Why are Asian men and Caucasian women couples more common lately?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Have you noticed a recent surge in Asian men and white women being together lately? Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Caldwell were one of Hollywood's first Asian man/Caucasian women celebrity couples … and that was in the 60s! So what's changed?

The question is, why is this interracial combo not as widespread as other interracial combos?

There is definitely a higher percentage of Asian women with white men than ever before. Why?

The above video was taken by video crew who asked random and predominantly Asian guys and girls "Why Asian girls are attracted to white guys". Stereotype… stereotype and more stereotype!

According to this video, most respondents described Asian men as being too shy or unassertive. The woman also stated Asian men were too effeminate and even too short! Apparently this is turning Asian women away and they are beginning to look elsewhere.

Asian stereotypes have been created by society in general. Enough articles have been written about what I would like to call stereotypical racism in the Asian community – for instance, how Caucasian men actively seek an Asian woman because of their exotic looks and supposed submissivenes?. How many have this so called Asian fetish or yellow fever?

Asian females, on the other hand, have constantly been disgraced and labeled "white-washed" women busy trying to climb the social ladder by their own communities and are finding more acceptance with races other than their own.

So what about the rise of interracial relationships between the Asian man and Caucasian woman? Is it that Asian men are fed up with their female counterparts and that they take revenge by dating Caucasian women? (just a thought) Or just that there are fewer Asian females in their dating pool so they are expanding their own horizons?

My conclusion is that maybe it's not that at all. I think people should be intelligent enough not to allow trivial stereotypes to conform to their preferences on who to date. Why do you think there is a rise in the Asian man-Caucasian woman interracial combo?

http://www.afroroman...-common-lately/ Edited August 20, 2010 by El Buscador

[SupastarsaM 7]

I don't have an answer to the reason why but I just wanted to say that your sig is kick @ss .... made my day...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I don't have an answer to the reason why but I just wanted to say that your sig is kick @ss .... made my day...

Thanks!

[Darnell 8,479]

If this was an immigration topic -

I'd say most phD candidates (Chinese PRC male) attending university in USA, want to stay here - so they 'find a wife' during those 3 years of university work.

But even the label of 'Asian' is kinda loose, as these days it includes folk from India, most of SE Asia, China, S. Korea and Japan.

[Gumbolette 58]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4YXyZdQXZQ

First of all, this was taken by my videocam from a tiny little video in facebook and I couldn't find any clear link to this story so I video taped it myself. Please bear with the quality.
Second, I have no concrete answer to your question El.
I would just like to share this amazing story of an asian boy weds American girl.

OK, This story is about a mangyan (a native person from Mindoro mountains) who fell in love with this american lady on her mission in the Philippines. Got married, and now expecting their first child, and both are living just a typical filipino way by the suburbs of a province.

Beautiful love story.

[Deputy Purple 1,294]

Have you noticed how every time this question (or one similar to it) has been asked in the past it degrades quickly into a childish and insulting flame-war that does not good for anyone?

[Ban Hammer 13,465]

Have you noticed how every time this question (or one similar to it) has been asked in the past it degrades quickly into a childish and insulting flame-war that does not good for anyone?

and should the above occur, mods can now block someone from accessing the thread. let those who do engage in childish behavior or flame wars take note.

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let those who do engage in childish behavior or flame wars take note.

You need to have a graphic of a riot cop in full riot gear to go with that line.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Have you noticed how every time this question (or one similar to it) has been asked in the past it degrades quickly into a childish and insulting flame-war that does not good for anyone?

Why the need to predetermine the outcome of this thread when nothing like that has happened yet? I thought it was an interesting argument because the blogger pointed out that once people rise above stereotypes then people will date and fall in love with whoever they wish.

