A glimpse at Modern Racism in dating?
Some data from the United States:
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This data only counts people who have some income ^source^
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Money and Education/Intelligence are essentially the ingredients to socio-economic class/success.
So given this data, it makes sense that a classist person would have significant preferences if the only known attribute is race.
Many may argue racism is inherent biologically as we evolved with the humanity that feels better around people looking similar to us, (which makes sense in a tribe in nature where you wouldn’t want to let your guard down with very different looking creatures that may not be friendly), data further below will make that a mute point for the purposes of this text.
If we model a female as purely seeking social and economic status in a mate, her race preference would probably look something like this:
based on median income of males with income ^source^
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based on mean income of males ^source^
Many may say yeah but woman aren’t seeking out economic security in a male these days… well lets have a look:
The following is actual response rate from females from a popular dating site with a sizable dataset:
Just to clarify this shows Asian woman respond at a higher rate to white men’s messages than Asian men’s messages.
The pie chart is a visualization for their racial preference when considering mates.
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This data mostly matches our expected graphs based purely on income which supports the idea that females in this culture seek out mates by socio-economic status. The exception is that Asian men seem to enjoy far less favor from all females than their academic and economic status would suggest.
Here’s one bit of data that may explain it:
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My angle hear suggests that while no reasonable person really has much of any reason to believe one race is “better” than another, racism persists in daily and social life primarily because of classism. The way things are going in our culture, the fight against classism seems unwinnable, and maybe it shouldn’t be fought?
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on October 24, 2009 at 22:21 stephen wrote:
I know I’m not being properly correct with the use of “Hispanic” as a race, but I don’t think there is warrant for defending/explaining it in this context.
on December 24, 2009 at 21:39 Luz wrote:
Very interesting information…may ask which is the source of this information?
I would say that maybe the economic factor is important in arguing that woman are more interested in white and asian males, but from my point of view you are disregarding a whole propaganda scheme. By this, I mean, is it really the third world, the poor, who is looking forward disliking their own race? Or is it maybe the entire media structure, with its inherently racist and white superiority complex that wants us (hispanic/black people) to believe that we are inferior as a way of control, of maintaining their own power?
I’m just saying this because from my experience, puertorricans that have not been submerged in American media throughout years (like me) tend to be more ethnocentric and dislike euro-american standards of living and beauty. People in the country and with less education, tend to be racist towards people in power (white/higher class), and thus are not attracted to them. But this is not mathematic information, it is my experience.
Towards your last question: does classism needs to be fought? I would say yes, classism needs to be fought, because education and economic status does not define the value of a human being. If we truly believe in equallity the least we can aspire to is to equal oportunities to everyone. I know it is idealist, but we all need something to believe in.