Well, personally, I tend to be attracted to Asian and Hispanic guys, but I think that's mainly because I like the combination of light skin and dark eyes/hair (among other physical features that Asian and Hispanic men tend to share).
That's just what I tend to like, but race isn't at all important to me.I won't lie, looks do matter to a certain degree, but a guy's race would never automatically make him more or less attractive to me.
So no, I wouldn't agree that White guys look better than others.
>Not sure why but the bad guys in movies are always so damn hot!
Too bad, i'm a good guy. Find another.
It's funny, we don't say bad girls or good girls as we call guys good or bad, do we? It's more like yummy girl or not type of thing. No wonder women do anything for beauty. So sorry.
アキラ@今,
I'm married so I don't take offense. Anyway, in USA they say good girl or bad girl, but I've never heard anyone say yummy girl. WTF does that mean??
Did i offend you? Sorry. some language problem from a Japanese, and i'm not even a bod guy or not much of a good guy, either.
>Anyway, in USA they say good girl or bad girl, but I've never heard anyone say yummy girl. WTF does that mean??
well, unless you are a man or a lesbian, you don't say that, i suppose. But you could call someone a yummy person which only means he/she is very pleasant to be with, a person who has a character, not necessarily sex related.
>What's so wrong with liking badass types???
Nothing is wrong. Do as you like. Your husband must be a bad guy, i mean, a good guy, i mean a very attractive guy.
"good girl" and "bad girl" are mostly used just for movies. when men talk amongst themselves about girls, "good" and "bad" are rarely used in conversation... "yummy" and similar words are more common. Correct me if I'm wrong?
>Yummy?? In what language would you call someone yummy (except during sex maybe w)
In Japanese. I say he/she is a yummy person. You know, adorable, charming, respectable, energetic, sexy maybe, talented, unique, etc,. Someone you think you are lucky to come across in your life. Someone you love in short.
We all have a preference, whether it is face, skin, shape, tits, ass, legs, back, hair, eyes. What I find interesting is how people worry so much about it, and find it "offensive" if somebody likes somebody only for their skin color. Is that really any worse than I liking somebody for how their face looks?
We simply like what we like, we really seem to have no choice in the matter. No matter what anybody around me says, I will always find certain people attractive. It's good, though, we need that variety of opinion in the world. There is somebody for everybody, in the end.
Well I just like a really good looking guy and japanese guys look after their looks more than most western guys. In fact most western guys think it's 'gay' to take care of their appearance a lot, so they are too scared to do it.
Despite that, I think I would more likely go for a western guy or half japanese, because it can be very difficult to get japanese to express their feelings sometimes.
Well I am engaged to a half japanese/half german man and he's the perfect mix of good looks and personality
While I can understand that some people have preferences about what is physically attractive to them, I think it's silly to say that one race is more attractive than another. There are beautiful people from every race!
I agree with keiri (...kelly?).
It is like saying that guys are more attractive than girls or the other way around. It just depends on who you are.
On Svenskas' comments, as it is not sexist or shallow to prefer a sex (male or female) I do not see it as being racist to prefer a race. It is shallow if a girl bases here decision on those often false cultural stereotypes, but some girls are just more attracted to white guys, as some are to other races or other sexes.
As an example. I prefer the physique, appearance and mind which is more common in Japanese girls. It is impossible for a non-Asian girl to have the second of these, but I am excluding based on the previous preference, race is incidental. If a Japanese girl does not have my preferred type of mind/physique she would also be excluded.
I'm not saying that Svenskas' points are wrong. I agree with the points. I just don't think that they apply if the attraction is physical.
I believe that for every intimate relationship that physical attraction must exist on some level and usually at a high level. If no level of physical attraction is necessary to someone, as many claim, then people from the same sex would also have to be valid candidates... and fair enough if they are for you.*
I'd have to agree with the comments already posted - it's idiotic to base one's preference on a race. Some people may prefer blondes over red hair, some may be attracted to hazel eyes more than green, but that's just talking about physical appearance in general (which is understandable) - not race. When it comes down to everything, it's not even the appearance that matters the most.
