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| Based on your personal experience, which of the following is most accurate? |
| Western men date Korean women significantly more often |
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78% |
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| Western men date Korean women slightly more often |
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7% |
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| Western men and women have the same rate of interracial relationships in Korea |
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4% |
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| Western women date Korean men slightly more often |
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5% |
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| Western women date Korean men significantly more often |
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4% |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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 Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: Interracial dating/marriage in Korea |
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It seems to me that western men date/marry Korean women at significantly higher rates than western women date Korean men. Why is that? I've been reading a lot of threads lately about the high numbers of non-Korean women dating Korean men, but I haven't seen it.
Maybe I've not been in the right places at the right times? I have dozens of friends who have married or are dating Korean women, but I only know of one western girl who ever dated a Korean man. Why is that? |
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just another day
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
Location: Living with the Alaskan Inuits!!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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^ well a lot of times gf's or wives tend to hang out with their husband's friends or social network. wives of husband's friends. or women who are in similiar situations with them.
at least thats been my experience.
thats probably the same reason why i know 4 korean guys married to white girls, and zero korean girls married to white guys.
i am sure there is more the other way around like you said though. but its just a different crowd.
i think there are about 200-300 marriages between korean women and white men a year in korea. i would imagine something like 100 for korean men and western women... not counting russian and uzbek.
the department of women also deny's marriage visas to russian and eastern european women. or else the "white women" numbers would be drastically different. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: Re: Interracial dating/marriage in Korea |
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| Pligganease wrote: |
| Why is that? |
I couldn't be bothered reading JAD's post because I've given up on that poster, so perhaps she answered your question in the exact same way I will, but, straightforwardly, white guy with Asian girl is a good combination. They find each other attractive. Another good combo is white woman with black guy.
Poor combinations in my opinion would be white woman with Asian guy and white guy with black girl.
When I say good/poor, I refer of course to prevalence and predisposition as I see it and not desirability. Hopefully there won't be any personal insults against me ('I'd sooner date an Asian guy than a vile pig like you, SPIN, any day' for instance) as a result of my honest opinion.
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Matman
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Yawn. Hasn't this topic been debated to death a thousand times over on this forum already? |
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bejarano-korea
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: Re: Interracial dating/marriage in Korea |
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| Poor combinations in my opinion would be white woman with Asian guy and white guy with black girl. |
Complete and utter bollox Spinoza. 
You're British are ya? You know as well as I do there are loads of white male/black female relationships where were from.
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| When I say good/poor, I refer of course to prevalence and predisposition as I see it and not desirability |
What massive, sweeping generalization have you based this on? can you base it on? Complete and utter nonsense!
Furthrmore, 'black' covers a great range of cultures and physical types. A Kenyan is as different from a Nigerian who is as different from Fijian who is as different to a Jamacian.
My first GF was black girl of Ghanaian descent, she had a banging, banging body!  |
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riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: where creditors can find me
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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We're talking about Korea right? So, hmmm, could it have something to do with the fact that there are probably more foriegn guys than girls here? Also that most foriegners perceive the culture here as being a little too conservative, so the women may be more cautious about dating the Korean guys?
The last is a guess, but from the women I know who dated happily or married their guy, it seems like the Korean guy was definitely not of the norm, ie. he had traveled to/ lived in another country, or was more liberal than the regular guy here. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: Interracial dating/marriage in Korea |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Pligganease wrote: |
| Why is that? |
I couldn't be bothered reading JAD's post because I've given up on that poster, so perhaps she answered your question in the exact same way I will, but, straightforwardly, white guy with Asian girl is a good combination. They find each other attractive. Another good combo is white woman with black guy.
Poor combinations in my opinion would be white woman with Asian guy and white guy with black girl.
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That's outrageous. I'd sooner date an Asian guy than a vile pig like you, SPIN, any day! |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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SPIN, not really sure what you're on about. The post wasn't offensive, so much as just odd.
What do prevalence and predisposition have to do with the OP?
I know a lot more white guys dating Korean women than white girls dating Korean men. I think I (personally) know more white women married to Korean men, than the opposite now that I think of it. Probably says more about my circle of friends than anything about the interracial dating scene though |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Are we talking total or per capita here? There are loads less Western women here. End of story. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: Interracial dating/marriage in Korea |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
white guy with Asian girl is a good combination. They find each other attractive. Another good combo is white woman with black guy.
Poor combinations in my opinion would be white woman with Asian guy and white guy with black girl. |
You do realize that people are people and not sandwich toppings right (strawberry jam and rhubarb is OK, strawberry jam and peanut butter is OK, rhubarb and peanut butter are bad!)?
Guess what, I find my Korean boyfriend attractive, and he finds me attractive.
Wow, your post is so incredibly racist and stupid. |
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squat toilet
Joined: 08 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: Re: Interracial dating/marriage in Korea |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Poor combinations in my opinion would be white woman with Asian guy and white guy with black girl. |
Nah, a poor combination is Armenian guy and Eskimo girl. Armenian guys are all chubby chasers and the Eskimo is just in it for the livestock hook-up. I blow a fawking gasket whenever I see this combo walking around Seoul holding hands.
Hopefully there won't be any personal insults against me. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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SPIN, not really sure what you're on about. The post wasn't offensive, so much as just odd.
What do prevalence and predisposition have to do with the OP?
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Well, I don't really want to continue the discussion, but to clarify, if you took all the mixed-race couples and marriages in the world, I suspect a large percentage will be white guy-with-Asian girl. Lower down the list, occupying a smaller chunk of the pie graph, will be Asian guy-with-white girl. Same goes for white guy-with-black girl. Bejarano-korea, presumably a white male, suggests he finds black girls attractive, but I'm not sure how prevalent a white male predisposition for finding black girls attractive is. Whites tend to find blacks intimidating per se even in this day and age and even in the most racially integrated society on Earth - the US - there's a great deal of segregation. Having said that, occupying a large-ish chunk of our pie graph, a smaller chunk than white guy-with-Asian girl I suspect, will be white girl-with-black guy.
No idea whether any of this is true - all guess work and assumption based on my observations of humanity in my (nearly) 29 years. Plig wants to know WHY, so I offered an explanation - white guys and Asian girls are a common combo (presumably because they like each other).
My post might've been stupid, Atavistic, but only a person with a tomato for a brain would seriously suggest it was racist. Honestly, the loons on here these days.  |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Matman wrote: |
| Yawn. Hasn't this topic been debated to death a thousand times over on this forum already? |
The bees always buzz when the nest is given a shake |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
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SPIN, not really sure what you're on about. The post wasn't offensive, so much as just odd.
What do prevalence and predisposition have to do with the OP?
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Well, I don't really want to continue the discussion, but to clarify, if you took all the mixed-race couples and marriages in the world, I suspect a large percentage will be white guy-with-Asian girl. |
You ever hear of people getting married in order to better their economic status?
A lot of discussions (not on Dave's) about intercultural relationships actually explore (seriously, thus, again, not on Dave's) the aspects of racism (external and internal), fetishism, "marrying up," etc in intercultural dating.
You know why a lot of those mail-order bride services work? It's not because the women are more attracted to (usually white) Western men, it's cause they're attracted to their money, citizenship, and social status.
I am NOT saying this is the sole reason why Korean women in this day and age date Western men, yadda yadda. I'm just saying that SPINOZA (one of my least favorite philosphers in my course of study) needs to broaden his idea of why people get into relationships past "they find each other sexy." |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Watched something recently saying that, 12% of marriages in Korea these days are international.
Never reckoned it to be that high, but it's not just between Koreans and Westerners. |
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