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’d also like to see the asian-adjusted graph broken down by gender. I’m a white woman, and a lot of my asian friends seem to have a much easier time getting dates than do I. On the flipside, however, I find asian men very attractive, but most of them won’t give me the time of day.
You ever think that certain people don’t believe in interracial dating? Hell maybe since the black guys are taking most of the white woman these days we are forced to get online to find someone who hasn’t and wouldn’t be with one. The very title of this post is racist towards white people and a totally useless pile of information. You don’t like it do like mike and bleach your skin. I’m not a racist but I’ll be damned if i watch my race be disrespected over stupid shit like this. Get over it.
Perhaps OKCupid could experiment with post-racial dating.
Set your Ethnicity to Undeclared and put some Ancestry in your Self-Summary. What country did your furthest ancestor that you can trace come from and where did some more recent grand and great grandparents come from?
It’s easier to understand a people by knowing what they’ve been through and migration patterns have a big effect on people esp. if the reason is war, famine or discrimination. (remembering my grade-school Pearl S. Buck here).
List states or provinces or prefects if you know them.
People look different and have different backgrounds, but ethnicity turns out to be a poor predictor of what affect that will have on a potential match. If OKCupid figures out correlations in ancestry, they might be easier to look at less emotionally.
Wow. From some of the defensive remarks from some of white respondents on this page, it looks to me like race is still very much an issue in America, and will be for some time, even when whites are no longer in the majority.
I’m a college-educated African-American male who’s worked in the information technology industry for decades. It doesn’t surprise me that others like me – including, I’ll bet, African-American males especially – are lowest in popularity. While I was fortunate to be able to go to a private (and predominantly white) grammar school, a magnet high school, and a nationally reknowned (predominantly white) university, I’m still dismayed that statistically speaking, I have less to look forward to with OKCupid or any other dating site, mainly because I was enculturated around whites – so that’s who I’m attracted to, primarly (but not exclusively). Thankfully, I happen to be seeing a white male who’s able to look past race – or, perhaps, embrace it.
I think the thing that concerns me about folks that say “I like other people of my own race – does that make me racist?” is that it would seem to me, in the back of their minds, they are also saying (to themselves), “I would NEVER date ______.” It’s all in the attitude – an angry edge to this suggests latent racism to me; a more mellow attitude suggests it may be just coincidence. I see this attitude on other personals sites in the form of exclusionary statements like “Whites and Asians only”. Challenge them on this and they bristle – sometimes harshly. I guess my only message to such individuals is, you may not be attracted right now, but there are always exceptions. You may not meet such an exception – or you may not have met one yet – but if you close your mind like a steel trap you may miss someone wonderful.
This also brings up another point – in America, while it’s true that there’s a certain degree of familial or community pressure (let’s say) to date within one’s own race, I think it’s still whites that are more likely to out-of-hand refuse to date another race, if they’re already so predisposed. Image, culture, income, and even (possibly) threats may factor into this. It would be interesting to see a survey of how many whites are interested in (say) blacks, but are too embarrassed or concerned about what others might think to admit it. If we can really, truly get beyond the race issue, it may “liberate” some whites to pursue dating partners of whatever race they wish.
Finally, there’s the matter of class, income, and education – all of which make up (as a whole) part of a concept of culture. An African-American like me grew up with considerably different digs than an African-American male who, perhaps, only finished high school, or who has a blue-collar job. My education, talents, and personality traits would be enough to attract another dating partner online were I white, I believe, But for some – too many where I live, as a matter of fact, in Texas – the fact that I’m black is enough to stop them. I really wish American culture as a whole could get beyond mere physical appearances – not to disregard the physical or visual completely – but to use it as only ONE trait in how they choose dating partners.
My hats off to the folks at OKCupid for another insightful study. I look forward to more!
