each other tho?
Thank you for sharing
@@CreatingShane No, it's normal to stay together for 65 years and have 9 kids without loving the other person.
@@bitcoinfandom To be fair, in 1911 divorces were *extremely* hard for women to propose and successfully implement.
My Grandmother put an ad in the paper meeting my Grandpa. "Looking for someone to farm the land and provide for a family". Literally, all the add said! They where married for 56 years before he died and had a family of 6.
Ah to think of the utopia we’d live in if we could all be so honest!
Hey! She was a well off lady if she had her own farm and land. A good catch back then!
@@darlenefraser3022 Not really, she was poor as dirt. It was a family farm she inherited. if you didn't grow any food you would starved to death. The only way the family got it was because they where Share Croppers. As the other families moved away they would sell for what little they had until her family was the last ones there. It was only like 46 acres.
The word ad is short for advertisement. You will note only one letter d within that word.
@@AndrewJohnson-oy8oj Seriously? You’re going to be THAT person?
I met a wonderful lady (originally from the Philippines) while I was in Thailand, where she taught elementary school. We courted for a couple years, and got married there. A couple years later, I brought her home to America. I am amazed at the number of people here that ask me "Is she a mail order bride?"
I usually reply, "Hell no! I got her on sale at Wal-Mart!"
At a bargain price !!
@@paulkerr782
Totell the truth, she'd be a bargain ay any price. :)
But the only folks I had to pay money to was the US Government.
That’s one more thing I’m going have to deal with my Queen. So I may have to borrow that if you don’t mind or change it to Target since I hate Walmart as most who know me can attest (used to work there for 10 plus years).
One of my great-grandmothers was a mail order bride. My great grandfather in Montana arranged for her to come from the east coast. She arrived in town on a train in mid-day. When they met at the station, he said "if you don't like me I'll pay for your ticket home." She said, "I came all the way out here, we might as well get married." They went to the courthouse and got married, and he went back to work in the afternoon. They stayed together for the rest of his life.
Thats epic. Shows just how different things were before mass media entertainment notions of romance spoiled the marriage game. Back in the day, people understood that marriage was more of a financial arrangement than a perpetual honeymoon for lovers. The woman got someone to support her and give her children after she got too old to stay in her parents house, and the man got children to continue his family name (which was important to people of that time) as well as someone to care for the family and home while he was away earning a living. As long as they didnt completely hate each other, or there was no abuse involved, it was a perfectly normal arrangement.
Kyle Olson well he was very fucking lucky
Those are real fucking people.
@@fakiirification just an FYI the notion of marriage being for love is not new. It's really old actually, but if you're in the frontier you got more important things to worry about.
I know damn William Shakespeare and all these artists controlling the mass media and ruining marriage with romance.
When I was younger, I've always thought that wives would be physically mailed in a cardboard box.
It's not a box, actually, it's a tube.
I did too lol
When mine busted out of her cardboard box, she immediately told me to remove my shoes. Been happily married for 85 years now.
@@calmcnutt481 With three kids...
Apparently one can do that now a days
I have known personally a 'mail order bride' who came to america, raised her young daughter and is in a happy, loving marriage to this day. He has even taken them back to their native country and fully experienced their culture and they continue to visit and now their daughter is grown and at university. Very inspiring story! It can happen!!
I thought this was going to be a tutorial. My disappointment is inmeasurable and my day is ruined.
I know, right? At least include links to reputable services.
Count yourself lucky.
Factz bro
@@broken1394 why have you had any experience with something like this?
It's okay bro..... we can always go back to our Incel forum and talk about it
My great uncle's wife was a mail order bride, but they sent letters in the 50s after he saw her ad in a Miami newspaper. He paid for her to take a train first class to Canada and they got married when he was 19 and she was 18. She passed away this year but they were happy together for more than half a century
Your great uncle's wife had bde
@@AZJayjohn You’re a racist and a terrible person.
@@HagakureJunkie pretty sure you assumed something that you have zero clue of
@@HagakureJunkie big dick energy is racist now?
Where's my discount code for a mail bride?
recist language
even bigger discount for a male bride!
Emperor Vitiate and you’re a typical dumbass
@Kristie C haha it's you 😂😂
@@whiteboard7thstreet chill out doggie 😹😹
"A man who can stand an occasional scolding..." Oh, be still my heart! ;-p
Except the scolding are seldom occasional.
😂😂
So you go for simps huh? Weird
"The Engaging History of Marriage"
I love when historians get clever.
I have been married to my wife from Japan for 14 years. We met on the internet (not through a dating site nor a bride order service site). After spending 4 months chatting, I decided to travel to Japan to meet her in person. When I returned to the U.S.A., I applied for the A1 Visa. Now we have two beautiful daughters and are looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together. And yes, we love each other very much.
Aqkura that sounds kinda similar to how I met my Japanese lady friend through a language exchange app. She was wanting to become an English teacher-she is now achieved her dream and become headmaster of a school and is looking to form her own independent school-and I study Japanese. But our personalities are too different, so we never dated. But we still talk and give each other language tips :)
@@xxXthekevXxx Very glad to hear that Kevin! At the beginning it was difficult for my wife to adjust living here, but she has learned to adapt (even though she still criticize many peoples behavior here, especially from the retail business sector. The way customers are treated by stores employees or at restaurants). Ah! and the way people drive here!
