Women flip flops. Vietnam: the beautiful half

Vietnamese, both men and women, are considered some of the most beautiful nations on earth. The appearance of people, in addition to the proportions of their faces, also depends on physical and mental health, and with this, things are not bad in Vietnam.
Vietnamese girls take part in various beauty contests every year and often take places in the top ten. A little pre-competition preparation hinders climbing to the top.

With age, the appearance of Vietnamese women changes little, unless, of course, there are big health problems or hard physical labor. In Vietnam, fat people are rare, and fat women are even rarer than men.

Vietnamese women often marry foreigners. Vietnamese men rarely marry foreign women. The main reason for this state of affairs is commonplace. The Vietnamese are a stunted nation. It's okay for a foreigner to marry a little Vietnamese woman. It is very difficult for a Vietnamese man to find a foreign woman who is below him. Even in neighboring Southeast Asia and China, average growth is higher than in Vietnam.

According to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, men and women have equal rights, but traditions and way of life assign the Vietnamese woman a subordinate position for now. Confucian morality requires a woman to listen to her father, husband, son. So, a woman, before sitting down at the table, must take care of her man, and only then start eating herself. Although the changed economic and social conditions are leveling the situation, but the majority of Vietnamese women are employed in very difficult and completely non-female jobs: on construction sites, laying roads, cultivating rice fields and digesting salt. At the same time, Vietnamese men can easily spend time at home, waiting for their wife from work.
(It reminds me of something ...)

All Vietnamese are very smiling, but this does not mean that they smile when they feel good. They may also smile when they are upset about something, or even upset and depressed. However, they will never pretend that they are offended by something. (Maybe this is one of the secrets of youth ...)
It is customary to speak quietly throughout Vietnam; this tradition is almost never changed.

Previously, black teeth were considered a symbol of beauty among Vietnamese women. Blackening of teeth is not unique to Vietnamese culture. This custom is common among the peoples of East and Southeast Asia, from Japan to Malaysia, including South China.

Since the 1920s, tooth dyeing has ceased to be a widespread custom, having survived mainly in rural areas and among national minorities.

The concept of beauty changes over time and cannot be imposed. Even people from other cultures can find black teeth beautiful. For example, the French colonel Digett, who lived in Vietnam at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, admitted: "Having lived for a long time with the natives, you gradually get used to it ... And the day comes when you find a beautiful woman with shiny black teeth ..."

The provincial peasant women are distinguished from the urban Vietnamese women by their skin color. The first are dark-skinned, undecided by the merciless sun. The latter are pale-faced, hiding the true color of the skin behind a layer of thickly applied powder. In Asian countries, tanning is a sign of a low social level. In predominantly agrarian Vietnam, select women have light skin, while most women have dark skin. The life of Vietnamese peasant women is prosaic and monotonous. However, in the routine of life, they see a noble mission - to feed the country. Hardy, fragile women and dry old women work in the fields, collecting two or three crops of rice a year. Each rice shoot yields no more than twenty grains. It is easy to imagine how much work, patience, creative energy and soul of the Vietnamese people are concentrated in a bowl filled with rice.

Vietnamese women do not recognize any cosmetics other than ginseng cream. But they spend a huge amount of time on hair care, comb three times a day, rub in decoctions of medicinal herbs and predominantly homemade drugs, the recipes for which they know a lot (the East is a delicate matter).

The founder of Vietnamese medicine is Thue Tinh (1325-1414). One of his activities was the search for the preservation of the beauty of the female face. And he managed to find very effective recipes. And although Thue Tinh wrote that those medicinal herbs that grow in the area of \u200b\u200bresidence act better on the body of a particular person, I give some of his tips that may be useful for Russian women.
A woman must remember that virtue and beauty of the face are the basis of life. Both must be protected. If you do not preserve virtue - you will defame your name for a hundred years, you will not preserve beauty - you will lose the charm of life "Tue Tinh

Units:
One lang \u003d 100g
One dong \u003d 3.7g
One thang \u003d 250

HOW TO KEEP FACE FRESH
This requires 5 lang of pumpkin seeds, 4 lang of peach flowers and 3 lang of tangerine peel. Dry, grind and drink all components three times a day after meals, each time brewing 2 dong of the dried mixture in a glass of boiling water. If you want the skin to be white, add pumpkin seeds, who like pinkish skin, add more peach blossoms. After a month the skin will be refreshed, after fifty days this tea leaves will have a beneficial effect on the skin of the whole body.

