As far as I've been able to tell, America has three Big Ideas about race relations:
#1: Pistols.

#2: Chumpriding.

and #3, which kind of follows from the other two: American race relations suck.
Obviously, this post isn't going to change that, but we are going to do something a little different, a thought experiment. Since most thinking about race hinges on the fact that one particular race predominates, what if, using statistical models, you could make that predominance disappear?
Right now, even on a per capita basis, whites gets more messages than non-whites on OkCupid:

But how much of this reflects whites' "popularity" and how much reflects their population? What would this graph look like in a racially-balanced world? How would people's choices change, if the people to choose from weren't mostly of one race?
This post is based on 82 million messages sent on OkCupid over the last few months. Here's what we found.
Our data set
OkCupid is actually less white than the rest of the U.S. Internet, though it's hard to make direct group-to-group comparisons because Quantcast (our national demographic source) doesn't have multiracial data.

For this post, to keep the discussion streamlined and accurate, I'll only include OkCupid's largest single-race groups: whites, asians, blacks, and latinos.
Where To Start

When you look at the messages sent by each of our four biggest racial groups, it's actually kind of amazing how much white people are flooding the market. In raw terms, everybody, whites and non-whites alike, sends white people most of their messages. Broken down by the race of the sender and the recipient, here's what we have:

The above chart actually undersells how much attention whites get, because I assigned equal widths to the four vertical bars representing the message senders. To properly present reality, we should adjust those widths according the size of each population, like so:

You can think of that whole square up there as the dating "pie", and, as it stands, whites get 89% of it. But let's look deeper into the numbers. Thus, our experiment begins.
Here's the data for Asians.
- As the chart above shows, Asians send about 3 times as many messages to whites as they send to other Asians:
- However, as we saw before, whites outnumber Asians 19:1 on the site:
- Putting this messaging and population information together, we get these ratios:
- Well, what if we rescale these ratios? What if there were 10 whites and 10 Asians instead? How many message would go to each?
- Our experiment tells us that, given equal numbers, Asians would actually overwhelming prefer to message other Asians.
It turns out that if you bust out your mechanical pencil and use it to punch the "on" button on your laptop and then, with that computer, extend the same kind of analysis to the other groups, you get a fresh sense of American race preferences.
In a world without so many white people, where everyone has an equal choice, that first graph we saw—the average monthly messages people get—would look like this:

And, going for a little more detail, this is how it would break out by age.

I built an interactive visualization of how the Who People Are Messaging chart we were looking at before changes when there aren't so many white people. You can toggle between states and get a sense for yourself.

supposing racial bias:
is like today—the chart will reflect people's current racial messaging preferences
didn't exist—the chart will suppose people are race-blind when deciding who to message
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supposing racial composition:
is like today—the chart will reflect the population's current racial composition
is equal—the chart will suppose there are equal numbers of each race
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Here's the by-age analysis for each of the four groups:

Back to reality
"What ifs" are an important part of any researcher's toolkit:

but "what ifs" are only worthwhile if they tell you something relevant in the real world. And here's the value in our thought experiment.
The kind of messaging imbalance that currently exists has observable effects on how people think about race and dating. Search for "interracial couple" on a stock photo site: you'll find a rainbow of Asians, Latinos, Black, and Indians, all hanging out with their white significant others. Or just start typing into Google and see how it completes your sentence:

But as we've seen, in a scenario where people have an equal choice of messaging options, things are very different.

In other words, person for person:
Then Latinos. Then whites, sort of. As we're seeing it now, the data is being distorted: a huge part of the country is white, and white people mostly like to talk amongst themselves. Intentionally or not, minorities are left out in the cold.
Nonetheless, people prefer their own race
Given equal choice, every race strongly prefers itself:

And white people actually prefer themselves the least, but right now there's just so many of them. It's interesting to think what things would be like if the shoe was on the other foot; if another race outnumbered whites 19:1. We ran a simulation with Asians in whites' role as the dominant group and everyone else was really on the outside looking in then.