Aqkura are you white?
@@squishynigga7837 100% probly in IT or an electrician if stereotypes ring true... you better be black with that name son. 😂😂
@@icecoldchilipreppers6496 damn you sound alone and jealous
My grandmother grew up in a small village with a very strict father. No way she would have found a husband at a dance. So she placed an ad in a newspaper and my grandfather responded. He then moved to her village to live there with her. Does that make him a mail order husband? 😁
MEISSOUN Not really if he didn't really pay for anything more than travels.. Usually anyone would become mail order when there is an agency between. I'd call that just a dating ad :D
Fuck u
rkan2 Well, most of the older cases in the video weren't necessarily run by an agency either, so it definitely would still be mail order ;)
Yes
So what was your great grandfather's reaction to his daughter's future husband and your future grandfather?
You know you have problems when a matching service sends your money back, full refund, not having found a match.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-.....
They REFUND!!!!??????
@@bogusmogus9551 You only get a refund IF they cannot find any potential match. Being one in a million can be a bad thing. I don't think that company is in business anymore. You don't get that service these days. "We've never before had to refund a client's money." Talk about an insult.
He lives with his mom.
@@sammoore9689 Mom jokes went out of style in grammar school. If referring to the ones that live in the basement, that's another problem. They get horrible matches, but they do get matches.
It’s amazing how trust can be formed through honesty. It doesn’t matter how you find that honesty, just be honest about what you want. Someone is out there.
true, i once put an ad up saying stuff like i wont be your dream man by a long shot and get really moody etc, tons of replies, honesty seems to work!
My view on modern mail order brides is the biggest difference is how you are introduced. The rest is no different than any other long distance courtship and marriage, dependent on keeping the relationship going with little face to face interaction, lots of electronic and video communication.
Just remember to poke holes in the box before shipping.
I thought you had to wait until after the wedding before poking any holes?
@@Thomasnmi only if your religious
@@Thomasnmi in Reykjavik everyone porks 🐖 before dating they are backwards
@@tuxievous420 sex before the first date? :)
🤣
A guy I go to church with, has a mail order bride from the Philippines. They've been married for almost 20 years. And seem to be fully devoted to each other, and love. Not really my thing, but if it makes them happy. That's truly all that matters
asian women are generally loyal as long as they dont get a job making more than the man. if that happens, they get a divorce just like american women, and try to trade up to a more wealthy man, which usually works out for them since asian women keep their youthful looks well into their 40s
If a woman divorces you because she makes more money than you, you're in a bad relationship to begin with.
@@seigeengine it's east Asian culture. Very heavily orientated around getting a successful husband
This route is definitely a big risk.
@@Quethonable
Filipinos aren't racially East Asian. Their languages are related to Hawaiian, Samoan, and other Polynesian languages. I also think that it's not just culture, I think all human women are willing to trade up if possible.
I was living across state while my wife was finishing college. She sent the paperwork for me to fill out and get notarized. For 32 years I have been reminded that I was a mail-order husband. I think I got the better end of the deal. haha
What are you wearing?
Two weeks later: Skirt
Two weeks later: You want to know what I'm wearing?
Two weeks later: No
Two weeks later: Marry me?
Two weeks later: ok
I imagine this happening with that French accent SpongeBob "Two weeks later.."
two weeks? Back then it was MONTHS between letters and that's just in north america. You sending something over seas and it is even longer.
I JUST watched a movie where a guy got a job in some "end of the line" town and since it took 3 months for him to get the letter and get there, they'd already filled the position by the time he arrived.
yeah...they used to actually complete thoughts and compose conversations back then...so it was more like "my dearest " (5 pages later) "...it is my hope that within a years time the great distance between us will become as physically small as reading your letters have made it seem. Until I have you in my arms, yours always Abraham "
compared to now, everyone back then was shakespeare...now it's like
"Sup"
"nm"
"wanna nflix n chill?"
"sure"
we are devolving.
My grandmother worked in a matchbox factory and put notes in matchboxes. 1500km away my grandfather purchased the matches. With the help of a sister, he composed a letter of reply and the rest is history...
❤😌 I love this!
A much better love story than Twilight will ever be
1) that really is awesome
2) could you imagine the legal shitstorm that would cause nowadays. . . Would be equally entertaining to watch lol
@Shadenfreude41 Umm, how exactly? Also you misspelled schadenfreude.
@Shadenfreude41 Umm, but he didn't buy her. They were connected through the note in the box, not through her being the town bicycle.
Wow...trolling was quite brutal back in the day. I'm just imagining a poor lonely bachelor with flowers in hand, showing up to a place only to be doused in hot oil and pelted with rotten eggs by a group of cross-dressing bastards with nothing better to do with their lives. Pretty sad.
Pretty funny. If I lived back then I'd do the exact same thing!
They're pos catfishing assholes for sure. But my captions cut off at "...Invited a prospective husband - and doused him in sulfur...". And all I could think was _F--, please not sulfuric acid..._ A stench bomb, after that, was just sweet funny relief. Depends if you imagine him as a lovestruck suitor, or unsavory wife buyer. I couldnt find the NYT article.
its just funny get a sense of humour
That takes balls. Could turn out to be retired gunslingers.
I'd probably do it too then find the guy and make it up to him somehow, we all know how hard it is to find love but its better to get pelted with eggs than to get extorted for money, kidnapped or killed.