Well, very interesting, though as the author him/herself pointed out, very limited in scope, and certainly best not taken as symptomatic of American attitudes at large. But I am inclined to believe that it is hardly surprising that white Americans are the most likely group to message members of “other races.” White people have had the idea that they are members of the oppressive, racist, domineering super-monster group beaten into them since birth or thereabouts, so they are all very sensitive (well, most of we youngish ones, anyways) to possibly appearing in that light. It should be pointed out that people fundamentally do what is best for themselves, and issues of race are often bent to justify individual and group desires, especially in the political and financial arenas. Personally, I think people can date whoever the hell they want to date. I think the fact that when a member of one racial group prefers to date only members of another racial group, they are deemed to be fetishists, is a terrible, judgmental thing. For one thing, it takes two to date, so it’s not as if, in this case a heterosexual relationship, the man (and inter-racial relationships are always portrayed as involving a man “stealing” a woman of the other race, as if women are the collective property of a given race) is in it alone, forcing a woman into it. When it comes to 1st world men dating women from third world nations (or whom are relatively subservient and traditionalist), there is a certain element of exploitation there, but again, if that is what makes both parties happy (and it’s not too likely you can sell a grown woman on the gender-neutral ideals of the first world), then so be it.
You spent way to much time to figure out what we already knew: Asian chicks are hot.
As a black female who has had many interracial relationships, it still astounds me how it seems like Blacks are regarded as the lowest of the low. You can bring home a significant other of any race and yeah it’ll be weird, but if you bring home a significant other of the black persuasion….it’s like someone kicked a baby out the window.
Most times when I’ve gone out with someone, I’ve been their 1st black girlfriend and let me tell you it’s not fun. I wind up feeling like I’m a science experiment or something. Even on this site, if I attempt to talk to a white guy, it’s like seeing bambi caught in headlights, the guys don’t know what to do or say. It’s not like I’m Boomqueesha. I’m very open minded and do things that even my own race doesn’t consider to be “black”. What gives? LoL
I am a White Woman, and I ONLY like INDIAN man. I also find that a lot of Indian men love White Girls; however, normally most will not go against their families. Sad I feel this is still a problem with all race.
I may or may not be racist because I only date men that fit in to one group, but I like what I like and I DO NOT care what anyone think. If you only date one group of people weather it is the group you put in or not; It is you right, but you should know if it you that really like that group or if it is just you feel on some level you should like.
Personally, I care far more about education and culture than race. I’m a white male, but have certainly dated asians and latinos. I’ve known a couple of black women I definitely would have dated, but what set them apart seems to have been that they were Canadian and British, respectively. I’m really turned off by American ‘black culture,’ but it has zilch to do with race, and everything to do with ignorance. (And I know there are surely great, intelligent, attractive black American women out there too, but I’ve never met them personally. And I’d still be apprehensive about meeting their family.)
Oh, I should probably add that I’m willing to bet that the majority of messages are sent by men, since the majority of messages are probably only first messages, because the VAST majority of first messages sent by men to women are probably shot down and not responded to, Aren’t gender roles fun? God knows we’re nowhere near a post-gender world, even though both men and women feel terrible about their assigned roles, and both want the freedom to move beyond them, and yet both demand that acceptable partners more or less adhere to those roles. At any rate, I bet the results of my theory would greatly alter one’s interpretation of the statistical data.
March 15, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Wilber Forte says:
…. Why are young black people LESS race exclusive than their parent’s generation, and why are young white people MORE so?
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I found that surprising too ! I would have thought that young white people would have grown up much more familiar with black people than older generations.
Then again, okcupid 20something white girls (the only white people I observe on here since i don’t browse male profiles) don’t seem very hiphop oriented. Your average vegan/trader joes shopping/indie listening/english lit. graduate degree holding OKCupid white girl is probably very PC and theoretically antiracist but she simply doesn’t really relate to black people. She has probably encountered very very few of them she had interests in common with. She likes nerdy, witty, sarcastic, non aggressive males. Pretty much what black men are not known for lol.
I realize that the stereotypes exist for a very good reason : they’re reasonably accurate. Still kinda sucks for guys like me whose non stereotypicalness isn’t tatooed on the forehead !
I haven’t browsed the older white women profiles at all so I have no idea what would make them less racially exclusive. Maybe simply the ticking clock ?
