Outmarriage by Asian Americans | Asian American Poll

OUTMARRIAGE BY ASIAN AMERICANS
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:11:14 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

On the whole are children produced from interracial marriages advantaged or disadvantaged?
Advantaged | 26%
Disadvantaged | 22%
Neither | 52%

Assuming you are an Asian American male, which best describes your marriage partner or your prospective/likely marriage partner?
Someone of my own nationality | 54%
Someone of another Asian nationality | 9%
Someone of a non-Asian race | 37%

Assuming you are an Asian American female, which best describes your marriage partner or your prospective/likely marriage partner?
Someone of my own nationality | 53%
Someone of another Asian nationality | 7%
Someone of a non-Asian race | 40%

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kimora lee simmons is indeed half black and half japanese.... she is president and creative director of baby phat...she clearly states her ethnic backround on baby phat's website...
princess Friday, November 16, 2001 at 18:14:17 (PST)

Multiracial Asian Americans are an important strength of our community.
Walter Kawamoto kawamotw@saclink.csus.edu Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 20:55:53 (PST)

where is kimora lee simmons biography located i really need it!
BabyPhat21 parasuco_baby_75@hotmail.com Wednesday, November 14, 2001 at 09:20:19 (PST)

Let's get this right, nationality is what your nation is, your citizenship. Nationality is always getting misused by people who want to know what your race is! My nationality is American and my race is another matter all together. Come on, we all live in America and we need to get this right.
hi-lo Tuesday, November 13, 2001 at 09:55:22 (PST)

[That's enough irrelevant posts. Continue the discussion on an African American site. --Ed]

Math Man,

Don't forget the majority of mixing for the first 250 years on this continent was between white slave masters and black female slaves. The reason I bring this up is because "mixing" is a rather kind term to describe what went on back then. Since black women were property and white men could treat them as they so pleased it was hardly an equitable affair. I would liken it more to rape then "mixing".
BM critic Wednesday, November 07, 2001 at 08:50:21 (PST)

Paganini's Daughter wrote:
> Blacks did not get gospel from Whites.

Pay attention. I didn't say it was derived from whites, I said it was influenced by whites.

>Gospel hynms can be felt whereas White chruch music is simply listened to.
>Whites have no feeling in their songs.

In general, blacks are more in tune with rhythm and whites with melody. Considering that "white" church music is devoid of rhythm, maybe you just don't *resolve* it so well. I have no use for either.

> Mariah Carey's[...] ethnicity, she is going by the one drop rule just
>like everyone else. When she was just an average person and a nobody,
> she was just Black.Now that she is famous she becomes "multi-racial"?

I have no idea what she was as a nobody, but, the first time I saw her, I had no idea she was black *at all*. ( There are many *real* black people who don't look at her as black either.) I would guess she's a quadroon, maybe octaroon. That may not be white, but it's certainly not black.

Sociologist, I understand that "white" is considered a creation of Americans ( although, there probably were light/dark classification systems even in ancient times around the mediterranean ), but, the greater the differences between potential adversaries, the broader the classifications become. When you're dealing with populations/descendants of Europe, the factions get broken down by the minor geographic areas and less by physical features, but, when you introduce dark skinned people into the mix, the obvious line of conflict is between dark and light. It's a normal animal reaction to seeing a being that is so visually different, since the visual sense works at such a deep level, and it's the basic reason why racism can never be stopped ( on a large scale).

Dbl Drgn wrote:

>By tradition, gospel music is a part of any culture who embraces
>it, whether it was "cleaned up" or down & dirty.

Yes, but blacks were the prime mover in the artform. Thus, American culture can be broken down further into black and white culture - with a lot of overlap between them.

feeling sorry for poor EL wrote:

> Your hatred and stupidity has been bouncing from one Goldsea forum
> to the next. One moment you're insulting blacks as if you're white, then you're
>insulting whites as if you're black, then you pretend that you're Asian

I have no idea what you're babbling about.

> you're here calling biracial individuals "mutts" to insult them.

It wasn't meant to be disparaging. Many mixed race people refer to themselves as mutts. I'm somewhat of a mutt myself.

Some exposure, eh? wrote:

>> ...Blacks would have never had the type of culture they have in
>> America if they weren't exposed to whites.
>Damn, what a statement! Only a true genius would have written such
> words of pure truth and knowledge! (snicker)

It sounds obvious, but I've encountered many blacks in NA who feel they have some sort of "pure" culture when it comes to certain art forms like music. of course, many whites don't like to give credit to blacks for their influences either, so it works both ways.

> El guess what? Blacks weren't exposed to whites by normal social
> contacts, they were owned by whites. Whites who didn't mildly
> influence them.

That's irrelevant to my point. Smartass.

Afrikan woman, I have no idea what you're babbling about either. Afrocentric can be compared to Eurocentric - they're both flawed, biased perspectives that have given rise to many lies of history.

Mulla wrote:

>Exposure ????
>exposure to lynching, murder, rape, thievery, assualt,
>family separation, prohibition of education, genocide,
>ass whippin and more.Exposure to the pale face, we all
>could have done without.

I'd like to give you a good ass-whippin just before I send you back to de mudderland. A year in the jungle ( urban or vegetative ) over there and you'll be thanking your lucky stars for the suffering and sacrifice of your forefathers.

Selah

EL Monday, November 05, 2001 at 15:35:43 (PST)

"...Blacks would have never had the type of culture they have in America if they weren't exposed to whites."

if you go back a thousand years, one can say that the whites would have never had the type of culture they have in Europe (and by default elsewhere) if they weren't exposed to the Moors and the Mongols, or for that matter the Ottoman Empire.

If you want to go even further back to 48 BC, had Julius Ceaser not invaded Germany and the UK and told the Saxons and the Picts (the British Primitives) to come down from the trees and come of the caves, the modern day Anglo-Saxons would still be living in the jungles, hunting and fishing. In fact, there is a significant proportion of white American survivalist population who want to return to the ways of their forefathers.

Asian American Male Monday, November 05, 2001 at 13:56:14 (PST)

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