4 years later, 2008, and I'm still bemused at how many looks I get when people see me and my wife walking down the street. My wife is 5'9", blonde, thin, beautiful, and me, I'm 6'1", Asian male, slender. People we know say that it's b/c we look tall and stately in public, that people glance. Me - I think people generally think differently about us not knowing where to put us. Thankfully, our mutual friends are all pretty cool about it all. But having grown up in the States, I can't help but feel that there's still some weird biases of publicly acceptable and unacceptable relationships. Do you guys agree? For example: 1. White man/white woman - no complaints here 2. Black man/white woman - Seal/Heidi Klum, Battier/wife... slowly becoming acceptable I've noticed 3. White man/Black woman - I'm not sure I know of any come to think of it. 4. White man/Asian woman - getting more and more popular I believe 5. Asian man/White woman - ???? where to place It's funny b/c I mention this not merely b/c the general public gives us a double take from time to time, but also b/c the Asian people I know remark quizzically on how I managed to marry a gorgeous blonde. And I really think it's a U.S. thing. For such a multicultural melting pot of a great country, there's still some "divide" insofar as accepting all races. We rarely get looks by Europeans or Brazil for example. What do you guys think? -theSAGE
Point taken. Nah. I can go through the whole list of permutations but, the thread question I pose is still the same: are there/aren't there PC and unPC relationships?
LOL, I think it's just you man. 1. People check out other people all the time...you're no different. 2. You sound like the one that's a bit uncomfortable being with her in public, if you're wife is how you say she is... 3. Of course some people are going to have race issues but not be so overt about it, they always will. 4. How many times do you have to explain how hot your wife is?
If i had a Hot wife/girl friend id be noticing all the looks as well, just stick your shoulders out and flount it dogg, flount what you got!!!
I agree that the Asian male/non-Asian female relationship is not as widely accepted, but that's only because it's not very common. For the most part, I think people don't care, but of course everyone has a stereotype about people/race and they are probably just curious. However, I see your Asian male/white female relationship and raise you an Asian male/Mexican female couple! Stares, gawks, the occasional gasp, and the always popular side-glance is part of our everyday life!
A glance is nothing. If they were giving you dirty looks, or talking about you and pointing, or generally acting threatening, I would think it's racism. Let me also point this out: I date a lot of hot girls.
PC = politically correct or political correctness. In this case, PC means dating/marrying within your own race and unPC is being part of a mixed couple.
white man/asian woman=most popular biracial combo. its interesting nearly all asian men i know tend to be exclusively after only asian females, while asian women seem to have have less racial preference and dates/marries across the spectrum. i mean when was the last time you saw an asian man with a black/hispanic/indian female? i can count those occurrences with one hand.
IMO this is another over-sensitive asian post. Nobody cares if an asian is dating a white woman, this happens all the time and is not a big deal. People are not looking at you because you are an interracial couple, they are looking at you just to look at you.
Hell, I just found out the girl I'm dating is Asian, though I'm not sure how much. She looks like a mix, at best.