You can actually see groups' insularity in real life when you look at cities with larger non-white user bases. Minorities tend to become more and more inward-looking as their numbers increase. The dots on the graph below represent the 150 towns with our largest black populations:

For every 1% increase in the black population, blacks send 2.5% more messages to each other. In Baltimore, for example, 1 in 5 users is black, but half the messages from black people go to other black people. The rate is over twice what you'd expect. Other groups show a similar pattern.
For white people, there are also some places where a relatively smaller population still sends a disproportionately high number of messages to themselves—aka the most racist towns in America. The white people in Greenville, MS, for instance, comprise only 59% of our user base there. However, 95% of their messages go to whites; that's 14× the expected rate.
#1 Greenville, MS
#2 Jackson, MS
#3 Montgomery, AL
#4 Memphis, TN
#5 Atlanta, GA
The most segregated city north of the Mason-Dixon line is a surprising one: New York. White New Yorkers message other white New Yorkers at about 2× the national rate, probably about Animal Collective.
Soon, there won't be so many white people
Finally, I just want to point out that the hypothetical we chose for our title isn't going to be a hypothetical for much longer. The Census Bureau has concluded that around 2050, whites will no longer be the majority in the U.S.
This is from their website:

Along with this news, I think there's an assumption that at some point all the races will just kind of come together as one, like during Michael Jackson's "Black Or White" video or like during a lawsuit against the estate of Michael Jackson.
The data we're seeing, however, just doesn't support a post-racial future, because even as the races mingle more, people still like to date someone who looks like they do. Asians strongly prefer Asians; Latinos, Latinos, and so on.
Endnote: reading level analysis
We analyzed the grade-equivalent reading level of each message in our dataset, and here's a table of how it changes, race to race, message to message.