HOW TO MAKE A LIGHT TOO BURNED FACE.
Peel off a medium pumpkin and cut the fruit into small pieces. Pour them with one thang of water and 1.5 thangs of vodka, boil, drain the liquid. Before going to bed, make a face mask from the boiled pumpkin pulp. You can also wipe your face with the remaining liquid. After a while, the face will become bright and clear, like a precious stone.

HOW TO DISPLAY NEW MOTHERLANDS ON THE FACE.
Make a strong decoction of coriander seeds and wipe every day the place where the mole appeared.

HOW TO REMOVE ACNE
Crush the duckweed well and wipe your face with it daily. You can also get rid of acne and boils by wiping your face with a strong broth of purslane every day. For those with age-related acne, wash the purple duckweed and boil it, apply the thick to the face.

HOW TO CARE YOUR HAIR
Boil the leaves of mulberry and sesame in equal amounts in the water left after washing the rice, and wash your hair for seven days in a row - then the hair will acquire shine and silkiness, a natural black color. And if you fry mulberry leaves in sesame oil, throw them away, and wipe your head with oil every day, then the hair will stop falling out and begin to grow quickly like a cane

Vietnam lies on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. More than 80% percent in Vietnam is mountainous, there are twodeep and important rivers - Mekong and Hongha. The country is one of the largest suppliers of rice.Here is the longest cable car in the Guinness Book of Records, and the bayHalong is a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site.
The ethnic composition in Vietnam is homogeneous: it is mainly represented by Viets, 1.5% are accounted for by Thais, Khmers, and Myongs.and other nationalities. The population speaks Vietnamese, some speak English, French and Chinese.At the heart of the Vietnamese religion is the cult of ancestors.
Vietnamese girls and women are famous for their warm smiles, smooth skin and chiseled figure, so there are a lot of models and actresses of Vietnamese origin in the world.AT Top 20 most beautiful flip flops included famous Vietnamese actresses, singers,models and winners of national and international beauty contests, living in Vietnam and abroad, having vietnamese roots.

20. Vu Thi Hoang My / Vũ Thị Hoàng M (born November 13, 1988) - Miss Vietnam 2010, represented her country at the Miss Universe 2011 and Miss World 2012 contests.

19. Vu Ngoc Hoang Oanh / Vũ Ngọc Hoàng Oanh (born January 10, 1990 Hanoi) - Vietnamese model.Took 2nd place in the competition Miss Vietnam 2012.

18. Elizabeth Thuy Tien (born May 27, 1983) is an American model of Vietnamese origin.

17. Tila Tequila / Tila Nguyễn (born October 24, 1981) - American singer,rapper, songwriter, actress, fashion model and TV presenter of Vietnamese descent.

16. Diem My (born January 27, 1990) is a Vietnamese actress and model.

15. Bebe Pham (born April 3, 1983) - Vietnamese model and actress.

14. Maggie Q (born May 22, 1979, USA) - actress and model, has Vietnamese maternal roots.Films with her participation: "New York, I Love You", "The Warrior and the Wolf", "The King of Fighters", "Nikita", "Divergent", etc.

13. Anh Thu (born 1989) - Vietnamese model.

12. Michelle Phan (born April 11, 1987) - American beauty blogger of Vietnamese origin,became a YouTube celebrity. Has uploaded over 300 videos and has about 7 million. subscribers.

11... Phan Thu Ngân (born 1980) - Miss Vietnam 2000.

10. Hoang Bao Tran Le (born March 12, 1998) - Vietnamese model.

9. Veronica Ngo (born February 26, 1979) - Vietnamese actress, singer and model.

8. Truong Tri Truc Diem (born 1987) - Vietnamese supermodel, actress, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadorand winner of titles in beauty contests: Miss Vietnam Photogenicity 2005 (2nd place), Miss Vietnam Earth 2007, Miss Earth 2007 (Miss Fashion) Miss International 2011 (Top 15).

7. Mai Phương Thúy (born August 6, 1988 Hanoi) - Miss Vietnam 2006, at the Miss World 2006won first place in the audience vote around the world.

