Category Archives: Dating

Top Internet Dating Tips for Asian Men

There are thousands of internet sites dedicated to “help” Asian men find dates. From the sheer number of sites, you would think we were all shut-ins, losers and helpless awkward shy weirdos who couldn’t put a coherent sentence together that … Continue reading

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Asians are Most Desired Racial Group in Country

Okay, I admit it, I’ve often wondered how my life would have turned out differently, if I didn’t grow up in an all white suburb on the East Coast of the United States. So when OkCupid, an online dating site … Continue reading

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8Asians Talk About: Our Asian American Valentines

Happy Valentine’s Day! I know almost everyone hates this national holiday but come on, it’s a day dedicated to forcing people to buy their significant others lots of inane and useless presents! Why wouldn’t you like that? I asked our … Continue reading

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Breaking News: Bruce Lee Had a Thing for White Girls!

It never ceases to amaze me when there are 8Asians commenters that continue to use Bruce Lee as a figure for dating exclusively Asian. While Mr. Lee was very proud of his Asian heritage, he himself was a quarter Caucasian … Continue reading

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Why Do People Hate Asian Male/White Female Relationships?

So I was actually looking up to see whether or not Match.com or eHarmony had done any commercials with AMWF since it seemed like it’s the new thang to do as far as couples on television. I thought I saw … Continue reading

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Quora Gets Asked Why Asian Girls Like White Guys

Quora – a Web 2.0 website more known for Internet Entrepreneurs to circle-jerk ask insightful questions to other Internet Entrepreneurs, gets asked the question that Asian blogs and bulletin boards love, hate, or love to hate: Why do Asian girls … Continue reading

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Gawker: Facebook CEO “Publicly Obsessed with ‘Asian Girls'”

You sure didn’t read this in The Social Network: A Gawker post reveals that for Facebook’s predecessor, FaceMash, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “listed ‘Asian girls’ amid other interests like programming, playing guitar, quoting Top Gun and ‘defeating nemeses.’ It’s unlikely … Continue reading

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Infographic: Are Asian Women Half as Likely to Commit Infidelity?

So says a recent infographic, which states that Asian woman are less likely to commit infidelity in comparison to women of a different ethnicity — 5.1% versus 18.3% of Black Women or 15.5% of, uhm, “American” women. As far as … Continue reading

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Mail-Order Husbands: Brilliant or Disturbing?

We’re all familiar with the mail-order bride. Now, the emergence of an imported mail-order husband business of sorts has emerged by way of Thailand. Thai women who grow up “always dreaming of marrying a foreigner” are bought as brides by … Continue reading

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OKCupid Says We’re Simple and…We Swing?

Sometimes, I love it when people take vast amounts of data and run trends on them. It’s amazing what sort of things come out of it. This is especially fascinating when a dating site does it such as OKCupid. In … Continue reading

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Blatant Anti-Asian Racism on Gay Websites Still Exists

A recent article by gay website Edge Boston talks about the anti-Asian sentiment that exists in the gay male community websites: “Queer men of color in particular … not only face exclusionary messages in predominately white queer communities online, but … Continue reading

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One out of Seven New Marriages Interracial or Inter-Ethnic

For those that have never really caught it before, yes, I am in an interracial relationship. So understanding quite well that I too am a part of this Pew statistic where one in seven new marriages are interracial or inter-ethnic, … Continue reading

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