Oh, and a third note. Am I the only one surprised that what is meant by white people losing their numerical majority in 2050 only in fact means that we will no longer outnumber all other races combined? I’d always assumed what was meant was that a single race would become the new majority. I wonder if my surprise at this is due only to my ignorance of racial statistics, or if I can fairly blame the media for not making things clearer, and perhaps instead playing on popular fears of this nation being “flooded” with Hispanic peoples? Either way, I had no idea there were so many white people in America.
I am a black female and I have received most of my messages from white men, I don’t know why that is and I’ve never even given it much thought until glancing at this. Who has that much time to waste anyway? How about something a little more productive? I typically date white men, but not because I’m more attracted to them because I’m attracted to men of all races. I suppose I may have more in common with white men because of where I’m from and my lifestyle. There aren’t any black men around me that are worth my time. I want someone who wants a comfortable life. I am not saying that there aren’t black men who have their shit together, but there aren’t any where I’m from. But I like a person for who they are, not because they are a certain race.
With that said…can we please stop focusing on race…racism will never cease to be if we continue to make it our main focus in every situation.
thacamaybe says:
At the okcupid signin we are welcomed by animation of a skinny white woman with long straight brown hair.
I wonder how this perpetuates racism and sizism. How could okcupid be a more welcoming and inclusive dating site?
What do you think?
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i think you forgot to mention the wheelchair.
Great post, as usual.
Just to recap a few points that people might have skimmed past without noticing:
* All the racial groups show significant in-group preferences
* In a world with an equal distribution of races where the tendencies are the same, white Americans show the least such preferences, and American Asian Americans the most
* The cities in that list of five cities in the south are manifestly racist
One question I think would be interesting to look further into — I’m white, and although I would date a white woman, I would probably not date a white woman with a preference for white men, and I would probably not date an Asian woman with a preference for Asian men, and similarly for the other races. I just find that the worldviews of people with these kinds of preferences tend to be pretty far removed from my own. So the question for OkCupid: Is this because I live in the Bay area, or is this anti-biased bias an exception, even in this part of the US?
Well, yeah, Etown, it is racist if you’re not attracted to a certain race. Any bias based on race is racist. I’m a black girl, but I was raised in a Texas suburb, where I had only white friends and had only ever dated white guys. I moved to New York, and I still have the same preference because that’s what I’m used to. What I have experienced of black men is that they are generally A) Not into the same music I’m into, B) Homophobic, C) Don’t understand my sense of humor, and D) Have issues forming proper sentences. Yes, these generalizations are racist, but they are based on my experiences. I connect more with people of a similar background to mine, as I’m sure most do. Unfortunately, my upbringing is not yet what is considered ‘typical’ for black children in this country.
I think it would be interesting to factor in the gender statistics of the senders and recipients. And also, the rates of response.
i’m a little disappointed at the absence of granularity of race data. Asians’ are hardly a single race group, they’re very racially diverse.. Asians should rather include south asians, south east asians, mongolians, etc..
to Eric from Mexico :
You wanna know why those social activist girls were turned off ? Probably because they know that you’re a conquistador since that’s what most white mexicans are like. Think about it, Mr White Mexican who tries to pass for an oppressed minority.
you’d like american TV and movies to be more like mexican TV and movies ? Mexican tv is very well known for being very very veeery white compared to the actual mexican population
Incredibly interesting statistics put to good use.
I thoroughly enjoyed this report and the comments. All of it is hilarious. I’m glad that I am defying the stats as a black woman on OkC in terms of messages. AND The only guys I’ve meat in real life so far have been Chinese! You tell me!!!
Really? Have you ever tried this?
Google with quotes “blacks on whites”
Read the number of ‘hits’.
Google with quotes “whites on blacks”
Read the number of ‘hits’.
Now use statistics of population. Blacks are approximate 11% of population, do the same with whites. Then factor the percentages of return search results to population % and you will see an extreme high of one search over the other.
The 11% group has an approximate return of 25-30 to 1 over the other group (depends a bit on what numbers you use).
When you figure in the population ratios you will find one group has an outstanding result that easily translates into what? Aggression.
Hmmm … Anybody for political correctness?
I can’t wait ’til 2050.
