With a discussion of racial preferences and dating. Scary stuff, and why should I comment at all? Can't help but post . . . meaningless . . . off topic commentary . . . someone stop me . . .
The heart of this is actually an interesting psych study on dating preferences which looked at a host of desired traits, including intelligence. Race was just one of the factors.
So it turns out that women had strong tendencies towards guys of their own race, while men showed no racial preferences. No surprise from the male side — some guys have no strong preferences for species, much less race. Sheep beware.
The one exception? Asian women did not discriminate against white dudes, showing preferences for Asian and white guys, although they did discriminate against Hispanics and African-Americans (this was a U.S. study). So Asian women supposedly grant white guys an exception, while guys will go for anything with a discernible heartbeat.
What does this say about all these white guys in China hooking up with the locals? Jeremy is not sold on the results of the study:
Based on more than a decade of being a white man in Asia and observing other white men in Asia, your correspondent has seen with his own eyes evidence of a white male preference for East Asian women. But perhaps white males in Asia do not represent the average American white male who lives in America.
My take on this. Of course white males in Asia do not represent the average American white male. Usually this is a good thing, particularly when it comes to politics.
However, the study says that males will go after anything, right? If we assume that is true, then logically if you transplant a male anywhere, he will end up with whatever females are most available. If those males are in Asia, then they are more likely to end up with Asian women. If they are in Bulgaria, they will fraternize with Bulgarian women. If they are in New Zealand, they will spend a lot of time with sheep. Sounds logical.
From my experience over here, if anything, white guys seem to have a preference for young girls, and since there are not too many foreign young girls over here, they end up with young Chinese girls. Here's the interesting part: as the age of the white guy increases, the age of the girl seems to decrease.
If we were to plot this graphically, we would see on one end of the spectrum your average white guy student who goes out with fellow students – no big age disparity. On the other side of the spectrum, you will find the 75-year old white dudes who drive around in motorcycles with underage girls in the sidecar.
I would argue that this inverse relationship between the ages is undeniable, although without getting some data and crunching it, all I can do is point to the obvious conclusion: someone needs to get the PSB to investigate these old guys and put their asses in jail.