Chinese Workers in Africa Who Marry Locals Face Puzzled Reception at Home

I found this pretty interesting:

This isn't my normal focus, but I found this dispatch from the good people at ChinaSmack amusing. The post is replete with photos and ruminates on the growing phenomenon of Chinese men marrying African women, as Chinese presence in Africa continues to expand. Here is what it had to say (Not only is the policy prescription of relying on interracial marriages to solve China's complex gender imbalances as preposterous as the "babe tax," the racial comments (translated from Chinese) are fairly typical of the impolitic language used in China. It's pretty blase by Chinese standards, but certainly would be considered offensive in the West.) :






"This is a photo of a young Fujian guy with his African wife in Congo. They run a restaurant there to make a living, I've eaten there once, it wasn't bad. The young couple are able to communicate in Chinese."



"A Shandong migrant worker who married a wife in Africa and gave birth to a daughter. His African wife passing away from illness when the daughter was two-years-old and he raises his daughter alone planting vegetables in the suburbs of Nairobi being bother father and mother to her. Not easy! What a great Shandong man! A great Chinese man!"



"The son of a wealthy Sichuan Chinese businessman who married last year's Miss Kenya!!!
Strongly recommend!!!"



http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/06/chinese-workers-in-africa-who-marry-locals-face-puzzled-reception-at-home/240662/

Lots of love going on there.

Tikki

minus the asian features.

They are half Japanese and half black (I'm named for their mom).

I'll see one of them next month at my sister's wedding. Hopefully I'll get some pics to post.

anymore. Chinese men have been marrying Afro-Caribbean women in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana from the 19th century.

Also...China has been helping to build a lot of the infrastructure in the Caribbean

Amazing!

they came from actual translations from Chinese observers.

I think they find it kinda "amazing"

the 2 couples you posted are really cute together.

i have been reading a lot about China's investments in Africa. and it's interesting to read about how it's affecting the personal lives of those in China and Africa.

I am glad to see Sino-African cultural relations strengthening. People-to-people relations are a good thing.

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/chinese-men-with-black-women-african-wives.html

i see that the above site is where the person quoted and liked in the OP got his info from.

When I was a child, our neighbors in base housing were a VERY very tall black man and his under-5ft tall Korean wife. Their son was about 8 or 9 and was already taller than his Mom:)...They had two large Boxers and all us kids used to laugh like crazy as those two rambunctious dogs took HER for walks, as she cussed them out in Korean:)

across the way was an good-ole-boy sergeant who was married to a Brazilian woman.

Our block was like the UN :)