I have read this post twice and still ponder what the conclusion of the analysis of marriage market, fundamentally flawed enterprise it seems to the writer where dynamics of supply and demand arent in sync with each other. Marriage practice and customs change as times change,they are affected by the societal evolution,globalisation also being one of the factor. By globalisation I dont mean to allude to the multinationals and their incorporation in a our lives,but I mean it in the sense of demographic dispersions of once isolated locales. Effects of migration and cultural,social,religious identities assimilate to existing and more prevalent trends and norms. They have to conform to evolve. Any anthropological point of view regards change in human cultures,mores and norms to be a constant facor that's always dynamic. In this century and the centuries to come,Nepali society also will evolve past the norms that we consider now are in consistence with cultural norms established 50/60 years ago.Interracial marriages are becoming norms,club hopping for today's people in nepal has gained grounds which wasnt so prevailing a trait that identified nepalese youth some time back. Now about being a US return and marrying a girl or guy from Nepal. I dont have any knowledge about number of girls being married to us return guys or guys in nepal marrying to US return girls, But I would assume the former being in higher percentage.( Just by personal observation).I would like to ask the writer to shed some light on this as the basis of her discussion underlies this disproportionate distribution of one variable into the scheme. What factors would you attribute to the higher number of men going to Nepal and marrying a girl to bring here? Her observations solely represent the trend that is specific to one country only, I would also like to study her thesis on marriages taking place between Nepalese living between India and Nepal( is there also a green card factor?), Nepalese in Australia,England and others. Marriages taking place trans-continentally should not be an alarm to the existence of one group of people, for country like Nepal and other third world countries also.Your article would have been a just cause, I am not suggesting you do this, if you were to write about voilence against women in Nepal, forced child labor,selling of nepalese girls to Indian brothels,exploitation of the nepalese worker women in the Gulf countries. I would safely assume that you also didnt want to go through all this,rather it was easy for you to sit in front of the computer,either in Nepal or in US itself, because investigative journalism doesnt exist anymore. Kantipur just published it without careful scrutinising of it because articles like yours give fodders for gossip and gossip isnt wat we needed the most out of sacred institution like marriage.