When it comes to "Vietnamese brides", we must have heard that so far, millions of Vietnamese girls marry abroad every year and become transnational brides.
We usually think that this is a black industry chain and illegal, but this phenomenon has long been commonplace in Southeast Asia, and women are even sold as a commodity.
In many countries, people can even place orders online, and these girls have their own numbers, they are clearly priced, and then sold across the ocean to men.
The birth of the bride
When women are deprived of their human rights, sold as commodities at will, and returned if they are not satisfied, humanity is far from the world.
Because they are poor, because they have to solve marital problems, or simply to have fun, those girls are forced to give their whole lives.
The "Vietnamese bridal industry chain" has developed to today, has become "bigger and stronger", has become a very mature industrial chain, their market is not only for Southeast Asia, but even across the world.
In Vietnam's bridal market, hundreds of people come to pick their brides for each day every day.
In these markets, there are bright signs that read: "Vietnamese bride introduction, within three months to marry home, only 200,000, guarantee virgin, never increase the price, run away within a year to lose one."
This kind of slogan is not like the slogan of small goods we see on online shopping platforms, but it is used on real people.
They wore the same clothes and sat neatly in chairs, waiting for people to come and choose.
Most of these girls have no education, generally between the ages of 15 and 25, or have been abducted or "sold" by their parents because their families are too poor.
Many of these girls are also voluntary, they come from poor backgrounds, and their families are crammed into a small "house" and living on a tight budget.
When we mention Southeast Asia, we often have some dirty impressions, and the appearance of the "Vietnamese bride" is inseparable from the wars in Southeast Asia.
Because of the war, a large number of men died in Vietnam, and sometimes when there were no soldiers to recruit, even women had to go to the battlefield to fight.
So after the end of the war, Vietnam faced a very serious problem, that is, there were too few men.
That is why polygamy is allowed in Vietnam. Many women will voluntarily share the same husband with other women in order to start a family.
As a result of this phenomenon, men in Viet Nam are very expensive and have a high status, but even so, there is still a certain gap in their male to female ratio.
At this time, many women will think of marrying abroad to solve their marriage problems, and it just so happens that there are many older leftover men abroad who can meet their needs.
These Vietnamese girls often do not need to spend too much bride price, they are more in pursuit of a stable life.
Marrying abroad can also greatly improve their living standards, so many people are willing to marry foreigners.
When this phenomenon occurs frequently, it means the beginning of chaos, and in the Chinese land near Vietnam, many residents often go to Vietnamese women because they cannot afford to marry their daughters-in-law, which also makes some people see business opportunities.
They traveled back and forth to connect and benefit these men and women, and over time, Vietnamese brides became a trend and, later, a crime.
Once something is formed, it is impossible to clean it up, especially when it is linked to interests.
Therefore, even if the ratio of Vietnamese men and women returns to normal, Vietnamese brides will only increase.
Profit is something that will never change, and it is also the eternal pursuit of human beings.
Vietnamese brides are popular all over the world because people need them, and when humans discover that money can be obtained through women, their desire will never stop.
We all know that the economy of Vietnam is relatively backward, the gap between the rich and the poor is very large, and the poor account for a large proportion, and they have a crazy fascination with having children.
Because of the rapid growth of the population, the economic conditions are becoming more and more backward, and the people living at the bottom of the society, they cannot even ensure their normal food and clothing, let alone study to change their fate.
Vietnam's overall economic level is not high, which is a well-known thing, because the economy is stagnant, resulting in people getting poorer, and although they have followed China's reform and opening up, the results have not been high.
Because they did not achieve industrialization, they needed more labor, but after more labor, Vietnam became poorer and poorer, and many people embarked on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes in order to make money.
When they discovered that they could get money by "marrying daughters", Vietnamese girls became commodities.
Lured by money, the "Vietnamese bride" became their main source of income.
But in Vietnam, the people who get rich through this channel are the so-called intermediaries, not the families of Vietnamese brides.
They can get some money, but it's very small.
But even so, they are willing to marry their daughters off in exchange for some money, even a minority, for the family.
Marriage institutions
The people who sell them are often called "adoptive mothers", a bit like the role of the old bustard in the green building in the past, but in fact, they are intermediaries.
Before the girl sells, she will train intensively.
This kind of training is usually ideological brainwashing plus a series of cultivation of etiquette, posture, culture and so on.
Their purpose is to make these girls obedient and submissive and at the mercy of others.
After these girls have finished training, they will be very popular in the market, and then they will be laid out for men to choose, and if there is a match, there will be a "love period" between the two parties, which, as written in small advertisements, is generally not allowed to exceed three months.
This period of love is to provide men with opportunities to understand, give money if they think the other party is suitable, and then take people away.
If you feel that the other party does not meet your expectations, you can change people.
Once the two parties reach a consensus, the man will give the woman a "bride price", which is also determined by the woman's conditions, and if the woman is beautiful and educated, the bride price will also be given a little higher.
After the marriage is completed, the intermediary will take half or more of the money from this money as an intermediary fee, and the remaining small amount of money will fall into the hands of the woman's mother's family.
In Vietnam, many people become rich by working as "intermediaries".
In recent years, as prices have soared, the price of Vietnamese brides has continued to rise, and many poor families have seen the dividends brought by this industry and have not hesitated to sell their daughters for money.