I met my husband online, he's from Nigeria and yep you just know how that played out. That's right he asked me for £250, used the money to do some business which earned him £1,000 which he used to get a visa to Germany, he learnt German, learnt a trade, worked hard to get us a place to live and then I moved to Germany to be with him and we had three kids and are still very happy and in love after 11 years.
@@simhthmss Did you read the comment? If it was a scam, his current life is the payoff and it works for both of them,so...
That was an investment
My uncle got a mail order bride from Russia When i was a little girl. When my parents were talking about the upcoming wedding my child brain was blown that you could "buy" a partner. Lol come to find out he only paid for her plain ticket and moving expenses. Theyre still married and have an adult child and a teenage child. Her parents come visit every couple years. They're very happy and i think ots interesting
The problem today is all the scams.....while there are a few companies who truly want to create a happy couple, the vast majority are only out to fleece the guy for every penny before he wizened up. I've seen many exposes on these companies and they have a team of writers, buy photos, and post numerous fake profiles. Luring men in with promises of a hot euro wife.
The only real way to do it is to simply travel to the Ukraine etc and meet the old fashioned way. Only there, the fact that you're north american, makes you infinitely more attractive. I have heard that Poland is the same way. Literally 10 attractive women for each man and the men are arrogant buffoons. The real problem is even an average man is looked over by even those desperate to leave or relocate.
@@muskokamike127 They don’t hate men over there, that’s the difference. Men were not repopulated from the wars, so there are more women than men. The women still want to get married but because there is no obesity epidemic, the average polish/ukrainian girl is attractive so there are a ton of choices for the men and too much competition for the women. The women are so much nicer there it will make your head spin.
@@HagakureJunkie I've heard that from guys who have travelled there. (that they're nicer).
I think it might be the fact that N/A women are so spoiled and self absorbed that we think if a woman isn't mean, she's "nice" lol
Teens aren't children
@@MrBooster999 well maybe not to the majority of people, but you will always be a child to your parents and sometimes some close family members will still consider teens as children especially if they are under 18.
So what you're really saying is we've always had Tinder...it was just a lot slower back in the day.
That's a good way to see it. Lol
Also, OG Tinder could actually be used for kindling when you were finished with it.
tinder has become a hook up site what any man including myself will not use for anyone that looks for a long time relationship or marriage. i mill never consider a american woman to marry for many many many reasons. if divorce laws change to become just and equal then maybe but i will not hold my breath on that one because i know i will become blue and die.
@@henrybourdon6712 There are ways to protect yourself from divorce laws if you are willing to get the right contracts 'n shit. America loves paper work so if your willing to give them what they want you can typically make laws work out in your favor
@@kingofpotato9 Lol. The judges toss that shit out the window dude. Can only marry foreign
Hot women in my neighborhoods want to meet me! Internet says so and Internet never lies! :D
I see those at the most inconvenient time. While I'm busied and focused on another matter
I live in a tiny town and it's claiming so and so is nearby, waiting to meet me. It's 3 am, I wander out in the yard. Nope, no lights on. I was shattered, I was SURE they wouldn't lie. However, as soon as this Nigerian prince sends me my money, I'm gonna go the mail order bride route. I'm saving up stamps, now.
post more dude we need the laughs
They're desperate to meet me too, and I'm a fem!
The number one lie told on the Internet is I have read the terms and conditions
The dating pool was too "shallow and wide"! 🤣🤣🤣
greedy and fat
I filled out the forms and sent my picture to the lonely hearts agency and a couple of weeks later I got a letter with my picture and a note that said thanks but we're NOT that lonely
Sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield joke.
Ive had that same experience 3 times now with 3 different agencies. I guess I'll just die alone.
Exactly the way I’m feeling right now, like no one that I find attractive will ever be attracted to me and it’s too late for me... very depressing!
@@bryanbrett8943 it's ok bro.... maybe you can work your way up to moderator on the Incel forum
there are lonely women out there too...
for example,
perhaps an late 50s woman,
twice abandoned by husbands not understanding their marriage commitment means keeping their commitment.
Intelligent, educated, God loving,
used to be somewhat pretty, not as physically capable as in younger years, but enjoys and craves to be sharing life's experiences with a life partner and not alone. 🙏
So the original mail order bride was essentially the late 1800s version of online dating
That's only the point he brought up multiple times..
Or on line dating is the contemporary version of 1800's Mail order bride-ing.
ads on newspapers, even
@@julianfell666 i like this better
Its mail order spies you dummies
A friend of mine ordered a wife. When he told me what he had done I said "You can't just order a wife!" He replied "You are wrong. I can and did" I WAS wrong, he could AND he did. He was former military and very firm that he wanted a 1950's style wife. (marriage number 3) He was convinced that overseas women respected and obeyed their men more than American women.
The morale of this story is if you want a 1950's style American wife - don't go to Russia.
Useless Cause guessing the wife he ordered didn’t pan out?
Haaaaa, great story
@@xxXthekevXxx She said Nyet! That was divorce number 4. Apparently women all over the world don't want to cater to him. :-)
Latvia?
I wonder where some men get that idea that woman were just cleaning and sex.
This is a TH-cam video that could cause massive trouble when seen in my history on the family TV.
