<p>I’m weird as I don’t find members of my own race particularly attractive. Not to say that there aren’t head turners, but just on average.</p>
<p>Repede, what race are you?</p>
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<p>I’m South Asian. I feel like there are certain life experiences unique to SAs that I’d like to keep, so I probably would want to marry within my racial group. Attractiveness is more than just looks. I think once you like someone, you appreciate them more. </p>
<p>My family would probs be okay if i didn’t (but religion, I said is currently big for me) but they’d take a while to get around to it and honestly, IDK if it’s worth it. They strongly believe in stereotypes, heh.</p>
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<p>yes. but the real problem is, i am not going to marry.</p>
<p>And for settled marriages, well, most people in south Asia think that if two people do love marriage over arranged , well, everything is lost. Honor in society, and necessarily, their lives are doomed.</p>
<p>I’m Pakistani.</p>
<p>I don’t think my mom has ever considered me marrying someone who wasn’t Pakistani and Muslim.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure my dad just wants to make sure the girl isn’t a convicted felon.</p>
<p>Religion: I’m Jewish (and agnostic), but not very religious, so this doesn’t matter. I’d prefer to marry another Jew, but would have no problem marrying someone of another religion, or someone who’s atheist/agnostic. If the person’s overly religious, though, that could be a bit of a problem.</p>
<p>Education: Would prefer well educated, aka at least some sort of college degree. Having financial stability is more important, though, IMO. </p>
<p>Political: Would prefer someone who’s Liberal, but I’d be perfectly fine with a Conservative. The only issue would be if she’s racist, sexist, or homophobic, as another poster stated earlier. </p>
<p>Race: Different race isn’t a problem, but I don’t really see myself marrying someone who isn’t White.</p>
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Well, I guess it’s possible, but the cultural values would have to be pretty similar. It’s more about values than it is about blood.</p>
<p>@Repede, would you marry someone outside of your race?</p>
<p>Also, one thing I love about being black is that I can have so many variations in how my kids look. I do find some black guys attractive, but a lot of them try to fit into the “ghetto mold” and that really isn’t my thing, especially since I’m more African than African-American.</p>
<p>Yea, I would definitely marry someone outside of my race. </p>
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<p>You do realize that race and cultural values aren’t linked, right?</p>
<p>As far as religion, I’m a Christian but not very religious so I don’t really care what religion they are, as long as they’re not some devil worshipper or something crazy like that. If they were overly religious, that’d be a turnoff though.
Politically, my views are moderate. Conservative on some issues but liberal concerning others.
I’m black and I’ve very open to marrying any race really. It’s more important what kind of person and I’d be willing to accept them no matter what their culture is.
They have to at least have graduated high school. It would be great if they had a college degree too, but whatever. If their job is stable and they don’t need a degree, then I can deal with that.</p>
<p>Is it fair to say that on average, girls care more about religion and education/money than guys?</p>
<p>Religion, definitely. (Well, women are more religious on average…I don’t know if that means they care a lot about their partner’s religion.)
Education, probably.
Money, no.</p>
<p>I meant education/money as someone with a college degree will most likely have a better job than someone who doesn’t. I didn’t mean money in general.</p>
<p>In terms of religion, I’m Jewish and I want to raise my children Jewish. Even if I marry a non-Jew, my children will still be Jewish. I don’t care if my partner is not Jewish as long as my kids are.</p>
<p>I definitely won’t marry a conservative. I feel like I’m much too liberal and opinionated to marry one :P</p>
<p>Race isn’t an issue. I’m more attracted to black guys (I’m white), but I’m open to anything.</p>
<p>Maybe this is stereotype heavy, but I think in pop culture and maybe IRL, men who make less than their wives, and particularly less educated men are portrayed to be insecure and jealous of their spouses. This obviously causes tension. </p>
<p>One thing I’ve noticed is that most of the super educated women I know marry guys on the same/similar level, while the super educated men seem to be more heterogenous. The female postdocs are married to other postdocs, the female profs are married to male profs, the female family doctor is married to a specialist and so forth. The highly educated men I know are married to social workers, optometrists, SAHM, admin assistant, lab tech etc. etc. Not denigrating those professions at all, but they typically require less education than the ones of the female partners. </p>
<p>Anecdotal, I know, but I wonder if there’s a correlation.</p>
<p>I’m borderline sapiosexual, so as long as she’s smart and not close minded (including religiously pushy), I’m good.</p>
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<p>Would not marry an overly religious girl</p>
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<p>I’d argue there’s a much stronger correlation between religion and values.</p>