Ein Artikel in dem neuen arabisch-britischen Lifestyle-Magazin Sharq macht sich selbstkritisch über die steigende Zahl von Importbräuten und -bräutigamen lustig:
What is it that our fellow compatriots have on the Arab continent that is sending the men over, away from the local and familiar women? Perhaps the perceived hassle of going abroad is in fact anything but. After all, choosing from a selection of hand-picked women to your liking when on a mission to find just that, doesn’t sound like that much of a hassle. Just like ordering in on a lazy Sunday, you can sift through the menu of personalities and looks and come out of your ‘introduction’ with your own takaway bride. The Far East is fast becoming popular for ‘surgery holidays’, so maybe the Middle East can cash in on their own takeaway bride industry: sun, sea, culture and ready made wife!When it comes to matters of the heart, it seems many Arab men are quite lazy, not wanting to compromise on the long list of ‘must have qualities’ of their future wife. Add to that the ‘must have’ list of their parents, namely a thoroughly researched family background – the kind of which you can investigate with a fine-toothed comb in Arab countries – and it becomes quite obvious why many choose to go abroad.
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But the explanation for British Arab men’s attraction to the takeaway bride lies in more than just superficial reasons, like having your bamye with or without coriander; it is the mentality that ultimately our female compatriots across the waters make better wives.
Perhaps it is men’s fixation with purity in their female counterparts in Britain at play; a quality considered diminished, if not altogether dispelled. Many have themselves ‘strayed from the righteous path’ and fear that the British Arab woman may have succumbed to similar temptations. Somehow, often naively, they consider their takeaway bride to have led a more sheltered
adolescence.