"Taiwanese women are too difficult," he says. "They won't take care of my parents when they get old. In Vietnam, it's more like Taiwan was in the 1960s - the traditions are still strong."
In recent decades, Taiwan's expanding economy has absorbed a female workforce that is increasingly educated and assertive, particularly when it comes to relationships. Women are delaying getting married - the average bride is 29 - and having fewer children. Taiwan's birthrate is among the world's lowest: 1.2 births per woman.
As a result, fewer women want to marry into traditional families in rural towns like Shihding. Childless men are instead traveling overseas to find a bride who will keep house and bear children without complaint. "Taiwanese women are well educated and have good jobs," says Tsai Chao-lan, a marriage broker in Taipei. "They have high demands and criteria for husbands, and I think it's difficult for men to keep up."This is an interesting phenomenon and a similar trend is seen in multiple places all over the world. Women in democratic equalitarian societies, seem to become undesirable for men still steeped in the older chauvinistic traditions.
It would be interesting to hear, if any of this translates into all of us being genetically related more closely in years to come.
Culturally this will definitely make us more diverse and maybe in the long term cause us to forget older traditions and have only the commercially acceptable dominant societie's traditions.
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