Slovak ladies are a hot item for Czech men. In the last 10 years there have been 6,729 marriages and those numbers are still on the rise. Czech wife material also largely consists of Ukrainian women who within the last 10 years married 5,524 Czech men. In the third place are Russian women, then Vietnamese, Polish and the list goes on (full list can be found at the end of this article).
How about Czech women? Whom do they like to pick for their life-long mate? It looks like the Slovaks are winning again, followed by Germans and men from Great Britain (the American men took 5th place by the way).
The choice of mates depends on various aspects. The Slovak language is the most similar to the Czech language so it is naturally easier to communicate with someone from that country. The most immigrants who come to the Czech Republic on a working visa are from Ukraine and get to meet the locals via their prolonged stay. Germany, Austria and Poland, on the other hand, are neighboring countries, hence the ‘prey’ is in a close vicinity.
Here is the complete list:
Groom:
- Slovakia
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Ukraine
- Vietnam
- USA
- Austria
- Italy
- Russia
- Poland
- Bulgaria
- others
Bride
- Slovakia
- Ukraine
- Russia
- Vietnam
- Poland
- Belorussia
- Moldavia
- USA
- Germany
- Bulgaria
- Kazakhstan
- others
CZ: Slovenske zeny jsou velka poptavka, co se tyce snatku. V uplynulem desetileti si je Cesi brali nejcasteji ze vsech narodu (6729 snatku). Hned pote nasleduji Ukrajinky a pak Rusky. I Cesky ale preferuji partnery ze Slovenska (5893 snatku), pak se jim take zamlouvaji Nemci a take Britove.
Vyber celozivotniho partnera zavisi predevsim na okolnostech spojenych s pracovni imigraci a s geografickou podobou Cech. Podle Ceskeho statistickeho uradu (CSU) prichazi nejvetsi mnozstvi pracovnich sil prave z Ukrajiny. V Karlovarskem, Plzenskem nebo Usteckem kraji boduji nemecti zenisi, jelikoz Nemecko s temito kraji bezprostredne sousedi. Naopak v Jihoceskem kraji se vyskytuje vice Rakouskych zenichu a v Moravskoslezskym kraji boduji zase Polaci.
V letech 2000 az 2009 se uskutecnilo celkem 28.401 snatku, kde meli zenich ci nevesta cizi statni prislusenstvi.
Source: http://magazin.ceskenoviny.cz/zajimavosti/zpravy/cesi-uzaviraji-zahranicni-snatky-nejcasteji-se-slovaky/506303
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I wonder if those Vietnamese brides and grooms are marrying ethnic Czechs or ethnic Vietnamese-Czechs. I was surprised to see Kazakhstan on the list. I’ve heard that Kazak men “kidnap” their brides according to longstanding cultural customs, so how do you kidnap a Czech bride internationally? 🙂
That’s true, lot of Vietnamese have Czech citizenship now and they are counted in the mix too.
I don’t know how those Kazak men do it but one thing is for sure: it goes well along with other Czech traditions such as women being whipped for Easter :))
My parents are Czech/Slovak couple too 🙂
Not surprised about Slovak women getting top ratings! They have the looks, temperament – and I bet they can cook… Plus language is so sweet.
Btw, I’ve got a daughter to marry – mid twenties, grew up in Connecticut, even spent some time in Prague. Currently in New Haven, CT. 🙂
So, any matchmaker, or ‘dohazovac’ in the audience?
What always interested me is how Czechs and certain other nations both hate each other and marry each other, particularly the Slovaks and the Germans.
When I moved to the Czech Republic the first woman I dated was from Slovakia. Years later, an older Czech man who had heard about my years living there said, “Why did you pick a Slovak girl? All they’re interested in is sex!”
Hmmm…I don’t get that feeling. My grandpa was Slovak and he had couple of German friends….
I think the stereotype is that lot of nations do not like the French (because the French hate everyone?? 😉 – I am unaware of any other kind of bad relationships.
Also, it’s been a tradition for a loooong time that the Czechs marry the Slovaks. They may have had some disagreements over the break up of Czechoslovakia in the 90’s but nothing terrible. My grandpa for example never agreed with it and was always very sad about it.
i have found magic with a slovakian girl and am so grateful to have found her. she’s beautiful, intelligent and kind hearted. we are planning a future together. i’m australian/croatian.
You’re forgetting the most important fact that they used to be from the same country before 1990’s. Of course there will be cultural similarities that make it far more easier than marrying people of other countries.
Speaking of, during the break-up of Czechoslovakia, how was the Czech-Slovak mixed marriages managed, what did their legal status become? Say, what happened to a Slovak married to a Czech, living on the Czech side? Did s/he become a Czech citizen afterwards? Were there different rules in the respective countries. Just curious.
Hi Geofrey,
I am pretty sure the same law applies to them as to the Czech-American marriages. You can keep your citizenship if you got married to a foreigner.
Thanks, although that was not my purpose 🙂 There are some secession movements through the World and I was wondering about what happens to the partners in a married couple when their country splits up and each of them become subjects to those now-different countries. Compared to Ex-Yugoslavia, Ex-USSR, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Indonesia-East Timor, North and South of Sudan etc. Czechoslovakia is almost the only example of a peaceful split. I’m interested in the subject so I was wondering how you guys managed that.