[Celia-P]

I am responding as an Asian immigrant married to another Asian and with three grown-up Asian-American children. I do not care who my children marry as long as they are caring, kind and open-minded people. However, some of the conversations I have heard on the subject consist of Asian parents believing the stereotype of white American females as being ‘easy’ and not as ‘wifely’ as Asian females. They then tend to discourage their sons from marrying white females.

When it comes to their daughters, however, they like to foster independence and quietly abhor the fact that Asian females generally tend to be subordinate to their Asian husbands, so they welcome a white son-in-law who generally is more tolerant of independent wives and actually tends to be more involved with their children’s rearing than many Asian males. As far as Asian male/black female unions, many Asian immigrants are victims of white colonization and therefore buy into many of the prejudices against blacks, and many of the stigma/marked physical differences. Many Asians would rather look like Europeans because the ‘standard’ of beauty that has been promoted all over the world is that of a white, blonde blue-eyed person. It is rather sad, because Asians are just as ‘marked’ as any other ethnic group in American society, and yet they buy into this ‘markedness’ by being prejudiced against blacks, and having stereotypes of white females.

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Name : Celia-P, Gender : F, Race : Asian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 53, City : Davenport, State : IA, Country : United States, Occupation : Instructor, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper class, 

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