<p>How are the girls at Stanford? I don’t mean to offend anyone but I hear that there is like 40% Asian population. As a Caucasian, how is the dating scene… also not saying that Asians and Caucasians can’t date just to clarify.</p>
<p>i guess you don’t need to worry about this until gettind accepted</p>
<p>I believe the percent of asians at Stanford is actually in the low 20s.</p>
<p>40%? ew! dont get us mixed up with berkley. ;)</p>
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<p>A bit worried about seeing few white girls, eh?</p>
<p>I think girls at Stanford are great. They’re nice, intelligent, and friendly- and why put so much emphasis on race?</p>
<p>the girls here are okay. better than a lot of places (aka missouri, where im from) for sure, but nothing compared to, say, UCLA or UT, from what i hear</p>
<p>Is that actually something that would cause you to apply elsewhere? If you are asking that question you are probably either
- someone who sees himself as a player type, who uses girls, who is probably at least somewhat attractive in which case you’ll continue to find a way to use attractive girls so it doesn’t matter or
- someone who doesn’t really have good luck with girls at all and realizes that there must be a lot of attractive girls for him to have a chance, in which case you probably won’t find an attractive girl anywhere, so once more it doesn’t matter </p>
<p>The dating scene doesn’t really exist. Some people are single, some people hook up, some people are in relationships, but at any given point very very few people are dating.</p>
<p>marlgirl, who are you to insult him for his perfectly legitimate question. In my mind, the attractiveness of the student body is just another piece of information that students (of both genders) may want to know. If not, why do College P rowler books rate the attractiveness of the students? Criticizing him and accusing him of a lack of respect for women is, in some ways, very bigoted.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say she’s bigoted.
It’s an OK question, but not really relevant to an education. Nerdy people are hot, right?!</p>
<p>Just because it is something people want to know doesn’t mean it should be. That’s what we call a violation of the is/ought gap. </p>
<p>Please explain how accusing him of a lack of respect for women is bigoted. I don’t see how it is at all.</p>
<p>yea i can see marlgirl’s point
the question wasn’t pertinent, was slightly racist, and clearly the poster lacks some respect for women (though im not going to call him mysognistic or anything like that)
i mean, im not gonna pretend that we guys don’t think about this stuff…but to post in on this kind of forum is kinda senseless</p>
<p>“…also not saying that Asians and Caucasians can’t date just to clarify.”</p>
<p>This is what the guy said. Why would he add that?</p>
<p>He was afraid of being seen as a racist.</p>
<p>If he really loves girls, then he wouldn’t be asking that.</p>
<p>A beautiful girl is beautiful regardless of her race.</p>
<p>^agreed
^^ not enough characters so I’m adding this</p>
<p>welll i was planning on asking how the guys were, but i guess nevermind…</p>
<p>I don’t know that this is what the OP had in mind, but there’s a completely legitimate and non-racist reading of his question of race. Despite formal integration, one all too often witnesses de facto self-segregation.</p>
<p>With respect to Asians in particular (which the OP brought up), there is a well-documented phenomenon accross this country of Asian American Student groups (not to be confused with Asian Americans writ large) encouraging AA’s to associate only with each other and ostracizing those they consider to act ‘too white’ (I won’t go into various racial slurs). We can hopefully agree that such practices are unfortunate, but they do occur.</p>
<p>Having said that, i don’t think that dating self-segregation too big of a concern at Stanford. I haven’t noticed any strong tendency to only date within one’s race - indeed, I know very many inter-racial couples, though I obvisouly can’t speak for everyone.</p>
<p>Again, LIGHTEN UP on the OP. Race in relationships is a legitimate concern, at the very least as a worrisome phenomenon.</p>
<p>I also doubt that the board would have been quite so harsh if the OP had identified himself as a minority, even if he had voiced an EXPRESS desire to only date members of his own racial group (something he did not do).</p>
<p>why would people be less harsh on minorities who only want to date their own race?..
oh yeah, the part I "^agree"d with was this sentence: “A beautiful girl is beautiful regardless of her race.” not the rest of the post really. lol. I can see it either way; everyone has a point. maybe just choose better wording next time. ;)</p>
<p>Allow me to play Devil’s Advocate a bit.</p>
<p>Beauty is subjective.</p>
<p>We know that there are physical differences between races. If one person finds some of those characteristics to be more attractive or less attractive, is it a problem? Does it make them racist? For instance, there was a white kid in a Washington Post Magazine article about interracial dating who had had 6 girlfriends, all of them black. When asked about it, he said something to the effect of “I don’t know why; who knows what it is that makes someone more attractive to you or why?” Is he bigoted?</p>
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<p>Mmmm. Delicious racism.</p>