Some things never change. Surf the 'net, check out a bulletin board or two and you will find that the most intensely debated topic is interracial relationships. You'd think that with the year 2000 right around the corner, and all the social ills that still plague our society, people would have better things to argue about than whether interracial relationships ought to be happening or not. It's a part of the whole process of socialization. And as a minority population in America, the issue of dating or marrying out of our particular ethnic group is something that we all probably have had to deal with at one point or another.
Most discussions seem to pit Asian American males and females against each other.
Of course, this leads to an onslaught of vicious and hateful rhetoric on both sides, making a rational conversation about the topic very unfeasible. I'm not going to defend anyone arguing on either side of the fence. But I'm also sure that just as many have had some serious problems finding a date in the last 18 years or so of their lives and are trying to blame someone else for their lack of charm. It's probably true that many of the Asian females who date non-Asians do so by chance and not some sort of internalized racism. But there are probably those who refuse to date Asian men because of some kind of deep-rooted hatred toward them.