It just gets more bizarre

The Western male/Vietnamese lady situation gets increasingly bizarre as the days roll by. Western men everywhere seem to be mesmerized and lured in by the hypnotic beauty of the Asian woman. As white women we thought we were a rejected group of smelly Western beasts at the very bottom of the barrel of dating in Vietnam. Everywhere you look there are minute beauties petting and serving and smiling at their hunk of Western male. It became depressing. Friends of mine despaired for their celibacy.

But it is becoming starkly obvious that the ladies of this country are living in a la-la land of deception, desperation and self-subjugation. It's easy for a white man to get a date... it's easier to be solicited at one of the countless working girl bars in Saigon. But the ladies aren't the man-eating delicacies they present themselves to be. Instead, most of them are seeking an escape to American shores or are awaiting a knight in shining armor to fulfil their life long daydream of love.

One friend dated an independent business-owner for less than a week before she began insisting that he lived above her home where she could keep an eye on him. She passed on all of her business decisions to him and continuously sent him text messages requesting his presence. At first it was flattering. Then it became suffocating. And now it's just plain mind boggling. He went to her restaurant yesterday to break up with her only to find out that this whole time she's been married with a three and half year old child who she had said was her nephew. She's also in the process of a $30,000 business transaction that will grant her an American husband and thus an entry way to the United States. My friend now realizes that she saw him as a way out, no more, no less. Out of what? Out of a country where she's at the top of the food chain with her business and home and family? Into a country where her passable English and meager dollar savings will present her very little momentum to build herself up?

My male friends are beginning to swear off the women. They're lovely to look at but are less fun than a tangled thorn bush to become involved with. They continuously twist the truth and only view passports when they see white skin. As I listen to story after story of men being lured in by Asian beauties I can only think that playing with these hot women really will get you burnt.