The ad is pretty offensive. One of the other guarantees is that if they pull a runner within a year, you get a replacement wife-bot at no extra cost. I can’t imagine how I’d feel if I were a Vietnamese woman reading that ad.
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yeah, if you go to Vietnam, ask a local how they feel about Taiwan. I did. They spat on the ground and said “that, that is how we feel about the Taiwanese pig-people”.
Taiwan is importing breeders and also forcing the breeders to work 18 hours a day for the right to breed in Taiwan. It’s unconscionable.
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To be fair, not all of the 72% are mail-order brides.
Many of them started working in Taiwan household, factories and farms, before being courted by a Taiwanese males.
Hey, the story sounded similar like how Mexicans in the US, or East Europeans/North Africans in Western Europe.
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On the bright side, without the SEA breeder program, Taiwan’s birth rate would be even more abysmal.
A while back, I overheard one Taike saying to another “Why don’t you just go buy a Vietnamese wife?”
That ad would get you done for human trafficking in the West.
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It’s pretty brutal isn’t it? “If the bitch runs off, no worries, we’ll get you another one.”
a one year warranty doesn’t sound that great to me, is there an extension program?
Extended warranties aren’t available on all models.
Meh, in that case I’d skip the Vietnamese qt and go for a Japanese one. Call me old fashioned but I still prefer products made in Japan.
Edit: I had a look at the ad. 200k with one year warranty??? That seems like an awful deal to me.
Dude, these are top quality breeders. Guaranteed virgins. Hard workers, good teeth. If you can find a better deal go for it.
He’s just window-shopping. He already has sunk costs in a Taiwanese model.
Exactly, I’m just giving my feedback on the current meimei market situation.
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Fair enough - I stand corrected. Back in the day they all required payment. I wonder if perhaps they’ve gone to an advertising revenue model precisely to avoid legal accusations that they’re pimping? And therein lies the problem - when it comes to basic human needs, people are always going to do what they want to do, and they’ll find a way to do it. The Law can disapprove, but it can’t fix it.
I know how they work, but there are lots of things you can do when you meet people. One of them is to rope them into an MLM scheme or similar, which apparently works very well on a certain type of guy who’s thinking with the small head instead of the big head.
I know. It’s vile. But ask yourself: why does that scenario even exist? Is it because Vietnamese women really, really want to hook up with a fat, sweaty, ill-mannered old TaiKe, or could there be some other explanation? Why do you not see similar advertisements offering Swiss women for sale?
So that would be an aspect of your legal test, would it?
Anyway, as @CTaitung said, the reason is obvious - that’s not the market they’re addressing, so of course they don’t. There are Asian-bride websites where they do write stuff like that in their profiles. What do you think of those websites, where (AFAIK) the men pay the fees and the women can sign up for free? I’ve heard of Filipinas making a living out of this: their day job is to go to the internet cafe, chat with horny foreigners, string them along a bit, and occasionally ask for a few $ to pay for granny’s medicine.
Your problem is that you see obscenity in the poster (as do most of us, for that matter) but you can’t define it. You just “know it when you see it”. So making it illegal just isn’t possible.
Well … that’s not quite true. It is possible. Here’s how it pans out. In the Philippines, citizens can be arbitrarily denied permission to exit the country if the customs guy has even the slightest suspicion they’re going abroad for non-approved purposes. Ostensibly this is to stop human trafficking - in fact Filipinas tend to ‘traffic’ themselves, going abroad as freelance prostitutes - but in reality they’ll stop you if they think you’ve got a foreign job without a government stamp of approval, if you’re female and slightly attractive, or if they’re not the sharpest tool in the box (common one, that) and aren’t entirely sure of the criteria.
In other words, “protecting” people simply results in people being denied basic freedoms. Who ever would have thought?
I suspect Taiwan does have something equivalent to the Advertising Standards Agency that makes ad-hoc decisions on advertisements like the one you object to? If it doesn’t, that would be the sensible route. But you’re still not going to stamp it out. Because flyers. And internet. And more importantly, because Vietnam.
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I hope you don’t mind that I took the liberty of changing a word in the thread title. I had to ask myself, how do you nationalize a citizen?
I left the “ised” spelling intact for you. 
Easy. Call your government the National Socialist something something. Or the Peoples Republic of something something All citizens then become the property of the State.
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Well that was important …Hope you feel better now .
Don’t I have regular privileges so I can just change it back ?
If you like it better that way, I suppose. 
The locker room talk is disgusting.
It’s not pimping.
I feel like we are not even having the same discussion here. Download Tinder on your phone. You’ll see it’s got nothing to do with what you’re saying.
And the fact that Vietnam is poor af makes the whole thing fine? Is that what you’re saying? I guess slave trading should be brought back then … as long as the transaction is agreed upon.
Again, the problem here is the business model. Websites and applications are not comparable as they are all far more autonomous on the user’s part, which is not at all the case for the mail-order bride business.
IF, like you said, such service is really that necessary, at the very least, the agencies ought to be non-profit.
Only to someone with no sense of humor. They were mocking the misogyny, not engaging in it. Can you really not tell the difference? I get the feeling you’d want to ban actors in WWII movies from wearing Nazi uniforms.
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