I know a woman who everyone says was a mail order bride and she’s actually so in love and happy with her husband. It’s the sweetest thing. ♥️
I worked with an East Indian family who had a construction company (among others). The grandparents were arranged and they'd been together for 60 years. The eldest son had a russian wife and I swear she was a mail order bride. They asked me to go over to their place and set up a massive new tv for them. Grandpa sat on the couch to see about positioning and grandma came in from the kitchen, sat right down next to him, took his hand in hers and rested her head on his shoulder. It was so sweet.
They had an incredibly attractive daughter. I'm talking runway model beautiful. I'm talking causing traffic accident beautiful. I heard a rumor that she was quite the B*tch. The eldest son let it on to me that the family had sent her back to India for an arranged marriage and a month after the wedding, he sent her home because of her demeanor. I ended up having a few run ins with her myself and she was the literally the WORST person (male or female) I'd ever had to deal with and I've dealt with some real winners.
One day we were standing outside their building talking about a project and the sister walks up. The eldest nods his head to her a couple of times to signal "hey hey, you, her, what about it"? lol I shook my head vigorously NOOOOOOO he rolled his eyes. When she left he said "No"? I said "not only no, but NOT ON YOUR LIFE no" lol He said "this is driving my parents nuts...they so want her married off but they can't even offer $100,000.00 to a guy to do it......hint hint hint" I said "make it $1,000,000.00" he just shook his head and walked away lol.....
im so mad at the losers that douced the poor guy in sulfur.
I laughed, I'd do the same thing if I was with em.
They are long dead, what are you mad at?
Just Sulfur not sulfuric acid lol, still mean as fuck but sulfur just has a horrible dead odour.
I know, that's pretty sick.
@Siyovaxsh En-sipad-zid-ana It can touch a nerve for some people. They see it as bullying or assault or something along those lines.
Getting “Cat-Fished” was a lot worse a long time ago, who would’ve thought🤣😂
Yes once you knew you were being duped, it was a long train ride or carriage ride home.
Trying to talk my wife into getting us one.
A family friend was able to leave the orphanage two years early by marrying a complete stranger at 16 who was bride shopping at the orphanage. He wasn't the affectionate type, but he took good care of her, and left a comfortable pension behind.
Do you know anymore orphan girls
O.o that's actually a thing?!
this seems like a story not based in america.
Wow what a sicko.
Who goes to check out children when they are "bride shopping"??
soo catfishing was a thing even back in old timely days... XD
Yeah alot of things that exist today just not as fast in communication or technology.. trolling been around for hundreds of years before the the internet
Yes.... male order brides
@@iterumconare4258 imagine opening the box and a big ole dong pops out
@@tuxievous420 Actually men were the first to wear wigs (that made them look like woman) and dressed and high heels, not sure about the dress but high heels were made for easy access to horses, men were also the first to use make up, in other words in medieval times men were more like woman than woman, and traps probably existed on a consistent scale.
@@Nezha_Main yeah I read on that but now it’s organized so if you go to a red light district you’ll get a phat muffin but if you go to a blue light district you’ll get a phat salami across your face unfortunately
My cousin who died of cancer 4 years ago met his wife on a website based on finding foreign women. She was Chinese and they eventually met in person in China. They got married within a month of meeting. She moved to the US. They were happily married for 5 years before my cousin died. She was there for him throughout the entire fight for cancer and was deeply hurt and mourned my cousin. She's still apart of the family and we treat her like anybody else.
Poor thing. I hope she finds another husband. When she's through morning.
or a happy single life together with the family.
Poor thing but I'm proud of her and got my respect that she truly loved him instead of staying there for awhile and rhen divorce him she did a good job and sorry for her
Very informative, answered a lot of the questions I had. Asking for a friend of course...
Great video, very informative and helpful.
I am from Chile, living in Germany with my German husband. We met while studying abroad in Scotland, so not a mail order bride here. Since I moved to Germany I've been hearing lots of horror stories of guys that bring brides from Latin-America, Asia or Africa just to keep them locked in their house and abuse them at will. And whenever I mention I'm not feeling great or I have some problem, many people automatically ask if my husband is being good to me, like they always assume the worst about him. But all of the German/foreign couples I've met so far are stable, normal couples. One of them met through one of those latina brides websites. I guess it's the bad apples that get the most publicity, but not the majority. That doesn't mean the horror stories I've heard aren't real, so girls please make sure you know someone before moving to another country to be with them, and make sure you always have a way out should anything happen.
"Everyone involved in the making of this video is now being chased around the internet being offered advertisements for mail order brides." LOL
im one step ahead with ad-block!
They should advertise where they are desperately needed.... the Incel forum
@@shannondove9029 can’t do that to the poor brides!!!
@@FreekHoekstra but they would be put to good use
I didn't even finish watching it before they started coming in. Thanks
Very interesting, you do indeed learn something everyday, thank you.
Wow. I guess I assumed that all those agencies were just scams.
I actually liked hearing those old time singles adds. Especially the honest bachelor guy. Hope it worked out for him
Way back then those agencies were probably good but now its just a big business , with 99% being scam sites , stay away from them , they will take you for everything you have , i know from experience although they did not get everything as i realised soon after traveling to an ex soviet country and experiencing it first hand
@@MrTarmonbarry what site is the 1%? I cant find one...
@ David Thomas I too am interested in which site is legit. Where do they find the girls for that 90 Day Fiancé show?
@@xandercrews4729 I'd like to know myself. Been single a long time and I really don't like the women in my area or country. Would like to meet someone from another culture.
