“WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE --WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR MEN!" Or; why do western men marry Asian women?

Maybe the headline answers the question. Anyway I will dwell on this subject because my wife asked me to do so and I believe it is an interesting subject.

Why do western men marry Asian women?
I believe some answers can be found in the women’s liberation movement that started in the sixties and from where above slogan is taken. This movement was strong in USA and Western Europe.

It is a challenge to try to explain what the woman’s liberation movement was and is, because it was and still is a broad variation of ideas that lead to a broad group of woman’s lib organisations.

One dominant ingredient was socialism that struck against capitalism.
Another ingredient was feminism that struck against the patriarch dominance in western society. On top of that there were also lesbian groups and black women groups fighting for their special interests.
In other words you have:
-Socialist women’s lib
-Socialist feminist women’s lib
-Socialist lesbian feminist women’s lib
-Black socialist woman’s lib
-Black socialist feminist women’s lib
-Black socialist lesbian feminist women’s lib
-Feminists (not socialist)
-Lesbian feminists (not socialist)
Etc.

I’m not listing these groups to make fun of Women’s lib, I do it to describe that this is not a homogeneous group.
There are also groups of women with Christian foundation that fight for the women’s right to be respected as home workers and be entitled to pension and other social benefits while they are home taking care of their children. These groups are not really associated with the women’s lib but they exist and I think they should be considered as a fraction of women’s lib.

A lot of the Women’s lib was about getting the same rights as men, right to career, right to the same salary for the same job, right to have the same status in society as men, right to the same freedom as men meaning, birth control, divorce, right to financial assets, etc.
And the Women’s lib movement gave the women some of this, but not all of it and it certainly had a price.

In Sweden today it’s nothing strange with women taking up a career. Sweden has many successful women in business and politics. But these women have to do their career on men’s conditions.
The price men pay for their career is; little time for family and children. Many men with careers still have a family because they have a wife supporting their careers. Maybe a staying home wife or a wife who prioritize her husband’s career before her own.

Few career women have husbands that stay home and prioritize their wife’s career. Therefore many career women have fewer kids or no kids or not even their own family.

During the sixties Sweden had a strong growing economy. Sweden lacked labour. The Social Democrat government jumped on the “women’s lib train” and spread propaganda that women should go out and work. A massive production program of government nursery schools where performed. This is to make society take over the responsibillty of rasing and diciplining our children to make it possible for the mothers to work.
The avarage salaries in Sweden gradually decreased in the same speed as the households economy increased due to two incomes instead of just one.

The price women and families paid were:
-Women compete with men on men’s condition.
-Forget to have many children and a big family.
-You leave the responsibillity of raising your children to someone else.
-In the end if you have a family, your houshold's purchase power has not increased as much as the increase of the total hours you and your spouse spend at work!

The whole women’s lib movement was, and still is, a movement with very little men involvement.
What men think about the whole thing is not important for the women’s lib because men are also the enemy. This has become a problem. One sex can not change the world without the other sex contribution.
So, western men are still pretty much like they were before the women’s lib movement started.

What does that really mean?
It means that most men still want to have a wife that focus on family and children. A lot of men want to have many children.

Technology is shrinking the world. Western men are gradually realizing that the women’s lib is a western phenomenon. When western men go to Asia (who didn't have a women's lib movement) they find women who are raised in a more traditional family oriented environment. A lot of these women also identify with the ideal of primary being the wife and mother.

I personally don’t mind women having a career. But I also believe that the best career a woman can have is to bring up her and her husband's children. After all, when we die, our contribution to this world will be our children.
Everything else my wife and I do is to be able to have a big family.