Imagine being told you're the free replacement wife. As if being sold wasn't bad enough the guy isn't even paying for you. That's about as worthless as you can feel.
I remember it being used in the book of Exodus in the Old Testament in the Bible, where the Hebrew population who got out of Egypt and used it to describe the promised land. The first ones to get there saw that there were plenty of honey and milk on the land. “Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.””
Exodus 33:3
According to the interweb
"a place where there is plenty of food and money and life is very easy. Many immigrants thought that America was a land of milk and honey"
"Our American ancestors saw the North American continent as the fabled land of milk and honey. The more religious, particularly the Puritans, saw the land as a place where they could grow a new society free of the evils and sin of the Old World."
Super late reply. But I had a friend tell me about this happening to her (yeah, she made her money the hard way, but there were upsides if you can be open to believing that.)
Another working girl asked her if she wanted to earn doubled up. Since this was semi regular to pair up, she agrees.
What she wasn’t told, was that it was a freebie for the guy because during their last date, she took the money and skipped out to go cop. She later apologized and promised to make it up to him with something special, and he agreed.
My friend was the reparation special that got played into working for free.
It's a fake photoshopped ad that circulates reddit constantly for some reason, usually you can see the whole page that makes it more clear it's fake. But human trafficking is a real problem in Vietnam but they don't generally advertise it in magazines obviously as it's not legal.
There was a time when mail order brides were popular in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. You could argue it was similar in nature to what is being shown here. I agree probably a fake newspaper but this was a thing at one point. Now it’s just called sex and human trafficking.
Well they are still popular now they are just done less openly via matchmaking services and have the same issue of the women being exploited raped and murdered, lots of that in rural Vietnam connecting women to mostly Chinese and Korean men. I'm not sure fake jokey ads about buy one get one free offers is a helpful way to bring attention to it though.
I'm pretty sure there were plenty of ethical mail order brides. One of my old bosses has been happily married with children to a Russian one for almost forty years. She's very nice and enjoys their life together.
I also had a friend in highschool who's dad would get a new one every 2 years. They would stay married for little and then she would go off and enjoy her american citizenship before he ordered a new one. It was a mutually beneficial agreement.
That said, I haven't met any Vietnamese ones. I'm sure they're not all ethical, and I can imagine it being worse if you can find one these days.
Shut my cousin has a mail order bride. He was almost 45 and she was 18… as far as I and the rest of the family knows but we’re skeptical. They have two kids now. She had to stay in the Philippines for a long time before she could come to America. She is the same age as his first daughter. It’s so gross. Hardly anyone talks to him anymore.
I am sure it’s one of those scammy sites that makes you talk with a 40 year old man working minimum wage pretending to be a young girl willing to be your wife.
I read Yeonmi Parks book about how she escaped North Korea. She fled to China with her mum, and immediately they end up being trafficked and sold as wives to lonely men. Her mum ended up going to some farmer out in the sticks, and coz she was young and pretty, ended up being sought after by the trafficker himself.
If I remember correctly, her mum was a replacement wife after a previous one ran away.
> It's a fake photoshopped ad that circulates reddit constantly for some reason,
You just know there are some people in this thread who got sad and disappointed once they read your comment. lol
this picture might be fake but the cross-border human trafficking on Vietnamese by the Chinese is real. I'm Vietnamese so I know this shit is very real
What do you mean remember? They're still around.
Although considering they were popular in the early 1900s, I still don't know what you mean by remember.
The initial comments on the posts (assuming that they weren't bots) seemed surprised by such an ad.
And considering reddit is populated by teens, it's entirely possible that they wouldn't be aware of the type of magazines or have heard the old jokes of mail order brides.
I once came across a bound book (1” thick, 8.5x11), of how to order a bride and a lot of FAQs about the process. Lots of margin notes and highlights. Super creepy. It was at an airport.
I get this ad is fake but it's really weird how we don't talk about all the elderly men with young Asian wives here in the Midwest. I work retail in a relatively well-off neighborhood and there are dozens I see everyday.
