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[Sector7G]

[Street Magic]

Anyone ever see this study?:

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/10/05/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/

If you read the whole thing, you can tell the folks at OKCupid know their statistics; they were able to pretty conclusively establish that racism is still widely prevalent in the realm of dating. It becomes clear it isn't just a matter of some people wanting the exotic or some people wanting the familiar once you see the blatant one way trends that showed up.

[dirving]

[Dude Ranch]

From stuffwhitepeoplelike.com Asian Girls

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/20/11-asian-girls/

[Reggie]

Wesley Snipes and Nicolas Cage were once millionaires many times over before they got bankrupted by those gold digging 69ing 49ers who moved to California for a gold rush. Maybe Woody Allen and Michael Cena are better off. I guess those are classic examples of the old saying, "Some women make good girlfriends, others make good wives."

When a guy is with a lady of the same race, nobody seems to care. But interracial relationships seem to constantly be under the microscope. There are millions of white men with ugly white girlfriends and wives, but the white lady somehow has only noticed the white guys with ugly Asian girlfriends. That says a lot.

I really think race is why Tiger Woods has been in the news so much. Professional athletes cheat on their wives all the time! Even when Magic Johnson announced that he had HIV, he wasn't the lightning rod for the outrage that Woods has been. Why? Because Tiger Woods has a blonde haired blue eyed wife and Magic's wife is black. Jeff Gordon was the top driver in NASCAR when he cheated on his white wife and nobody seemed to care. But rednecks will not shut up their complaining about the Tiger Woods affairs.

In Korea, I've seen foreign teachers with beautiful girlfriends and wives of various races. An African-American couple lived a couple of floors above me in Seoul and I thought they both looked like Abercrombie & Fitch models. I've seen white guys with beautiful Korean wives and girlfriends, some with not-so-pretty Korean wives and girlfriends, some with beautiful white wives and girlfriends, some with not-so-pretty white wives and girlfriends. I've seen the whole spectrum. But, ultimately, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and these guys seemed happy with their women and I'm happy for each and every one of them.

Honestly, with so many model-quality women working as prostitutes in Korea, I think that gives men in Korea the motivation to look for other factors in their girlfriends, such as personality, brains, and common interests. Beauty becomes less of a factor because that is the one quality that is readily available 24/7/365 in every neighborhood for 70,000 won. That doesn't mean that looks aren't important! It just means that personality and brains become more appreciated, unlike in our homelands where we desperately chase any good-looking bimbo with complete disregard to other important qualities that she does or doesn't possess.

[flakfizer]

[Reggie]

I don't see why Tiger's sport would make a difference in how people view his cheating. He's still a human being with a sex drive. If anything, the fact that his life revolves around using a club to knock white wads into 18 holes would help explain why he has 18 women in his life.

Sportscasters aren't vocally criticizing Woods much, because they don't want or need a visit from Rev. Sharpton. However, I've heard so many cruel things from so many people in the general public, and it's non-stop. They ignore the fact that he he's a millionaire 1000+ times over and how money opens a lot of doors/legs when it cums to women. I haven't heard any anti-Asian slurs, but I've heard a lot of anti-black slurs. People also say she could've done a lot better than to marry Tiger Woods, even though I think Tiger Woods could've done better. He's already proven it with a couple of his girlfriends.

One reason Jeff Gordon came to mind is because I was visiting my sister in Charlotte last month, where Jeff Gordon lives. He actually has an apartment in her building. Anyway, the Tiger Woods story was big news in the USA, and then I went to the UK and France for three weeks. On the way back, I had a connecting flight to Knoxville at the Charlotte airport with seven hours between flights. Well, five hours after customs finally allowed me to enter my own country.

After a while, I noticed one bar had the Oregon State versus BYU football game and a Florida basketball game on TV, plus I was bored plus I was hungry, plus I'm an alcoholic, so I decided to have a bite and a few drinks. Other customers were STILL talking about the Tiger Woods affairs as if the story had just happened yesterday and saying a bunch of racial BS. Ironically, one of Jeff Gordon's race cars was on display at that bar there inside the Charlotte airport.

I'm not sure why Gordon gets a free pass. Like golf, NASCAR is a sport where the athletes aren't known to be prolific scorers when it comes to extramarital affairs and Charlotte is in the Bible Belt with major highways and a library named after Rev. Billy Graham. In Gordon's case, maybe guys were shocked that he actually gets more women than they do, after all of the gay jokes that have been told about him over the years. Or maybe tapping pre-preggers Britney's ass is "understandable" even in the Bible Belt. Or maybe Gordon is white and his first wife is white, so rednecks don't want to say that Brooke Gordon married into the wrong race the way they do with the wife of Woods.

[flakfizer]

[Reggie]

I don't watch NASCAR and the only way I could get a flight home was to connect at the Charlotte airport. But even outside of the airport, most people in my section of the USA are Christians who are vocally opposed to interracial marriages and even more opposed to gay marriages. They think every relationship should be male/female of the same race. Even the churches are racially segregated. There are black churches, white churches, Korean churches, and so on.

While Tiger Woods is very famous worldwide, I believe Michael Jordan was a much bigger deal in the USA at the peak of his basketball career. Yet, very, very little was said when he was cheating on his wife.

This article about former University of Kentucky basketball star Rex Chapman says a lot about how interracial relationships are viewed in the United States.
http://blackathlete.net/artman2/publish/Basketball_6/Chapman_Racial_Taboos_Affected_Stay_At_Kentucky_712_printer.shtml To summarize the article, University of Kentucky officials told Chapman, a white guy, to keep his interracial dating confidential. One Kentucky fan called his mother in the middle of the night to bitch about Rex's interracial dating. Someone even etched "[Mod Edit]lover" into his car. It prompted Chapman to go pro after his sophomore season.

That's the kind of drama that surrounds interracial dating in the southeast and perhaps elsewhere in the USA. I'm a nobody and a few years ago, I quit a job where I had worked for six years in large part because of harrassment I received from coworkers and mangagement about interracial dating.

There seems to be tension about it up north too. Madoka, the OP of this thread, is a gyopo from New York and seems disturbed about non-Koreans dating Koreans, judging by the number of threads he/she posts about a lot of foreigners having ugly Korean girlfriends. He/she never says anything about the Korean guys who have ugly Korean girlfriends even though it's obviously not an uncommon sight in Korea.

[flakfizer]

[Clockout]

A preference is not necessarily a fetish.

[djsmnc]

[SeoulMan99]

If average or below average looking Western men can get decent looking women because they are white, then attractive Western men must have it made in the shade in Korea.

[oskinny1]

Just a quick word about Tiger. It had nothing to do with color but about how everyone viewed him as such a great guy who seemed so honest and pure.