@@gothix5868 Mostly I just want a young hot Brazilian wife, and there's not many of those here in the midwest. I really don't feel like getting married, but I'm ok with being married a few years and getting divorced. She'll still be young enough to start over and have a family, while also being a legal citizen. And I'll have 2 years with a fine piece of ass, that's a win-win.
Poorly spelled as it is, the first letter is easily better-written and more sincere than most online guff.
You realize that spelling changes over time and not even 50 years ago words were spelled differently than today.
+Timothy Rodowicz That's not what that was.
Uh, that was the 19th century: the spelling rules changed little from then to now. 'right" was supposed to be spelled "right" back then, not "rite": I read technical manuals form back then, when researching the history of firearms, as well as Paleontology. And I can refer you to Samuel Johnson's dictionary, completed in 1756.
And anyway, as I implied very clearly: it's irrelevant. What matters is what he conveyed. And that's the point: it's not your education that makes you who you are. It's your character. And that guy was a very frank fellow.
Online dating requires guff. You're sending your message out to women who are being swamped with thousands of guff messages so the only way to get your messages seen by anyone is to cast as wide a net as possible and that means short, spammed guff.
Pretty sure they were being charged by the letter in those ads. Newspaper ads used to do that.
My lonely ass: I might try this
Me: fuck I need money to try this
Its been a year, any luck?
Yea let the men know if it worked
Don't forget to post the results on the Incel forum
Omg that dude who wanted a wife that he could make an angel out of was so sweet,,, I'd date him
Sure you would. What if he was under 6 feet tall, would you date him then?
Kinda sounds like something a.clever serial killer would say… “…a girl I can make an angel out of.”
As in, a girl that he will kill & therefore, he will “make her an angel”.
I'm a dude and I would at least let him buy me a drink. I mean, everyone likes to feel wanted now and then...lol
I don't know, I think he sounded super creepy.
Well there's only one way to find out...looks like I'm ordering a wife!
The one my friend got from Beijing was a nightmare. Good luck.
Good luck with the return policy.
Chinese women are notorious. Just watch ADVchinas video on why and you would understand it better.
Shit, why not? Buy the ticket, take the ride!
Aspect Science why I keep seeing you?
I like that someone actually did real solid research into this. Nice job.
My dad nearly did it, but not because he was rich or super traditional. He was in his early 60s and had no plans of ever dating again. He had a friend who immigrated and found out the man had a 30 year old female cousin who was trying to immigrate from Mexico. Dad offered to marry her and let her live in his spare bedroom if she kept the house clean (he had a bad back) and was willing to cook Mexican food a few times a month (one of his favorites). She could go out, get a job, date, and do as she pleased otherwise as long as she didn't bring a man back there (or was gay). He ended up changing his mind before anything concrete happened because he decided it was weird AND because she was overweight.
I never said my dad was a good man. He is a sexist racist islamaphobic homophobic transphobic (unless they were transmen because THAT makes sense) close-minded verbally-abusive violent bigot with over two dozen various guns, 3 bows, and a crossbow, none of which are kept in a safe and some of which have been pointed at people! Never been to jail. Grows a massive garden every year to donate the food. His community loves him.
People are complex, but most like to put others in a box of either good or bad even though people don't work that way.
so you coulda just made it short and said you had daddy issues.
@@daydreamers8254 No. His/her story was much more interesting.
Wow in Australia we tend to associate "mail order brides" as women from Singapore and similar areas. I'm not sure how the arrangement happened but growing up in the 90's in Australia I knew of quite a few families with this arrangement. They were all very happy too! From memory.
Yes, my filipina aunt was one...she is the sweetest and the nicest person ever...my 2nd mom..she ang my uncle had been married for over 30yrs now...
How sweet
Me also 31 years this month.
Filipina women are well know for respecting, appreciating andloving their US husbands. Plus they're hard workers.
@@828enigma6 jbw
Very late but same with my aunt too, she's a filipina maid order bride and her husband ordered her from Korea, luckily he wasn't abusive or anything like that, he's actually a great guy (I lived with them for a month). From what she said, it was a lineup of women and basically the agency is gonna take pictures of them and the men gets to pick who they want. She found success in Korea but found out she had stage 3 breast cancer a few years ago now, she went back to the Philippines with her kids to live there for good (she wants to rest peacefully there.)
Wow... so catfishing goes back centuries? Good to know people have always been assholes.
>recalls the catfishman greentext
Let's be honest here, being an asshole is something as old as humanity itself
To quote Zach Weinersmith, "Where there is life, there are assholes."
To be fair, assholes are one of life's oldest inventions.
Yeah, the point of the comic that quote is taken from is that the invention of assholes is an inevitable result of natural selection. And to be funny.
This is awesome!
I'm printing out these ads fron 19century, they're so funny and refreshing. :)
Two friends of mine are mail order brides from the Philippines. Both are happy. One is now a minister! My great grandmother was 16 when she married my great grandfather, sight unseen) in an arranged marriage. They were married for 60 years until both died within a year of each other. They were a perfect complementary couple.
My exboss had a Russian mail order bride for his 6th wife. We always figured no american woman would have him. Rich as hell but a vile human being.
Trump was your ex boss?
SeedlingNL god damn I was going to crack a Melania joke but you beat me to the punch and just went straight for the obvious trump joke
So then his previous 5 wives were from where?