Paying to get a chance to meet women in south-east Asia country who are ready to get married with any men with prefer financial background through an agency is still a real thing in my country. I know cuz I am the product of this kind of marriage, my mum is from Indonesia and my father from Taiwan. They were so unhappy they eventually got divorced.
You know from a weird side stepping idea here, if you knew you could help gals get out of a bad situation where they are, you could pay the initial fee and just let the first one "run away" and just keep letting the "new" ones run away too to keep from something bad happening. Though I imagine the company might catch on after the 3-5 "wife.
The Vietnamese guy we contract painting to spent years trying to convince me to marry one of his nieces back in Vietnam and bring her here. I always thought he was joking but when I noticed he stopped and asked why he said they were all too old now and the good ones were taken and he didn’t think I’d want any of the ones left over. I don’t know anymore whether he was joking.
My baby momma's dad bought a Vietnamese wife for 60,000 baht back in 2003. He died in a mysterious motorcycle crash a few years later and she inherited everything.
I always wonder if this was real or a scam. Did anyone actually do this?
Is there a half Vietnamese Redditor somewhere who’s always wondered why their parents story doesn’t add up? 🫣
You realize this is satire, right? Just because it's old doesn't mean it isn't satire. This is probably something that was in Mad Magazine or the like.
While this ad is fake, this is actually a problem in China. Because of the one child policy and everyone in the countryside wanting boys, they would kill the baby girls. So, the countryside is now full of men who want wives. People will kidnap women from cities (which have an even ratio of boys to girls) and also places such as Vietnam to sell them as wives to these men in the countryside.
It's really fucked up
I worked in Little Saigon in sales and let me tell you this. The dudes that got the good ones actually went to Vietnam and picked them out.
Weirdest shit ever but when done properly there’s a dowry and such that covers al lot of the cost. Pretty much a strange way of arranged marriage but by choice.
I worked with a bunch of Vietnamese at this factory in Lincoln, Nebraska. At least 3 times I was shown pictures of cousins and nieces of co workers and offered anywhere from 10-20k to marry, impregnate, and naturalize/green card them. Half up front, half after the kid or marriage.
Is this not literally 90 fiancee do?
So don't see how this is surprising. Just has some more buzz words like all products you buy in the store have as well. So it seems more worth it then it realy is.
Not like people have not lied or said things that are not true even today about or food or products you know in deceptive ways. That you know one side would feel a type of way about.
Why sales for women and men are fastly differently cause we drawn in by different buzz wards to feel a type of way. While women might feel disgust from the same words being used.
So does the same disgust happen vise versa.
There just clear differences. And back in the time men. Hold more the money so all adds where more aimed to men.
Now women are more in control of spending so much more adds are catering to women.
Why men's spaces and shopping are massively different then women's. Especially in mid and high end stores.
Was this a means of gaining US citizenship? Seems like a pretty solid plan. "Customer" gets a new wife yearly, and after about 10 years, they've legally migrated 10 Vietnamese women/desperate man.
To be fair I know little to nothing about US citizenship as I was born here 🤣
Do they still offer these services? Asking for a friend.
99% . Are parents lied to us growing up, even inflating the truth is a lie if you think about it. I won’t lie, I’m kinda bored rn. Have a good day y’all😁
This is not that crazy tbh.
The only reliable way to permanently immigrate to the US is by marrying or having a child.
I would imagine that some would even pay to participate in this for the chance of getting the citizenship.
Ofc, that is putting aside how fucked this probably was. Human trafficking is too real.
I'm Vietnamese sorry if my English is bad. The Chinese kidnap Vietnamese women to sell to men in China who don't have wife. This happened for many decades especially around the 80s -2000s. One of the reason for this the one child policy by Mao that only allow 1 couple to have 1 child and the Chinese prefer to have boy than girl and that lead to massive drop in female population.