6. Việt Trinh (born November 27, 1972) is a famous Vietnamese actress of the early 1990s.

5. Nguyễn Thùy Lâm (born September 10, 1987) - Vietnamese singer and actress, and Miss Vietnam Universe 2008. At the Miss Universe 2008 she took 15th place.

4. Well Thao / Nhu Thao (born 1987) - Vietnamese model. She entered the Miss Vietnam World 2007 contest to the first Top 10. At the competition Vietnam Supermodel 2008 won the title as A promising model and Supermodel with the best style.

3. Lai Nha Kai / Ly Nha Ky / Lý Nhã Kỳ (born 1982) - Vietnamese model and actress. In 2011, she was appointed as the firstambassador of Tourism in Vietnam.

2. Alex Tran / Alex tran (born 1987) - Vietnamese model, Miss Vietnam Global 2009.

They are no longer exotic at all: Vietnamese women trade in our bazaars, take their children to our schools. But closeness does not mean knowledge at all - we still know almost nothing about the life of Vietnamese women, unsuccessfully trying to measure them by a common yardstick, to judge them from the point of view of our psychology. The author of these lines was fortunate enough to spend two weeks in Vietnam as part of a press tour organized for our journalists by the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Ukraine. Of course, it is impossible to get to know the whole country and its people in such a short time, however, what you see is quite enough to look at many things differently.

Socialism in traditional dress

You imagine the women of the socialist country as follows: they are modestly dressed, loaded with work, exhausted by standing in kilometer-long lines for cheap sausage. Affected by my own experience, which can not be forgotten, even after twenty years. The first representative of the fair sex of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was seen at the passport control counter at Ho Chi Minh airport. So it is: a baggy protective uniform, unsmiling ... The bad feeling about the Vietnamese, fortunately, did not come true. Apparently, the border young lady was simply not in the mood, or maybe the Ukrainian passports confused her with something ... One way or another, the gloomy and unfriendly Vietnamese is a species so rare that it’s probably easier to see a tiger on the street of Hanoi than her. ..

Vietnamese girls are amazingly friendly and smiling ...

However, a good half of Vietnamese women hide their faces so carefully that - go and figure it out: they are smiling or something. Faces are not hidden for religious reasons, it is just that in Vietnam, as in many other countries of Southeast Asia, fair skin (plus protection from smog) is extremely valuable. The nature of such a tradition is from the same series as the love for lacquered marigolds: both of them testify to the fact that the girl does not work in the field with her delicate hands, which means that she comes from a wealthy family. Traditions of this century, and they still follow it. A standard picture on the street of Saigon: a young lady on high heels riding a motorbike, a helmet on her head, her face wrapped in a scarf or simply hidden by a gauze mask, on her hands silk gloves up to the elbows.

Beauty is very important to flip flops. In general, this rule applies to women all over the world, but such a number of spas, hairdressing salons, nail salons and massage establishments, as in Vietnam, have never been seen anywhere else. And not only in megacities - in any village, at any intersection. It is scary for a European to visit other village spas, but local beauties, it seems, do not care. Well, these are the sacrifices that beauty demands here ...

In general, flip flops are considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. I'm afraid to sound subjective, but they are considered quite rightly. Even without the appearance of a supermodel, the Vietnamese, as a rule, is surprisingly graceful, well-built and, by the apt definition of the male part of our group of journalists, has what is called to become.

Nothing emphasizes this more effectively than aozai, the traditional Vietnamese dress. A rare case in costume history: Aozai has an exact date of birth. The costume was introduced by his decree as mandatory for wearing by Wu Vuong, ruler of the Nguyen dynasty, in 1744. An ensemble of loose silk harem pants and a fitted long dress with a stand-up collar, fitted on the sides with slits from the waist to the floor, aozai quickly gained popularity for its beauty and simplicity. Twice more, the design of aozai underwent radical intervention: in 1930, the Vietnamese fashion designer Kat Tuong moved the closure of the dress from the front to the side, and in the middle of the twentieth century, Tran Kim introduced a raglan sleeve and a diagonal seam from the collar to the waist into the suit design. In this form, today, most often you will see aozai: the outfit perfectly fits the bodice, emphasizes the waist and visually significantly lengthens the legs.

Young girls wear aozai mostly in pastel colors, while a married woman should wear saturated and restrained colors. Good Ao Dai are made to order in one of a million sewing shops, but in any market you can find a huge number of models of all colors. Aozai is worn in Vietnam more and more often - you will meet it in the office and at a wedding celebration, it is back in fashion after decades of neglect.

