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Are brides from the Philippines changing the worlds DNA
I found this article interesting. The information is dated, however I would expect that things have not changed all that much. I was surprised to read that so many Japanese men marry women from the Philippines.
An interesting statistic mentioned in the article is that in 1989 over 700,000 Filipinas were married or became fiancées to Australians, Germans, Taiwanese and British nationals. That just seems like quite a few. I have talked with a few men from Taiwan who would consider marrying a Filipina. Although most Taiwanese guys I’m familiar with, who consider marring a foreigner, are looking to Vietnam.
I believe that there are about 2 million Philippine women overseas workers at any given time. And most of those are in the Middle East and Hong Kong. This would make Filipinas who marry and immigrate to other countries a little less than half of those working overseas and I imagine a measurable source of foreign revenue. I have to point out that these statistic are taken from different years so it may not be exactly accurate.
The articles said that “In 1994, 19,000 Filipinas left to join husbands and fiancees in other nations, mostly in the U.S” it also stated that “50,000 Filipinas married through mail-order” I think this is a 1989 statistic, although I could not verify this with the reference source the article quoted. If that is true then American men marring Filipino brides has decreased significantly.
Here is a link brides from the Philippines