I came across this blog today, written 6 years back. http://reshmi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2004/01/wanted-hindu-green-card-bride.htm. It is about a male doctor who is looking for a bride with a green card in the US. The author of the blog finds this advt. strange and wonders whether it is for real.
I have come across more cases of women (or the parents) in Tamil Nadu looking for grooms settled in the US than you could shake a stick at. One of the comments in that blog mentions the same.
In Tamils there is a custom; you give your girl (girl means daughter and not wife) in marriage to a family which is better off than yours. And you pick a girl from a family which is not as well off as yours. Perhaps with this as a backdrop, it is kinda surprising that a groom played the role of Cinderalla waiting for a prince(ess) to carry him off.
It does remind me of an incident 25 years back when I was in college. I went to a college where many students would go abroad for further studies. Students in their final year of undergraduate program would apply from September-December for admission to graduate programs in universities in the USA starting the next fall. January-February months were nail biting time. Students would anxiously wait for the admission and schols (abbreviation for scholarships that covered tuition fees and provided stipend for living expenses) from the universities in Jan and Feb. When we heard a riotous cheer, we would understand that some student had made it.
While the class toppers were still waiting to plan their trip to US in a few months, the rank bottomer in a senior batch got there first. It turned out that his marriage was fixed with a girl who had a green card. His trip to the US was the first that was finalized in his batch. He was the butt of no end of jokes.
Had he been female, there would have been no jokes about the incident.
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