What's with the RACISM on this forum?

A lotta fiction...not much science

welcome to the site, this is a little bit of everything forum

Hi-nice to meet you. How are you?

Does this mean you like Asian women, even if they are not Asian?

You picked a heck of a thread to get acquainted with us on.

There are a lot of really good, interesting threads here (this isn't one of them).

This is facinating.

What makes her believe that some men are attracted to her solely because she is Asian?

I certainly don't mean to be offensive, but I don't know how she might be able to determine this unless she was clearly unattractive in all other conceivable ways.

Of course I very much doubt this is the case, and so I have to wonder how she knows some men are attracted to her solely because she is Asian and not because she is beautiful, has a husky voice, is brilliant or humerous or kind, has large or small breasts, wears sexy clothes or any one of very many reasons why men are attracted to women.

What does being senstive to the perceived condition mean?

Why did she feel the need to warn you when you were dating?

What did she expect would happen that you needed to be warned about?

Feel free to ignore this post if you think it too intrusive, but you posted what I consider a very interesting comment. (and not because I have any special Jones for Asian women)

To be honest, it was my own comments she warned me about. She thought it was very shallow of me to be attracted to Asian looks. She is very intelligent and has a doctorate in public health. She had thought I was compatible with her because of my own academic background and that I enjoyed discussing purely academic subjects. We are both "bookish" people.

Now I get the context.

But, again I am being presumptuous, were you only attracted to her because she is Asian? Somehow I just don't think that is the case.

I'm not sure I understand how it is "shallow" to be attracted to Asian looks.

If your wife is an intelligent as you say (and I've no doubt she is) surely she understands that there are elements of physical attraction that are hard wired, for which the adjective "shallow" is meaningless.

Perhaps a Caucasion's attraction to Asian features is not hard-wired, but, if not, it suggests an attraction to the exotic, which I would hardly consider shallow.

I don't think EVERY Asian woman is pretty. I have seen a lot of homely ones. Looks isn't the only thing that attracts me to them.

I had two Chinese gfs in school-I liked them because they were nice and they were bookish like I was,

What do you think about black men who are attracted to them?

Absolutely nothing.

I can't imagine why a black man should be any more or less attracted to Asian women than a white man.

A black man might be more attracted to an Asian woman (or any other member of a minority) because that is a point of reference they share as beings who are not identified as members of the majority culture.
In other words, they share something that white people don't and have never experienced and can't really understand.

Sometimes people have a perception of a subset of people that attracts them to them. I think, and maybe I'm wrong, but it's my perception that a lot of people think of Asian women as quiet and gentle, deferential...and they may find this an attractive sort of package to take on in a wife or partner.
It may be an illusion - again - I haven't ever lived in an Asian culture- so I couldn't tell you whether it's true or not - but I think a lot of men THINK it's true.

I know the man that I married (who is black) told me he always knew he would marry a white woman because he found black women 'loud'. Don't shoot me - I'm only the messenger - that was his perception of black women, and even though he grew up black - he didn't find that aspect of the women arround him attractive.

I know that I have certain perceptions about certain types of men. I don't think to the point of preferring one race or another, but I know I do tend to think of Latin men being more macho than Asian men, for example.

Living here, I find that I do miss African-American culture. I enjoy the sense of humor and the laughter, the strength and resilience of the people. I might call that a preference. Physically, I like the very dark and shining eyes and the skin tones.
But then again, if a guy is white or Asian or whatever, and has pretty eyes, nice skin, a deep and ready laugh and a sense of humor - I like that too.

I think I like Asian women because I have found kindred spirits among some of them.

Hi J,
Well, I'm OK actually. Not many people I can talk to about SciFi....buy hey, that's life. Usually I'm talking about Tiger or Vee & Ree.

Nice to meet you. How's this board?

why not start a thread, there's a few sci fi fans here, we've had discussions on books, movies and tv

here's a link to some threads that already exist with the tag science fiction
http://able2know.org/forum/science_fiction/

Thanks, will do. I already asked about the short story where a woman meets an alien she calls Daffy Duck cause he looks like a giant duck. No one has heard of it....I can't remember which short story book I found it in.

Oh well.......

What does sci-fi have to with the thread topic?

Is that Brother From Another Planet you're referring to? I saw the movie.

Yeah, the movie was great. I mean, he was a true Bro, afro and all. Didn't talk much, but didn't have to.

Racism.....we'll never get away from it, so why try? I deal with it on an individual level, some people need to to know that "we ain' gonna take it"...others are simply too assinine to understand it all. Th0se I don't bother with.

I do like to talk to a Brother or Sister though, that's why I like the ESPN boards on Tennis and Golf. Try them.

Lady

Why do a lot of people go out their way NOT to adopt any black kids? Did you know that? They are willing to pay thousands of dollars MORE NOT to take in any black kids.