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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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Oegukeen
I am a white woman in a serious relationship with a Korean man who is 3 inches (7cm) shorter than me. He is a great guy, really smart and hardworking, funny and generous, so why would I pass on a great guy like that just because of height? Silly.
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VănMinhNguyễn
Why would men prefer smaller women than themselves, wouln'd they produce smaller children? I always tought the stereotype was men like taller women.
seri-park
Korean men are on average nearly as tall as American men... so white women should marry them.
VănMinhNguyễn
seri-park I've been to North-Korea and that isn't true.
Short is not a problem, the problem of undecided Asian men, why women should be more proactive))
powerbee1
It is been said that tall (5ft 9in and taller) people have better income such as in marketing because they look threatening and the perception of Asian men in English speaking countries is that being short is emphasized more with Asian men than any other race of men (other than maybe Pygmies). These negative perceptions needs to be unpopular and taboo sort of like blackface if English speaking countries want to move forward.
idk how i got to this page i was doing a search about genetics for a paper i am writing for class but i found this article interesting but anyways being a taller man white man i don't have this problem (I'm 6'6 my grandpa was 6'11 so i missed out a little lol) but i have a few friends who are short for men that are not Asian my friend Shawn is 5'1 Hawaiian / Caucasian but he is married to a woman taller than him a very lovely woman. my friend Chris is white and is maybe 5'3 and has never had a girlfriend and complains about it being about his height but i don't think that is the reason for his lack of success. i believe it is his lack of confidence because my friend Shawn never had this problem ever. his whole life he had girlfriends before i ever did even and i was over 6'0 by 14 and i believe it's because Shawn has always been very confident in who he was regardless of height where as Chris is quiet shy and has no confidence in himself idk just putting my two cents in. sorry I'm not the best writer definitely not my strong point lol
idk how i got to this page i was doing a search about genetics for a paper i am writing for class but i found this article interesting but anyways being a taller man white man i don't have this problem (I'm 6'6 my grandpa was 6'11 so i missed out a little lol) but i have a few friends who are short for men that are not Asian my friend Shawn is 5'1 Hawaiian / Caucasian but he is married to a woman taller than him a very lovely woman. my friend Chris is white and is maybe 5'3 and has never had a girlfriend and complains about it being about his height but i don't think that is the reason for his lack of success. i believe it is his lack of confidence because my friend Shawn never had this problem ever. his whole life he had girlfriends before i ever did even and i was over 6'0 by 14 and i believe it's because Shawn has always been very confident in who he was regardless of height where as Chris is quiet shy and has no confidence in himself idk just putting my two cents in. sorry I'm not the best writer definitely not my strong point lol
As a guy that's married to a beautiful blond, I have to say that... yeah. I break all stereotypes. haha. Of course, I'm not a shortie either. ;)
The height variable is only a small part of why ethnic intermarriage doesn't occur - and not because we are so evolved and look beyond the physical - we aren't and do not - but because the mere fact of people BEING other ethnicities forms a barrier to cross-cultural pairing. African-American men are fetishized - doable but not marryable, African-American women do not meet the commercial beauty standard. Asian women are also fetishized and stereotyped as submissive, and should someone seek them out for those reasons, dysfunctional relationships are bound to follow. Latina women are exoticized - seen as "spicy" or hyper-sexual. Latin men are seen as dirty or untrustworthy. I could go on and on about this, but the point is that the cultural divide is far wider than the height divide.
In my opinion, I think people of color need to stop worrying about whether or not they're marriage material for white people. Who cares? Why must they always be the standard we measure ourselves against, or the benchmark that determines our worth? Can white people love us? If so, only THEN we've "made it"?
Hell no. Maybe we should forget about white people and their exclusive standards and start marrying each other.
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!
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!
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).
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)
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).
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!
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
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. :)
I'll admit that the blog title is a bit sensationalistic...
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.
what kind of f***ed up blog title is that? pick a better title!!! 8asians need to dis spell stereotypes not increase them.
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..
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