Mail Order Brides
September 26, 2013
Exploratory Essay Human trafficking and mail order brides are big phenomenons in the world that people don’t really think about. People suffer from abuse, physically and mentally, being forced to do service that they do not want to do and by being oblivious to the people that they will encounter.
Human trafficking is a form of slavery, known as “modern day slavery.” Trafficking consists of labor, domestic, and sexual work. There are approximately 2.4 million victims of human trafficking and about 1.5 million of these victims are sex slaves. Half of the number of sex slaves are in Asia, mainly in Thailand. In Thailand, this illegal act is a very common issue, with males females, and even children. In the documentary, …show more content…
This became very popular in the 1800s, during frontier America. The men found better jobs in the West. They would write letters to churches and publish personal ads in magazines and newspapers, stating that they were looking for a wife. Women responded with letters and pictures of themselves. During this time period, they were known as “Picture Brides”. Today, there are many services, online and actual catalog, that are for mail-order brides. This service takes place all over the world, but is focused mainly in Asia and Europe. Many men in Europe and America go through mail order bride services and look for Thai women to be their wives. Western men don’t like the feminist ways of western women. In the documentary, Bride Trafficking Unveiled, western men go through the bride service because they like having power, and women were raised to be “good wives”, which means to be obedient to their husbands. In the documentary, it was said that Thai women look to western men as “gods.” Many women want to become mail order brides because they fantasize about an ideal family that they see in magazines and on TV. Women are oblivious to what they would receive when they marry the western men. A woman by the name of Di stated that she heard a lot of negative things about being a bride such as women being beaten, tortured, being personal sex slaves, and even being killed. After
Exploratory Essay Human trafficking and mail order brides are big phenomenons in the world that people don’t really think about. People suffer from abuse, physically and mentally, being forced to do service that they do not want to do and by being oblivious to the people that they will encounter.
Human trafficking is a form of slavery, known as “modern day slavery.” Trafficking consists of labor, domestic, and sexual work. There are approximately 2.4 million victims of human trafficking and about 1.5 million of these victims are sex slaves. Half of the number of sex slaves are in Asia, mainly in Thailand. In Thailand, this illegal act is a very common issue, with males females, and even children. In the documentary, …show more content…
This became very popular in the 1800s, during frontier America. The men found better jobs in the West. They would write letters to churches and publish personal ads in magazines and newspapers, stating that they were looking for a wife. Women responded with letters and pictures of themselves. During this time period, they were known as “Picture Brides”. Today, there are many services, online and actual catalog, that are for mail-order brides. This service takes place all over the world, but is focused mainly in Asia and Europe. Many men in Europe and America go through mail order bride services and look for Thai women to be their wives. Western men don’t like the feminist ways of western women. In the documentary, Bride Trafficking Unveiled, western men go through the bride service because they like having power, and women were raised to be “good wives”, which means to be obedient to their husbands. In the documentary, it was said that Thai women look to western men as “gods.” Many women want to become mail order brides because they fantasize about an ideal family that they see in magazines and on TV. Women are oblivious to what they would receive when they marry the western men. A woman by the name of Di stated that she heard a lot of negative things about being a bride such as women being beaten, tortured, being personal sex slaves, and even being killed. After