Mail Order Bride

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 * This troper's English teacher's (at least then) wife was presumably one of these, from the Ukraine. And, whether it be an Asian woman or some sort of Eastern European, probably definitely, considering my fellow Australians wouldn't be seen dead with me the future wife of this troper as well.


 * Real life, sort of when a friend of this troper was vacationing in Eastern Europe and married a man on half a day's aquaintance. It was to get him a green-card mind you, and while they never slept together they are still the best of friends many years after that was sorted out and they were divorced.
 * ...that's not how green cards work.
 * The tradition is still alive and well - this troper knew a mail-order bride while he was in Ohio who was rather satisfied with the experience - although it's usually couched in terms of a "foreign dating site" with "accommodation fees".
 * There are a few real-life stories that subvert the traditional set-up: instead of the woman coming to live in the West, the man moves to live with her in Russia.


 * axelsonfire: This Troper's Civics teacher apparently was married to a Mail Order Bride from Korea who left him after she got citizenship. It certainly explains his stalking of the Asian girls at this troper's school.


 * This troper's family is friendly with two former Mail Order Brides - one is now a widow, the other recently got divorced after thirty years of marriage but is now a British citizen and entitled to stay in the country. Troper's grandmother also has a neighbour with a MailOrderBride and her mother's former boyfriend had one who, true to stereotypes, left him and ran away with his money.