I think she's attractive, as are all of the pictures of the women you posted. Is it the low-cut stuff she wears that gives her the 'bar girl' vibe? Or do they think that women are bar girls because they have a different skin tone?Falcon wrote:#1, Below: This look is considered by most middle-class Thais and NE Asians to be ghetto and low-class. Stereotypical "mia farang" (Western man's wife) and bar girl look. Likely from NE Thailand. Salesgirls in upper-end stores will never have this look. Girls like this in Chiang Mai will stick out like ugly ducklings. Moreover, she has a bar girl vibe.
Maybe those types of faces are common and ordinary, but lighter skinned girls are considered a bit more exotic. Indonesians prefer lighter skinned actresses on their TV shows. I suspect women in some of the cities in Indonesia are more likely to have Dutch and Chinese blood which tends to make them lighter skinned, too.
Some of the white men who like Asians want a look that is exotic to them, which could be rather common and underappreciated by locals.
It seems like some Indonesians are blind to a woman's beauty if her skin is a bit dark. I knew a South American in his 60's in the US married to a pretty Javanese woman, but her skin was a bit dark. My wife didn't think of her as pretty, probably because she had darker skin.
For white men who like an Asian woman who is a bit dark, this may mean less competition for the locals. It doesn't matter if the local inhabitants or other men from your own country think your wife is striking or not as long as you like her looks. Plenty of regular-looking people function well in society, so it is okay if people consider your wife to be regular-looking.
I have seen expats married to Indonesian women I did not consider attractive. But every man has his own tastes. These women may have been attractive to them. And for some men, looks may not be the main consideration. They get to know a girl, they like her, and the relationship grows. We may be pre-programmed to care too much about looks from TV and other media. If you'd lived 1000 years ago in a village of a few hundred people, you might never have seen a woman who was exceptionally beautiful to compare the local candidates for marriage to.