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2. Mail-order bride - Wikipedia

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   After contacting a mail-order agency, the majority of Filipina mail-order brides met their husbands by attending "show-ups", a meeting in which a group of Filipina women are brought to meet a Korean man who is looking for a wife. At the show-up the Korean man picks a prospective wife from among the group, and in a matter of days they are married.

3. Timeline of online dating - Wikipedia

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   Cherry Blossoms' mail-order bride catalog launches. Slater calls Cherry Blossoms "one of the oldest mail-order bride agencies". Started by John Broussard. 1976 Great Expectations is founded. Video dating service started by Jeffrey Ullman. [5] [6] The service achieved some notability, but it never overcame stigma. There were also apparently ...

4. Cherry Blossoms (marriage agency) - Wikipedia

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   Cherry Blossoms is the oldest and one of the largest international social networking companies.It was established in 1974 as a catalog specializing in women from Asia. The agency printed catalogs of "personals" listings, selling addresses to customers who were then able to correspond directly with the women.

5. A Foreign Affair (company) - Wikipedia

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   A 2011 The Today Show segment featured AFA and one of its founders in light of the mail-order bride industry's growth following the 2008 recession. The segment explored some common negative perceptions about the mail-order bride industry, including concerns that relationships precipitated by websites like AFA might not be completely equal; for ...

6. Bride buying - Wikipedia

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   One of the most common forms of modern-day bride-buying is mail-order brides. It is estimated that there are 90 agencies that deal with the selling and purchasing of mail order brides. [ 6 ] These agencies have websites that list the addresses, pictures, names and biographies of up to 25,000 women that are seeking husbands, with American ...

7. Dating agency - Wikipedia

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   International marriage agencies, which differ from mail-order bride services, enable clients to search worldwide for their ideal marriage partner. International marriage agency use has been fueled by increased exposure to foreign cultures worldwide.

8. Bride scam - Wikipedia

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   A bride scam is a form of romance scam - a confidence trick that aims to defraud potential grooms with the offer of a foreign bride.The basis of the confidence trick is to seek men from the western world who would like to marry a foreign woman and pretend to be willing to marry them.

9. International marriage of Vietnamese women - Wikipedia

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   In almost all cases, the "Vietnamese mail-order bride" is an illegal and unethical business that is a violation of human rights. Human and sex trafficking are related criminal offenses. International marriage has often been viewed as taboo since its perception of linkages with colonialism, exploitation, and differences in cultural and racial ...