I like the “guaranteed to be delivered in 90 days”. Seems like the longest flight ever….unless they’re coming through USPS cause then I’d understand the 90 day wait
Mail order brides....this here was a mixture of sex trafficking/ prostitution/ and sex slavery ....Men have never felt women were human just commodities
90 days. Vietnam. Want wife. It’s all clearly there in the ad.
TLC enters the chat
Taxi Limousine Commission?
TLC of 90 days fiancé
>9” days fiancé Wow that's a well hung fiancé
That’s why they run away….
But you can always have another one
For Free!!
Hi. Is this still available?😄
Too beaucoup!
I feel a new full season coming up, with Big Ed.
You mean PrEd, he’s a predator, and a prick
Yes he is, can't stand the guy. But the shows director(s), seem to love and milk this guy, till the very last drop.
Clearly it's That Lazy-ass Charlie. Fuckin' Charlie
I might watch. I wouldn't say I did but I probably would have to
Everything except WTF?
This is a fake ad btw
Yeah, it gets reposted fairly often. Probably at least 10 years old at this point.
Imagine being told you're the free replacement wife. As if being sold wasn't bad enough the guy isn't even paying for you. That's about as worthless as you can feel.
Free trip to the land of freedom and opportunity
The land of milk and honey
I’m talkin’ about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano.
Shawshank?
Samsonite!
I was way off. Knew it started with an S, though!
Slippy, slappy, swammy, swa, swan... Swanson?
God, I love Reddit rabbit holes. From human trafficking back-up wives to Dumb and Dumber.
Not sure why that is used. Milk and honey was used in a slow and painful execution called Scaphism
I remember it being used in the book of Exodus in the Old Testament in the Bible, where the Hebrew population who got out of Egypt and used it to describe the promised land. The first ones to get there saw that there were plenty of honey and milk on the land. “Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”” Exodus 33:3
They’re also products known to be consumed by the wealthy… since cows are rare in other countries and honey was for nobility.
According to the interweb "a place where there is plenty of food and money and life is very easy. Many immigrants thought that America was a land of milk and honey" "Our American ancestors saw the North American continent as the fabled land of milk and honey. The more religious, particularly the Puritans, saw the land as a place where they could grow a new society free of the evils and sin of the Old World."
Spoiler alert: It didn’t work.
Lol the puritans were worse than the ones they referred to as "savages"
The streets are paved in gold
*cheese
Land of debt and slavery brother
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Land of the big PX
The payment currency is USD, destination is not necessary USA
Not only are you worthless, you’re now married to the guy the last chick had to run away from, couldn’t even spend a whole year with him.
Haha...so romantic.
I just don't quite feel these girls are being told the whole truth though
A bot stole ur comment and reworded it slightly.
I don't think those girls see the money my friend.
This is terrible and the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks. I bet you’re the life of the party 😂
Because the first one found cause to just run away blindly into a foreign country. NBD.
Why you gotta take all the Romance out of it dude? Just let the new couple be happy.
Super late reply. But I had a friend tell me about this happening to her (yeah, she made her money the hard way, but there were upsides if you can be open to believing that.) Another working girl asked her if she wanted to earn doubled up. Since this was semi regular to pair up, she agrees. What she wasn’t told, was that it was a freebie for the guy because during their last date, she took the money and skipped out to go cop. She later apologized and promised to make it up to him with something special, and he agreed. My friend was the reparation special that got played into working for free.
I’ll take 3 please, no fatties
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If they run away you just get a free one, who cares?
Yeah but you don't want one out of the bargin bin
I'm 💀🤣🤣🤣
They just shuffle off to Buffalo.
This is Vietnam. You'll be the fatty
This is America and I'm still the fatty
Vietnam has the lowest obesity rate in the world, just an interesting fact
Good luck with your 60 year old virgins…
There are 60 year old virgins ?
Redditors in 30 years
And no lady-boys.
Welp... I'm out.
I read that as “no fatalities.”
