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WIN A WIFE contest: New Zealand's radio station criticized for controversial contest!
Published by meoww
February 11, 2011 at 17:01
"The Rock FM", a radio station in New Zealand, is coming under fire for running a contest for male listeners to win a wife! The winner will be flown to Ukraine for 12 nights with accommodation and $2000 to pick their future wife from a bride agency called Endless Love Agency.
It's actually going to happen. And oh boy are there going to be some people with their panties in a twist over this one.
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But we're not going to give this opportunity to just anybody ... to weed out the no-hopers and time-wasters, we've developed the application form below. If you're interested in holy matrimony with a potentially hot foreign chick, fill it out to the best of your abilities. If we pick you, you'll be heading to the Ukraine with 12 nights' accommodation with $2000 spending money to meet the lucky lady!
Good luck, potential wife-wanters - if you're what we're looking for, we could be in touch...Source: www.therock.net.nz
The prize consists of -
(a) To choose one lady from those registered with Endless Love Agency to correspond with via 2 video conferences and unlimited translated emails with photos in the lead up to the face to face meeting.
(b) Visa application for a temporary visit to the Ukraine.
(c) Return flights from Akl, Wgtn or Chch to Donetsk Ukraine departing March 23 and arriving home April 7.
(d) Transfers from Donetsk to Zaporozhye and return.
(e) 12 nights accommodation in Zaporozhye (excluding breakfast).
(f) Extra’s include a food and beverage welcome pack on arrival, first day breakfast, a bunch of Roses for the lady on their first meeting, interpreters for the first meeting, 3 hour river cruise with the lady, taxi’s to and from the river cruise, photographer on the river cruise, additional assistance from the Endless Love Agency Tour Guide for the length of stay in the Ukraine.
(g) $2,000 NZD spending money.
The contest has drawn a lot of complaints, but has also received a lot of applications for entering the contest.
However, social activist Sue Bradford said the competition took "commercial radio to new depths".
"It is unusual and somewhat disturbing that a commercial entity would commercialise what should be one of the most meaningful human relationships and actually offer it as a prize for a radio show," she said.
Source: web.orange.co.uk
About Endless Love Agency (from here)
As the owner of “endless love agency” I have PERSONALLY experienced the search for a wife and soul mate worldwide.
Endless Love Agency combines Kiwi business ethics and morals with my own personal experiences and detailed knowledge of the internet marriage industry. I use trusted agents in the Ukraine that share the same business, personal ethics and morals. As part of our unique practice we even meet and personally interview every woman applying to join the agency, unlike most other internet agencies.
We guarantee that our ladies are 100% real, genuine and look as they appear in their photos. After worldwide research for over 10 years it is my experienced opinion that Ukraine women are the best ladies to match New Zealand men. There are many single stunningly beautiful and genuine Ukrainian women waiting to meet you.
I frequently travel to the Ukraine and have a vast knowledge of the languages, customs and differences between the 2 countries. I have in-depth knowledge of the pitfalls that many men face when going alone.
If you are looking for a beautiful, loving and caring woman to share your life with then welcome to Endless Love Agency!
Why Ukraine?
The reason I picked the Ukraine for my agency was because of the high quality of the ladies. These Ladies are not only very very beautiful and educated but have high family morals, values and standards. There is, for some reason of genetics, a high female birth rate. The current ratio is around 6 females to 1 male. In general many men there want to womanise, not work and drink too much alcohol. As a result women in the Ukraine have trouble finding a good man. For these women their main goal in seeking marriage outside their country is to have a family, a man to love and cherish who will provide for their family and love her back.
How is it any different from "The Bachelor" (or "The Bachelorette") shows in US? But what if none of girls like the selected participant?