However, if in the past the authorities did not approve of the Aozai as a bourgeois excess, today a new threat looms over this beautiful outfit: cheap Chinese clothes that practical Vietnamese ladies prefer to wear ... However, this is a completely different story ...

Law and custom

Officially in Vietnam, men and women have equal rights, this is also enshrined in the country's Constitution. In reality, everything is a little more complicated. On the one hand, women are dominated by the burden of traditions that clearly define their role in the family and society, on the other hand, reality forces them to make more and more efforts to ensure a decent standard of living.
You can meet women here at any work: in a rice field, on a tea plantation, in offices and shops, behind a counter in the market and simply walking with inimitable grace along the night street and carrying baskets with simple goods on a rocker: bananas or mangoes. The baskets, by the way, are very weighty, they have been tested on themselves: they pull twenty kilograms ...

For a day of work, street vendors, among whom the overwhelming majority came to the metropolis from the surrounding villages, can earn a maximum of 10 dollars, and this is in very good hands.

This is a lot for the village, a whole family feeds on a hundred dollars a month. However, for such "crazy" earnings in the city you have to pay dearly: you often see how whole families practically live on the street. My morning in Ho Chi Minh City usually began with the fact that from the windows of the hotel the author watched as the family was equipping the children for school: the usual procedures for everyone, from washing and changing clothes to breakfast, children did right on the sidewalk, three square meters between a street diner and an electronics supermarket. After completing a street breakfast, the whole family got on one (!!!) motorbike and cheerfully rolled it somewhere ...

Vietnamese women combine a willingness to put up with, in our opinion, unimaginable conditions with a readiness for an equally unimaginable amount of work.

The thesis that only hard work can achieve anything in life requires a daily confirmation from millions of Vietnamese women. It should be said here that the official working week in Vietnam is 48 hours, the day off is only on Sunday. At the same time, the vacation is at most two weeks a year. Sick leave, shall we say, is not welcome, especially in private companies. Add to the production load the time needed for family affairs, and for a child ... In general, life is not sugar.

At the same time, no gender discrimination is visible in Vietnam. Women quite freely reach high positions, both in state structures and in the largest private corporations in the country. And in the city hall of Ho Chi Minh City, and in the Ministry of Information, and in the largest tea company in Vietnam "Tan Nguong", and in the editorial office of the newspaper "Tien Phong" and in the office of the corporation "Viglazer" - everywhere we met women in the leadership. However, it would be dishonest not to note that we never met the actual female leader. For some reason, no one was found above the deputy editor or vice president. The effect of the glass ceiling is obvious and tangible, although it is very difficult to prove its existence - and the laws and regulations of corporations speak of equality ...

This equality is quite felt on a different level. To see it in action, it is enough to take an hour's walk south of Hanoi, to the Chan'an River near Tam Kok. Local places can compete in their beauty even with the famous miracle of nature Halong Bay - the same picturesque rocks and caves, scattered in abundance on the smooth surface of a mountain river. There is a boat station by the road. It is embarrassing that there are no men among the rowers - all women, and aged, even somehow uncomfortable: why is she going to ride three hefty men on a fragile boat? However, it rolls, and how! She goes out to the full program - by the end of the hour walk, our hostess's back is completely wet.

On top of the money put by the boat station, without hesitation, we add a tip - about five dollars. In total, a woman will receive $ 9 for an hour flight.

How many of these walks does she take a day? - I ask Lien, our guide.

One. Maximum two. Not a day, but a month, ”says Lien.

Where are the men?

In the city. In earnings. Will be back when the tourist season starts ...

Traditionally, male professions in rural areas, and in the city, are increasingly occupied by women, while husbands are sent en masse not only to the megalopolises of their native country, but also beyond its borders - labor migration from Vietnam to European countries is growing every year.

Marry abroad, or Mom dear

However, flip-flops do not lag behind men. More and more of them travel abroad, choosing representatives of other nations as their husbands. The demand for beautiful and docile flip flops is huge, especially from Chinese men - due to the outlined imbalance of the sexes, it is becoming more and more difficult for young men to marry in the Celestial Empire. By the way, a similar problem, albeit on a smaller scale, is brewing in Vietnam itself. The policy of restricting the birth rate and the possibility of early diagnosis of the sex of the child leads to the fact that couples tend to give birth exclusively to a boy. This, in turn, leads to another big problem - the increase in the number of abortions. Today, according to the Vietnamese authorities, the average woman has 2.5 abortions in her lifetime.

