Why do spammers and Egyptians want Chinese women?

[almostwitty]

As anyone who runs a blog knows, you tend to get a LOT of spam comments, which are luckily filtered out by most blogging systems. However, this particular one caught my eye today:

“the thing i like about asian women are those long flowing straight hair and those chinky eyes”

I really hope that’s not an excerpt from some poor chap’s dating profile, because I doubt he’s going to get much of a lookup. Imagine if your chat-up line was: “Ooooh I just love your chinky eyes”. That’d be pretty much the same as saying “Oooh I just love your nigger lips”.

(And yes, I thought about censoring the n-word from that sentence, but really, if I’m not going to censor the c-word, then I can’t then go and censor the n-word. Complicated racial politics that come into what was initially a simple blogpost about a spam comment. Oh dear.)

But then I wonder why Chinese women are so highly sought-after. Apparently, Egyptian men can now be added to the list of men around the world who want Chinese women. According to the article from Al Arabiya (which was also quoted in BBC News, but I can’t find the link now), Chinese women are prized for their “Obedience and loyalty”. I’ve got three sisters. None of them are particularly obedient, and I have the scars to prove it.

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Comments

[charlycrash.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I can't think of a single Hollywood movie with an Asian male romantic lead.

If you get women of an ethnic minority in a predominantly white nation marrying outside said minority it may be down to nothing more than there being a lot more white men than Asian men. That said, a friend (another Wong, actually) who I sadly have drifted apart from told me that a lot of her BBC female friends didn't particularly want to marry Chinese men because they tend to expect their wives to be the little woman.

[charlycrash.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, I feel really sorry for Asian actors. Whenever you see an Asian character in something or other they're one of about four different stereotypes.

You can just imagine them getting calls from their agents: "Hey, I got you a job!" "Oh yeah? What as?" "Well, it's a.. um.. *cough* ninjakungfumaster BUT IT'S A GREAT JOB"

puts phone down. Jesus, can't I just play a fucking postman or something? Just ONCE?

[almostwitty]

I used to know a Chinese gay actor, who was relatively unique in managing to hit pretty much most of the stereotypes you can think of in both sectors. Very camp, and by day was an accountant.

He'd complain/bitch about Chinese actors being stereotyped. Lo and behold, he ends up being the sing-song Chinese actor with a sing-song voice in Peter Jackson's King Kong. Although he got very well-paid for it.

I used to think Chinese men were the most whiny motherf'kers in the world. Then I fell into a group of Chinese actors.

[charlycrash.livejournal.com]

Ha. Well, to be fair, they do have reason to be.

[almostwitty]

If you get women of an ethnic minority in a predominantly white nation marrying outside said minority it may be down to nothing more than there being a lot more white men than Asian men.

That is undoubtedly the main cause - you have to WANT to marry a Chinese person, in order to marry a Chinese person. Like my cousin.

And yeah, the stereotypical assumption that I, as a Chinese man, want a subservient woman, is somewhat odd. I remember once being asked on a dating profile if I'd be the Chinese master to this guy's wife...