Comment by
scube
February 11, 2011 at 21:16
This is a woman who is opening herself up to marriage to a foreign stranger which will mean leaving the country, language, food and people she is familiar with.Why would she do this?How bad would your life have to be for you to do this?Because this woman IS you. She isn’t stupid, she isn’t an infant, she isn’t anything different to us.Something must have happened for her to be this desperate to get out and away from the Ukraine...Perhaps finances are rough and the risk of having sex with a stranger husband seems less risky than actual prostitution.Perhaps their family owes the gangs/money lenders money and she can pay that debt off by participating in this venture.Between 1991 and 1998, 500,000 Ukrainian women had been trafficked to the West, those who manage to escape traffickers or are frightened of following may take this as the “better” option.By 1995, due to the collapse of the Ukrainian economy the shadow (illegal business) economy accounted for 50 percent of the GDP The result has been a criminalization of the economy in general and expansion of organized criminal networks. Jobs are scarce for anyone, let alone women.According to the International Organization for Migration (an American organisation), all mail-order-bride agencies with women from the republics of the former Soviet Union are under the control of organized crime networks. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/203275.pdfStarting to get a picture?So at some point in most of these women’s lives they have been hurt, or are at risk of being hurt in the future.
To support this please go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-the-Rocks-Win-a-Wife-campaign/125406027531398
Comment by
scube
February 11, 2011 at 21:17
Sorry for the bad formatting<br>I didnt realise it needed code.
Comment by
scube
February 11, 2011 at 21:20
I will repost so you dont have to read the garbled mess above<br>
This is a woman who is opening herself up to marriage to a foreign stranger which will mean leaving the country, language, food and people she is familiar with.Why would she do this? <br>How bad would your life have to be for you to do this?<br>Because this woman IS you. <br>She isn’t stupid, she isn’t an infant, she isn’t anything different to us.<br>Something must have happened for her to be this desperate to get out and away from the Ukraine...<br>Perhaps finances are rough and the risk of having sex with a stranger husband seems less risky than actual prostitution.Perhaps their family owes the gangs/money lenders money and she can pay that debt off by participating in this venture.<br>Between 1991 and 1998, 500,000 Ukrainian women had been trafficked to the West, those who manage to escape traffickers or are frightened of following may take this as the “better” option.<br>By 1995, due to the collapse of the Ukrainian economy the shadow (illegal business) economy accounted for 50 percent of the GDP The result has been a criminalization of the economy in general and expansion of organized criminal networks. Jobs are scarce for anyone, let alone women.<br>According to the International Organization for Migration (an American organisation), all mail-order-bride agencies with women from the republics of the former Soviet Union are under the control of organized crime networks. <br>http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/203275.pdf<br>Starting to get a picture?So at some point in most of these women’s l<br>ives they have been hurt, or are at risk of being hurt in the future.
To support this please go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-the-Rocks-Win-a-Wife-campaign/125406027531398
Comment by
Scube
February 11, 2011 at 21:24
It is all well and good to send kiwi men over there to pick out a wife. In the scenario you are most likely to try and put forward, the women are all brilliant, happy, yet lonely ladies, who just want a man. <br> Not so desperate for escape from a destitute life that they would marry a stranger.<br>And even if that IS the case I would like to know what information about the Man you are sending is given to the woman he is matched with?<br>Criminal history? Spousal abuse history? Possible STDs or major transmittable health issues such as hepatitis? <br>Historically, IMBs have declined to provide any information about their male clients to the women with whom they seek to match them; and, in fact, this one-sidedness has been a selling point.<br>A New York based advocacy group called Equality Now demonstrated it in stark terms in 1999, when they sent a blanket email inquiry to dozens of IMBs, claiming to be from a physician who had assaulted two ex-wives; his email asked whether this history would be an problem.<br>Out of sixty-six responses, only three IMBs turned him down, and only two others expressed serious reservations about taking him on as a client; a few actually praised him and commiserated regarding the occasional need for violence when it comes to keeping women in line.
Comment by
Gravey
February 13, 2011 at 22:55
Of note also is that Endless Love also operates out of the Philippines.
If there is any doubt about the intent, the line "The reason I picked the Ukraine for my agency was because of the high quality of the ladies. "
Mizozo
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