Somewhat revelant to the foreign community? Pretty funny reading.
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=620efd49-a585-4e7b-bbdf-3109e1af8187
Timmers
I thought that article was thoughtful and well-written.
The part about family expectations certainly applies to me - it was definitely something that my better half thought was an asset that I brought to the relationship. The fact that I cooked for her early in the relationship also scored me big points. 
Oh jeez. Of course I thought the article was well written also, otherwise I wouldnt of posted it. Whats up with people always nitpicking the smallest detail of people’s posts? Maybe its because we are just reading without seeing emotion behind the writer. Maybe I should use those emoticons more often
Timothy
[quote=“thechu17”]Oh jeez. Of course I thought the article was well written also, otherwise I wouldnt of posted it. Whats up with people always nitpicking the smallest detail of people’s posts? Maybe its because we are just reading without seeing emotion behind the writer. Maybe I should use those emoticons more often
Timothy[/quote]
Who’s nitpicking what?
I thought this was the best quote from the article:
Hmm, maybe it’s me that should use more emoticons… I wasn’t trying to rebut your comment - I was in agreement with you completely. It IS an amusing/funny/interesting article. Thanks for posting it.
Back on topic - I’m married to a Taiwanese girl, and my bro is all but engaged to a Canadian girl of Chinese descent. They had met in university in Mandarin class - he was trying for an easy credit after a year and a half living in Taiwan with me, and she was getting in touch with her Chinese roots… She asked him out, and they’ve been an item ever since. Last summer we had a family reunion at the family cottage - every member of my extended family has married within our own ethnicity, so our two sweethearts kinda stood out amongst all the other blonde-haired, blue-eyed relatives. One of my cousins asked (in jest), “So what’s up with you and your brother and the Asian babes?” What could I say - we’re living the cliche… 
Actually, I told him that we were just doing our part to save our family from eventual inbreeding. Mixing it up in the gene pool, so to speak…
I just wish there were more women dating and marrying guys of Asian descent. Actually, I wish there were more interracial dating period. There’d be less racism, for sure… But I guess we’d find other ways to be shitty to each other…
It could have a lot to do with the fact that most of the Western women here look like escapees from the Russian woman’s pro wrestling team (and those are the good ones).
I know that this topic of Asian/White couples is huge in San Francisco. On Craig’s List, an online community board started in SF, you can see people arguing about this subject nearly everyday in the Rants and Raves section. It’s a very emotional subject.
I agree with the article’s point that the phenomenon cannot be solely blamed on horny white guys looking for Asian gals. The personal ads on Craig’s List are filled with SAF seeking SWM, some SWM seeking SAF, but not nearly as many. Most guys in SF are just looking for a gal of any race who breathes and won’t treat him like crap.
Yeah, they don’t even shave their beards before dates. 
It all devolves into bashing the foreign females, I see. I think it’s an interesting thread (well, been done before, but I’ve got a bit of a personal interest in the topic) so don’t ruin it.
I agree with the conclusion in most cases, that the real reason behind it is the two people involved in the relationship…but I think there must be some other factors because often caucasians who are dating someone of asian descent have a history of previous asian GF or BF.
So, how many of your exes are asian (or white if you are asian)? As for me, my love’s Taiwanese and I had one long term BF in the past who was Taiwanese-American.
Bingo!
Well there it is, now I know there’s a label for me and my ilk: I’m an archetypal, out-and-out, dyed-in-the-wool “rice king”, and not in the least ashamed to admit it.
But I plead innocent to any of that “creepy leering” mentioned in the article. When I feast my eyes on the loin-lubricating lusciousness of a lithesome local lovely, I do so in the most refined, discreet and inoffensive manner that could never possibly be taken amiss by anyone of sound mind.
At a rough count, about the last seven dozen.
Thought this would be a good article to add to the discussion of “Rice King”
Frankly I don’t give a shit and anyone who does give a shit is a bigoted asshole with issues.
Date whoever you find attractive. Ignore the whining and nagging of bitter little people who try to tell you who it’s acceptable to love and not love.
“The personal is the political.” That stupid quote has led to one of the most fascist philosophies in history. No, the personal is the personal. It’s my life to live. My women (or men, or whatever) to love.
Anyone who tries to lay some “Orientalist” guilt trip on me because I have a Chinese girlfriend, here’s a big FUCK YOU.
There. Somebody had to say it.
[quote]Frankly I don’t give a shit and anyone who does give a shit is a bigoted asshole with issues.
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Never was a truer word spoken.
Ah, I thought most guys in SF were looking for a GUY of any race, etc., etc.? Have I not been keeping up on my Rainbow Newsletter? Did we (i.e., the gay sistahs) all move out of SF for another city? Maybe Crawford, Texas?