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White men and Asian women

By Tung Yin

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A former student linked to this story about how there's a trend of powerful, older white guys marrying younger women of Asian descent. Probably the most provocative paragraph is this one:

While I'm sure that real love and affection is sometimes the bond in these culture-crossing May-December romances, could it be that power divorcés of a certain ilk make the perfect renegade suitors for these overachieving Asian good girls ? an ultimate (yet lame) attempt at rebellion? Maybe these outsized, world-class moguls are stand-ins for emotionally repressed Asian dads (one cliché that is predominantly true). Or...are these women just glorified opportunists? What's so perverse is that while Asians have always revered their elders, sleeping with a guy old enough to be your grandfather is just creepy ? in any culture.

I don't know about the cultural analysis therein and I certainly hope I'm not an emotionally repressed Asian dad, but then, I have two boys and no girls, so perhaps it doesn't really matter. After all, one thing outside the scope of the story but of some potential relevance is how among white-Asian couples, it seems far more common to see the white male/Asian female configuration than the reverse. Anecdotally, I have heard from more than one Asian female friend that she would never date an Asian guy. (I don't imagine that this was meant as a brush-off of me, since I was just platonic friends, but I suppose you never know. . . .) Fortunately, my wife was not one.

Full post as published by The Yin Blog on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).