LoL, I get rejected by girls all the time on tinder who tells me “I want to date a foreigner but not you, the white guy lol”
There is a market of everything
If anything his story just tells us that he hangs out with people with a bias against Westerners. How surprising!
They were probably lying. You expect honesty on tinder?
Lol give me a break. They have totally valid reasons to not want to date a foreigner.
I get your point, but I will say that if an American said something like this in America they would 100% be branded a racist. I know these are entirely different countries, but in the near future, Taiwan will need to internationalize. Stigmas like these will not be very helpful. (By the way there are plenty in America who will say this openly but when they do people look at them as if they are vile)
If they didn’t want to date a temporary foreigner (someone with short terms plans to remain in Taiwan) that would be a lot different though.
Xenophobia? Racism?
To discriminate by race or nationality is quite stupid.
There is a line between personal preferences and basic attraction and having, implicitly or explicitly, racist attitudes. Not being physically attracted to someone isn’t therefore an example of racial discrimination. Categorically saying ‘I would never’ because of a surface attribute like race, however, probably is a red flag …
Agreed.
I was tempted to write more on the topic generally but then realised how little I like pontificating on the theme of ‘dating as a foreigner in Asia’ … 
I’m done answering questions.
I’d say those Taiwanese who turn their nose up at foreigners are not un-attracted to foreigners they just have all kinds of relationship requirements - (stable job, stable same language, can kow tow to parents )and prejudices against foreigners perpetuated in the culture here.
I literally had a test question in my Chinese class recently, something like ’ bla bla married a foreign girl - correct answer bla bla is not conservative as I thought he was.’ I was livid. Not only was an insult it was hard to know what the answer was.
Omi is okay, Tantan is full of fakes.
What reason could they have for telling that lie in that situation?
What are they? Besides them being xenophobic, the only thing I can think of is they worry too much about what xenophobic people think. Neither is particularly acceptable IMO
It’s fine, we know what the answers are. The questions are only there to try and educate you
Dating hostile!
Haha, I’m Taiwanese-American. Born, raised, and spent basically my entire life in America before moving to Taiwan. Yet nobody in Taiwan considers me a foreigner cause I look Taiwanese and I can speak Chinese. Even when I match with other foreigners on dating apps they think I’m Taiwanese with exceptional English.
In my experience, when Taiwanese people think of Americans, they think of white people. I always get “You don’t look American?” and I have to tell them that America is a very diverse country (free social studies lesson lmao)
My guess would be looking for girls to work at a KTV.
You haven’t been here long enough if you don’t realize you’re still on the outside looking in. Most ABTs don’t have very good Chinese. If you do, then you’d be the exception but still not good enough. 
Like what? My better half never thought of dating foreigner before, but changed her mind. She said I give her an alternative way of life with more freedom and possibilities.
She has never thought to marry a foreigner before, but here we are, we create good life in Germany with 3 kids. Left her rich family behind in Taiwan.
She works 30 hours per week, with like 6 weeks of paid holidays, with option to work from home, full support from kindergarten.No one telling her how to live her life. She has choice either work full time, part time, or be full time mother. A choice young Taiwanese mothers do not have. A typical Taiwanese employee would kill for job with such package. Become very good in German language, wife has options all around Europe, which small island of Taiwan can not match.
During covid times, Taiwanese were effectively locked in house arrest on Taiwan Island. We traveled to 6 countries and our kids have normal childhood without masks.
Once you experience freedom, is hard going back.
She sees how her friends have it in Taiwan. Constant power struggles with MIL, long hours at jobs, high raising up cost for children.
Plenty of foreigners speak Chinese (bastards!)
Plenty of foreigners want and do stay in Taiwan. Also, your friends only date with the sole purpose of getting married? that’s cool!
My take on that is that even within a smallish country like Taiwan, cultural differences are more of an excuse for what is opinion differences, and that there are multiple opinions and beliefs and values held by the many women living here. It is not a homogeneous, identical population, same as “foreigners” are actually people from the rest of the fuckin’ World, not just from one homogeneous, plain country.
Yeah
I like this because it could be read like xenophobia and racism could be “valid reasons”, and having had read you blank statements based on race (and sex), it kinda fits in 