Why is that most people marry within their own race?

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27 May 2012, 3:34 am

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Positive assortative mating.

So what are you saying, that marrying outside your race is negative assortative mating? I find that highly offensive.

I find ignorance of basic scientific terms offensive, so even steven?

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27 May 2012, 4:33 am

Keeno wrote:

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Positive assortative mating.

So what are you saying, that marrying outside your race is negative assortative mating?

That's not what she has written, but what you are insinuating is actually true. People that go out their way to intermix when mating conduct negative assortative mating. Positive and negative in this case represent the scientific meanings, and not the meanings you understand, and thus Wiggin meant nothing "negative" about interracial sexy time

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27 May 2012, 12:43 pm

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The famous ones you tend to see on TV, tend to look almost European but with black skin, Blacks themselves are somewhat racist in this regard, when you see thier fashion magazines, they promote the most attractive look, as that which is closest to white.

uhhhhh

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27 May 2012, 1:16 pm

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uhhhhh

Naomi Wolf talks about how there are now several beauty myths as opposed to one, depending on a woman's race.
I agree, though, that lighter-skin still continues to unfortunately be held up as "ideal" in the cultural aesthetic.
Unless you're actually white. Then you should be tan and not "pasty". :wink:

Wish people could just look how they friggin' look.

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27 May 2012, 2:12 pm

I'm not racist but...I want an Asian wife so I can have a life of happiness and tranquility rather than an American woman who will be all feminist and be like "YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME, I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR" when I'm like "Honey, it'd be really nice if you cooked me dinner when I got home."

But why, well, they're there. Other races have cultural differences, thus making it harder to make friends of other races most of the time. Much of the time when you do make friends with foreigners, something is different about you compared to other people in your culture. People put themselves in groups, all that fun stuff. I don't think it's so much skin color that makes people racist, or think along racial lines, it's just cultural differences amongst the races. What I mean is, it's about as unlikely for a white American from down south, for example, to marry a pure white Russian girl, as it is for them to marry, say, a black girl or Hispanic girl, just because of the cultural divide.

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27 May 2012, 2:14 pm

I date whomever I'm attracted to, most of them happen to be white. *shrug* It's coincidental to me I guess.

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27 May 2012, 2:23 pm

I guess when you're having a race, you get to know some of the other people involved and it just goes from there

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27 May 2012, 2:27 pm

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Has it occurred to you that many ASIAN women don't want to be married to a man who thinks the word "feminist" is an insult?

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27 May 2012, 2:31 pm

ValentineWiggin wrote:

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Has it occurred to you that many ASIAN women don't want to be married to a man who thinks the word "feminist" is an insult?

Asian women want things? I thought you just kept them in a drawer when they weren't needed

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27 May 2012, 2:43 pm

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Has it occurred to you that many ASIAN women don't want to be married to a man who thinks the word "feminist" is an insult?

Asian women want things? I thought you just kept them in a drawer when they weren't needed

Kitchen drawer, no doubt.

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27 May 2012, 9:29 pm

ValentineWiggin wrote:

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Has it occurred to you that many ASIAN women don't want to be married to a man who thinks the word "feminist" is an insult?

It's occurred to me there's a sizeable amount less than there are white American girls who would think that way.

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27 May 2012, 9:42 pm

I dont FREAKING know.

Maybe because the couple won't have to learn a new culture....I don't know. I don't mind marrying/having kids with someone outside my ethnicity. (not now at 16 though

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27 May 2012, 9:45 pm

I'm a white guy who really likes black women (the darker the better) and is seeking a long-term relationship with one.

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27 May 2012, 9:48 pm

1000Knives wrote:

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Has it occurred to you that many ASIAN women don't want to be married to a man who thinks the word "feminist" is an insult?

It's occurred to me there's a sizeable amount less than there are white American girls who would think that way.

One question 1000 knives , You black? I'm not trying to be racist.

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27 May 2012, 10:25 pm

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Why is that most people prefer to marry within their own race? Is it because of biological reasons or religious indoctrination?

Many white men say that they do not find most black African women attractive except a few famous ones that they see on American TV. I wonder why that is.

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27 May 2012, 10:56 pm

NorthPark wrote:

1000Knives wrote:

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Has it occurred to you that many ASIAN women don't want to be married to a man who thinks the word "feminist" is an insult?

It's occurred to me there's a sizeable amount less than there are white American girls who would think that way.

One question 1000 knives , You black? I'm not trying to be racist.

Nope, as white as can be. Maybe the Soulja Boy Goku avatar joke thing makes me seem black, oh well. But nope, not black.

I'm just saying, I would prefer a somewhat traditional marriage dynamic like that. But uh, people my age seem to not even get married anymore... I don't have anything against white girls, obviously I find them great looking and all, but I've gotten along better with non-American girls, and my father who has similarities to me has had the same experience.

That said, more American white girls around, there's a high probability I'll end up with one, not that it's automatically a bad thing, but... yeah.

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