Grunt wrote:In my experience, there is little threat or a "gold rush" on the part of American men. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the very pinnacle of the foreign bride phenomenon, only a very tiny minority of guys have taken the opportunity to find a foreign wife.
As the situation equalizes (saturation of Western culture in FSU nations, feminism infecting those areas over time, etc) there are fewer and fewer women worth marrying. My wife talks to her family and friends in Ukraine on a fairly regular basis, and they confirm without a doubt that the quality of girls in Kherson has fallen dramatically in the last 5 years.
Plus when you add the rapid decline of the American empire, and the dollar, even fewer men will be able to explore options overseas. If the average guy can barely pay his rent, he is not likely to get on a plane to Manila any time soon. This is less a fault of the men, and more a fault with the imperialist mindset of this nation. Plus lets not discount the political efforts of feminists in America. Forcing men to release a criminal report before they can even talk to a girl overseas its flat-out tyranny.
So my overall point is, I would not worry about a flood of men rushing overseas. Men have not done it before, and things are only getting more difficult for them. If you need a reason not to post things on youtube, I would say you should try to respect the privacy of complete strangers. They may not appreciate having their private conversations exposed to the world. I know I wouldnt.
Its a mistake to only consider American men as a source of the so-called gold rush. Middle classes have emerged in many countries all over the world in the last decade and women in those places have become more like their American sisters. So the guys are looking offshore. In South America, you compete with Europeans and their strong Euro. Countries like Thailand and the PI are getting flooded with well-off Japanese, Koreans, newly empowered Chinese, and Aussies with their super-strong gold and China driven currency. Russians, Middle Easterners, and Indians add to the mix too. Back during the Wall St. heyday of late 90s/early 2000s, Americans would flock down to Rio and throw money at the girls. The word gringo became synonymous with sucker amoung the locals. Now prices for hotels, taxis, food, and girls have shot-up 3-4 times. Its gone from cheap to expensive. Sure, its not ony because of tourism. But the value-for-money decline would have been much slower if few people had visited or tourists had not been so foolish with their money.
Trust me. Once a place gets a certain amount of profile, prices shoot-up, attitudes deteriorate, quality often goes south, and real girlfriends become much harder to find for visitors and foreigners. Its supply and demand combined with human nature. As for posting vids from Thailand, go for it. It was already pretty much ruined quite some time ago. If he's just some average Joe farang, he's probably going to have work through a lot of rejections and indicators of non-interest just to get a few bites.