A short featurette from a PBS documentary from a few years ago. From the video description:

When it comes to "yellow fever,” many argue it’s a two way street. In this webisode, Asian women confess reasons for preferring white men including that they’re “more confident, better looking.” Academics unpack the reasons why, including “hiergamy,” the sociologists’ term to describe a universal female desire for marrying above one’s own socioeconomic status.

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this seems like a very sexist incel train of thought :side-eye-1:

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OP is on a kick today: https://hexbear.net/post/172016

I wonder what set this weird shit off.

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yeah saw that thread. like i do know there is a tendency in immigrant communities (mine included) to recommend either marrying someone local or stay inside the community. like i got some shit for dating my bf who doesnt speak czech, but ive also got commendations for ‘integrating’. a generalization here is unhelpful because theres a 50/50 tug on both sides it seems to me at least in the czech immigrant community and they always say it in very harsh and certain terms

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idk it strikes me as a bit weird because I remember similar Discourse popping up from weirdos on twitter about Luna and EJ

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tfw you miss the struggle session :angry-hex:

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universal female desire for marrying someone above ones own socioeconomic status

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universal female desire for marrying someone above ones own socioeconomic status Universal human desire to not die of poverty

It’s not like women have had to battle thousands of years of financial oppression or anything :blob-no-thoughts:

Gee, I wonder if a history of requiring women to be financially subservient has anything to do with this? No, it must be those greedy women with their flawed genetics

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True, although I have noticed that even in higher socioeconomic groups, the ratio still seems skewed in favor of white guy asian girl couples rather than the other way around.

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There’s probably a lot of reasons it could be. The west is great at propaganda after all. Maybe they bought into the idea that the West is the amazing progressive place that lets you be free.

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It’s really simple. White guys know better than to put hot Asian guys in films. They learned that the hard way in the 1920s

Now though, everyone has access to the internet, and Kpop just exists and stuff

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We have hundreds of books about this: Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina etc etc etc.

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I mean I have seen a lot of Asian girls only date white guys throughout my life. Certainly not all of them, but a decent percentage. I’d probably chalk it up to societal factors including past colonization, media portrayals of Asian dudes in western culture, etc.

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why are you posting this?

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They already had one removed yesterday for being inappropriate

https://hexbear.net/post/172016

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