Traditionally, Vietnamese society assigned women a venerable role, albeit not a nominal, but the real head of a large large family. Today, this tradition, which served as one of the pillars of the nation, is mercilessly breaking down: Vietnam is overpopulated, and the government severely restricts young families from wanting to have many children. No, of course, no one will prohibit having at least ten toddlers, but at the same time it is worth preparing for serious fines and sanctions from the state. "Free maximum" - two children, for the third you will have to pay the state an amount equivalent to $ 500. Further, it is even more difficult.

Communicating with Vietnamese women, I even heard that the birth of a fourth child is a pretext for automatic dismissal from public service. However, the victims of this approach could not be met personally. The joy of motherhood is expensive in Vietnam ... Perhaps this is also another reason to think about "marriage emigration." At times, this trend takes on the character of an epidemic - let us recall the sensational case of the Vietnamese village of Anbang, near the city of Hue, a couple of years ago. The women there, almost without exception, married foreigners, having met future husbands using the Internet.

Most Vietnamese women who choose to marry overseas marry Taiwanese, Chinese or Malays. After the war, a huge number of Vietnamese women left for the USA, Canada and Australia - the then overseas aggressors showed nobility in relation to the wives of the military and granted them citizenship. Many young ladies seek to marry their compatriots who have settled in prosperous Europe. It should be said that for a Vietnamese girl this is a huge psychological problem - after all, not so long ago, even marriage with a man from another village was something exotic and was perceived almost as an exile. Natalie Nuin Chau Nguyen, a researcher on cross-cultural marriage between Vietnamese and Europeans, writes: “Vietnamese women from respectable families see marriage to a foreigner as something not quite decent. It doesn't matter what the future spouse's rank or status is. When a Vietnamese woman marries a foreigner, she feels ashamed ... Adopting a European husband is an act of losing her origins, breaking ties with her ancestors. These words mean that women are the carriers and transmitters of Vietnamese culture and that marriage to a foreigner will hinder or destroy this traditional role. ”
The “marriage abroad” business has, of course, greatly changed the patriarchal traditions of the Vietnamese family in recent decades. He strengthened only one - it seems like 60–70 years ago, marriage again becomes not a union of lovers, but a business operation. Poor families from the provinces act as suppliers of brides, and the payment for a beautiful Vietnamese girl from a marriage agency can be up to 10 thousand dollars - an amount unimaginable for a Vietnamese hinterland !!!

"Madama boom boom"

Overpopulation, unemployment, migration from villages to large cities (mainly Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) are the ideal leaven for the traditional scourge of Southeast Asia, prostitution. Fortunately, the policy of the Vietnamese authorities in this regard is very strict, and this is perhaps the only factor preventing this beautiful country from turning into another mega-brothel for foreign tourists.

However, it would be untrue to say that everything is safe in this respect.
In the evenings, anyone who strolls along the central streets of Ho Chi Minh City will certainly hear the ritual phrase "Madama boom boom?" "Tsigel ay-lu-lu" in the Vietnamese variation. No translation is required ... Pimping is done mainly by local "bombiles" - pedicabs.

The cost of services for girls by European standards is simply ridiculous - an average of $ 50. However, for "workers" this money is serious. Therefore, the strict prohibition is compensated by oriental resourcefulness - many people prefer to hunt customers not on the street near the hotel, but in massage parlors and karaoke bars - by the way, during the day these are quite respectable establishments where they do exactly what the signs indicate ... But at night outfits become bolder, and the manners of female employees are more relaxed.

However, they are afraid - the camera lens is noticed instantly, quickly carried away inside the building, hiding their faces. The quite understandable feeling of shame is mixed with the fear of falling into the field of vision of the authorities, of having trouble. The headache for the Vietnamese people's militia is not so much prostitution as the accompanying drug problem. However, with this, here, almost stricter than in neighboring Thailand - drug dealers are imprisoned and shot mercilessly.