It seems that generally, people of all races write down to blacks and Latinos and up to Asians and whites. This is a pretty crazy result: proof that race not only affects the quantity of the contacts between people, but the quality as well. For example, the average black person writes at a level almost one full grade-level higher when writing to a white person than when writing to another black person.
I’m mixed with a lot of different races (Native American, African American, Chinese, Irish, British) yet I’m considered “black”. Personally, I like Asian men so race shouldn’t be an issue when it comes to love. I think the problem is everyone is either too afraid to get to know one another or they go by stereotypes. What a shame.
You guys should break it out by gender too. Black guys and white girls, Asian girls and white guys… how much do those stereotypes hold?
Most of these comments leave me angry and dejected. It’s inevitable that any statements about racism being alive and well in America will elicit defensiveness on the part of many white people. I get it. But it’s frustrating to hear.
Just because you are attracted to black guys, doesn’t mean minorities do not continue to be grossly stereotyped in all sectors of our culture. How many films do you go see where an Asian-American man is an a romantic lead? Some of you may not know, but this wasn’t an anomaly until after WWII. Black men and Asian women are fetishized. Just because we attribute sexuality to a few choice minorities doesn’t mean dating culture is color-blind. In fact, it often proves the opposite.
And to whomever stated minorities come on too strong as compared to whites, I find that statement predictably appalling and complete bullocks. Desperate people come on too strong. Insecure people come on too strong. Desperation and insecurity are something minorities often have to struggle with as a result of living in a culture where they have been historically disenfranchised. Please don’t tell me African-Americans are disproportionately poor and imprisoned because they have less intellect, moral rectitude or civility.
Minorities have to struggle to disassociate themselves from stereotypes that are constantly reinforced in our culture, no matter how far from reality those stereotypes are. It’s a psychological burden, however subtle, that is real.
When you already have a preconceived notion about a certain race, just as with anybody, you are going to disregard what they really have to offer and, more likely than not, not allow their best side to emerge.
I am an Asian man. I am not asexual or unromantic. In fact, my sexuality and romantic nature are a huge part of my identity. Yet I know that because of the historical “de-masculating” representations of Asian men in American popular imagery, people are more apt to associate my race with sexual incompetence. So, yes, the natural instinct is to overcompensate sometimes. But that’s only because we feel like you’ve already drawn conclusions about us.
In other words, stop hating and consider that maybe this article simply reinforces what a lot of us already knew.
Well that is pretty discouraging, I’m a black man and I tend to not think or assess race in anything I do from messaging to dancing with someone. It’s kinda of a bummer that someone wouldn’t want to get to know me just because there is a different amount of melatonin in my skin!
If you only date people that are the same race (or only date one race period…yours or other) and it’s based on attraction then NO you are not racist…who said you were?
But you are racially biased….which everyone is…just like everyone is gender biased and age biased. We all need to stop demonizing the fact that we have these biases and stop labeling people as racist that have these biases. The sooner we all accept that we have these biases and discuss openly, how they impact us all, the better the world will be.
That was the point of this article and I think it did a great job!
An excellent, thought-provoking article, using the blunt hammer of statistics to beat mercilessly on a topic that we pussyfoot around in the most politically-correct way possible… and to see from some of the responses, for obvious reasons.
The thing that bothers me the most about all of this, however, is that there was no resolution whatsoever about the growing problem of chumpriding.
I would also like to see this stratified into guys/girls. I would think that black guys tend to be more desirable than black girls, and asian girls tend to be more desirable than asian guys, but I’d like to see some data to back that up.
i prefer white women and im a tri-racial minority(black,japanese,spanish)
my grandparents on both sides came to america,learnd english(never lost thier accents) but as they got older started to go back to thier first language which is not a big deal because they still can speak english.
the attitude that most minorities produce is because there is still some sort of oppression felt and in order for them to be able to find themselves something within thier comfort zone “all *insert race here* things are created.its not to be racist,it sometimes is a cultural thing.so i agree with it,not fully.
i do belive that if your going to live in a country and work there you should learn the main language spoken that they use in schools.this whole having everything done in every language shit has to stop.i hate being at work and comming across a chinese person or inddian who doesnt speak english and when i cant understand them they get mad at me for not speaking thier language.
white people have alot more than they think they do and the rest of us who do try are stereotpyed just like the whites who have nothing to do with something thier ancestors did decades ago.
