Sopdadope wrote:On the other hand, many Asian girls also perpetuate the Asian fetish symbiotic model by adamantly refusing to date Asian guys. Once met this Cambodian girl who strictly dated Caucasian males claiming that Asian guys are either "too nerdy or too thuggish, ghetto or too chauvinistic" (can't believe someone would be so ignorant as to typecast her own people into convenient stereotypes) and she'd date a White man even if he was physically unnattractive over a good-looking Asian man just because he was White and "different".
The grass is always greener...
What if she just liked simple midwest cowboy types? She'd almost have to go with a white guy! Well, I might be the closest thing there is to a brown white male. It doesnt go beyond my love of country music, I promise.
Sopdadope wrote:I also find many of these stereotypes so baseless, for instance, the Asian male stereotype dictates that I'd have a chauvinistic streak in me which couldn't be further from the truth.
I've never heard the chauvinistic asian male stereotype. Thats a totally new one to me. I thought the big stereotype was that asian men wore pocket protectors and worked in laboratories.
Sopdadope wrote:So yeah, I hope my post isn't miscontrued as an anti-interracial rant. The equal-opportunity lover in me is all for interracial relationships. Matter of fact, I find people engaging in racial unions otherwise frowned upon very empowering. But it's strange how people will be seduced by surface sheen when its actually personal qualities that matter most. Love is (color) blind.
I dont really know whats frowned upon anymore. My mother is married to an african from Congo, and my stepsiblings are half-black half-white, and my dad is half Indian and half thai and my mom and stepmom are full thai. Which makes me beige and confused. I swear, the dinner table at my house is like a meeting of UN delegates.
I forgot what this thread was about, racial diversity or something? So here's a Swede:
-Jesda