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Noticed there is an interesting documentary on the telly tonight (UK).Focuses on Denmark. 

Should be worth a watch

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Fishing for Love: How to Catch a Thai Bride

 

A Storyville documentary. In a small fishing community on the west coast of Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to local fishermen. The trend started 25 years ago when Sommai, a former sex worker from north east Thailand, married Niels. She became a matchmaker for lonely Danish locals and impoverished women from her village in Thailand. At first, these stories seem straightforward: white men from a wealthy country marrying Asian women looking for a way out of poverty, but a different, far more complex and surprising tale unfolds in the film.

Over ten years, acclaimed film-maker Janus Metz and film-maker and anthropologist Sine Plambech follow four Thai-Danish couples in an intimate chronicle that explores universal questions of love and romance, while navigating wildly different cultures, and compromises that shift gradually and surprisingly from sacrifice to life choices.

 

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In the late 90’s early 2000’s all of the girls that used to live above the sugar shack,all ended up in Denmark.

They were some really fun girls 👍👍👍

Not sure how things ended up,but half a dozen years later saw one back,with a kid and her Danish husband.

They were all really hot,I know that.

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Well, that was worth the watch, very thought provoking for those who have wives from NE Thailand who have moved overseas to join their foreign husbands ( I all into this category) It was depresssing at times but also having some positives and with this social documentaries, it is a record of what goes on in real life, sacrifices we make and things we do in seeking out a better life. The latter part of the documentary dealt with death, heartache, betrayal and ill health with a smattering of positivity with one of the ladies Thai born Sons being accepted into a prestigious Capital City Hotel on a catering apprenticeship.

For me, it was a reminder of what my wife has scarified to come to the UK and raises the question of would I have done the same for her?.

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5 hours ago, AJSP said:

Well, that was worth the watch, very thought provoking for those who have wives from NE Thailand who have moved overseas to join their foreign husbands ( I all into this category) It was depresssing at times but also having some positives and with this social documentaries, it is a record of what goes on in real life, sacrifices we make and things we do in seeking out a better life. The latter part of the documentary dealt with death, heartache, betrayal and ill health with a smattering of positivity with one of the ladies Thai born Sons being accepted into a prestigious Capital City Hotel on a catering apprenticeship.

For me, it was a reminder of what my wife has scarified to come to the UK and raises the question of would I have done the same for her?.

My wife came here to England via the middle east 28 years ago.Me doing the same for her was out of the question because I was the money earner.

As they say in the PI 'You got the Peso,you got the sayso'.

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My second viewing of this programme. The first time I saw it was in Sweden and it had Danish subtitles and I kind of guessed that in some parts it was sad. Tonight I watched it on i player with English subtitles which made it even more sad. Felt sorry for the girl who's mother died of kidney failure and then a couple of weeks later I think her aunt was killed by a car. 

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