Anne Telesco Most capitalists are.
+SeedlingNL 😂
Knew a man who had a mail order bride. He was wheelchair bound, in his late 60’s, and needed a live in nurse. His family wanted him to also have companionship and took a very different path to get it. She was from the Philippines and trained as a nurse (her training would not be recognized in Canada) and she was a lovely woman. From what I saw she seemed quite happy and she was well aware what she was getting into -she was even sent all his medical records etc before they decided to marry. He died about seven years after they married and she inherited all him assets -which were extensive- and still seen as family by everyone.
Jessica H that crossed out portion is hilarious 😂👍
Different path indeed. It's amazing how many "nurses" there are in 3rd world countries lol
Thats awesome
So.. how did she kill him?
I think w/e poison she used took too long or he was too strong.
Joking aside, a lot of Filipino women are nurses, I worked with some Filipino guys and all their wives were nurses, even they thought it was funny.
I'm glad someone else researched this.
Never have I been more surprised at the content of one of your videos. Brovo!
A guy I know, that had more money than brains, ended up sending $1000's to a woman in Eastern Europe to come here and marry him. She took him to the cleaners.
That's a whole lot of dry cleaning!
He should have tried dating a woman that already owned her own laundry mat.
@@hydrolito fooking idoit🤣
Those Eastern European women are basically con artists.
@Ray Rictor actually it's just fraud hate. She was preying on his desperation.
A mail order bride was the heroine of the Newberry Award winning children’s book series “Sarah, Plain and Tall” by Patricia MacLachlan.
Haven't read the books, but really enjoyed the tv series.
The award-winning movie and the book are great :)
this is one of those topics thats always fascinating
Not exactly a "mail-order" situation but when Canada was starting out entire ships of women were sent over to be brides for the men. Stuff you missed in History class did a fascinating episode on The Filles du Roi (King's Daughters) that I found very interesting and slightly disturbing.
They also shipped over whole boats filled with orphans to fill out the population and get rid of street rats in London.
I heard 10% of Canadians today are descended from these stolen orphans- Canada is wild man.
$6-10,000 is actually a lot more affordable than I thought it would be.
Keep in mind that's just start up costs, it's the maintenance fees that get you every time ;)
And it's more incentive to not get divorced after however much you shoveled into getting married in the first place! =)
Lol I know right. A partner for life and cheaper than a new car. No insurance and depreciation.
I'd prefer a lease,upgrade to a newer model every 5 years 😂
Thats alot to pay for a spy
What an eloquent fellow that 19th century lonely guy was. Dude Puts the entire tinder, bumble and okcupid platforms to shame. I wonder if he found that special lady. Oh how I wish he did.
Agreed!
In the 19th century, eloquence was highly valued.
The joke @ 5:50 was the best joke you’ve ever told and I listen to all your channels lol
When I retired, I spent a year living on Chix Beach, in Southeastern Va, just down the road from Dam Neck, where the Seals train. The condo cluster was a favorite of retired Seals, and the morning walks on the beach were punctuated with quite the selection of statuesque Ukrainian women. . .
In 2003/2004 I dated and then married a Russian woman I met on a Russian Dating site. This is today's version of "mail order brides". To answer the question posed in the title of this video (as far as U.S. rules are concerned), no, you can't just order one and then marry them. About the only step that gets accelerated from a "regular" immigration process is that a "Fiance Visa" can be issued that bypasses the normal lottery process other immigrants have to go through. The fiance still has to be screened by the U.S. Consulate in her home country prior to being approved for a visa and, once in the United States, the couple MUST be married within 90 days of entry. Even though accelerated, the process for visa approval can still take a year from the time the U.S. citizen initially applies. The U.S. citizen can expect to pay upwards of $1,500 in fees for the visa and other paperwork required to convert a foreign national into a naturalized U.S. citizen. Once married, then prepare for about another year of paperwork to get through the rest of the Permanent Resident/Naturalization process. So at least as far as the U.S. is concerned, the concept of a "mail order bride" no longer means what it used to.
Fadamor Yeah, but I am Filipino and Black...and grew up in the states. My wife is straight up Filipina, we did the long way, because I thought it would be better that way...but friends told us "You should've did the fiance visa, it would've been faster".
What was the russian dating site?
If she is, then she got a raw deal. She earned herself a state license as a dental hygienist and spends her days fiddling in the putrid mouths of people with no clue about oral health care.
Wait what so all them pop ups are real damn! Missed out on some hot things
Fadamor sounds like great cover
This video is designed to keep you watching, not figuring out whether you actually can order a wife or not.
What? A product is using a flashy name and clever structure in order to make people consume said product? Never heard of that before.
Seriously though. Every single service and product is using techniques like this. Movies, games, TV, newspapers etc. And I think that this channel is very tame compared to most videos on TH-cam.
Siegmernes , “They all do it!!!”
Then they’re all immoral assholes as is anyone defending them with the excuse “everyone does it”.
@@brutusjudas5842 Immoral? That's a bit of an over exaggeration don't you think?
Ilham Maulana , no. Attitudes like yours are why it exists in the first place. Condemn bad behavior and watch it decrease.
@@brutusjudas5842 So quick to judge aren't you. Maybe you should look yourself in the mirror and question your own morals.
3:02 unrelated but this "illiterate" man's spelling of english words makes more sense than the official spelling of english words....