People are so gullible,that they will believe anything (referring to the comments on here.) I once saw on Opera, where a sociologist separated people based on eye color. People with eyes that were blue were separated from everyone else and mistreated (stood up for 45 minutes,while the others were fed and seated.) Once the audience was seated,segregated of course,the sociologist began to tell lies to the people with non blue eyes (whites included) How they were naturally smarter and more productive in society. End result? The non blue eyed people began to believe it! One white claimed how stupid her “blue eyed ex boyfriend” was and she felt that it always had something to do with his eyes! They cheered and agreed that eye color had something to do with intelligence. Of course the idiot blue eyed and dark color eyed people became confrontational until the sociologist let everyone know it was a fraud, Just like race. I’m Black,and would date any woman i found attractive as long as its mutual. I live to enjoy my life, not to harass others for their skin complexion. I hope this enlightens some of you.
I agree with KateKisses, who stated that White men are generally less crude when responding than men Black and Latino men. I have not had her same experiences with Asian men. I have had wonderful, witty, coherent conversations with White and Asian men. Black and Latino men want only to know if you’ll have sex with them.
The truly discouraging part is that many of the men who profess Christianity are less moral and ethical than the Atheists, Agnostics and other assorted religious groups represented on the site.
A few other observations from the responders –
DJ – Type your response in Word and use spell check. Stop perpetrating a stereotype.
Wilbur – My experiences have been that as people get older, they are less likely to care about what their family and friends think. Especially if those persons have been sitting idly by while observing deceit, disrespect, or mistreatment by people of their own races. They are willing to look ‘outside-the-race-box’ for true happiness.
Chucky – Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have seen plenty of unattractive White people on this site.
T-Man 1992 – Slender Black women are a small minority of available Black women out there. I generally find that Black men do not respond to me because I am rather slender and don’t have a huge rear end. Good luck and don’t give up.
However, White and Asian men do reach out to me when they are looking for a woman of color. Apparently men will respond to the woman with the characteristics they are looking for regardless of color.
Nat – I agree with you. I believe that a thinking person will write at the level they believe will resonate with the respondent. (Interpret that however you choose.)
The best part of these OKC data dumps is the responses of the people. Tres entertaining!
This shit’s crazy yo!
Wait, are you Asian?
I find this in depth study to be quite interesting.
I once ate the eyes of a bobcat just to feel his power.
Yes, I get it. America hates us black ppl…LOL, as sad as it is nothing has changed since the 1700s. An ignorant, complacent, and ill-fated country is america. It is doomed.
it is hard for me to write my opinion because my poorly English
i m with Heather about all what is written
i’m only attracted to white women ,
All things considered, “race” is an illusion for the most part. Do you really think all “white people” are one big race? That there’s no difference between say, Scandinavians, Englishmen, Russians, Italians, or Germans? Even “black people” are an unfair grouping, as many people can’t tell the difference between an African-descendant and a Carribean Islander.
And what would you call somebody Hawaiian? Would they be Asian, for being short and flatter-faced? Latino because they live in an island in the Pacific? Or what? (Likely they’d be “othered.”)
I do find it very likely however, that white people as a whole are less biased than other races. Not saying racist white people don’t exist, but that too is just a matter of population.
Everyone who thinks they’re “helping”with their comments to show how “non racist” they are…
Please.
Stop helping.
Great article for those with the ears to hear it.
this is all kind of disgusting. if this thread was titled ‘what if there were less blacks’ and had some flow charts indicating why they are rediculous someone would have removed this because they were AFRAID already. get over yourself, or go to a race-friendly dating site. so what if the stats for this one are primarly white? guess what? nobody cares! if i went to ebonymatch.com and complained there werent enough white ppl gthere, id be acting like a fool…. hmmm….
i usually see only white women in my search…. over 25 and no kids!
Kay: You’d have petty arguments no matter the race or culture.
I don’t think this is much of an analysis. It concluded that asians and latinos are the most popular races to message, then went on to say that minorities (of which asians and latinos are part of) get it in the shorts.
That speaks to me of a clear racial bias on the part of OKC’s “researcher”. “Only blacks can be minorities and they must be discriminated against” type results. Typical.
