Maybe you forgot the main point about these dating agency : some are scams. And those who aren't aren't better.

Why ? Most of the woman in these agencies don't really speak anything else than their own language. How can you fell in love with somebody with whom you can't communicate ?

Oh, some western men persist on the idea of meeting young eastern European (or Asian) ladies. Then maybe after 3 years and at least 10 journey in the same foreign country, they find the perfect one, they think. They marry her, they have some children, and then, she asks for divorce. This happens very very often in these kind of inter cultural dating. And you don't want to become famous after having killed her because you couldn't bear her leaving ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser ).

But why are some men investing so much time and money dating a foreign girl ? Because they find it hard dating a local one ! Why ? Because they are looking for what you would call an old-fashioned relationship ? For some, maybe yes. But it's not impossible to find such a local one. In fact, many of the men who are looking for an exotic relationship don't interest local girls, like boring people who only think about work.

Would you want to date a workaholic who only speaks about his job, works 12h a day, and would prefer to work rather than having dinner with you on candlelight ? No. Difficult to find a women for them, and they won't think the problem is themselves, they prefer to think that the local girls are too arrogant. That's mostly how it happens. So, an attack against feminism ? You go too far... These people who can't maintain a relationship because of themselves being uninteresting, you can safely ignore them. Although I would say that Parisian girls (and boys) are really arrogant (That's one of the reasons why I left Paris, and France).

And why wouldn't exotic girls find these people boring ? When they left their countries to meet foreign girls, they are on holidays and people are never the same on holidays. Plus it's so easy to discuss about cross-cultural things, and it's less boring than filesystems and B-Trees... And of course, you look richer with you foreign currency and you passport is interesting too. Plus you don't have a bad drinking habit, unlike most people in Russia (speaking about Russia, on a side note, some MP wanted to legalise polygamy there, in order to increase the birth rate. See in french : http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2010/01/19/russie-prime-a-la-naissance-et-polygamie-pour-doper-les-naissances_1294046_3214.html ).

In every country, as a male, the richer you are/seem the easier you met girls. Without any doubt in France, where I worked for a famous online dating site. It's very uncommun to see couples where the women earns more money than the men.

Two tips for westerners who are thinking about marying a young eastern european/asian girl :
- learn her native langage (even if she speaks yours better than I write english). Learn to know her country. Intercultural mariage can, in my opinion, only work if both know the other culture.
- don't use any of these agencies, it's not worth the money. If you want to meet young russian ladies, start by learning russian and travel to St Peterburg.
- third one, bonus : Even if you aren't living abroad, I'm sure there are also lots of nice women living near you. They aren't arrogant, you just need to know how to interest them (be an interesting guy yourself).

Now, about expats : who is this arrogant person with such an opinion ? an american girl ? (Just kidding).

In France, we don't have the same stereotypes about expats. They can be :
a) People gone for (trying to) earn a lot of money
b) People who just love to travel &amp; meet new cultures
c) People who noticed they could look richer if they go to a cheaper country
d) People who were looking for more sun
And very often, a mix of a) and b) ; and sometimes even c) or d).

In fact, I would even say that for some, if not all of the American and British men you're speaking about didn't come to Bulgaria for the girls at the first place. But, hey, it's a nice bonus for them : if it's so easy to meet plenty girls, why shouldn't they do it ? Arrogance there ? I don't think so. In fact, aren't you jealous ? Like "if those expats wouldn't date local girls, I could date them ?".