[David25896]

As a student of two Asian languages who has talked with countless Asians and Asian Americans on issues of race, I feel pretty qualified to answer this question. Many Asian peoples are very status-conscious. They are also very racist. The attitude I’ve seen Asians take toward whites is not one of revulsion – it’s more of a quiet, assumed agreement that Asians are just better. However, there is the conflicting feeling among some Asians that marrying a white will increase social status. Therefore, when an Asian woman shacks up with a white man, her parents can perhaps soothe their anger at the dilution of their people’s homogeneity by telling themselves their daughter is ‘moving up in society.’ The hatred Asians feel toward blacks, on the other hand, has a definite element of fear and revulsion to it, and with blacks being traditionally seen as ‘the lowest of the low’ in the American pecking order, there is little solace to be taken in the possibility of social mobility. Hence this particular mix is harder to find, and kept more on the down-low when it does occur. I have heard that in New York City there are a significant number of Japanese women who actively seek black men as partners, and that there is even a neighborhood near Harlem composed largely of such couples. But I heard that from an inner-city New Yorker, and have seen no proof of it either in print or on the streets.

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Name : David25896, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 22, City : Elmira, State : NY, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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