Mad Masseur in the era and times that this was written, was the correct and proper way. But I get what you mean
I used to work at a bar, and when someone asked for “fiddy” bucks cash out I’d intentionally act confused until they said FIFTY properly
Well yeah. That way is how the words are said which is the only way he would know how to write it if he didnt have modern levels of education.
@@leomadero562 in the letter he said he had a common school education.
Is it really not that obvious that he is writing that way because newspaper ads charge you by the character?
For a second I thought you were talking about Simon himself and came here to defend his honour :’)
"are mail order brides real?"
The one I know who freely admits to being one is definitely real 🤷
I got a wife online with an ad that said simply "I earn high six figure salary yearly!" I failed to mention the six figures included the cents.
😂🤣
Hey, you forgot to include those links to the mail order husband sites. Maybe I can get shipped off to a tropical island.
Or maybe to a Scottish clan instead
@@roseanndavidson3706 Which clan do you belong to and how firm is that offer?
@@timothyneiswander3151 wow are you ok
@@Sebastian--2 Now that I am living in the Scottish highlands, I am right as rain.
@@timothyneiswander3151 wtf? Is this a joke😂
One of the MOST interesting videos in a long time; not to say the others are not top notch, but this is above that. Cool.
A friend of mine met his first wife this way. She was from Kazakhstan. She stayed with him just long enough to make it look real to the government, falsely accused him of abusing her so that she could stay in the U.S. after she got a divorce.
1800's trolling at its best
there was some dank memeing in those days
First catfish
I really wish you could be one of the Google assistant voices.
Mary Hildreth I think he has a audiobook out somewhere if you just want any to listen to him read
@@Dancinfanz Can I get a link to that? I'm interested
Listen to some of the 2016 videos. Proper mic placement but mostly audio compression does a lot to the tone of his voice.
Mary Hildreth Think he said in a video way back you can get him as your sat nav. That’d be awesome.
Him and the guy from Coldfusion.
Yes, this video definitely helped me realize, things really don't change, they just evolve.... Slightly.
My wife was a mail order bride from the Philippines we’ve been together for seven years now and I’ve never been happier.
how did you do it
my mailbox isnt big enough
Order an asian woman. *runs away giggling*
Order a fetus from Mexico instead.
Ive heard midget wives are on sale... 50% off
I like how the previous comments are about smaller brides (and...a fetus), but nobody's thought of building a larger mailbox. O_o
Order them in pieces. I found one in Hannibalecterdating dot com
I was engaged to a Russian girl but it didn't work out. I defaulted on the payments and she got repossessed.
I met a nice girl at an exorcism last year. She too got repossessed. Chin up old bean.
😂😂😂
+Mike O'Barr In Russia, repossession defaults the payments.....
You prob lucked out ... i heard russian females age like crap.
@@thatoneguyffs that's why you do a trade in every now and then
I just randomly saw this now my wife’s gonna be chasing me around with a spoon thinking I’m looking for an upgrade lol
Loved the historic background! ❤️
I have to say that I love the direction this channel has taken. The videos are waaay more informative and answer questions that I never even would have thought of. Superb job.
Met my second husband on an online dating site. He always introduced me as his mail order bride
He could also be joking? Dunno.
Farmersonly.com?
That’s because he’s a lad 💪🏼
I've been wondering about this for forever, this video explanation definitely exceeded my expectations. (worth all the incoming ads)
Very superior segues into adverts!
I'm actually being chased around the web by ads for Grammarly.
Still just as annoying, tho. lel
Not so bad compared to the easy web hosting ads presented by some dude convinced of his sexiness. I guess it's too early to count on YT's algorithms to accurately guess gender and orientation of all of its viewers.
I keep getting a Hawaiian Tony Robins wannabe telling me how to make millions on the internet.
I feel your pain.
yep, grammarly and wix adds all over the place. These companies need to be boycotted and go bankrupt.
Amazon Bride
2 day shipping
Great return policy
before I was married I actually looked into mail order brides... no, it turns out you can't just buy a human being online and have them delivered to your house. You have to actually travel, go meet them, and convince them to marry you just like you would any local woman lol
Very interesting!
Hi could you please make a video on
"when and why did popcorn become a staple to cinemas? "
Thanks :)
I was going to ask this!
@@karenhaller9988 PBS The Origin of Everything has a video on this subject.
If I remember it started during the depression. They would have community shows in the park and sell little bags of popcorn for a nickel
I believe he has done a vid on this
because it's cheap as hell and
started when people were pooret
"You know you're not as pretty as I dreamed you'd be,
But then I'm not no handsome fancy Dan.
And out here looks are really not important.
It's what's inside a woman when she's up against the land."
-- Mail Order Annie (Harry Chapin. 1973)
Wow, that came from deep brain! Thanks
Bet he regreted his poem after he realized he was out there with nothing to cuddle up with but a plow horse for a wife.
@@dickJohnsonpeter it was a song, a good one!
After months of COVID lock down I would settle for my neighbors showing some face skin and actually talking in my general direction.
Yes, it's true. Although some assembly may be required.
I feel bad for your stock photo finder guy. They must pour over some of the cheeziest and uninteresting photos on the internet.
generally they aren't found but purposely created for use as stock photos, and are typically well organized on purpose built websites
"Pore" over. 😀
They can buy those pics in bulk. 20 to 50 bucks will net you a ton of stock images.