This phenomenon is rife in Vietnam, where they treat their children as commodities and they never feel like they are selling their daughters, or just marrying them off.
They don't care if their daughters are bullied, starved, or even subjected to domestic violence if they marry. For them, the Vietnamese bride is just one kind of marriage.
These girls are often in it, but they are unloveable, they cannot escape their fate, even death, sometimes they cannot choose for themselves.
If they are lucky, they may be able to find a family with good economic conditions, not only to change the family's economic situation, but also to escape poverty.
But this situation is rare, and most Vietnamese brides, after marrying abroad, do not have a good life.
Vietnamese brides are "exported" overseas, especially in neighboring countries.
For example, South Korea, there are many single men in South Korea, especially in some economically underdeveloped places, they will take the Vietnamese bride as the first choice in order to pass on the family.
The second is China, where according to incomplete statistics, there are more than 100,000 Vietnamese brides in China. As early as more than ten years ago, this kind of thing was frequently exposed, which attracted widespread attention in society.
These Vietnamese brides, after remarrying, rarely enjoy real happiness, they are generally used as fertility tools, and in some relatively backward villages, this kind of thing happens from time to time.
Many bachelors, because they can't afford to marry their daughters-in-law, but they don't want to cut off their incense, so they buy Vietnamese brides at low prices through illegal channels.
In the Vietnamese market, many girls have different prices because of their appearance and education, such as average appearance, primary school education, or those who have not been to school, the price is between 8000-12000.
If you are good-looking and have a degree, the price is between 15,000-25,000.
That's just the price a few years ago, when it cost tens of thousands of dollars to have a bride. So many bachelors who can't afford to marry their daughters-in-law would rather take the risk and buy one to go home.
The bride goes to a strange place, is forced to have sex with a man she does not know, and then passes on the family for him. And this man, sometimes, doesn't even look at her as a human being.
For some girls, the fate will be even more miserable, they often have to go hungry, sometimes beaten, or be forced to marry a man many years older than themselves.
They didn't think about fighting, but the consequence of escaping was to be captured, then beaten again, and even lose their personal freedom from then on.
Of course, there are also some girls, they will meet better people, and the husband will sincerely live with them and treat them as family.
When they have a better life, they will also take the initiative to introduce "resources" to their friends.
After coming to a strange country, the first thing they need is a legal identity, and after having a legal identity through special channels, they will completely become an accessory of the man's family.
The status quo that cannot be changed
With the development of the times, more and more people began to pay attention to the "Vietnamese brides" and sympathize with their suffering.
We can often learn about their real situation in various documentaries, and that kind of life is more painful than death.
For men, they just need someone to inherit their family, so they contact an agent and buy a Vietnamese bride.
But Vietnamese brides, there are always many uncertain factors, which cause them to never be able to see Vietnamese brides as their own kind.
In order to prevent Vietnamese brides from escaping, their methods can be called breaking the lower limit of humanity, no matter which country the bride is married to, more than half of them have suffered domestic violence.
With the expansion of this black industry chain, many criminals regard Vietnamese brides as cash cows, and these brides are not necessarily Vietnamese, which involves another black industry chain, human trafficking.
The reason why the Vietnamese bridal industry chain is so rampant has a certain relationship with local laws.
For a long time, the Vietnamese government has been unable to deal with this chaos, and there is no way to protect the rights and interests of Vietnamese brides.
Without legal protection, people become cattle, and many people, even if they do not want to marry far away, will be kidnapped by criminals, sold to intermediaries, and finally sold around the world as brides.
Vietnam shares a border with China, so it is inevitable that many criminal gangs will commit crimes in both places.
In 2018, a police station in a region of Yunnan Province received a report that he had been trafficked there.
When the police followed the clue, they found a creepy social phenomenon, the informant was a Vietnamese bride, but she was indeed forcibly sold to the man.
In this big case solved by the police, a total of seven brides from Vietnam were kidnapped and trafficked, many of them Chinese girls.
They were all sold to Vietnam by stunned and then sold as "Vietnamese brides".
Some will be sold to China and may have a chance to be rescued, while others will lose their personal freedom and basic rights and dignity as human beings forever if they are bought by people from other countries.
In all the cases of Vietnamese brides, their outcomes are nothing more than two, one is to leave home and marry into the man's family, becoming a "good wife and good mother"; The other is to collude with intermediaries and go down the path of crime.
In the final analysis, because of poverty, there are some Vietnamese brides who do not want to marry far away, but they need this money, so they collude with black agents.
They saw that these people were eager to get married, so they teamed up with intermediaries, pretended to be blind dates with each other, and then defrauded each other of bride money. Sometimes they would marry several men at the same time, and after cheating out money, they would find an opportunity to leave.
In the long run, both black agents and Vietnamese brides have gradually formed a criminal chain, eventually resulting in the tragic image of countless women being trafficked.
The most ridiculous thing is that Vietnamese brides have become an indispensable part of Vietnam's economic income, and Vietnam's "Investment Daily" has published a message that in Vietnam, remittances are an important pillar of Vietnam's economy.
The remittance is provided by these Vietnamese brides who marry, and when they get married, they can not only let the intermediary obtain a large income, but also send money to their maiden family after they get married.
The existence of Vietnamese brides is an inevitable phenomenon in Vietnam's troubled times, and this phenomenon may never disappear, and their fate cannot be left to their own.