[Dan27377]

I took an Asian American Women’s Studies class as an undergrad, so I reckon I’m somewhat qualified to answer. Basically, because white guys are held as an ‘ideal.’ Latinos often accuse Latinas of seeking to hook up with a white guy in order to escape the barrio and gain status in the mainstream world. Now, as you noted, Asian men have been ‘desexualized’ by U.S. popular culture, whereas Asian women have been ‘sexualized.’ Stereotypes surrounding the former range from computer geek to Mr. Miagi, or Jet Li at best (and pop culture doesn’t view him in the same light as Brad Pitt or Denzel). Whereas with the latter, you have everything from the ‘lotus blossom’ to the ‘dragon lady’ to the ‘exotic other’ to the ‘domestic ideal’ to you-name-it. So, there’s no shortage of white guys drooling over Asian women, with an image in their mind of someone who is exotic, feminine, and who shuts up and does the dishes. Also, because everyone thinks Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom are hunky (and only admire Jet Li for his destructive powers) and all the other conditioning that takes place (beginning in preschool and continuing forever), Asian American women are encouraged to be attracted to white men. So, Asian American men are desexualized to Asian and non-Asian women, Asian American women are sexualized / exoticized to white men (not to mention men of other colors), and white men are presented to Asian American women (as well as Latinas and women of other colors) as the ideal. That’s basically how it happens, in a general, macrosociological sense.

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Name : Dan27377, Gender : M, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Pentecostal, Age : 25, City : Los Angeles, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Grad Student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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