Homogamy and Me

                This blog is about my racial preference when dating. One of the discussions we had were about homogamy and the article "Race and Attraction on OK Cupid." The article stated that people tend to prefer their own race for the most part, but in the 2014 study it shows white men, like myself preferring Asian, and to a lesser degree Latina women over white women. Black women had 30% penalty and were seen as the least attractive to white men. It is the 2014 part of the study that I will be comparing myself to for the remainder of this blog.

                It is funny that the Asian women have an 8% percent preference statistic. I lived in Japan a kid for 6 years and living in the states afterwards I have noticed many people being “asiancentric” hoarding up everything they can find on Asian culture and going crazy about anything that mentions Japan. I guess seeing this and having actually been there makes it seem less exotic to me and as a result, I don’t really find Asian women that much more attractive to other races. I do show a preference for white women, but it isn’t because the color of their skin, just some of the features I find most alluring are European in origin. Though it just seems to be a preference and I don’t place a penalty for a woman being a particular race or ethnic origin. I have dated black, Filipino, Asian, and Latina women and what really makes the difference is their personality and cultural similarities. I find myself more attracted the intellectual geek girl. A woman who enjoys reading, video games, comics, sci-fi, and fantasy. You know, typical nerd things. A funny thing is, I have noticed that I tend to be attracted to girls with glasses. Must be that whole glasses make you look smart stereotype. Not all the women I have dated have been very intellectual, but they have usually made up for it with that certain quirkiness a geek girl has.