[Kang Lang 7]

this is my parents story, when my mom was a teen she saw some bruce lee movies and developed a fascination with chinese culture as a result when she graduated from high school and my grandparents asked her where she'd like to go for her graduation present she chose hong kong. she met my dad there and they ultimately got married. she had an attraction to a specific type of boy whom she could not find in her southern california neighborhood in the 70's it was predominately caucasian. utlimately we lived in hk until i was 12 years old. i don't know if i think any of that was a reason to get married it's just simply what it was.

it was tough for them, in both countries and as a kid it was a little tough for me in terms of not fitting in and of course getting annoyed that people just assumed that my mother was the asian and that i was a war baby which of course had no basis in reality since i wasn't born anywhere near any war time nor is my dad viet. IDIOTS.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

this is my parents story, when my mom was a teen she saw some bruce lee movies and developed a fascination with chinese culture as a result when she graduated from high school and my grandparents asked her where she'd like to go for her graduation present she chose hong kong. she met my dad there and they ultimately got married. she had an attraction to a specific type of boy whom she could not find in her southern california neighborhood in the 70's it was predominately caucasian. utlimately we lived in hk until i was 12 years old. i don't know if i think any of that was a reason to get married it's just simply what it was.

it was tough for them, in both countries and as a kid it was a little tough for me in terms of not fitting in and of course getting annoyed that people just assumed that my mother was the asian and that i was a war baby which of course had no basis in reality since i wasn't born anywhere near any war time nor is my dad viet. IDIOTS.

I think things have changed a lot for ethnically mixed children today - they are much more accepted.

[Deputy Purple 1,294]

Why the need to predetermine the outcome of this thread when nothing like that has happened yet? I thought it was an interesting argument because the blogger pointed out that once people rise above stereotypes then people will date and fall in love with whoever they wish.

Honestly, I would love to see an intelligent conversation on the topic but that never seems to happen. It isn't usually Ph members who foul-up the threads but others who come in and drop their chit bombs here.

I for one don't love my wife because of the color of her skin, slant of her eyes or region of her birth and it insults both of us when others either imply or out-right insist that we each have "other motives" for our relationships.

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As soon as people stop being thought of as outsiders, people will date them. The mainstreaming of the Asian male by the popular media is a big part of this.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

As soon as people stop being thought of as outsiders, people will date them. The mainstreaming of the Asian male by the popular media is a big part of this.

I think for areas of the country where there is very little ethnic diversity, pop culture plays a big part in shaping/changing attitudes, but for large metropolitan areas like Los Angeles where ethnic diversity thrives, it's not even much of an issue.

Edited August 20, 2010 by El Buscador

[KaiserD 12]

this is my parents story, when my mom was a teen she saw some bruce lee movies and developed a fascination with chinese culture as a result when she graduated from high school and my grandparents asked her where she'd like to go for her graduation present she chose hong kong. she met my dad there and they ultimately got married. she had an attraction to a specific type of boy whom she could not find in her southern california neighborhood in the 70's it was predominately caucasian. utlimately we lived in hk until i was 12 years old. i don't know if i think any of that was a reason to get married it's just simply what it was.

it was tough for them, in both countries and as a kid it was a little tough for me in terms of not fitting in and of course getting annoyed that people just assumed that my mother was the asian and that i was a war baby which of course had no basis in reality since i wasn't born anywhere near any war time nor is my dad viet. IDIOTS.

That must've been very frustrating for you. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

I think things have changed a lot for ethnically mixed children today - they are much more accepted.

I think it depends on where you are. My son looks white but I don't want him going to school in this area, I know he's going to get bullied. This is where my husband and sister in law grew up and they both got singled out for not "being black enough" even though nobody in their immediate family is white. I got a lot of gawking just going to one of my sister in law's school events, it was very uncomfortable.

I think our best chances are to look at places that already have a mixture of ethnicities.

One of my closest friends (white) has hooked up with a Chinese American girl and I have never seen him happier, he is completely smitten. Yes there are people who interracial date for *superficial reasons but I don't think they will overshadow the people who found real love and/or companionship.

*I once read an article that tried to explain a trend of black men dating white women because supposedly it is a status thing, as if to suggest that black women are the bottom of the barrel. I don't know enough about black culture to credit if this opinion is a real consideration (I hope not) but if it is no black woman should have to date an asshat like that anyhow.

Damn it man, you edited your post