Filipino girls are schooled from an early age to get an American loser to take them to the US and get them a green card. They understand that love or a good man is not important. The object is the green card anyway they can get it. Most of the American men looking to pick up a slave or wife there are outcasts that can't get an American woman. They understand this but that green card is NO. 1 in the scheme. Once here their first goal is to have a baby with an American man to have a foot in the door that allows them to stay. One major perk for these poor young women is the men are to send money home to their families to provide a decent standard of living. troy is so poor he can't send Ming Pling's family money so he and Ming Ting are the laughing stock of her families friends. Sad really.