Katya, 26 and Zhenya, 42. Owners of a greenhouse.
Seven women living in the Far East share their oninions on advantages and disadvantages of being married to a Chinese man.
“Our friends brought us together. He would come to my place, help me with money and bring presents. We’ve been together for about five years. We have two children and I’m taking care of them. Sometimes I help my husband do the work in the field. Now he speaks Russian a bit better but when he came the only word he knew was ‘eat”.
Tatyana, 25 and Kostya, 40. Farmers.
“I was 16 and it was my summer vacation. My friends and me went to work in the field. Kostya was a manager of the farm and asked me to help him with Russian. I agreed, I didn’t know he could woo me because he was older! He watched me for a long time to find out if I had bad habits like smoking or drinking alcohol… At first, my grandmother disapproved of the marriage and said that he needed me just to receive a Russian passport. When Kostya learnt about it he was hurt so we never registered our marriage”.
Vika, 29 and Volodya, 46. Owners of a pig farm.
“I didn’t pay attention at him in the beginning because he didn’t speak Russian and kept following me. When I started teaching him the language, he said that he loved me. We have two daughters and two sons. I am a housewife and he works to provide the family with everything we need. Actually, he’s a completely positive person. Nothing will make him go back to China and he likes it here in Russia”.
Ira, 32 and Vitya, 36. Farmers.
“He had a crash on me at once. But he was afraid of making any steps – he thought I would turn him down because he is Chinese. Then, he just came up and said he wanted to marry me. I didn’t take him seriously at first because he was from a different country and I thought he could go back to China any day. But he keeps proving that he’s a serious, reliable and very kind-hearted person”.
Irina, 26 and Sasha, 28. Owners of a stall selling sports shoes on a local market.
“We met at the market. He impressed me with his push and then I found out that in fact he’s very shy. We got married in China. Our best men and bridesmaids didn’t speak English, not mentioning Russian, at all! When I came, they showed sincere interest in me because they’d never seen Russians even on TV”.
Why do the Chinese have Russian names?
Russian people (not those who live in big cities, of course) do often call foreigners with Russian names. John becomes Zhenya, Liao suddenly finds himself to be Lesha.
What would they call someone named Colin.
Kolya (Nikolay), for sure.
That doesn’t sound too bad at all. Pretty cool actually. There is no better way to assimilate someone than to give them a name and call them by it, as long as it is a good name.
What would they call someone named Colin…. If it be a true Russian, then they would call him collect!
Sounds like relatives of mine…LOL.
My name is Thomas, what will i be called in Russia???
The Russian equivalent of Thomas being Foma (last syllable is stressed), you could be called Foma or Fomka (here stress goes on the first syllable) as a diminutive form. The Or just Tom, cuz every Russian knows Tom & Jerry
Very interesting subject, got any more stories?
Assimilation, the way Russia will lose Siberia, and the word by chinese will reach urals
Chinese farmers are hard-working people.
Any Russian men married to a Chinese woman?
Yes. Despite what you have heard they are more common.
I have a friend who married a Chinese girl he met on a WestPac cruise. They have been married about 20 years now and that woman is amazing. She never had a job and was always a mother, teacher, doctor and drill Sargent. His daughter just got into medical school and his son is 15 and already taking classes for automotive engineering. Through a Mercedes scholarship program. More on this if you have it.
I would also like to say that just from reading about these people, farmers who carry their own water and chop their own wood and make a living by their finger nails they’re a breed apart and worthy of great respect.
You got that totally right in one.
Good article.
Interesting and cool. But where are the chinese women?
My ex was Asian and she said most Asian men were controlling, serial cheaters- always looking for younger women, and prone to violence against women. Good luck to these brave Russian women. By the way, I wasn’t any of that…just too lazy and without any ambition.
I have heard this as well. Not all, but enough to make it known.
The last girl says her Chinese husband forced her to do everything he wanted and always found fault with her.Then she says Chinese people are more respectful and patient towards people dosen`t make sense does it?Anyway i do not know what that girl Masha is doing with that old man kinda weird maybe love is blind?
Tough to find a non-drinking husband with ambition, I guess.
everywhere chinese , from far east asia to west europe.
Most of them look very happy.
The mixed daughters will probably grow up looking extremely hot!
They don’t look very happy to me
I realized a long time ago that people are only people. It never matters where you came from, in any fruit basket you have good aples and it only take one bad fruit to spoil the others.
Sadly, if you have 100 sheeps and only one of them is black, it will be the only one that gats any notice.
Sage words from my gramp who lived the hard way when he was also a farmer’s son:
Don’t judge an entire family (or race) when you know only one of them.
Your Grand Father sounds like he is right.
As long as they do not mix with blacks…
their offspring will looks like kazakhs, mongolian and siber people, cool..
these russian women are so kind and lovely~
Kind of ugly though. I guess Moscow is where the beauties congregate.
(1) the age gap
(2) the mind games – pretending is typical of Chinese (falling asleep, the marriage proposals out of the blue)
(3) the lack of male prospects in a neglected part of Russia
(4) the hospitality of caucasians
ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?
VIKA 29 could easily have been a super model. Too bad she doesn’t have the right connections. Few women demonstrate such stunning, striking facial features without a shred of make up.
We have differing ideals of beauty.
I feel disgusted, as a russian to see these russian women procriating with these filthy yellows. Isn’t the world too fullfilled of mixed creepies already?!?! and why we, white people have to accept these people? And if we, whites, don’t like/wnat to accept, then we are racist? Only we??? I’m sick of being called racist everytime i say “get a clue” to a non-white guy! If the yellow/black/latin/whatever chicks are so good, why these freaks are always after us?? and by the way, china is a very big country but these people are everywhere, reproducing themselves to guarantee their “right” to steal other people’s lands. go away and take these mixed freaks with you! I’m sick of these people all over Russia!! this is my land, my people land’s. Real russians!
Asiatics are welcome in Russia, as long as there are more yellow women than yellow men. Yellow women for white men.
hey white dudes, plz leave our chinese land too … china stole it ??? nope .. actually russia stole it from china … most russia’s far east was chinese territory for thausands years but russia stole it in the 19th century everybody should know it !!! plz leave our land, white dummy
if russia wanna fight china, china would more than welcome,,, go try china just once… this time china will recover our lost siberian land // i guess those russian girls married chinese guys for economic reason (somewat love maybe)
Asia is for Asian. Russian are the White Peril in Asia. not the other way around.