Yeah it sounds like the translator decided to reply instead of the lady.
I would give them hell, and then some. Definitely an extreme bad rating, complaint to CHN, etc, the works. And post here, or own thread.
Well, I did everything you mention here except write chnlove. Gave them a bad rating, wrote a scathing comment on why i gave them that rating, and posted here.
The response was worded enough differently from her first two letters (actually one was simply complaining that I wasn't writing back fast enough) that they could say it was a legitimate response, but it isn't-I was very specific in what I asked the lady to reply to, and she touched not one issue I raised. Here is what she wrote;
Hi Roy,
Thank you for your letter, it truly brightened my day!
I am looking for the man who is honest, loyal and responsible. We don't know what will happen next minute, so we should cherish our fates. I believe we would know each other better thought further correspondence. You will prove your feeling of outer and inner beauty. I am also looking for your partner to share everything with you including happiness and sorrow.
I dont play any game here, it will not only hurt anothers person, but also hurt myself. although i am not young any more, i still have a young heart. I like smile, and i want bring my smile to the person around me. The smiling not only can bring me a positive attitude to life, but also give me many happiness. When i am searching my soul mate, i dont mind where he comes from, i just hope he can be kind, honest, postive to life, and responsible to family; i dont mind whether he is rich, i would like stay beside him, love him, take care him, and we together create our beautiful future!
And thanks for telling me so much about you and your sincerity about the view of love. For me, I am so serious to find my soul mate here, which is the only thing I am doing now—of course except my work. ^_^ I do not require my lover is handsome and rich, but he will love me, care me, respect me and help me for the rest of life. And I will do the same to him. We don't know what will happen next minute, so we should cherish our fates. I believe we would know each other better thought further correspondence. You will prove your feeling of outer and inner beauty. Will you?
Looking forward to your reply.
Best wishes
Sincerely yours,
________
Basically all that is, is an introductory letter. It certainly did not respond to any of the life issues-her life issues-I had specifically asked her to answer in my previous emf. Some snippets from that:
In my first letter to you, I asked that you read my profile again and then write me back with your thoughts on what I said there. I was dissapointed that you did not do this. You seem like a very sweet, nice young lady, and you are of course very beautiful! But, I am not sure that I am the right man for your future....
From your previous letter, it seems that perhaps you come from some privaleged background?....I know that in China, it is very important to have the family's blessing before marriage, and I wonder if it would be possible for me, a poor western man, to be able to get this from them. Also, I wonder if you really know what marriage is about? You have never been married. I am not saying these things to make you feel bad, I am simply expressing to you the questions I have about proceeding further with you. It is one thing to have observed others, and it is another thing to have lived and experienced the trials and hardships of married life....
Whoever I meet and marry, if this happens, will need to come to my country to live with me. Do you think this is something you could or would do?....Tell me, what does your family think about you looking for a husband this way? What do they think about you looking for a foreigner, and about you possibly moving many thousands of miles away from them? How is your english? You say you wish to have a steady job in the future, you will need to know english fairly well to be employed here. I do not think you are the type of lady who would be satisfied working as a waitress in the local chinese buffet restauraunt.....
Etc. I ended with this;
Please, if you write me back, answer all the things I have talked about here. If you do not, then I will have to make a decision to block further correspondence with you.
I like how 'she' said twice we would get to know each other better through more correspondence. In other words, spend your emf credits here, foolish western man! But there was no response specific to anything I asked or issue I raised in my letter to her.
