Strange though it may seem on Arst hand, American and European wamnen are more fortunate than Asiatic women in their experience of being married to Chinese hus bands. Unlike those who migrate to Java, Siam, the Straits generally and the Philippines, the Chine: who return to China from 0 United States or'Burope are in the main those who have studied there and who have had ample contact with Americans and Europeans, They have largely absorbed their western environment and have sui ceeded in discarding the custome and prejudices of their ancestors. Speaking the languages of their wives fluently, and being on a plane with them in all physical, spiritual educational and cultural questions, these husbands are able to get along happily with their foreign wives even after returning to China, They usually live apart from their parents and relatives and, in China their social contact is mostly with native friends of their own type fand with Americans and Europeans, Their wives have plenty of opportunities to meet people of their own Jiking. In a word. the women meet the same standard of living out in China to that with which they were accustomed at, here.
On the other hand, the Chinese who go to Siam, Java, the Straits and Philippines, are mostly common Jabourers and petty-traders, Their chief preoccupation is to earn uch as they can so as to be able in time to settle down in their home villages for the rest of their lives. So long as they are in their own country, their foreign wives have plenty of opportunities to meet their own kind, but the moment they land in China, they are like fish out of water. And the farther they get away from the coast porte, the worse off they' becom The cate of Gregoria Manton it Marriat, Jaw has been in force in - Chinese. territory. since the Toman. incident.
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