when i was dating a white girl and we walked through the ghetto to get to her apt or to mine the first thing i would hear is “whats that cracker doing here” before we’d get bashed for being a lesbian couple.unity will never happen because ignorance is rampid everywhere.its sad but true
“Even as the races mingle more, people still like to date someone who looks like they do.”
“Given equal choice, every race strongly prefers itself: And white people actually prefer themselves the least.”
“Asians are the most desired racial group in the country.”
In a nutshell, what this survey says is that America is all about GENTRIFICATION, SOCIAL SNOBBERY, AND MENTAL MALLEABILITY.
If you are simple minded with low self esteem and will grovel and genuflect for a socially elite person, they will deign to uplift you to a higher social status, as long as you make it clear that you know your place, and that you understand that they are a more superior human being than you are.
This survey is also VERY MUCH SKEWED by the racial makeup of the letter senders.
The article states, “This post is based on 82 million messages sent on OkCupid over the last few months. Here’s what we found.”
As men are the ones who are usually in pursuit–which is why women preface their posts with demands such as ‘must have,’ and ‘should be,’ and ‘I won’t respond if.’ And as the article states that whites make up 80% of the people on all dating sites. Messages sent by white men have got to outnumber messages sent by everyone else–including ALL WOMEN COMBINED–by a factor of at least 10 – 1. So to take the info gathered from that and say that Asians are the most desirable, is like going to a rap concert and deducing that everyone in America would much prefer to listen to Snoop Dog over any country & western singer.
That is absolutely not true. And naturally this survey would conclude that Asians are the most desirable race: as White men make up the VAST MAJORITY of letter senders; and anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last 20 years, knows that WHITE MEN PREFER COMPLIANT FEMALES, aka Asian women. And not because they find Asian women to be the most attractive women; but because they hate white women for being so dismissive of the white males social status.
And as for the conclusion that black men are the least desirable men. If you take internet dating for what it is… a high tech meat market, driven by females who serial date: black men are JUST THE LAST PERSON THESE SERIAL DATING FEMALES WANT TO INVITE ABOARD THEIR “COOCHIE CAROUSEL.” As the coochie carousel is a ‘one size fits all’ affair. But once “Leon” rides the carousel, Pepe, Don ho, Kyle, and Guido, don’t fit so well in the saddle anymore.
This survey is interesting. But data gleaned from an environment which is dominated by a singular entity, really only tells the habits of that entity; as that entity’s actions distorts everything in the survey.
And not only that, but dating really has very little to do with race: other than opportunity and socioeconomic status is thoroughly tethered to race in the extremely racist society which is America.
A woman would date a millionaire Mongoloid with a cleft lip and a club foot, before she would date a Greek Adonis who was homeless and broke. … GUARANTEED! Unless she herself were a millionaire. And then she may deign to uplift him; as long as he demonstrates that he knows his place, and that he’ll stay there.
Dating in America is ALL ABOUT DOMINATION. If someone can dominate you–or if they feel superior to you–they’ll date you. If not…
I know one thing. If people spent less time dwelling on what happened in the past and more time focusing on making the future more positive we al would be better off. I hear it all the time, these people did this to these people so some type of reperations need to be made. And I can’t get ahead because I’m held down and blah blah blah.
And the thing about racism or race would’nt be such an issue if some nitwit with a pen and a Funk & Wagnel wasn’t writing about how it is still around all the time!
There is an old saying, if you tell someone they are stupid enough eventually they will believe it and act stupid! Well does the same hold true for racism? If you call someone a racist enough eventually they will resent it and actually start to hate the very people accusing him!
How can we put anything behind us is everyone keeps putting the issue in front of us!
These are the kinds of things that help promote and reinforce the notion that races are “different” from one another, when in all reality, it is the social implications that decide what is “different”.
Hey, and, above all else, who gives a fuck?
Whites will always be the majority here in the US.
Im tired of white people cryin about becoming the miniority. They’ll never know what its like to be a minority.
I really enjoy reading stuff like this. Some people who are having a hard time over reading into things on a primitive level of Oldschool Racial Segregation will understand this article perfectly.
Otherwise you will be stuck saying things like ” Black isnt a color. Latino’s Arent Latin, and Whites are mostly Swedish”
Or.. Thinking things like ” Oh well white people are just more awesome. Or Asians are classier when they are female. those are the comments that keep us back. Meanwhile I would like to thank The Workers and Mathematicians who worked on this study because it cleans up alot of misconceptions and believe it or not points out alot of stereotypes and Non Existing Racism along with Actual Racism.
It really does have to do with a point of view. And the majority changes everywhere. and THe truth is.. any one who ever took sociology will tell you that its more common for you to be attracted to your own kind.
and Media and Internet world is full of One Sided Stories mostly from who ever was the majority Group in charge and or Viewing. Looking at this Proves Things would always be different if the shoe was on the other foot.
And It was also interesting how Whites and blacks crossed according to age.
