Originally posted by: Staples
Originally posted by: bennylong
That's not true. Asian women find white men more attractive. Look at all the white guys with asian women.
Asian women = race traitor
I am starting to wonder if white is the preferred color of partner for everyone. Seems like the majority think along these lines.
I read an interesting article that claims we are conditioned to think "white" is pure and "white" is beautiful. In China, no one wants to get a tan because "dark" skin is considered lower class. I have to admit, I have never really been attractive to asian women until I started seeing them in the media, aka porno movies with asian females.
Tony, the Japanese American who has never been attracted to Asian women, admits he?s been affected by the shows he watched as a youngster. ?I had the biggest crush on Cheryl Ladd when I was growing up. I thought she was the prettiest of the Charlie?s Angels.? (For those too young to know, Ladd is a blonde, blue-eyed actress from the original TV series Charlie?s Angels in the ?70s.) ?Growing up, the beauty standard around you is the white girl. As you grow older, you?re exposed to other cultures and you learn that standard doesn?t apply. But I?ve been conditioned white,? he shrugs.
Racist Love
According to Hamamoto, the process starts as soon as you?re born. Asians already come from countries that have been dominated by white people, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, he says. Against this backdrop, ?you?re exposed to media garbage and Hollywood productions like the Last Samurai where the white guy, Tom Cruise, is the hero. That?s ridiculous, but that?s how you grow up. You?re given signals that white people are better physically, intellectually, spiritually.?
When it comes to Asian men who exclusively date white women, Hamamoto says ?they are so desperate to be accepted [by whites] that being with a white woman is their entrée.?
He is even more scathing when it comes to Asian women who only date white men, asserting that they are unaware of the history of what he calls ?racist love.? Asian women in America started to get fetishized, he asserts, as a result of relaxed immigration barriers in 1965 that created a large-scale influx of Asians to the States. At the same time, you had a generation of white American men who had been in Vietnam and experienced Asian prostitutes, and who now had a larger pool of AA women.
?When you have Asian American women [who are] ignorant of that history and that the desire from these people goes back to the colonization of Asian countries, the media portrayal of Asian women, and Asian American women being socialized into the white supremacist world of media, it makes perfect sense,? Hamamoto says. ?Underlying it all is a form of racist love, not an equality.?
What he says next is even more startling. ?These Asian American women get hit on or propositioned by white men, but they don?t realize what lies beneath; that they?re coming onto you as a prostitute or massage woman, because that?s what they see, first and foremost, regardless of educational level. Conversely, an Asian American woman in white supremacist America will value anything white. I won?t say it?s instinctual, but almost at the preconscious level.?
Kim?s comments are similar. ?Whiteness has a centrality; it is the highest point in the hierarchy,? she explains. ?Whiteness is taken as the norm against which everyone else is measured and you couldn?t help but buy into it.?
?Growing up around whites,? she remembers, ?I was shocked when I walked by a mirror and saw my Asian reflection.? She felt brainwashed by a white society that told her people like her were ugly and inferior. ?I had to purge myself of that thought,? she says, explaining why she no longer dates white men, despite having been married to one. ?If I went out with a white guy, I?d be going back to that. It?s my problem,? she acknowledges, ?but I don?t want to be in that situation again.?
http://www.audreymagazine.com/Sep2005/Features03.asp