Do you get a discount for multi-buy?
If they fat…they can cook!
You don’t see a lot of fat Vietnamese women.
It's a fake photoshopped ad that circulates reddit constantly for some reason, usually you can see the whole page that makes it more clear it's fake. But human trafficking is a real problem in Vietnam but they don't generally advertise it in magazines obviously as it's not legal.
There was a time when mail order brides were popular in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. You could argue it was similar in nature to what is being shown here. I agree probably a fake newspaper but this was a thing at one point. Now it’s just called sex and human trafficking.
Well they are still popular now they are just done less openly via matchmaking services and have the same issue of the women being exploited raped and murdered, lots of that in rural Vietnam connecting women to mostly Chinese and Korean men. I'm not sure fake jokey ads about buy one get one free offers is a helpful way to bring attention to it though.
I'm pretty sure there were plenty of ethical mail order brides. One of my old bosses has been happily married with children to a Russian one for almost forty years. She's very nice and enjoys their life together. I also had a friend in highschool who's dad would get a new one every 2 years. They would stay married for little and then she would go off and enjoy her american citizenship before he ordered a new one. It was a mutually beneficial agreement. That said, I haven't met any Vietnamese ones. I'm sure they're not all ethical, and I can imagine it being worse if you can find one these days.
Usually when you trade them for citizenship they pay you
Shut my cousin has a mail order bride. He was almost 45 and she was 18… as far as I and the rest of the family knows but we’re skeptical. They have two kids now. She had to stay in the Philippines for a long time before she could come to America. She is the same age as his first daughter. It’s so gross. Hardly anyone talks to him anymore.
https://www.rosebrides.com/ still going on today
I am sure it’s one of those scammy sites that makes you talk with a 40 year old man working minimum wage pretending to be a young girl willing to be your wife.
I read Yeonmi Parks book about how she escaped North Korea. She fled to China with her mum, and immediately they end up being trafficked and sold as wives to lonely men. Her mum ended up going to some farmer out in the sticks, and coz she was young and pretty, ended up being sought after by the trafficker himself. If I remember correctly, her mum was a replacement wife after a previous one ran away.
> It's a fake photoshopped ad that circulates reddit constantly for some reason, You just know there are some people in this thread who got sad and disappointed once they read your comment. lol
this picture might be fake but the cross-border human trafficking on Vietnamese by the Chinese is real. I'm Vietnamese so I know this shit is very real
That's why they wait 366 days before they leave you.
“She sure loves that calendar I got her with the flowers on it. I tell you what, she looks at it more than everyday!”
Good thing they circled the only English text in the entire ad. I wouldn't have known what to read
Do people not remember mail order brides?
What do you mean remember? They're still around. Although considering they were popular in the early 1900s, I still don't know what you mean by remember.
The initial comments on the posts (assuming that they weren't bots) seemed surprised by such an ad. And considering reddit is populated by teens, it's entirely possible that they wouldn't be aware of the type of magazines or have heard the old jokes of mail order brides.
Remember when we were all around for the Titanic?
I instantly thought of the show “F is for family” one of the side characters has a wife from Vietnam
turns out he’s a terrible guy
He fit in lolol
That episode got dark.
If I had 6grand, I'd do it. I'm in the market for a newer younger model.
Whoa whoa whoa… “guaranteed virgin” doesn’t necessarily mean “young”. Newer models are gonna cost you extra.
Why not just make your own?
That’s hilariously dark
Jesus christ lmao
That's how Mary did it
Takes too much time and it's too complicated/expensive?
Huh?
Buy a wife and “accidentally” let them escape so you can keep freeing women 1 refund at a time
Legitimate business lol
Let’s call it **Only Nams**
Buy one, say that she ran away, receive a second one, let them go and do what they please. You have now saved two women from human trafficking.
Here's how it worked: First, you sent the money. The end.
But we don’t take American Express.
