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Yeah, as the title of this video suggests chess we are asking the question what is a "Passport Bro"? I didn't even know this was a thing until a couple of weeks ago. My friend, colleague if you will Andrew Esquire up on Go East Gentleman, he comes down through here to Thailand every once in a while. Last time he was here, not this past time but one of the other times he was here, he brought this up to me. I have been kind of meaning to make a video on it. It has not been something that has been a huge priority to me but I am making videos right now so I thought I would go ahead and throw this into the pile. Yeah let me go ahead and, this is from the Urban Dictionary, under the heading "Passport Bro". So that is urbandictionary.com, Passport Bros. The "passport bros" are men who have chosen to seek out foreign women typically from other countries for relationships. They believe that Western women have been influenced by cultural and societal pressures to behave in a certain way and that by seeking out foreign women they can find a more authentic, fulfilling and harmonious relationship. This is seen as a way to restore the natural balance between masculine and feminine energy and to avoid the "wickedness" of Western women. And they use it, because it is a dictionary, quote: "Mike has been travelling to different countries for the past year and earned himself the nickname "passport bro" among his friends due to his tendency to only date foreign women." Huh, okay.

The reason I didn't even know this was a thing is I never knew it could be a thing. I guess I'm very naïve and unaware of the cultural shifts that have occurred in the United States lo these 15 years that I have primarily been living here in Thailand. Let me be clear, in all that time I haven't been back to the US in 5 years now and in total I would say I have been in the US about an aggregate of probably 75 days over the course of the last 15 years. I tried to go back once a year when I first started living abroad. That got harder and harder; it became 18 months and then it kind of became 2 years, then COVID hit and unfortunately it became less than feasible to really get over there. I need to get back, in fact I really want to get back to the United States. I miss seeing home. I mean I am originally from there, it is where I was born, as I call it the "old country" over here but I did not know this "passport bro" thing was a thing.

I went and looked it up out on YouTube, and there are some women in the Western countries that are really against this or whatever. Look I came abroad 15 years ago. I have always viewed myself as something akin to an immigrant. I found Thailand, it was really nice and yeah, things have gone well for me here. Did I primarily come here just to seek foreign women? No but I am not going to sit here and lie and say that I did not find the Thai women alluring by a damn sight. Yeah I do, excuse the language but yeah I was a young guy and there were a lot of young Thai gals here in Thailand and it was great but I don't know why there has to be this constant labelling of people and the choices that they make and labelling in such a way that it creates sort of teamsmanship and inherently kind of denigrates the personal choices people have made. Why does anybody care if somebody left the United States to “seek out new life and new civilizations and boldly go where no one has gone before” and places outside of America? I don't really understand the judgment being placed on that. There is nothing wrong with being an expat; there is nothing wrong with living abroad; there is nothing wrong with living where you want to live and being around people that you like. And I don't dislike the United States, in fact I miss it a great deal in many ways but my life has become more centred on Asia, specifically Southeast Asia over the years so my centre of gravity is here. 

I did not know that was a thing. Apparently I must have left before this was viewed as some cultural phenomenon and I am just sort of in a different mindset than folks that are thinking this way but I would say this. There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting to explore other countries and there is definitely nothing inherently wrong with falling in love with somebody from another country. That in and of itself, there is nothing wrong with that and it seems to be coming from the same people. There is a very judgmental subset of folks out there that just kind of want to point at people and sneer for how they choose to live and I don't really see the point of that at all.