and How older Men seem to be more interested in Younger Women period.
I agree with the above requests on Seeing it as a Female Or Male View as well.
So pretty much if you are black don’t bother because you are the least favored race in the country still…that’s pretty much what I got from this “study”. That makes me feel great as a black man in America.
If there weren’t so many white people then there would be some other race we would be discussing about.
Asians seems to be leading in that scenario.
I am an Indian and I would be honest in saying that I haven’t got any messages on OKC but that is fair enough as I am actually just looking for new friends while majority of the people on OKC are ultimately looking for a relationship.
Moreover I agree with KR. Nice points and nice advice in the end
S.
They say behind every strong black man is a curious white woman.
i read like a tiny bit and ive come to my personal conclusion.
i simply dont give a f**k…
im on here to meet people, i dont care about race… hell you could be green and i wouldnt care
this race and stereotyped bullshit shud stop… the photos are just trying to be politiclly correct but always come across more racist to both blacks and whites or whatever group they have in.
racist isnt a white person slandering a black person.
its one race against another… it never comes out good, think about WWII not a good thing.
stop caring about race and just meet amazing people
thats all i have to say.
For the most part, it is attraction. The truth is, that out of all the most attractive users I’ve seen, I’d say the majority are white with a few asians,
Also, I agree with the comments about people being with someone of the same background – it simply makes sense.
Equally, in places where some people live, distribution is different – where I live, there really are not that many blacks or hispanic (or at least, I don’t see any on the site near me, they could always be there but just really bad matches, I guess), but lots of whites and a decent number of asians.
I’d like to see if the writing down/up analysis factored in the recipients own writing level based on their profile. I think some people adjust their messages (perhaps subconsciously) based on the perceived writing level of the user from their profile writing. Just a thought.
I dont know about other races views on attraction, but it doest matter what race a person is for them to be attrative. I find girls of every race to be attractive on a individual basis. Not every girl is attractive, but every race has attractive women.
Wow, um first, its Caucasian, not white. As a CAUCASIAN female, I find the term white offensive. Why is it such a big deal? I bet if Asians or Latinos were getting the most messages, this article wouldn’t be here. Seriously, it’s almost reverse racism. Anything Caucasians do that involve other races, it makes headlines. Stop the stupid stories….
It seems like only gross number of messages are being received here. What about the reply rate of sent messages, which was analyzed in an earlier Trends post, but didn’t have the “Less White People” filter applied to it? And what happens when you factor in match percentages?
I don’t understand the reasoning in doing this. Isn’t our world already segregated enough to make a run off a certain race? The title alone to me is a little offensive. What if someone when fact and said…”Why don’t White People have as many opportunities as other races” in the job market, scholarships, racial recognition.
I’m White/South American….It’d be like saying I have a better shot at opportunities if I took on my mothers last name “Hidalgo” as opposed to “Bowman” my Dad’s last name. Theories, Studies and opinions only contribute to the dysfunction between racial groups.
I like Asian Girls, Latino Girls, Black Girls, Islanders….I’ve dated one white girl in my life. Does that make me weird? No. It’s just what I happen to be attracted to. If I found a white girl attractive…I’d go for her in the same manner I would one of another race. It’s not what their background is…it’s who they are as a person.
Brilliant blog.
You can ask what it would be like to live (and date) in a world where white people weren’t the majority, or you could look at the data from Vancouver, B.C., where that’s the way it is now. How do your predictions hold up ?
I would’ve like to have see some analysis of how gender plays into this since most stereotypes about interracial relationships are asymmetric with respect to this factor. I mean the only place they touched on this was in the “google search” section and this was completely anecdotal. Don’t include it if you aren’t going to be turough.
Online, don’t really have a chance to get swept away with your feelings, like in-person.
I am a pickup artist, run a website on seduction, at one point had a podcast that was on the top 20 in the country. (acutally hit #11)
It is nothing wrong with preferring one race over another.
Actually, the further away you get from your genepool, the genetically healthier your kid tends to be.
I am black (mixed) and I see nothihg wrong with more white messaging. Unfortuanately this world is trying to depict white people as bad. My grandmother was white and my mother part white. It appears that they started it……so i thank my lucky stars. I have met some wonderful people. I think white america is wonderful. instead of trying to change white people, why not try and have to people who come to this country change to what america is.
rediculous. I’m white and I find this offensive. This is exactly why race matters and these matters exist still in this country.
can’t we all just get along
