Dating in college

keefer
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:07:30 +0000

“keefer, is it wrong to have strong preferences for people that share the same cultural values as you do? Lots of people are much much more comfortable dating people of their own race and find them more attractive. You can’t deny that fact. I know that most Caucasians would rather date other Caucasians - being in an environment that is predominantly Asian reduces that person’s dating pool”


It’s certainly not wrong for the individual, after all, dating is a highly discriminative matching process. You can choose to date whoever you want, white, black, asian, hispanic, hairstylist, ninjas, pencil sharpeners. I don’t have a problem with that, but to group all of international and Asian American students into one group and attributing the lack of dating due to their large presence in elite engineering/science programs is basically bigotry. You are not talking about individual preferences here, you are talking about groups of people.