Alas, lately, spoiled lovers of sex tourism are increasingly going not to their usual Phuket, but to Vietnam. It is due to the fact that this market is not yet developed here, which means that it pleases lovers of "strawberry" with its novelty. In general, it often seems to a European that a Vietnamese girl - smiling, friendly - is hinting at something. For us, spoiled by the streams of stories of sexual harassment and unwillingly seeing black even in the whitest, somewhere it is already difficult to accept the idea that such behavior can only be a form of politeness, to be completely sincere and innocent. Failure to understand this creates a myth about affordable flip-flops, which, they say, almost jump on foreigners. I assure you, this is nothing more than a myth.

For now, anyway. And I want to believe - for a long time ...

32nd place: Bao Hoa (born July 31, 1985) - fashion model. Height - 171 cm, the parameters of the figure 84-58.5-86. In the photo, Bao Hoa is wearing the aforementioned aozai.

31st place: (born August 30, 1990) - the representative of Vietnam at the Miss Earth 2010 and Miss Universe 2012 contests. Height is 171 cm, the parameters of the figure are 84-61-92.

30th place: Mai Phuong Thuy (born August 6, 1988) - Miss Vietnam 2006. Height 182 cm, body measurements 86-65-95.

29th place: Nguyen Thi Huyen (born 1985) - Miss Vietnam 2004. Height 172 cm, body measurements 92-62-93.

28th place: Tuyet Ngoc - fashion model

27th place: Phan Thi Mo (born 1990) - fashion model. Height 172 cm.

26th place: Elizabeth Thuy Tien - fashion model.

25th place: Tran Thi Thuy Dung (born February 8, 1990) - Miss Vietnam 2008. Height 178 cm, body measurements 86-62-91.

24th place: Diep Bao Ngoc (born August 1, 1993) - the winner of the beauty contest "Miss Woman's Era 2011". Height is 172 cm, the parameters of the figure 85-62-89.

23rd place: Hiep Thi Le (born 1970) is an American actress of Vietnamese descent, best known for the movie "Heaven & Earth".

22nd place: Thanh Xuan - fashion model, actress.

21st place: Phan Thu Ngan (born 1980) - Miss Vietnam 2000. Height 169 cm, body measurements 79-61-92.

20th place: Truong Ngoc Anh (born 1976) - fashion model and actress.

19th place: Tianna Ta (born November 5, 1981) - fashion model, author of fitness techniques. She was born in Vietnam and has been living in the USA since 1983. Height 168 cm, parameters of the figure 86-61-86.

17th place: Alex Tran - Miss Vietnam Global 2009.

16th place: Ho Thi Oanh Yen - fashion model. Height is 169 cm, measurements: bust - 85-63-91.

15th place: Y Phung (born February 18, 1979) is a singer and actress originally from Vietnam, now living in the United States.

13th place: Tran Thi Huong Giang (born 1987) - fashion model. Height - 180 cm.

12th place: Thuy Top / Huynh Minh Thuy (b. 1989) - fashion model, actress, singer.

11th place: Vo Hoang Yen (born October 29, 1988) - Vietnam Supermodel 2008, First Vice-Miss Vietnam 2008. Height 178 cm, body measurements 92-60-92.

10th place: Ngo Thanh Van / Veronica Ngo (born February 26, 1979) - Vietnamese dancer, singer, actress and fashion model. Winner of the first season of Vietnamese "Dancing with the Stars".

9th place: Michelle Phan - makeup guru. She was born on April 11, 1987 in Boston (USA) to a Vietnamese family. Michelle Fan YouTube Channel , where she talks about how to use cosmetics (in the US, the use of cosmetics is called make-up) to transform herself into a Barbie, Lady Gaga, Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones, the Egyptian queen, etc., has 6.5 million subscribers. In 2013, Michelle, together with L "Oreal, launched their own cosmetics line - EM.

8th place: Kathleen Luong (born January 7, 1975) - actress. Born in Vietnam, in 1979 she and her family left first for Malaysia, and then for the United States, where she still lives.

7th place: Vu Thi Hoang My (born 1988) - First Vice-Miss Vietnam 2010.

6th place: Phan Nhu Thao - fashion model.

5th place: Viet Trinh - Vietnamese actress.

4th place: Jennifer Pham (b. 1985) - winner of the "Vietnamese American Top Model 2005" and "Miss Asia USA 2006" beauty contests.

3rd place: Anh Thu - actress, fashion model.