It ignored the fact that blacks are a significant minority on this site, meaning that even if a white or a asian or whatever would be open to a relationship with a black person, they are much less likely to find one that they are interested in seeing.
The only thing this has shown is that asians have a disproportionally high level of interest from all races, compared to others.
LOL, some of you guys take this stuff way too seriously and get all pissy just because they’re telling you the truth. If you’re not a racist then good for you, you’ll have a much more colorful (no pun intended) life because you accept people into your life as they are whoever they are, but the fact is (without getting too Fruedian here) people tend to establish emotional/sexual connections when they’re children and thus see their parents and siblings as models for all future people they meet, thus if your a man and your mother is a Black woman there’s a strong chance you’ll be attracted to Black women subconsciously, or if your a woman and your father is Asian you’ll probably be subconsciously attracted to Asian men, simply as a matter of your brain seeing what it recognizes since your origin as being what is ideal. Of course personality comes into play as well (hence why abused mothers tend to have daughters attracted to abusive men) but initial and constant judgements are made by human beings as a result of what we can see since it’s our dominant sense.
I myself am Hispanic (and yes, Hispanic/Latino IS a race, I’m a lot closer to Asian and Black than I am White both by virtue of immediate relation of my mom and dad’s family trees as well as general Latino American origin (Asians migrated to the Americas long before whites and Pangaea is a major reason why ancient Mayan, Olmec, Inca, etc. statues have VERY AFRICAN-associated features)) and I’ll give anyone a shot. I’ve been deeply attracted to females of a number of different racial backgrounds, but what matters ultimately is always personality, and while it’s likely that if one psychoanalyzed me I’d tend to be attracted to Hispanic women on a per capita basis, I’ve met a number of Hispanic females whose personalities I find to be abrasive in terms of taste that meshes well with mine, it’s all about the individual for a great majority of us.
So in closing, take this stuff with a grain of salt people, no need to get up in arms, if you have THAT big of an issue with somebody’s study perhaps exposing racial preferences maybe you need to sit down and wonder why you’re so mad if you know that you go “against the grain” so to speak.
white guys just fuck better.
I have not seen anything about the cultural differences that promote online communication. If a population is strongly encouraged to go to dance clubs… at least during that time, they are not messaging anyone online. If a group was raised with computers in their home, would they not be more likely to use it to communicate? What about the cultural aspects and how they related to communication itself. I see a difference in the communication style of a black culture than a white culture.
I am presently dating a black woman. We messaged for a very short time before meeting and now use other forms of communication to interact. Of the women I have dated and first met online, I can say that white women spend almost twice the time online messaging before meeting where black women spend less. When dating black women, they have less fear in initial meeting than white women and therefore do not need to test the potential partner as much as their peers.
There is also an area that should be addressed and that is the societal expectations prior to meeting people of another race. Having traveled often and delved into different cultures, I have a different look but people generally do not trust themselves to not offend except where they have experience.
I am a white man. I prefer black women. I happen to me messaged from more white women and reply accordingly. I will talk to these women and enjoy the conversations but when the cards fall, I would say goodnight to them and head my way in interest of finding a quality black women. There is a simple possibility… black women know what they want and do not have to talk so much about it… white women feel the need to talk about just about everything before they are comfortable with meeting.
just from reading the latest comments, you retards are missing the point of this post. drop the negative baggage tied to the words, look at it objectively [to an extent obviously] and maybe you won’t have a cliche reply.
Well I have noticed similar patterns on this website. What most are seeming to forget here is that there are quite a few people of mixed blood (myself included). Also, as another has previously mentioned not everyone puts the correct “label” down in the ethnicity portion of the details.
I’m pretty color blind in my dating life but that mostly comes from the whole “Old school Jamaican” and “Navy Brat” upbringing. If you can talk to me without using obscenities, look me in the eye during a conversation and talk like you have some damn sense, you have a shot. I have a stronger attraction to men of mixed heritage rather than straight white, black, hispanic, middle eastern, asian/pacific islander but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t consider dating them.
