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Why is it that foreigners seem to marry less-attractive Filipinas?
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Why is it that foreigners seem to marry less-attractive Filipinas?
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This is a good question, and one reason that occurred to me was that many foreigners who are married to Filipinas will have initially made contact with their wives through pen friendships or via e-mail, rather than meeting them and being really attracted to them in person. In the years before I married my Filipino wife (and we celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary next month, by the way) I had pen friendships with some young ladies who lived in the Philippines and did fly out to meet them. Although I had enjoyed corresponding with them and we found plenty of topics to write about, I found that when I met them, although we liked each other’s company on a platonic level,that spark of attraction that is needed to develop the relationship was missing. Actually when I visited my pen friend in Cebu and met her mother and some of her other family members, I discovered that she had a much more attractive sister, but I did not think it was appropriate to pay any attention to the sister at the time. I also met another pen friend in Manila, who again was originally from Cebu, and again she was a very pleasant young lady, and certainly what we in the U.K. would call a “nice girl” but again I found that I was not particularly attracted to her. When she met me she was accompanied by a female friend (a kind of chaperone of similar age to her) and to be honest I was much more attracted to the friend, but the friend was already married. Also at this time I had a male Britrish friend who was of similar age to me and visited two girls in Manila with whom he had long pen friendships, but when he met both of them, he again found that they both had much prettier sisters, and he confessed that he found these sisters to be much more attractive than his pen friends. I therefore began to form the opinion that maybe pen friendships can appeal to the less attractive girls in the Philippines who are probably less noticed and appreciated by men who meet them in person, and are overshadowed by their more attractive sisters and friends. However they realised that through a pen friendship they could find the ideal way to show that even “plain Janes” like themselves could prove to be real soul mates. Maybe this is how those foreign men had come to marry those Filipinas who were not necessarily the prettiest or most physically attractive.
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A few things to consider. (from a white american males perspective) "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"Femininity on average is attractive to men. A woman can be feminine in looks, style, actions, attitude, personality etc.Filipino culture is more old fashioned in some regards, these old fashioned values produce a more traditionally feminine woman in relation to western culture.Filipinas are on average smaller. To a certain degree, a smaller body is more feminine and a larger body is more masculine.I have found that I'm more attracted to women with natural dark hair and dark eyes (skin color can be light or dark). This can make a woman ten times more physically attractive to me. I know there are very beautiful women with lighter hair and lighter eyes, but somehow they don't grab my attraction and attention the same way.I have noticed a general Asian cheeriness in everyday demeanor and attitude that I find very attractive. There is something about this cheeriness that makes me happy. Marrying a woman that has this cheeriness would be a big plus for me.These points are some reasons why I might find a Filipina very attractive that some consider less attractive. Considering all the of above and if a women is also warm, friendly, loving, easy to please and easy to make happy, it's a wonder why more foreign men don't marry Filipinas. I also agree with some of the other answers here.