A recent tweet by a New York Times reporter posted a link to Modeling Interracial Love, a report about a recent Center for Economic and Policy Research discussion paper excitingly titled Anthropometry of Love: Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages (.pdf):
“We argue that a simple preference for a taller husband (or shorter wife) can explain part of the gender-specific… asymmetries across ethnic groups in the propensity to outmarry. Blacks are taller than Asians, and their height distribution is closer to whites. Because they are taller, black men have better prospects on the white marriage market than Asian men. For women, the reverse is true. Because Asians are relatively short on average, women fare substantially better on the white marriage market than black women.”
Their findings are primarily based on British data, but also consider American marriage data and patterns; economists and sociologists try to model interracial dating based on such factors as education and socioeconomic status in order to explain interracial marriage imbalances between men and women of the same ethnicity, without much luck.
Most would agree that men prefer women who are shorter than themselves and women prefer men who are taller than themselves, but to say that height alone is the sole determining primary factor for interracial marriage imbalances between men and women is simplistic — I’d like to think that humans are more evolved than our predecessors. That said, studies exist in regards to height and their relationship to management material.
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14 Comments to ““Asian Men Are Short: That’s Why White Woman Don’t Marry Them””
tiennguyen wrote:
I think it's a combination of a preference for height as well as shorter Asians developing insecurities about their height, resulting in an inferiority complex which makes them less confidence around women, with the opposite being true for taller people.
It is quite an uphill battle for shorter people though, race not being a factor..but like with anything else, regardless of how short, ugly, bald, etc. you are, if you accept it and become confident about it, the opposite sex is going to be willing to overlook it.
You see plenty of hot girls who go for short ugly guys, though in seeing that you'd assume he's rich, which shows that any sort of match is possible..
Posted on 22-Jun-09 at 4:20 pm | Permalink
markthomas wrote:
what kind of f***ed up blog title is that? pick a better title!!! 8asians need to dis spell stereotypes not increase them.
Posted on 22-Jun-09 at 5:02 pm | Permalink
BobJones wrote:
I'll SURE be glad when white people stop using blacks as cover for their ignorant nonsense. They hate us, don't want us around, refuse to work with us, but the instant they decide to put forward some bigoted garbage, and want some kind of “smokescreen” for it, all of a sudden they can't reference black people fast enough.
Unbelieveable.
Posted on 22-Jun-09 at 6:15 pm | Permalink
johnklin wrote:
I'll admit that the blog title is a bit sensationalistic…
Posted on 23-Jun-09 at 12:59 am | Permalink
LindaChan wrote:
I disagree, I think the blog title is fine. It's in quotes, so you know it's not the view of the writer or 8Asians.
Oh and I love tall men.
Posted on 23-Jun-09 at 5:56 am | Permalink
RayU wrote:
In 1996 20/20 did a piece on short men.
Here's the transcript of original 20/20 piece:
http://www.shortsupport.org/News/0092.html
And a short clip on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR3YR1ZTonc
Posted on 23-Jun-09 at 2:15 pm | Permalink
sallymeet123 wrote:
I found a HOTTEST club Blackwhitemeet.com for black Women and white Men, or black Men and white Women, to interact with each other. Interracial is not a problem here, but a great merit to cherish!
Posted on 24-Jun-09 at 6:49 pm | Permalink
Refman wrote:
Average South Korean male height is 5'9″ (according to human height chart on wikipedia). 5'9″ is within an inch of almost any country out there. Also South Korea has the highest average IQ (IQ by nation chart on wikipedia).
Posted on 24-Jun-09 at 10:51 pm | Permalink
Get Shorty | big WOWO wrote:
[...] found this NY Times piece at 8A, which offers an explanation on why the AF/WM numbers are so much greater than the AM/WF [...]
Posted on 29-Jun-09 at 12:05 am | Permalink
8Asians.com » So why do Asians love stereotypes of themselves? wrote:
[...] what was given to us. So next time you get ready to write a blog post about Asians as ninjas or Asian men who can’t get with white women, first think about how you want to be seen as an [...]
Posted on 06-Jul-09 at 12:08 pm | Permalink
Rebecca Stewart wrote:
This is probably the way younger women think; at that time of their lives they are interested in taller men for offspring prospects. Subconscious.
As women age . . . or are later in life– they begin to think of other reasons for male selection. As an attractive 50 something, I have an attraction for middle-aged Asian men. Reason: Asian men in general are very intellectual. Their hair has an appealing texture. They are thin and look in shape. Try that for for Caucasian men in their 50s. Asian men are usually loyal and family oriented. They give respect for elders; kind to their friends and family.
See film, “Broken Blossoms”, (1919). Very touching and beautiful film by D.W. Griffith. Winning many awards and audience admiration. Asian male & Caucasian female.
Rebecca (a.k.a. ChinaBleu)
Posted on 19-Jul-09 at 9:20 pm | Permalink
Robert wrote:
Well you know only a couple of centuries ago whites were actually slightly less than average world height. Yet that did not stop them from colonizing the world and taking a lot of foreign women as wives (Especially native american women, e.g latin america).
Posted on 01-Aug-09 at 4:35 am | Permalink
8Asians.com » Kevin Wong: Professional Volleyball Player wrote:
[...] circuit. Kevin Wong is a 6-7 professional beach volleyball player (who says that Asians aren’t tall and aren’t athletic?), as is his brother Scott. Kevin went to Hawaii sports powerhouse [...]
Posted on 04-Aug-09 at 7:01 am | Permalink
Andrea Andrews wrote:
Umm… I don't quite look at a man for his height and Asian men are my preference. I don't fall for the stereotypes as I have found that they are merely just that.
A confidant man is sexy, no matter the variable!
Posted on 09-Oct-09 at 1:11 pm | Permalink
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