Corean Male/Corean Female Relationships | Asian American Poll

COREAN MALE/ COREAN FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:23:19 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Assuming you are a male of Corean ancestry, which of the following most attracts you to females of Corean ancestry?
Their facial features | 63%
Their physique | 9%
Their attitude and personality | 14%
Their education & cultural values | 14%

Assuming you are a male of Corean ancestry, which of the following most dissuades you from relations with females of Corean ancestry?
I don't find them physically attractive. | 2%
I don't find their personalities and attitudes appealing. | 43%
I don't think they would find me attractive. | 49%
I'd rather not deal with the disapproval of family. | 6%

Assuming you are a female of Corean ancestry, which of the following most attracts you to males of Corean ancestry?
Their facial features | 62%
Their physique | 7%
Their attitude and personality | 16%
Their education & cultural values | 15%

Assuming you are a female of Corean ancestry, which of the following most dissuades you from relations with males of Corean ancestry?
I don't find them physically attractive. | 1%
I don't find their personalities and attitudes appealing. | 47%
I don't think they would find me attractive. | 49%
I'd rather not deal with the disapproval of family. | 3%

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Another Korean out there in the world,

I agree with you. No matter how much we might want to deny it, the fact is that when people intermarry someone from another culture or race, they are bound to lose something in the next generations.
Seung Monday, March 11, 2002 at 22:50:12 (PST)

Another Korean out there:

I think you are definitely wrong when you say that it's pointless for "one" person to fight an "entire" culture. There is no point in being a defeatist, when every accomplishment of any worth were done one person at a time.

I'm not questioning whether Koreans have made great progress or whether we have good taste in members of opposite sex. I'm not angry that we are all drones. I'm angry that it's hard to find the exception who does good.

What I'm trying to say is that for all the "respectable values," Korea is still within top 5 nations with the highest abortion rate, has one of the highest traffic fatalities in the world, has a very high rate of suicide, and with all this, what do we have to show for ourselves? South Korean per capita GDP isn't even half the per capita of Japan. Oh did I also forget to mention the very high number of prostitutes?

There are problems that we have, because as a developing nation under the threat of communist invasion, Korea definitely has handicaps. But those problems I mentioned is the direct result of quite frankly, inferior social-values.

Are these "inferior social-values" inherently Korean in nature? I do not think so. Afterall, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Communism, and Militarism for the most part, were all imported ideas from abroad. What I mean by "inferior social-values" is that we value family-life so much so that we quickly hide away anything that makes us feel less. Our pastors have vigilantly fought against sex education, and what do we get? So many abortions. We think that drinking is such a natural part of our heritage that driving afterwards shouldn't entail great punishments--the result is that so many of us die by drunk drivers in Seoul. What about free trade? We are so afraid of foreigners, we subsidize all our industries and choose to live as a nation with a small GDP.

I want to tell you that Korean culture is not inherently elitist. Don't you remember the stories of Hong Gil Dong? Nor were we always so materialistic--we come from a country of strong Buddhist belief for non-attachment to the material world.

I don't mind that we hold high standards. I'm saying that we hold the wrong standards. What I'm trying to tell you is that, yes i am doing my own thing and yes, what I'm doing is what a Korean does---and yes, in Korea, there are many people like me who do their own thing.

We can do better than this. And no, i refuse to "leave" being a Korean.

You think by me attacking some of the values we hold, that I am attacking Korean progress. No, I'm giving a warning for us all. Look at the problems Japan and Singapore are facing right now. That's our problems in couple years, and few more problems thrown on top of that.

Already, the gender inbalance between male and female babies is so great in Korea, in 15-20 year time, we will be forced to gender discriminate immigrants into Korea. I wonder what kind of society Korea will have then?

This is a spiritual problem. No man or woman needs to be an island. the woman that i was writing about, the curvaceous, educated, woman who was posting on a singles site, do not need to search for that Mr.Right any more-- her search for joy ends with her discovery of self-worth.
ka Monday, March 11, 2002 at 12:29:05 (PST)

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