I think social media and social dating is the main reason why theres a problem. Becasue if you look at the statistics provided you see the White men get the most responses back while black men the lowest. Another thing, as i established earlier, black men are more fogiving with the looks than any other race, yet our women tend to judge us the hardest, this can be seen by a video that went viral of a black women stating that 80% of black men are ugly where many women co-signed agreed and reposed. We never had this problem 15 years ago, but since then something has dramatically changed in the way we relate with each other.
Now for my million dollar question, when was the last time any of you guys went to a all black wedding and what was the age of the couple?
White Men and Asian Women Have the Highest Response Rates
Racial biases are usually negative, but sometimes they involve giving preferential treatment to particular types of people. So the good news for white men and Asian women is they are the most sought-after demographics on dating sites.
According to data from Facebook’s app Are You Interested,
Asian women see much higher response rates from white (17.6%), Latino (15.8%), and black (26%) men. Women, in general, see three times more interactions than men do, but Asian women were particularly successful at catching a man’s interest.
Quartz’s study showed that most women are highly interested in dating white men.
Additionally, Asian, Latino, and white women all respond more frequently to white men. Maybe these guys are just really smooth talkers. Or, maybe patriarchal values have influenced women’s dating preferences. It’s hard to tell from the raw data exactly what’s going on, but, at least for now, white men seem to have an advantage over black, Latino, and Asian men.
2. Black Men and Women Have the Lowest Response Rates
Quartz’s researchers studied over 2.4 million heterosexual interactions on Are You Interested to determine if online daters had racial biases and what those were. Overall, they found black men and black women receive significantly fewer I’m-interested ratings than other races do.
According to Quartz’s data, gender and race play a significant role in a person’s overall attractiveness.
Although black women responded the most positively toward black men, all other races responded the least to this demographic. And all men, regardless of race, responded the least to black women.
OkCupid came to similar conclusions in
its assessment of race and attraction. “Black women reply the most, yet get by far the fewest replies,” the dating experts said. “Essentially every race — including other blacks — singles them out for the cold shoulder.”
3. Most Men Prefer Asian Women, Except Asian Men
So you know how people say there’s an exception to every rule? Well, it’s true in online dating as well. The Quartz Media graphic shows men of all races — except Asian men — prefer Asian women. Asian men respond more to single Latina women, marking themselves as interested 19% of the time.
According to OkCupid’s internal data, Asian men receive fewer messages and matches overall, so maybe they simply shy away from Asian women’s highly competitive online dating profiles.
OkCupid graphed men and women’s match scores by ethnicity and found a bias against Asian men with everyone but Asian women.
Maybe low self-esteem factors into Asian men’s dating decisions. As Zachary Schwartz,
a 22-year-old journalist in the UK, said, “Growing up as an Asian guy, you start to think certain ways about yourself… the phraseology used when I was growing up was ‘Asian guys don’t get girls.'”
Whatever the reasoning behind it, Asian men don’t seem to have
yellow fever the way other men on dating sites do.
Elise Hu of NPR summed it up best when she said, “The results of this study only perpetuate social problems for both sexes involved.”
4. Most Women Prefer White Men, Except Black Women
Black women were another notable exception in Quartz’s study of online attraction. Black women showed the most interest in black men, while women of other races heavily preferred white men. Black women seem most drawn to date prospects of their own race — even though black men have a low interest rating of 16.5% to black women.
5. Only 10% of People Would Date Someone With a Vocal Racial Bias
OkCupid has hundreds upon hundreds of personal questions that it uses to create a personality profile and match percentage for every user. The site has been collecting this data for years, so it can show how user opinions on specific issues have changed over time.
When it comes to racial attitudes,
OkCupid users have professed to be less biased and more opposed to racism in general.
From 2008 to 2014, OkCupid users reported less racially prejudiced attitudes.
As you can see in the graph above, in 2008, about 27% of OkCupid users reported that they would date someone with a vocal racial bias. In 2014, only 10% of users said they’d be willing to entertain a racist date. That’s progress!
6. 35% of People Strongly Prefer to Date Within Their Own Race
That same article also showed a steady decline in the number of people who said they would prefer to date someone of their own race. In 2008, 42% of OkCupid users said they’d prefer to keep to their own when dating. By 2014, that number had dropped to around 35% of users.
The blog post concludes, “Answers to match questions have been getting significantly less biased over time.”
Side note: The person’s race does influence his or her answer to this question because
85% of non-whites said they’d prefer to date outside their race versus just 65% of white people who said the same.
7. Less Than 4% of People Think Interracial Marriage is a Bad Idea
Furthermore, in 2014 the OkCupid team saw a decline in users answering yes to the question “Is interracial marriage a bad idea?” Less than 4% of users in 2014 answered that they think interracial marriage is a bad idea.
Only 1% of OkCupid users have chosen not to post an answer to “Is interracial marriage a bad idea?”
The user base’s response to this question is pretty overwhelmingly in favor of interracial marriage. According to OkCupid’s 2017 question audit, only
1% of users skipped this question. Everyone else felt pretty decided about their opinions on the matter. Clearly, most people think this is a no-brainer. The interracial question is ranked among the 10 least skipped questions on the site.
Of course, people are free to lie in their answers to these questions, and, given that a majority of users say they’d refuse to date a racist person, it’s probably in everyone’s best interest to answer in favor of interracial marriage and avoid offending or enraging strangers on the internet. Still, it’s encouraging to see so many people categorically accept interracial marriage, which
was illegal in the US until 1967.
On Dating Sites, Your Racial Preference Matters
“Dataclysm” is a wonderfully thoughtful and eye-opening assessment of how people date in the modern age. Its studies prompt readers to reassess their online dating behavior and see themselves as part of a larger social framework.
Some of stats about racial biases on dating sites aren’t so encouraging (especially if you’re a black woman or an Asian man), but none of these numbers are set in stone. We have the power to change our dating habits and make online dating a more pleasant and welcoming to people of all races. Single men and women can become part of the solution by stepping outside their comfort zones and sending a message to someone they may have otherwise overlooked on a dating site.
Even if it’s not love at first sight, you should give someone a chance to change your mind and win you over. Who knows? You might just get a great date out of it.
As Mahatma Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” He almost certainly wasn’t talking about dating, but, hey, you’ve got to start somewhere.
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Amber Brooks is the Editor-in-Chief at DatingAdvice.com. When she was growing up, her family teased her for being "boy crazy," but she preferred to think of herself as a budding dating expert. As an English major in college, Amber honed her communication skills to write clearly, knowledgeably, and passionately about a variety of subjects. Now with over 1,800 lifestyle articles to her name, Amber brings her tireless wit and relatable experiences to DatingAdvice.com.
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