Why are people more attracted to their own race?

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Which begs the question....

Why are people more attracted to their own species? :shocked:

I've heard that lots of guys subconsciously date women who are like their mothers and vice versa.
 

b0mbrman

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Originally posted by: gamepad
It seems to me that most white men find white women more attractive, as with asians and so on.

What makes incest so bad is it limits the chromosomes, or something along those lines. Isn't procreation within the same race more "incest" than interracial?

Shouldn't people naturally be more attracted to other races to increase the gene pool for their offspring?

Or am I way off?

Uh..not true for me at least :eek:
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Which begs the question....

Why are people more attracted to their own species? :shocked:

I've heard that lots of guys subconsciously date women who are like their mothers and vice versa.
visa versa?

so a lot of mothers subconsciously date guys who are like their sons?
 

nospittingfan

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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

That's an awful generalization. And sounds like there's bitterness and resentment. Did some Asian chick leave you for a white guy?

It's more like, those white guys have yellow fever.
 

D1gger

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Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: irishScott
When I was hit with puberty, I felt attraction toward white females (I'm a white male) immediately. Attraction to to other races (with a few exceptions) took slightly longer to develop. I was raised in a very multi-ethic area (although my entire family is white), so culturally, I should be roughly equal on the attraction scale. However, I am still attracted to white females far more than any other race by instinct.

I was attracted to boobs myself.

I've always been attracted to women period. Doesn't matter if white, black, asian, or eskimo.

I married outside of my 'race'.

:thumbsup: QFT!
 

TecHNooB

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Originally posted by: nospittingfan
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

That's an awful generalization. And sounds like there's bitterness and resentment. Did some Asian chick leave you for a white guy?

It's more like, those white guys have yellow fever.

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In anycase, it seems that only chinese girls are getting picked up. I like the korean ones >=]
 

91TTZ

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Originally posted by: bennylong
The American dream for an asian american women = marry a white guy. In 100 years, the asian race as we know it will disappear in American if the trend continue.


2000 IR Marriage Statistics

In 2000, for the contemporary U.S.-raised Asian American population, 30% of males were in IR marriages vs. 43% of females. IR marriage was highest among U.S.-born Asians; 44% for males and 58% for females vs. 23% for males and 35% for females of the 1.5 Generation. About 80% of all intermarriage was to white race individuals.

The traditional assimilationist perspective predicts Asian Americans would marry into the majority white population for socioeconomic achievement.

http://www.proudasianamerican.com/Articles/2004%20ACS.htm

That's because Asian women are golddiggers. That's the reason that Asian women are willing to run off with a white dude with money, and that's the reason that you were able to find a mail order bride so quickly in China. She wants your money, and if you were still living over there, you wouldn't have had a chance with a chick like that.

Has she asked for her LV purse yet?
 

eleison

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Originally posted by: TecHNooB


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In anycase, it seems that only chinese girls are getting picked up. I like the korean ones >=]

Most of the ones that are getting picked up.. well.. 90% of them are kinda homely looking... so to all the white guys.. Thank you for picking up the homely ones... because homely looking asian women.. they need loving too.

You would think this would be bad for the homely looking Asian guys.. but most of the time, if they care enough, they just go back to their countries to find a wife.. Win-Win :)

I salute you.. "Mr. I will pick up any woman who is an asian because I have an asian fetish guy.. you dare go where most average asian male would not "
 

Staples

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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.
 

eleison

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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.

no... you need to see other cultures..
 

LeadMagnet

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I'm white - and I don't find girls that are pale white or pitch black attractive.

A nice light shade of brown or creamy olive is perfect. Also I don't care for skinny girls or obese heifers; I like a nice curvy mature (30 to 42) woman - preferably with long dark hair.

ie... Melina Kanakaredes or Gabrielle Union
 

bennylong

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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
 

Leros

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Most of the Asian girls I know say that they find Asian guys unattractive.
 

Dacalo

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As an Asian man, I have dated both Caucasians and Asians. Although there are a lot of nice white ladies (personality and looks), I can't see myself marrying one.
 
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I have no idea why, but it isn't always true. There's a ton of white guys into asian chicks, as well as plenty of other race combinations. I personally like very pale skin so my racial preference is pretty well set. I don't think it would change if I were another race (though I can't know).
 

SuperSix

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Originally posted by: Isla
Well, as a Latina, I have a bit of white, black, and asian in me. And I do find select members of all races attractive!

<---it's good to be me ;)

Isla - what the HELL are you doing posting on Chistmas??? :D
 

Thetech

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Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: irishScott
When I was hit with puberty, I felt attraction toward white females (I'm a white male) immediately. Attraction to to other races (with a few exceptions) took slightly longer to develop. I was raised in a very multi-ethic area (although my entire family is white), so culturally, I should be roughly equal on the attraction scale. However, I am still attracted to white females far more than any other race by instinct.

I was attracted to boobs myself.

I've always been attracted to women period. Doesn't matter if white, black, asian, or eskimo.

I married outside of my 'race'.

WOO! attraction in general regardless of skin color, right on man.

 

91TTZ

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Originally posted by: bennylong

?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.?[/L]

That's probably the biggest pile of crap that I've ever heard.

So if you're white and don't think Asian women are beautiful, it's because you're a white racist who thinks of Asians as being lesser than whites.

If you're white and do think Asian women are beautiful, it's because it stems from a white racist domination of Asian women.

If you're white and don't take either side, you're just a white racist.
 

Journer

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<--- white male

i like some white womenz, japanese womenz, and brazilian womenz :D i dunno what u consider alba (white/latino?) but she is damn fuggin hot...russians are cool too...
 

JulesMaximus

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I'm a Swede mostly but I have a bit of English in me so I do find some Limeys to be attractive...maybe even the Irish or Scottish. I know, it's fvcked up...what's a Swede gonna do?