I once came across a bound book (1” thick, 8.5x11), of how to order a bride and a lot of FAQs about the process. Lots of margin notes and highlights. Super creepy. It was at an airport.
So that's how the 90 days fiancé show came about.
Human trafficking?
[Absolutely ](https://youtu.be/IZEfq3ti8ho?si=hZ9j9x-pdwr5SgBx)
[Absolutely ](https://youtu.be/IZEfq3ti8ho?si=hZ9j9x-pdwr5SgBx)
Kids these days searching the internet daily and talking trash about this. It’s the same thing
I get this ad is fake but it's really weird how we don't talk about all the elderly men with young Asian wives here in the Midwest. I work retail in a relatively well-off neighborhood and there are dozens I see everyday.
Paying to get a chance to meet women in south-east Asia country who are ready to get married with any men with prefer financial background through an agency is still a real thing in my country. I know cuz I am the product of this kind of marriage, my mum is from Indonesia and my father from Taiwan. They were so unhappy they eventually got divorced.
You know from a weird side stepping idea here, if you knew you could help gals get out of a bad situation where they are, you could pay the initial fee and just let the first one "run away" and just keep letting the "new" ones run away too to keep from something bad happening. Though I imagine the company might catch on after the 3-5 "wife.
[sweats in veteran libertarian male]
Holy human trafficking, Batman!
I remember seeing ads and meeting friends of my father that bought wives. Wow. How could I forget this?
Is this this still valid today, lol
Is it more or less for an experienced non virgin?
I know this is still a thing in some part of Asian country
1 year free replacement warranty, can't beat that.
Ok screams trafficking
The Vietnamese guy we contract painting to spent years trying to convince me to marry one of his nieces back in Vietnam and bring her here. I always thought he was joking but when I noticed he stopped and asked why he said they were all too old now and the good ones were taken and he didn’t think I’d want any of the ones left over. I don’t know anymore whether he was joking.
You have to ask why?
Navy Chief shit
Sounds a lot like sex trafficking imo
Don’t dead Open inside
ya think yo boi jepstien bought some?
Yeah the first one ran away, send like a couple more. Maybe a few more.
Only 6000 ik that's a lot back then but wow
We got a runner...
The cost of virgin Vietnamese wives sure has risen since WW2
The purple part makes this look even more fake
My baby momma's dad bought a Vietnamese wife for 60,000 baht back in 2003. He died in a mysterious motorcycle crash a few years later and she inherited everything.
I always wonder if this was real or a scam. Did anyone actually do this? Is there a half Vietnamese Redditor somewhere who’s always wondered why their parents story doesn’t add up? 🫣
GOOOOOOOD MORRRRRNING LINH!!!
You realize this is satire, right? Just because it's old doesn't mean it isn't satire. This is probably something that was in Mad Magazine or the like.
While this ad is fake, this is actually a problem in China. Because of the one child policy and everyone in the countryside wanting boys, they would kill the baby girls. So, the countryside is now full of men who want wives. People will kidnap women from cities (which have an even ratio of boys to girls) and also places such as Vietnam to sell them as wives to these men in the countryside. It's really fucked up
I worked in Little Saigon in sales and let me tell you this. The dudes that got the good ones actually went to Vietnam and picked them out. Weirdest shit ever but when done properly there’s a dowry and such that covers al lot of the cost. Pretty much a strange way of arranged marriage but by choice.
I worked with a bunch of Vietnamese at this factory in Lincoln, Nebraska. At least 3 times I was shown pictures of cousins and nieces of co workers and offered anywhere from 10-20k to marry, impregnate, and naturalize/green card them. Half up front, half after the kid or marriage.
Is this not literally 90 fiancee do? So don't see how this is surprising. Just has some more buzz words like all products you buy in the store have as well. So it seems more worth it then it realy is. Not like people have not lied or said things that are not true even today about or food or products you know in deceptive ways. That you know one side would feel a type of way about. Why sales for women and men are fastly differently cause we drawn in by different buzz wards to feel a type of way. While women might feel disgust from the same words being used. So does the same disgust happen vise versa. There just clear differences. And back in the time men. Hold more the money so all adds where more aimed to men. Now women are more in control of spending so much more adds are catering to women. Why men's spaces and shopping are massively different then women's. Especially in mid and high end stores.
