Mariana van Zeller
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And one of the most horrific stories I heard there was this woman, something similar to her happened.
She was kidnapped, sold.
She found herself living in a small apartment with a Chinese man and his parents, all living in the same apartment.
And this is happening in China, by the way, because of one child's policy.
three men or something, two men or something.
It's not as big, but there's a lot of single men.
And in China, it's incredibly important culturally, very important to get married.
You're seen as a failure if you don't get married and if you don't have children.
Your parents will be the biggest sort of sadness of their lives if your kids don't give you grandkids.
Basically, it's very important culturally in China.
So there's enormous pressure on these men and they can't find Chinese women.
So they're going and paying people to go find them wives elsewhere.
So this case of this Vietnamese woman shows up.
She was young.
I'm not sure if she was a teenager, but she was young.
And she shows up.
This is a small, tiny apartment.
This guy, they lock her in a room.
And the parents live there, too, but they lock her in a room.
The guy comes in just to have sex with her.