A majority of people who message me on OKC are stereotypical white or hispanic males who didn’t read my profile at all and expect me to speak and dress a certain way or just want to score. Needless to say they get passed over pretty quickly. Stereotypical black men usually just look at my profile and pass me over as different from them.
I respond to everyone because there may be more to them than just their appearance or speech patterns. People do have the habit of sticking to what they know (Parent/Guardian) and usually build from that.
I also agree that they should have broken that down to male/female, female/male, male/male, and female/female categories. It would be a lot more accurate than what is listed above.
I’m white and this is offensive to me…there is NO WAY this would have been published about any other race, creed or nationality. FACT!!! What’s so wrong with being caucasian? Most of my friends aren’t white or “non-white” as you refer to them. I am unemployed and the most I’ve ever made in my life is $17 an hr. I am definitely not racist, however we all prejudge people occasionally. I don’t understand why it’s soooooo acceptable to say negative things about white people. I’ve attended predominantly white schools with Latin, black, and Asian student unions and well as predominantly “non-white” (your terminology) schools with Latin, black, and Asian student unions. None of these schools had a white student league because it is considered racist to be proud of being white and that is a shame…no one …not even white people should be left out or singled out because of there skin fair is fair.
ps…our president is black…get fucking over it!!!
Who isn’t biracial (at least) anymore? How come we have to check these narrowly restricted boxes – “white” “black” “latino” “asian” – in the first place? If there were more varied choices, the data wouldn’t be so cut & dry.
Stupid is colorless and most of you commenters have proven to be just that. Charts and graphs don’t show reality? But your extremely limited and self-indulgent opinions are? Charts and graphs tell surgeons where to cut, pharmacists what fill, engineers how to make artificial limbs. Didn’t you go to college? Every person who mentioned the word racism in their post is racist. Yes, RACIST. It is when you can accept it that you can actual start doing something about it. And pretending like race doesn’t exist is RACIST. Its called White privilege or entitlement. Before criticizing research, try reading a book. Just sayin… you all sound pretty simple. Stop that.
Agreed with Kriz I’m an asian girl and know for sure tht we’re on high demand since my inbox were like 200-ish and they all from white mens. I’m glad of that XD
I live in British Columbia which happens to be one of the most multicultural places in Canada. I’ve seen many relationships between White males and females of other races. I find that when it comes to relations with that of another race, the families of a White person are more open and accepting of a relationship with another race.
When it comes to the families of the races other than White, it is forbidden or frowned upon for another race to be in relationship with a race not of their own. Where I live South Asians & Asians are expected to not mix with White people. When the older generations die out, I predict the newer generations will be much more accepting
I dated outside of my race a few times. I found that once they date one race, they’ll date them all. I stopped dating them because I didn’t want to risk getting some exotic STD if that time came. I also tend to avoid asian girls who date white men since white men share many people’s beds and train their women to accept that as a good way of living. So for the sake of health, I think it’s safer to date in my race. The risk isn’t worth it in the long run.
This is some good data. I think it is safer to date in my own culture. For people whose culture is important to them, I think that is the better choice. I think it is hypocritical to date outside of your culture and think that the culture can maintain itself.
the title of this article is racist.
Imagine if this title had “Black” in it, the uproar would be hillarious.
I prefer white guys myself, and I’m a white guy. Just what turns me on, really.s
Hey, how about if there weren’t so many racist douches in general? Find a man or woman that works harder than me, they deserve my job. How hard is that?
It is very simple, if you are happy in life, wtf do you need to bring down others for?.
Writing “level” analyses frequently have as much to do with dialect and style as with vocabulary or orthographic competence. First, I’m sure you excluded messages written actually in another language, or use the appropriate-language writing level estimator, but I’m curious which tools. Then in English we use orthography to indicate pronunciation and style, so “level” as defined by text written primarily by Anglophone whites is likely to measure precisely how similarly you write to them (and historically very much as opposed to how blacks might speak), and not how *well* you write. So the writing level analysis, taken in this sense, should simply be analyzed to mean that folks pick up on each others’ dialects, and try to write appropriate messages well.
I would like to add a quote from the movie Bulworth: “Everybody should fuck everybody else until all are the same color.”