I agree with a previous commenter who mentioned race as a stand-in for culture. In theory, I’m attracted to any race but if I was looking for a partner to marry, I’d probably be more comfortable with someone of my own race because of how I would fit in culturally with his family. This is not to say that any race is a monolith, I’m just talking odds here. For example, I wouldn’t fit in with a family that frequently spoke Korean at home because I don’t understand it.
I also wonder about the writing sophistication…Could there be an element of writing style that breaks standard spelling/grammar rules if one were writing an English paper but is perfectly appropriate in a message setting? Are people who write to blacks more likely to use language derived from hiphop/popular culture because that culture is part of what attracts them to blacks? Just wondering if there is an explanation that isn’t pure condescension. I’d also like to see this information broken down by education. These relationships might be a result of the educational distribution of users by race and who writes to who at a given education level. I’m assuming these numbers weren’t calculated in a way that holds the writer constant – i.e. an individual write to one race differently than another.
“Soon, there won’t be so many white people
Finally, I just want to point out that the hypothetical we chose for our title isn’t going to be a hypothetical for much longer. The Census Bureau has concluded that around 2050, whites will no longer be the majority in the U.S.”
This projection is based on the trends from the previous 10 years continuing. They won’t. It’s a dumb, sloppy projection of existing numbers. It imagines that Latinos will just keep coming in floods to the US, which they already aren’t. The change in the economy has already seen to that – if anything, immigrant Latinos are leaving the US almost as fast as they’re coming in. This is to say nothing of what might happen if certain political elements in the southwest get their way…
Regardless, to try and predict demographics 40-50 years into the future is sheer folly.
You’ve got to remember that since this blog is really popular, it is both a PR article to grab attention and a stats article.
What’s missing is how the language grade levels are calculated,
The population growth is mainly driven by immigration, if the US became a less popular destination for immigrants in the future, the birth rates for everyone are similar.
It’d be cool to see some stats by hair color, tan color, pimples, etc.
Personally, races create tension and problems. I could really care less about what color skin someone has, as long as they are intelligent and can dress proper. If there werent white people there wouldnt be as many wars or mainstream tension. As for dating sites? Who cares? Many people uses them now s days and by focusing on race you open up narrow interpretation. Instead of focusing on the good and the bad of any race, lets all work together and solve more important issues
Sincerely,
A Black Woman
I love the data analysis. The graphics do a phenomenal job of presenting the data for what it is.
I think it would also be extremely interesting to see if socioeconomic data explained any of the apparent race preferences.
I appreciate your input and anaylsis. I an african americam woman happen to be looking for a white male. There are racial pre-conceived ideas/opinions/prejudices in all of us, if we are honest. Some people want to date or marry someone outside of their race, but worry about what family and friends will think or do. With all the racial “talk”
before during and after the Obama Election for President, many people are now very vocal about their racial opinions. (Almost as vocal as during the Civil Rights Era.)
As I said in my profile: If you are attracted to, and want a relationship with someone who is different racially, go for it! Don’t let the negative kill your positive! We all need to check our notions about Asians Blacks Whites and Hispanics. I have heard many stereotypical comments about different races, male and female) in my lifetime, and refuse to buy into the lies.
I make up my mind about someone beyond looks and race.
Interesting article.
What’s also interesting is the success stories on this very site being mostly white only.
About 3 or 4 black only success stories of about 24 pages. makes me wonder. But that’s another topic I guess. :/
This is actually pretty interesting, and looks like they actually did their research. Unfortunately just by skimming over the comments section people are getting offended when really all this article wants to be is something to think about.
You sad sad statist.
what a waste of time, I’m upset that someone was paid to put this useless information for all of you to waste their time. Now I’m even more upset that I’m upset that I even have to comment that some of you read way too much into useless things.
MK
I feel really bad for black members of OKC, when it seems that they are the most stereotyped and marginalized on here, as it pretty much is everywhere in the United States. And now I understand better why a guy I know deleted his account.
I have been here on this sites since 2008 and being a black bbw my message box is always empty and the few messages i get are very lecherous, uninspiring and are from guys with either black women fetish or BBW fetish (that means they really do not want to be in any relationship with you)
The few dates i had here were so disastrous i was actually unfortunate to fall victim to a OKC predator who i thought was a really cool guy only to discover he preyed on girls here searching for true love i ended up contacting the other girl and it was so hurtful and crippling. i think i have a great personality, i am well educated employed and well travelled i have lots of interests but due to the fact i am black no one will bother to know that . I have not had a single message in my inbox for the past ten weeks
I would love to make a few comments as a single, never married, educated black female with no children. Yes we exist! Please don’t take my comments personally and these comments are not true in all cases.
