Since the 1990s, Ukraine's economy has been deteriorating, and its per capita GDP is only a few hundred dollars higher than India. Therefore, many Ukrainian women leave their country and go to Western Europe to make a living. As China becomes more and more prosperous, the number of Ukrainian women coming to China for development has also increased.
In addition, Ukrainian dating websites are doing well, and each website has thousands of beautiful Ukrainian women information. They "have no requirements" for their partner's appearance and only hope to leave their own country. This created the Chinese an illusion that tens of thousands of Ukrainian women were eager to leave their country to come to China and were willing to marry the Chinese. But I want to say that this is a myth, not a real situation.
Simply put, Ukrainians regard their families as important than everything else, which is their unique cultural characteristic. It is almost unlikely that you can exchange their love for the house with cars, houses. In Ukraine, adult children talk to their parents a few times a week, and if they don’t live in the same city, town or village, they will have to visit them a few times a month. If they live in the same place, there will be weekly visits.
For many Chinese people, this is an unusual and unfamiliar family arrangement. Many Chinese sons and grandchildren work hard outside all year round and only go home to meet their elders during the Chinese New Year and holidays.
When I was talking to a group of Ukrainian friends about the issue of "empty nest elderly people" in China, a friend of mine interrupted me and said that this does not exist in Ukraine. Because children, no matter how old they are, are still children of their parents, and must be pampered and cared for for the rest of their lives. In fact, in the two host families I visited, grandparents played an indispensable role in caring for and tutoring grandchildren, helping with cooking and cleaning.
One of the most popular jokes for Ukrainians is the topic of mother-in-law, and they also have many jokes and whispers about the ill-gotten relationship between their parents-in-law and their parents. This type of joke is rare in China because most people’s large families are not that close, and their parents-in-law don’t have much contact with them, which makes us unfamiliar with this humor.
It is hard to imagine a Ukrainian woman leaving this close family relationship behind. Although Ukrainians admire and respect China, the vast majority of Ukrainians I have met love their country deeply and do not want to live anywhere else. I believe only 2000 to 3000 women marry and leave this country every year, Poland and other Slavic countries are the main competitors of these Ukrainian brides, not China, because they share many of the same cultural values and characteristics.
And as far as I understand, most of Ukrainian dating websites are scams. For some Chinese men, they will fantasize about a much younger woman because of their obsession with improving their lives, so they will ignore the shortcomings that other women are unwilling to endure. But, in fact, not many Ukrainian women will have such low expectations for future partners.
In all less wealthy countries, mail order brides or dating scams are a problem. The photos of a potential Ukrainian bride or date you are facing are usually from models, celebrities or other attractive women, but the person you are chatting with is a semi-fluent in English, not the one in the photo. In fact, if you walk into the office of one of the "organizations" you will see a lot of men pretending to be the women in the photo, and these "typists" usually make an average of $300-400 a month, enough to support their families.
In Ukraine, bride scams are a permanent source of income for many people. They just need to sit and chat all day and get paid more than doing any other job. Such an industry even made Lugansk the capital of European mail order bride scams.
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