White guys who answer these posts always leave this out of their argument about how it's ok for everybody including Asian guys to accept these relationships when these are the same people who would denounce relationships between Asian males and white females. This is obvious by the way the white media in this country pair up Asian females with White males 90-99% of the time when the majority of Asian relationships are between Asian females and Asian males. The media doesn't do this to women of any other race hence you don't see those women have a thing for white males in the same proportion as Asian females.
The influence of the media towards it's targeted audiance has been proven to be substantial in study after study. The media has a substantial affect on Asians in this country because their population is smaller than other ethnic groups here. There is also a lack of an Asian American culture in America leading to a lack of a defined Asian American identity. Look at it this way, African Americans have a defined African American Identity (black music, black stars etc), White Americans have a defined white identity (white music, white stars etc), Hispanics have a defined Hispanic identity (Hispanic music, hispanic stars etc). Asians in this country really don't have an Asian American culture so the majority of them will take up either a white identity or a black identity. In essence, it's like having an Asian person that looks Asian on the outside but are either white or black on the inside.
How the media conditions Asians in the country and how it divides Asians Americans: The media portrays Asian females and Asian males divergently. Asian females are paired up with white males the majority of the time yet the majority of Asian relationships in this country are between Asian males and Asian females. The American media almost never pair up Asian males with white females even though these relationships, though fewer than AF/Wm relationships make up a portion of Asian reltionships in this country. What you have then is a mirroring effect of how the media actually conditions Asian Americans to socialize in this country. Asian guys can get white women and women of any other race as can be seem in this website:
http://www.aznlover.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=14&page=1
The problem with the distortion of Asian interracial relationships is that the media gives a thumbs up to Asian female interractial relationships-showing this mostly with white males, sometimes with black males and almost never with hispanic males and you get the mirroring effect of social dynamics for Asians in this country. One has to ask why the media continues to portray Asian females with nonAsian males the majority of the time when Asian female Asian males male up the majority of Asian relationships in this country. The media doesn't do this with women of any other race.
Link to what happens when the one way conditioning of the old media gives way to the internet.
http://www.proudasianamerican.com/Articles/2004%20ACS.htm
Links to media influence:
http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/groups/public//@fotf_troubledwith/documents/articles/twi_013859.cfm?channel=Parenting%20Teens&topic=Media%20Influence&sssct=Background%20Info
http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/groups/public//@fotf_troubledwith/documents/articles/twi_013855.cfm?channel=Parenting%20Teens&topic=Media%20Influence&sssct=Background%20Info
http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/groups/public//@fotf_troubledwith/documents/articles/twi_013924.cfm?channel=Parenting%20Teens&topic=Media%20Influence&sssct=Background%20Info The white male dominated media does not like to portray Asian males with white females because they know what giving a thumbs up to these kinds of relationships can do. Imagine what would happen if 90-99% of all media portrayals of Asian males are with white females and Asian males are portrayed in the most positive light while Asian women are dogged out in the media. There'd be a pretty dramatic impact on Asian interracial relationships in this country.
2006-10-13
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