1. What Asian and white women fail to realize is that black men may pursue you because you are “thin or skinny”, you tend to be more submissive, and maybe a tad more kinky(?) in bed. We all know that these are generalizations and maybe stereotypical.
2. Black men also fail to realize that they are being used by other races other than the women that looks like your mother, sister, aunt etc..other races usually want you for…dare I say it….the sex.
3. I used to find myself turning my nose up at mixed couples. As I have gotten older, I have found that skin color doesn’t matter. You love who you love, but for the right reasons.
4. I have had a few men propose to me. I did not accept these proposals because I could not see myself with these men for the rest of my life.
5. I use online dating services depending on the city I live in to weed out the bad seeds. SW Ohio’s dating pool is limited when it comes to educated, single, black men with 2 kids or less. I don’t mind other races, but I have issues when they try and act and talk urban.
Whites might be a declining majority in America, but world wide we are the minority and dying off more and more due to people thinking they have to date outside their race to prove they aren’t an evil racist.
The author determines the most racist towns in America to be those in which whites message other whites most frequently. Doing so assumes that preferring your own race is racist.
This study also proves that asians prefer their own race 4 times stronger than whites prefer their own race, and therefore asians are the most racist race in America–4 times more racist than whites on average. Latinos and blacks are 47% more racist than whites, and such racism actually increases as the relative white population decreases.
In other words, whites are more discriminated against than any other race, person-for-person, and as their relative population decreases over time, the discrimination is amplified.
I would love to see this same study performed in other countries, particularly in those with white minorities, to see if the author’s projections hold true abroad. I would guess that whites become more desirable as the minority in other countries, and such will also be the case in this country at some point, defying the projection. Just a hunch.
Fantastic article as always. Thank you for publicizing such significant research findings in such a digestible form!
this is ridiculous. not so much the write up but the comments and people’s insistence of snatching any opportunity to make racially demeaning remarks. I am white but I am sometimes ashamed when I hear/read these things. This is not evenan issue anywhere else in the world that I’ve been.
It is ignorant to say “but we are of the same race so same culture”. I recently met easily the most sophisticated but not stuffy girl I have ever met in my life (and I have seen the world) and guess what she is african and also european and has lived in Japan and now lives in the US. She is also very easy to look at. So,if you would meet her and think anything of your black stereotypes then you would be crazy.
Wake up people…
You know it’s tough being a complete idiot meaning (me). But what is the reason for this! WTF! does it matter if Whites date Whites and Asians date Asians and Blacks date Blacks or any other F/N combo you can come up with!…. Since when is it anyone’s business other than the involved parties…..If they prefer chicken, beef,vegetarian or starvation it’s your choice! Now I maybe be over reacting here but this flat out stupid! don’t we as people have enough politically charged bullsh** to deal with and now some shut in jock strap decides to point out “birds of a feather flock together” GTFO! who gives a sh**! You order what you want from the menu (at least I do) right? if not then hey can I’m telling you to go rob that bank and bring me the cash and then turn yourself over to the authorities….Again I admit that I may have missed the point of this but the fact remains that we have enough social pressure being shoved down our throat and up our bums, and now this! (BTW this is not the first time I have seen this kinda of thing).
I think Ali had a good point with the whole Freud thing.
We humans have always gone out of our way to find grounds for division.
I do get bothered when people (whites and non-whites alike) say that they only find their race/ethnicity attractive. I find that a bit narcissistic.
I think if you took a mixed group of people, placed them on another planet, (away from the world we’ve created for ourselves), you’d come back to find that Zion scene in Matrix 3 – just a whole bunch of hot people shagging. And dancing.
Just my opinion.
I am so glad you guys are shedding light on truth about race in this society. You don’t understand how many rejections I’ve received…people who message me saying I’m “too dark to date,” or that black men just “don’t do it” for them. Not to mention the many messages I do send out but never receive responses from. Its like, why bother even trying to find someone on here when clearly I’m “undesirable.” Even though I am an attractive, intelligent, and well-rounded black man.
I really wish people would stop using “Race,” when what they mean is Ethnic Group. There is no such thing as a different human race, as there are no subspecies of Homo Sapiens. If you are going to attempt a scientific study, then use real science and stop promoting false assumptions.
Breaking down your data by Gender would also have been very relevant to the studies conclusions.
i’d like to see the breakdown between sex, specifically, asian men vs asian women. my hunch is asian women will come out by far on top and the results will again be skewed. my theory is that asian women are much more readily accepted into american culture than asian men.