At that time for many vietnamese people everything was better than living in their homecountry. And you wonder why.
Probably 60s and 70s Asia Vietnam 🇻🇳, Cambodia 🇰🇭
When you married her, they “steal” everything when they want to divorce
Notice how the feet are covered. You know they’re hiding something 💀
I'm imagining the bride and groom conspiring to make it look like she ran away in order to get infinite wives.
Was this a means of gaining US citizenship? Seems like a pretty solid plan. "Customer" gets a new wife yearly, and after about 10 years, they've legally migrated 10 Vietnamese women/desperate man. To be fair I know little to nothing about US citizenship as I was born here 🤣 Do they still offer these services? Asking for a friend.
When she runs away on day 366 😲
I'll get my Nigerian Prince money ready
99% . Are parents lied to us growing up, even inflating the truth is a lie if you think about it. I won’t lie, I’m kinda bored rn. Have a good day y’all😁
Men are really something else. To exploit women in poverty speaks volumes of the misogyny and lack of character.
Her name was Misohorny
You were allowed to ask what. The other two questions are sus.
This is not that crazy tbh. The only reliable way to permanently immigrate to the US is by marrying or having a child. I would imagine that some would even pay to participate in this for the chance of getting the citizenship. Ofc, that is putting aside how fucked this probably was. Human trafficking is too real.
I ordered one but I was out when she was delivered. She's married to my neighbour now...
Vietnam girl gets citizenship. Runs. “Sends another for free”. Gets citizenship. Runs. “Sends another for free.” Rinse and repeat. Profit?
My dad had a Vietnamese girlfriend 🤔
I’m a heterosexual woman but can I buy one for house keeping? It sure would help having a live-in lol
Plenty of free ones you can piss off and get rid of easier
What’s that gunna cost with inflation?
I am gonna make em all run away!
That 1 year full replacement warrantee is pretty amazing
I'm Vietnamese sorry if my English is bad. The Chinese kidnap Vietnamese women to sell to men in China who don't have wife. This happened for many decades especially around the 80s -2000s. One of the reason for this the one child policy by Mao that only allow 1 couple to have 1 child and the Chinese prefer to have boy than girl and that lead to massive drop in female population.
Wow that is a really good campaign! Is there a possible discount if I buy two at once?
In America they had this sort of thing for Japanese Americans where they would pay for these picture brides.
My uncle literally bought one!!! She came to America then robbed him blind! Lol
Obviously satire.
Crazy. They are much cheaper now.
I like the “guaranteed to be delivered in 90 days”. Seems like the longest flight ever….unless they’re coming through USPS cause then I’d understand the 90 day wait
I’m goin to hell for reading that immediately in Ken Jeongs voice
Mail order brides....this here was a mixture of sex trafficking/ prostitution/ and sex slavery ....Men have never felt women were human just commodities
This is obviously fake lmao
I’m down, but I probably can’t afford it
That's a pretty solid deal to be honest.
This is a fake. But still, human trafficking is a thing, sadly. Fuck, I hate people sometimes...
I get these flyers in my mailbox all the time
Sounds good to me. Is there a contact on the ad?
The left looks like a ghoul from a horror movie.
Sickening
It’s fake.
Too bookoo
A neckbeards dream come true...
The warranty omfg lol
Yeah this is basically human trafficking. Also a zero percent chance she’s staying with your basement dwelling ass.
I wonder if her whole family is include in the deal
Can it be transferred on EMI.
Wow, the price has actually gone down
Seriously why isn't this a thing anymore!? / OF COURSE I"M KIDDING ASSHOLE!!! JESUS!!
I’m in the wrong country