Outmarriage by Asian Americans | Asian American Poll

OUTMARRIAGE BY ASIAN AMERICANS
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:11:05 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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Mixed Malay & Chinese Guy,
Yeah, the environment you grow up in will help to shape your lifestyle and personality when you grow up. I have a 1/2 Minangkabau, 1/2 English friend who says she's a Malay. I used to think it's kind of weird coz she's partly English. In most of the major exams, she uses "Malay" to identify herself, but not "others". But yeah, she grow up as a Malay person, who follows the Malay lifestyle and even speak Malay at home. She told me that her dad (an English) speaks Malay to them at home. She has an English family name & also a Malay family name at the same time hehe......Anyways, do you speak Chinese?
Malaysian-Eurasian Gal18 Monday, July 15, 2002 at 19:35:18 (PDT)

Malaysian-Eurasian Gal18

lol ahah if i have a guy friend who talks nothing but himself all day and so proud about his look and all in front of me i'll kick his a#ss for sure..hehe...i mean i do have dutch blood in me but i don't brag about it..

oh gosh men, what u saying r very true..i mean for example like myself, i grow up more to malay lifestyle, its culture and tradition..but i still do appreciate the chinese culture and want to learn more about it. i loved using chopstick, i love watching chinese movie and i love chinese food, hey i can even cook chinese.
Even with my look people will still and keep asking me if im chinese .. and sometimes people tell me i look hapa..But they dont know that im a malay until i speak to them...
mixed malay & chinese Guy Sunday, July 14, 2002 at 17:54:41 (PDT)

Women who are half Latin/Asian , are absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!
truth Saturday, July 13, 2002 at 17:21:38 (PDT)

Eurasian Hapas are generally racist towards Blasian Hapas.
Blasian Hapa Friday, July 12, 2002 at 12:42:44 (PDT)

Actually, I've known some hapas that made my stomach queasy. Y'all ain't supermodels or anything. Some are cute, most are a-v-e-r-a-g-e, some are heinous, and a select few are gorgeous. Only a few though.

One English-Chinese kid I knew was called Simon Whittington, and that guy was NASTY. I mean, NASTY. Short, sickly, UGLY as sin, and a wuss to boot. Some Short Sri Lankan kid made him lick his muddy shoe during recess (no joke) in highschool, and he DID... oh my god. I am Korean too, and I wondered "Do you have ANY f***en pride, you jackass?" I couldn't respect him after that, not even as a person.
Girlie who Grew up in Hong Kong, Moved to the US Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 23:49:14 (PDT)

"I know that not all Eurasians are like that, but it's true that a lot of them in Asia think they are special because they have some 2nd rate European dad who couldn't make it in their homeland and had to come to Asia to leach off the local populace."

hahahaha.... preach my Korean brother, preach. I've been in scuffles with a few myself. Not as big as you are, but I'm tough as a nail. I held my own.
Another Asian Expat who's sick of arrogant halfies... peace to all the down-to-earth ones though. Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 23:44:14 (PDT)

Mixed Malay & Chinese Guy,
Hahaha.....sorry to hear about your ex. Yeah, I've met a few female Eurasians like that. But, in my experience, most Eurasians who are always talking about how they look are males. They would sit down and talk about "me, me , me and me " all day. What's worse? he was the first guy who asked me out on a date. I went because I thought he is an interesting guy to hang out with, or maybe a kind and caring person. But at the end of the day, he is just a guy who only cares for himself. It's sad.

As far as I know, I'm not trying to offend you. But, signing a document won't make your children more Malay. I mean, it's all about upbringing. If your children grow up appreciating the Malay culture, following the tradition and lifestyle of Malays, automcatically when they grow up, they will embrace the Malay culture more. But of course, they will also be curious about their other heritages. Like me, I must admit that, although I do appreciate both cultures ( scottish and Chinese ), I grow up in a mostly Asian environment and that also means that I follow the Chinese or Malaysian way of living more than the European one. But of course, that doesn't mean that I'm not interested in my European side. I'll constantly find some good websites about the Scottish culture and so on to help me. :)
Malaysian-Eurasian Gal18 Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 21:01:16 (PDT)

Jay:
I know a half-Korean half-HK Chinese girl. raised in HK. damn insane. she has all the worst personality traits of both Korean girls and HK girls. She speaks Chinese fluently but she seems semi-illiterate (like I saw she wrote some names of some singers on her CD wallets, but she used the wrong words for their names, switching them with words which sound the same).

there is a language school at the university where I studied in HK, lots of Korean women who are getting married to HK men go there to study Cantonese. But they are all straight from Korea, I don't know if they interact much with the Korean expat community. they all seem pretty internationalized though ... in addition to decent English a lot of them spoke really fluent Japanese, so we used that language to communicate. in fact I've met three HK guy-Korean girl couples whose best language of communication was Japanese ...

min soo kim, malaysian-eurasian gal:
another theory, people keep throwing around the idea that "one day the world will all be mixed and then there won't be any more racial discrimination." (uh ... Mexico? Brazil? but anyway that's not my point ...) so mixed kids conclude they're the wave of the future, a higher form of humanity, and morally superior. in addition to all the compliments about appearance from relatives.
T.H. Lien Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 14:15:00 (PDT)

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