{"id":3618,"date":"2007-11-08T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2007-11-08T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:19:15","slug":"yellow_fever_a_myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/sexuality\/yellow_fever_a_myth.php","title":{"rendered":"Yellow fever a myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Marchetti_1993_romance_and_yellow_peril_s.jpg\"<\/span><\/p>\n
Cover of Gina Marchetti’s Yellow Peril<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Online magazine Slate has published an article by Ray Fisman about a study on dating preferences conducted in New York, titled An Economist Goes to a Bar<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

[F]or a couple of years at a local bar just off the Columbia campus, I ran a speed-dating experiment with two psychologists, Sheena Iyengar and Itamar Simonson, and fellow economist Emir Kamenica. Some of our findings confirm well-worn clich\u00e9s. But others surprised us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is one of the surprising results:<\/p>\n

\n

Women of all the races we studied revealed a strong preference for men of their own race: White women were more likely to choose white men; black women preferred black men; East Asian women preferred East Asian men; Hispanic women preferred Hispanic men. But men don’t seem to discriminate based on race when it comes to dating. A woman’s race had no effect on the men’s choices.<\/p>\n

Two wrinkles on this: We found no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women. However, we also found that East Asian women did not discriminate against white men (only against black and Hispanic men). As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating\u2014but because of the women’s neutrality, not the men’s pronounced preference.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Based on more than a decade of being a white man in Asia and observing other white men in Asia, your correspondent has seen with his own eyes evidence of a white male preference for East Asian women. But perhaps white males in Asia do not represent the average American white male who lives in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can a new report asserting that white males do not have a thing for Asian women possibly be true?<\/p>\n

Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[1403,1404,89,1405],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexuality","tag-dating","tag-love","tag-sex","tag-yellow-fever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}