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  1. 1. When you met your SO, were you looking specifically for a foreign SO?

    • Yes, I knew what I wanted, and that's what I looked for...nationality wise
      14
    • No...I just stumbled upon them - I had no intentions of finding someone of a different nationality.
      77
  2. 2. If you were specifically looking for a foreign spouse, how did you find them?

    • a website
      11
    • went to the country to go "Fishing"
      3
    • Newspaper
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    • Other
      5
    • Does Not apply to me
      72
  3. 3. If you were looking for a specific nationality...if it doesn't work out...will you go find ANOTHER of the same nationality?

    • Sure...if at first you don't succeed...right?
      11
    • Nope - once bitten, twice shy
      2
    • This doesn't apply to me
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Can we generalize about AMerican Women? Seems to be the hot topic these days

Yes, American women are of low moral character. :lol:

I think that has been established :P oh...and y'all can't cook for sh!t :lol:

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The thread about why men are looking overseas for wives...

I really think that only applies to two groups of people..and I think this poll will prove me right :)

It's nice to know that there's an axe to grind behind every poll.

I can't fairly answer your poll, so I'm gonna put this out there and you can "axe" me anything you'd like... LOL

SO #1 -- I was not looking for specifically a foreign woman. Although, I goty involved with a Canadian woman, from chatting online. We'd been "together" for a bit over a year, but never went through the Visa process. I don't consider the Canadian woman as "foreign" really but I'm going to count her as SO #1. When the relationship ended, I put myself out there on some websites...

SO - #2 Somehow I bungled my way across websites and wound up on one with Russian women. One woman of interest started writing to me. Somehow we managed to stumble across each other through this website and what the heck, I decided to go meet her. It was an adventure, she was Russian, and wow, I'd always wanted to go visit Eastern Europe. I loved being in Russia and I made a LOT of Russian friends, both male and female while I was there. I learned a lot, language, culture, country, history, etc. Even have a picture of me walking through Red Square with a can of Coca-Cola in my hand. I call it "the Triumph of Capitalism..."

But, unfortunately our relationship ended before any Visa could be issued. I won't go into the history of why. My Russian friends (both male and female) immediately started introducing me to other eligible women. I wasn't even really looking. One Russian woman friend sent me a link to a website, to refer me to some of her other friends to "check out". She knew many of them, all of whom were looking and eligible and she knew I was single. She wanted to "set me up". Much like some American women I know.

So I opened the front page of the website she sent me and WOW! Who was this woman, I absolutely had to know who she was and get to know her.

SO #3 - My Russian woman friend then arranged that we could get to know each other. Again I wasn't really looking other than generally just kinda looking around, and Blam! there she was. But mostly we were introduced by a mutual friend. This was a Russian woman living in America who had many contacts back in her home city, which is where this woman was from. Call it combined "website profile" along with "introduction by mutual friend". Wasn't looking for anyone in particular but she knocked my socks off and I just HAD to know her.

Well, as all we know from the other thread, we did the K-1 thang, we got married, the marriage tanked (for multiple reasons, most of which will never be posted on VJ).

Now, it's 2006. After having almost five years invested in Russian language, culture, history, experience, many trips over there, made many many friends of Russian ethnicity both here in the US and in Russia, books and language classes, being immersed in several Russian relationships, girlfriends, pen-pals, "dating", even an ex-wife....

Yes, I'm specifically looking to meet another Russian woman.

Oh by the way, my ethnicity is half Eastern-European, which also might explain why I feel so comfortable in a culture that is different than our own, and why, I'm told, my linguistic skills are excellent.

SO #4?? -- Yes, I'm specifically looking to meet a Russian woman as by now I'm very very comfortable with them, regardless of the fact my last relationship (marriage) tanked.

Just because a relationship tanked didn't mean I was giving up on all women, so just because my relationship with my Russian wife tanked, doesn't mean I'm giving up on all Russian Women.

Oh and by the way, I've dated and made plenty of friends, American women where I live, during the interludes between involvements and SO's.