If I recall it is just Simon and one other woman working on the show, unless they have expanded.
Just Johnny they have a team to research their topics, one of the member is the well known Karl Smallwood from Factfiend channel.
Spent the last 15 years as a mail order groom. So far no takers.
Enjoy your honey moon you two! :p
banderfargoyl that true? I wonder why that is? I’m actually really curious as I’m getting older and would like to get married I am a female and I was wrong about my answer to that question because I answered no LOL :-) I find this topic really interesting I learned something new from this channel every day
I am interested in a mail order husband. I live in Japan.
Sakura Umeda 🤔
Dom of Passioniate allure Not really into dominant guys....
Another banger Simón.
I remember hearing a story on the radio, on one of the older radio drama shows, which was based on this but set in the future. Sorry but I don't really remember the name of the story, and I vaguely recall the term "Radio Mystery Theater" but I'm not sure if it was on this.
The story. It is set in the future and two con men are on Mars running a mail order bride buisness. These two are in a remote area of Mars in a mining colony composed only of men... And they are making arrangements to bring wives from Earth for them.
The pair had signed up desperate women from Earth that wanted, well, they were living in bad situations or they were less than plain-looking and men had no interest in them as wives OR women.
The two con men saw how plain they were and substituted pictures from a modeling SCAM they had done earlier for the women's pictures.
The miners chose wives and paid for the price of a round trip ticket plus the con mens "Finders Fees" plus an amount to be given to the women themselves. But it would take several weeks for the women to arrive, and the men were getting very nervous about the situation: The men were concerned that their "gorgeous " wives... Remember that they had been given modeling pics of attractive women... wouldn't like life in their remote area of the planet. It was rough hard work and there were none of the perfumes,clothing stores, and the like the men thought their prospective wives were used to.
Now the two con men had run this SCAM before and they always left a day or so before the wives were to arrive and BOTH SIDES realized that they had been conned.
But not this time... The miners delayed them until their wives were to arrive on the only transport that went to their mining colony.
The two con men thought that they were going to be killed by both sides.
However, when the wives began arriving, the men were overjoyed to see that they were NOT fashion models but rugged women like themselves. And after they talked together, that these women were used to doing hard work and living in conditions the men were living in.
On the women's side, they were getting something they had never had in their lives... Men actively wooing and romancing them. And being totally serious about it.
Instead of being horribly killed, the two con men became heroes to both sides, and attended as honored guests all of the marriages that were performed. Not one woman went back to Earth.
In other places, their scam had resulted in enraged people on both sides... But in this case, it led to rock solid marriages and children about a year later.
Why did this happen? The story ends with one of the con men saying that the women who had signed up socially were "Below Plain looking" BUT the men who had signed on to work in a remote mine on Mars were likewise socially "Below Plain Looking" as well. Then finished it by saying that it was like running the lead bars painted gold scam, only to discover that the mark was far more interested in lead than in gold.
Oddly enough that story is indicative of a major issue facing society today. I have found more often than not, plain looking women think they deserve a 10 gq investment banker. There's a term for them: 410's....fours that think their are 10's. That has been my experience since the 80's....it started with a book called "don't settle" and it taught women that they shouldn't settle on a "good man" they should wait until their dream man comes along.....hence why the most unhappy person in the west is a 42 year old woman with a successful career, no husband and no kids.
A good hardworking man isn't good enough for most these days.
@@muskokamike127 in that I agree. Wealthly men have wives and mistresses. But it is well known that many women chase after wealthly or important men because they want to get something out of them.
In Hollywood there are many starlet- wannabes who'd have wild sex with any "Producer" in order to get a movie role. Even if the "producer" was an obnoxious jerk and uglier than Quasimodo on a bad day.
These women are shooting for the wealthy upper crust lifestyle and would go for money instead of love.
I believe the statistics are 80% of women are hunting less than 30% of men.
The irony being that if you are the cream of the crop you are usually high maintenance/unfaithful and egotistical. Less is more as they say, so most men that women wouldn't look twice at are the men they SHOULD be looking for.
Reminds me of a matchmaker/marriage councillor joke. It's long so I won't write it if there is no interest.
@@silicabeastmaster1175 so true... And it includes women chasing after men AND men who use their power to victimize specific women. Like the old "Casting Couch" jokes, the many "Bikini" babes movies, and the entitled women known as "Karen's"
@@zaphodthenth Funny enough; in the modern day women are more likely to be unfaithful than men.
I haven't had a gf for years and girls call me a freak. The thing is...I COULD get a gf if I wanted to. But I don't. Western women are like fast food dating. They always want to move onto the next thing. The quote they used in this video about the dating pool being wide but shallow...I agree 100%. They all say/want the same things and it's boring. "I want to travel. I don't want kids. I want to focus on a career. I want to enjoy my youth."
That's fine I guess. But as a traditional man that only has mild progressive values in that I believe a relationship should be 50/50...its not what I am looking for. And when you ask them what they bring to the table in the relationship...most can't answer that beyond beauty/sex. Cool; but I want more than that. I want commitment, trust, I want to know you have my back as I have yours. I want to know that you aren't going to go sleep with a co-worker or one of my friends after we have an argument over a bill or who forgot to take outh the trash or why I couldn't make dinner with family. I want someone who wants someone who is going to be as loyal to them no matter how hard things get.