2nd place: Ly Nha Ky / Tran Thi Thanh Nhan (born July 19, 1982) is a Vietnamese actress and fashion model. Ly Nha Ky is actively involved in charity work. At the end of 2011, the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism appointed her as a Tourism Ambassador to raise interest in Wetnam in the international community and to promote the inclusion of Vietnamese Halong Bay in the list of "New Seven Wonders of Nature". It is worth noting that Ly Nha Ky did her job with dignity. Halong Bay, as a result of an international vote, managed to bypass competitors and got into the top 7 new natural wonders of the world.

1st place: Truong Tri Truc Diem (born 1987) - singer, actress, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. She has represented Vietnam twice at international beauty contests: in 2007 she took part in the Miss Earth contest, and in 2011 - in the Miss International contest. The height of Truong Tri Truc Diem is 174 cm, the parameters of the figure are 83-60-90.

Recently, the number of marriages between local women and foreigners has increased significantly in Vietnam. Such marriages are registered both in relatively developed large cities and in small southern provinces of the country.

Vietnamese wife

Recently, the number of marriages between local women and foreigners has increased significantly in Vietnam. Such marriages are registered both in relatively developed large cities and in small southern provinces of the country. At the same time, Vietnamese women are increasingly marrying Chinese.

One Chinese writer of the past said: "Marry a Japanese woman and get a real wife, find a French woman and you will have a wonderful mistress, hire a man from China and you will eat satisfyingly and deliciously, find an English butler and he will keep your house in order." Well, if the author of these lines had survived to this day, he would certainly have chosen a girl from Vietnam for marriage. In 2010, the Chinese Dai, a native of the city of Nanjing, spent about 35 thousand yuan (by the way, this is a rather modest amount by the standards of China) to marry a girl from Vietnam. “Young, kind, economical, hard-working, diligent, decent, submissive,” - this is how Mr. Dai described the many virtues of his wife. After reviewing its history, Chinese Internet users highly appreciated the flip-flop's appearance and unanimously awarded it the honorary title of "premium product".

Vietnamese women are deservedly considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. Vietnamese girls often take part in various beauty contests, consistently ranking in the top ten. Is it any wonder that traveling to Vietnam to acquire a spouse is becoming more and more popular among Chinese bachelors. Vietnam's bride trade has essentially turned into a conveyor belt - many lonely residents of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Beijing and Shanghai have arranged their personal lives in this way. More than 200,000 Vietnamese women are now reported to be living in Taiwan alone.

“All my ex-girlfriends preferred to go to expensive shopping centers, even to buy some regular trinket. And Yin is happy to even walk through a regular bazaar, ”Dai couldn't help smiling while talking about his wife, A Yin. Chinese bachelors, disillusioned with their mercantile and obstinate compatriots, prefer obedient Vietnamese. "By our standards, you may have a modest income, but even with that kind of money in Vietnam you will be considered a rich man, which means you can easily find a good, and most importantly, always obedient wife" - this is how pragmatic single Chinese reason.

A source:

A few years ago, sensational news circulated in the Chinese media: police officers from Hunan Province began to investigate the mysterious disappearances of more than 100 women from Vietnam who illegally entered China. During the investigation, interesting details emerged; the unfortunate Vietnamese women were bought by Chinese peasants living in remote mountain villages. Some Vietnamese women were seduced by promises of good jobs and decent earnings in China, while others were simply kidnapped and smuggled across the Vietnamese-Chinese border. The peasants were extremely reluctant to make contact with the authorities, which greatly complicated the work of law enforcement agencies. Some women were found, they told the police that Chinese slave traders treated them like animals - they were transported in potato sacks and mercilessly beaten with sticks for the slightest offense.

As we found out, trafficking in women from Vietnam has become very widespread in the poor regions of China, where single men, not spoiled by the attention of women, are desperate to even make a deal with slave traders who offer them beautiful and obedient Vietnamese girls. The only blame for this is the increasing sex imbalance in the PRC every year - the number of single men significantly exceeds the number of unmarried Chinese women. What else can Chinese bachelors do in such harsh conditions? There is a demand - there is also a supply: for a rather modest amount, you can get a submissive and hard-working Vietnamese wife. Moreover, this can be done both legally - through numerous marriage agencies), and illegally - in this case, it is enough to purchase a girl from Vietnam illegally imported into China. Most often, such transactions are carried out in the province of Yunnan, adjacent to Vietnam; the cost of such services is much more profitable than the offers of professional marriage agencies.