Interesting facts:
- Of the 20,775 marriages involving at least one citizen, 8,086 Singaporeans were hitched to non-citizen spouses. Of the 8,086 people, 6,200 were men and 1,886 were women.
- Close to 90 per cent of these non-citizen spouses last year were from Asia.
- She added that the largest group of Singaporean male singles are usually lower educated while the female singles are usually higher educated.
‘The educated women are more likely to travel overseas or meet Caucasian spouses at work here. The men turn to foreign brides through matchmaking agencies,’ she said.
Strange facts:
- His agency, set up in 2004, deals specifically with Hainanese brides because they are ‘more virtuous and family-oriented’ than Singaporean women.
‘If Singaporean men do not want to date career-minded Singaporean women, I give them an alternative to date virtuous Hainanese women,’ he said. He has contacts and an office in Hainan which generate a constant pool of Hainanese women looking to pair up with Singaporean men.- She said men may turn to foreign women because they find local ones too ‘career-minded’ and ‘driven’.
But Ms Chan said: ‘Local women feel that men here don’t understand that our education system has pushed them to pursue such high-powered careers. After a while, they feel that perhaps foreign men will appreciate this part of them.’
Well, you can add to this statistic I guess?