The place where I work has about 76% female employees to male, I'm not ugly, I can meet women mostly wherever I choose.

I have many many female friends. I was raised with sisters. Most of my life, most of my close friends have been female. And you know, none of them seem to feel that I'm some sort of misogynstic ####### either.

They seem to feel I'm a damn nice guy who really deserves to have someone special in his life. And they enjoy hearing about my adventures, and what the hell, if I died tomorrow, my cat wouldn't be able to spend my money, so frankly, I'm enjoying spending it on exotic trips overseas, such as Moscow, Paris, Rome, Prague or other exotic locales I never would have gone had I not begun to consider a "foreign" partner in my life.

Hope your "axe" stays sharp.

-- Dan

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Can we generalize about AMerican Women? Seems to be the hot topic these days

Yes, American women are of low moral character. :lol:

I think that has been established :P oh...and y'all can't cook for sh!t :lol:

Have we mentioned materialistic and superficial?

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Can we generalize about AMerican Women? Seems to be the hot topic these days

Yes, American women are of low moral character. :lol:

I think that has been established :P oh...and y'all can't cook for sh!t :lol:

Have we mentioned materialistic and superficial?

and fat a$$es....

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I voted yes, because the whole reason I went to work at El Ranchero was to meet a cute Mexican :lol: . However, if chances were that I hadn't met anyone there, I would not have actively searched out a Mexican on the Internet or gone to Mexico or anything like that. Just so happened I found what I was looking for very close to home. Of course, I wasn't looking for a SO-just a boyfriend. Never imagined I might actually marry a Mexican, but that's what happened. As for if it doesn't work out, well I don't really like to think about that, but I might be more likely to fall in love with another Mexican.

Don't let the sunshine spoil your rain...just stand up and COMPLAIN!

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No axe to grind, but when someone posts a thread about how despicible American women are, and how ALL men are looking overseas to import wives, I just like to set the record straight.

So far, only TWO are specifically LOOKING for foreign spouses...so not sure how accurate the other posters hypothesis is.

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Can we generalize about AMerican Women? Seems to be the hot topic these days

Yes, American women are of low moral character. :lol:

I think that has been established :P oh...and y'all can't cook for sh!t :lol:

Have we mentioned materialistic and superficial?

and fat a$$es....

and too outspoken & not subserviant.

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Can we generalize about AMerican Women? Seems to be the hot topic these days

Yes, American women are of low moral character. :lol:

I think that has been established :P oh...and y'all can't cook for sh!t :lol:

Have we mentioned materialistic and superficial?

and fat a$$es....

and too outspoken & not subserviant.

Have no interest in family life

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No axe to grind, but when someone posts a thread about how despicible American women are, and how ALL men are looking overseas to import wives, I just like to set the record straight.

So far, only TWO are specifically LOOKING for foreign spouses...so not sure how accurate the other posters hypothesis is.

Well I could post about how despicable ONE ~Russian~ woman was, but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to consider ever meeting another one...

But yes, I think at this point I -am- specifically looking for a foreign spouse, even after the last one was a total and complete disaster...

Call me emotionally masochistic if you like ;)

And I don't think American women are despicable, nor Canadian, nor French, nor Romanian, nor Czech...

But I'll soon be back in Moscow again. We'll see if she's "foreign SO #4" or not...

-- Dan

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Can we generalize about AMerican Women? Seems to be the hot topic these days

Yes, American women are of low moral character. :lol:

I think that has been established :P oh...and y'all can't cook for sh!t :lol:

Have we mentioned materialistic and superficial?

and fat a$$es....

and too outspoken & not subserviant.

Well in that case I think I am an American woman. :lol:

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I wasn't looking for anyone, at all, not even next door or down the street never mind thousands of miles away.

2005

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As for if it doesn't work out, well I don't really like to think about that, but I might be more likely to fall in love with another Mexican.

Well.....if you want to have that kind of discussion.......

I'm pretty sure I could never go back to a relationship with any American Male. European men have more manners and less ego.

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