ASIAN AMERICAN INTERRACIAL DATING: REVISITED

Every so often. I like to act up with the current state of research on interracial dating/marriage patterns especially as it relates to Asian Americans. I don't be to tell anyone within that community that it's a. The problem I've long had with this debate - besides the over-heated attitudes you're likely to be from both men and women (but especially the men) is that it's long rested on anecdotal "bear witness" that people use to trump the growing be of social research on the topic. I get it - for many people (*cough out cough out* the men especially) it's the quotidian experience of witnessing Asian American out-dating that stirs such visceral reactions; digging through academic investigate isn't their bag (even if may be exploit). I recently saw written by Columbia Business School professor Ray Fisman about a series of articles he and his collaborators are publishing based on data collected from speed-dating experiments in Chicago. Their proposed findings are quite fascinating even though some of them simply confirm what most populate already knew: straight men are into looks but are intimidated by women they find either smarter and/or more ambitious than they are. Likewise women value intelligence over looks and don't undergo a problem with seeking out mates who are smarter or more ambitious. However part of what the chew over also looks at is interracial dating preferences and is worth looking at change surface for those who've never taken a course in quantitative data analysis. Here are some of the highlights especially as they relate to some of the assumptions populate alter re: gendered preferences for interracial dating.1) For designate. Fisman writes: "We also found that East Asian women did not discriminate against white men (only against color and Hispanic men). As a prove the color man-Asian woman pairing was the most common create of interracial dating—but because of the women's neutrality not the men's pronounced preference."This - I evaluate - is a very interesting hypothesis and it's in lie with other studies on Asian American dating preferences that suggest the high aim of Asian female outmarriage has as much to do - if not more - with contact opportunities created by Asian American geographic/social integration than specific racial preferences per se. Anyone who is interested to see other research on that hypothesis should read the works of. 2) Fisman notes in the study that when adjusted for controls most women - Asian and otherwise - exhibit a strong same go preference for their partners significantly more so than men. In other words men are fairly equal opportunity when it comes to who they date unlike women: "color women were more likely to decide color men; color women preferred black men; East Asian women preferred East Asian men; Hispanic women preferred Hispanic men. But men don't seem to differentiate based on race when it comes to dating. A woman's race had no cause on the men's choices."That should come as some comfort to paranoid Asian men.. but what Fisman notably excludes from the Slate piece is a rather despairing finding that appears in the chew over itself:"For male partners our main finding is that Asians generally acquire lower ratings than men of other races.20 In fact when we run the regressions separately for each race we find that even Asian women find color black and Hispanic men to be more attractive than Asian men. "(No disbelieve many a voice out there right now is saying. "no sh--. Sherlock.")The upside if there is one to this is that when one controls for attractiveness then the bias disappears. In other words the main calculate that makes Asian men less desirable is their perceived attractiveness (or lack thereof). Therefore if you're a good looking Asian dude - experience! You are now on compete footing with other men. 3) However.. guess what? That bias runs both ways:"female Asian partners are consistently rated as less attractive though we also sight that color females acquire significantly lower ratings relative to whites. As above we find that when these regressions are run separately for each go even Asian men find white black and Hispanic women to be more attractive than Asian women."Basically Asians in command get low marks for their attractiveness rating from all races - ourselves included. Ouch. By the way: one thing the study notes is that least likely to be drawn to Asian men and women on the basis of their attractiveness rating: Latinos. No explanation is given for this but pop theorists: go wild. 4) Lastly on Slate. Fisman wrote. "We found no evidence of the stereotype of a color male preference for East Asian women." However what needs to be said here is not that said preference doesn't exist at all.. it's only that measured against the color men in the chew over there was no overall preference. That shouldn't be surprising; I think Fisman might have misunderstood the stereotype: it's not that color men - writ large - like East Asian women. The stereotype is that there's a "certain kind of white man" who prefers East Asian women. But that's a study for another time.(I might have more to add to this later but it's some interesting ideas to cerebrate over in the meantime).[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://poplicks.com/2007/11/asian-american-interracial-dating.html

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