Posted by James, 27 Jun

Asian men have been the topic of the day when it comes to multicultural relationships. Asian men dating black women, Asian men dating Latino women, Asian men dating white women, all these are topics that change from time to time! The image of the Asian men is constantly changing and unlike before, Asian men - movie stars especially (Jet Li, Rick Yune, and Chow Yun-Fat) are also being depicted as objects of lust. And suddenly, there is an increase in the numbers of Asian men marrying outside their culture.

About 10 years ago,a black woman dating an Asian man or an Asian man dating a white, Hispanic, or black woman was almost unheard of but according to a study of California marriage licenses, 18.9 percent of Asian-American men born in the United States are far more likely to marry women who are l white, 22.7 percent marry other Asian ethnicity, and 6 percent marry another racial minority.

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One interviewee once joked that Asian men are the next ‘trophy boyfriends.’ Funny enough, his Caucasian wife also joked about this saying: "It's almost like Asian boyfriends are the fashion accessory of the moment." Well how true is this? What is the reason behind the new popularity of Asian men?

Articles have been circulating over the internet about this. I remember an article in the Sunday Seattle Times where a writer Sharon Pian Chan, says that Asian men "are the hottest things since sizzling rice."This article incited quite a number of responses and letters to readers who talked about how wonderful and sexy Asian men are.

Wait one minute – have the tables suddenly turned? If my mind isn’t playing tricks on me, Asian women have always been accused of whoring themselves to white men and suddenly people a throwing a bash coz Asian men are sleeping with white women? Why is it that when Asian women marry a different culture, its betrayal, and when an Asian man does it, its seen as social progress?

Are Asian men also being subjected to sexual stereotypes? One white woman married to an Asian man writes, "Asian men make love even better than they make television sets." Should this popularity amongst white women be interpreted as a validation of their appeal?

In Full Metal Jacket (1987) most Asian-American guys were repulsed by a Vietnamese woman saying "Me so horny" and now they are being portrayed in a similar degrading manner. "The fact that Asian-American men are seen as nerds hasn't changed, only the appeal of nerds has," says Tommy Kim a graduate student at the University of Minnesota who teaches a class on the sexualization of race. "Nerds are now rich in this dot-com world, and money has always been sexy."

So why is it that when it comes to multicultural dating, sexual remarks always come into play? Can’t people just acknowledge other cultures for their personality?

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