Very well written. Good job of explaining this long-running cultural double-standard.This is something Ive experienced myself numerous times in my life, but it is good to know that it is not just anecdotal: I studied abroad at the National University of Singapore for a semester my sophomore year. I couldn’t help but notice a peculiar trend: My white male friends were fascinated with the idea of hitting on Asian girls. This “yellow fever” wasn’t shared by my female friends though. Why these different attitudes? The skew is not just anecdotal. In the United States, there are 529,000 white male – Asian female married couples and just 219,000 Asian male – white female married couples, according to the 2010 U.S. census. Similarly, the number of black male – white female marriages is 2.3 times bigger than the number of white male – black female pairs. With African Americans and Asian Americans, the ratios are even further imbalanced, with roughly five times more Asian female – African male marriages than Asian male – African female marriages. The phenomenon is not even confined to the U.S. In 2013, cognitive psychologist Michael Lewis at the University of Cardiff in Wales in the U.K. asked 20 females and 20 males to rate 600 Facebook pictures of British, sub-Saharan Africans, and East Asians. The participants consistently voted black men and Asian women as the most attractive representatives of each gender; Asian men and black women were seen as the least desirable partners. cholakovv/en/blog/2450
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:33:44 +0000
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