Interracial Relationships at College

<p>In your opinion, do you think interracial relationships are college are becoming more or less common?</p>

<p>I think they're way more common. I see them pretty often, and I live in rural Alabama.</p>

<p>i'm in an interracial relationship and i barely even notice most of the time .. no one bats an eye.</p>

<p>The only interracial relationships some people have problems with where I live is black/white. No one usually cares anything at all about latino/white, asian/white, latino/black, etc. It's the whole southern divide thing, I guess. Whatever, I don't care, I say do whatever you want with whoever you want.</p>

<p>I'm still in HS, so I wouldn't really know, but college is pretty much the most liberal place you'll ever be, plus most diverse (they do that on purpose! Hah). So I would say yes. Then again interracial relationships are really, really common where I live. It salmost weird to say it. Interwhatsit something? LOL. So I figure if I go to college in some way South, way rural place, I might see less of it.</p>

<p>who cares if its common or not do what ever the hell you want and if you are asking the question because you do not like it then go to an all (insert race here) school.</p>

<p>How come ya nevers ee an asian guy with a girls from another race/ethnicity.,</p>

<p>Well, I know an asian (well, half-asian anyway) guy who's dating a black girl so...</p>

<p>Having grown up in an area with a lot of asians, and being asian myself, this is my hypothesis to explain that, Vinny:</p>

<p>It's the culture/way of thinking. Asian guys just don't tend to be as aggressive in the dating spectrum as other races are. I know a lot of aggressive asians who are dating white, black, latino girls, and they're not always the good-looking ones of the bunch. It's about attitude and confidence--girls tend to like guys who seem like they're more interested or into them.</p>

<p>No, I don't have a problem with interracial dating; I'm merly curious about what people at other colleges were observing.</p>

<p>Concerning the asian thing, I think most asian males at top colleges are either a bit nerdy or at least not as aggressive as makemehappy has pointed out. Sometimes they have preconceived notions about what others think so they won't even try and take the "easy way out" by asking out asian girls.</p>

<p>A good start would to stop hanging out in those asian circles and to actually expand your friend network. Have white females as friends or at least speak ENGLISH when you are with your friends.</p>

<p>i'm one of the asian immigrants who actually tries to hang out with different races+ participate in the predominately white greek organizations. I'd say the the asians who hang around themselves are missing out something HUGE. same thing applies for other minorities.</p>

<p>It's rare to see asian guys dating white girls, for example. In order for them to do that, they have to be on the level of aggressiveness as white guys. I'm not saying an asian guy can't do that, it's just IF he does that, he would stand out A LOT among all asian guys since most of his asian peers would prolly pale in term of aggressiveness. So it takes some real guts for an asian guy to do it.</p>

<p>Probably more common in college settings because of the liberal atmosphere.</p>

<p>I would say it really depends on where your college is and also the setting of the city around the college. I mean, I am from San Francisco and there are so many interracial relationships between high school students, college students and adults. It's just the norm here. But I bet if you went down south you would find a different situation.</p>

<p>Dude, untilted: props to you for being an asian imm but still trying to hang out with people of other races. There are SO many asian immigrants at our school, but they all just form their own cliques. I know if any of them TRIED to befriend me [and some have (:] I would be very receptive to their friendship, but when they just speak chinese and try to exclude people it's really annoying. And I'm Chinese myself, so it's not even like I can't understand them...:&lt;/p>

<p>Many colleges also seem to have a disproportionate amount of minorities in attendance than is representative of the country as a whole.</p>

<p>I believe minorities now represent about 33% of the US population in total. However, in some colleges, as much as 60-70% of undergraduates accepted in admissions are minorities.</p>

<p>In a college where there's that much of a diversity, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot of interracial relationships...</p>

<p>Very common from what I've seen, black guys very often tend to have white girlfriends, and also many other racial pair-ups.</p>

<p>60-70% minority undergrades? Maybe in historically black colleges or the like, but everywhere else is around 60-70% white still, with either hispanics or asians make up the largest percentage of minority students. Exception would be Cali where asians are nearly as common as whites now.</p>

<p>As to the dating scene, I'd have to agree with AUlostchick, I really don't see many white guys with black girls or vice versa, other than those who have really embraced the whole african american culture thing (not to stereotype, and I'm truly not racist, but in my experience white americans and african americans are generally so different culturally and socially that it just doesn't work out too well).</p>

<p>Besides that it just ends up being the most outgoing and ambitious guys who end up with who they want. Which like makemehappy said, would be why asians don't normally end up with anyone besides fellow asians unless they break out of their stereotype and mingle.</p>

<p>im starting to see more black guys with white girls (not to sound racist but its just a observation). And people are more commonly attracted to their own race, so I think its a innate gene to go after your own race.</p>

<p>I understand riptide, the black guy/white girl thing could have something to do with the semi-recent "surge" of idolizing black culture due to the music industry and sports.</p>

<p>I'm sure people are naturally attracted to their own kind more; but I also think that physically especially, part of the hispanic ethnicity (the ones who aren't primarily native american in descent, but have genes from spain), and asians are more similar to whites, rather than blacks. </p>

<p>It would account for why white men go after those 2 more than black females, but I really don't have an explanation for why black men desire white females, anyone have an idea?</p>

<p>Me and my girlfriend are repulsed by our own races :p</p>

<p>I think it's more cultural than anything else. We are constantly being fed that white people are hot, black people are hot, and sometimes latinos. All over the media and in the glamorization of celebrity. How often do we see the labeling of an Asian guy as a "hottie?" How many Asian or Latino guys are in the Abercrombie catalog? On the OC? There are tons of chiseled Asians and Latinos with handsome faces. I use Abercrombie because its look is the general outline that college/high school girls seem to use for "hotness."</p>

<p>Why do you think that there are way more urban-styled white girls that date black/latino guys than preppy girls? Why do skater type girls end up loving white skater guys? Because white skater guys are the image of the culture. How often do you see a redneck (male or female) dating a black or asian? etc. etc.</p>