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anonymous
Q: Would you kindly perform this experiment for us?
I don't really want to be associated with this question, so I'm keeping it anonymous. Here it goes:
The poster of another question wanted to know how to find a Chinese wife. Someone answered that he should wear a T-shirt with the words, "I'm looking for a Chinese wife," printed on it in both Chinese and English. Now, sometimes in this forum, we say that Chinese girls are desperate to marry foreign men. Well, why don't we put that to the test? Would one of us kindly wear that T-shirt for a day and report back to us whatever happened? Maybe we'll take bets on what we expect to transpire.
How does that sound?
10 years 2 weeks ago in Relationships - China
Chinese are direct about starting relationships but they aren't THAT direct.
Perhaps if you are handsome and look decently wealthy it might work. And of course, the area you display this shirt in would have to be taken into consideration.
I think mostly, people will laugh at you... some insecure males may try to start fights with you... but it may work...
If it does work I propose the following probabilities:
1% you pick up a good girl with a sense of humor
99% chance you pick up a gold-digger, materialistic/hidden-agenda, narcissist that loves the attention a foreigner would bring her.
My wife wouldn't like me doing the experiment, so let's ask some single guys to try it haha.
jleav14782, is that you ^^
we say that Chinese girls are desperate to marry foreign me.
*Some* women go to great length to make it happen, but others would not touch a foreign man with a barge pole. Some just leave out the option because they fear negative reaction from family/relative/friends.
About wearing the shirt... My mental simulation of the situation goes like this. Many would not quite pay attention to this (very) tacky T-shirt. For most locals, anything which is not right under their nose and not in their interest won't be seen. Any slight potential for unwanted troubles will be avoided. Eventually, some people might mumble about from a very safe distance, and the most courageous will take a picture with their phone. Eventually, it might end-up on Weibo and go viral. I've seen people wearing shirts with worse things written/drawn on them. Okay, that would be awful taste anyway.
jleav14782:
It would, indeed, be in poor taste. But, I can recall seeing grown men in the USA who (Heaven help them) proudly wore T-shirts that said, "I'm looking for an Asian girlfriend." We all laughed at them, of course. Our Asian friends rolled their eyes in bemusement.
DrMonkey:
Back home, each of my female Asian friends had a story of that creepy admirer, sweating his yellow fever all over the place. Yuck...
icnif77:
Especially in my small Fuk. Chinese and others are strongly divided, except on the outside market.
Last May, I met UK man with Uygur (pregnant) GF. He told me, people are always teasing her with some BS, because of her laowai BF.
He left Fuk. for Shenzhen shortly.
Hmm... I'd be willing to wear it to the local bar district on a Friday night, and catalogue my experience, if someone sends me the shirt
jleav14782:
Just grab a white T-shirt, a magic marker, and use Google Translate.
I did it once a few years ago. We were making tshirts caligraphy style in an after class thingy. and i wrote that i was single and my number on it in both english and chinese and went to a club. I got alot of calls. I always boight one of those cheesey neon light belts with the flashing message which of course was my number. Anywayd in a mall a super hot chongqing girl stopped me to write down the number on my shirt.....
We dated for 2 and a half years.
Anyways why is the question so bad that you dont want to be associated with it? Harmless stuff
jleav14782:
I don't know. It just seems so tasteless. It's definitely intriguing, and the sociologist in me really would like to know what would happen, but it's not exactly the kind of thing I wanted to slap my name on.
@spider.
Only if you open your post with original handle! I can't bet against 'anon'!
Then, I'll tell you my 'famous' pick-up line, too.
Why are you calling me 'somebody'? My name is 'icnif77'
TedDBayer:
You stole my idea, how many times have I advised wearing a T-shirt or holding a sign saying ''need girlfriend"? I didn't down vote you BTW.
You would still need bait. If I sit long enough in one spot I will get a woman to approach me. Last time I came to China I brought a big Collie stuffed toy. I just arrived and was sitting, waiting for someone. Within in minutes I had 6 women talking to me.
It is just assumed that any foreigner that is alone is fair game.
Spiderboenz:
That's never happened to me. Guess I look "unfriendly" or something.
What if you hung an iPad around your neck with that written on it??
I actually tried that on a day in 1987 in the Phillippines, i had 150 proposals in about 4 days .
becareful you might get more than bargained for......
It's the day of the experiment. I wish the best of, um... whatever "success" would be... to each of the brave participants. Friends, this experiment will go down in history as the final answer to the question of how desperate to marry a foreigner local girls really are.
Yeah, I've had a change-of-heart since yesterday. Go ahead and do it. It sounds too intriguing to tell you not to. Do it... for (social) science!
jleav14782:
Agreed. I've no control over which cities are used in the experiment. I suppose, wherever you are, wear a sign tonight when you're on the bus or walking down the street or at a restaurant that reads in Chinese, "I am looking for a Chinese girlfriend." Tomorrow, post the results.