I partially agree with Ray's comment above. I'd have to say I strongly disagree with his comment:
"I do not see it as being racist to prefer a race."
I think one's preference of a race is an example of "positive racism" or "positive prejudice." Making a favorable preference of one race over another is making a head start to racism.
As far as physical features go, I prefer guys with black hair and black/brown eyes. Also, I like guys with less body hair, so in general, the guys I tend to be attracted to are usually not white, but Asian. However, this is just my own personal taste. ^_^
I agree with some of the comments. I prefer guys who care about the way they look with dark hair and brown eyes. So, I'm usually attracted to more asian guys. Of course, I don't just seek out asian guys. I've seen attractive guys from all races.
"I think one's preference of a race is an example of "positive racism" or "positive prejudice." Making a favorable preference of one race over another is making a head start to racism."
I see where you are coming from Jed.
I would like to defend my point of view on why this is not racism of any kind. It is very hard to not sound like an A-hole when doing any type of talk about this thing so please do not take these as attacks on your character.
My definition of racism is discriminating unfairly against a race. The key word here is unfairly. If a company wants to hire an engineer and they give me and an Asian person a math test I would not see it as being racist if that person got into the company because he scored better than me. It would be racist if they said we need to hire 1/3 Asians 1/3 Africans and 1/3 White people and if this led to me getting the job over the more qualified Asian. For whatever reason Asians are on average better at math*... but it makes absolutely no difference at all that they are Asian! If your choice is different after looking at which race they circled themselves as, in my imaginary math test, then this is racist, not the other way around.
*I am not saying this is because of their genetics, it is a simple fact.
My attraction to Asian girls is just a more stringent requirement. There are white people who are brilliant at math and there are very few white girls who I find as attractive as even an average looking Asian girl.
A few years back there was a very kind Kenyan girl studying at my university, her face and body looked more like a pretty Chinese girl, but with African skin. If she wasn't ridiculously out of my league I would have asked her out. She was 100% African but she could more easily have passed for an Asian girl. When I found out she was African, it didn't make any difference to my attraction.
I also do not see why you need to draw a distinction between preferring a hair/eye color and preferring a skin tone, facial or body structure. This is the same as my point on how choosing a sex isn't sexist. If you choose a person for the engineering job because they had blue eyes wouldn't this be unfair? There is no cultural name for the unfairness, but it is still unfair. Yet because culture only draws the line at it's own perception of what constitutes a race you do not follow the same logic for partner choice.
Likewise I would not claim discrimination if a girl did not like me because I am short. I am the tallest in my family, so for my exact genotype I am actually tall. Affirmative action is the exact equivalent of me saying, well I'm tall in my family so therefore you're racist for going out with that another guy because he's taller than me but the shortest in his family.
If I had to pick the 100 most attractive women in the world, from my perspective, then I would pick the ones whom I found the most attractive. Race would not matter.
Yet they would be mostly Asian girls because there are differences between the races, even if only in physical appearance.
For the record I am mostly Caucasian/Mediterranean, 1/8 African and 1/8 middle eastern. So maybe my body is just telling me to fill the gap!
Like I said before, if you don't find males as attractive as females then by your standards you are as sexist as I am racist.
Basically, my attraction to a person, physically and personally is absolutely unaffected by whatever race they are.
I like people who are petite, have long black hair, darkish skin, oval/tilted eyes, flat cute unblemished faces, smaller female sexual organs, can produce babies, understand math/logic, are sweet natured, youthful in appearance and have a good sense of humour. I prefer people from any race/sex who meets those characteristics naturally. If a white girl/black girl/half/Eskimo met all of these characteristics without surgery then i would more than likely be attracted to her.
I agree wit Ray. But I also think tomo was just trying to start trouble with this question. No one likes hearing that they are not attractive to someone because of their race! We all believe we should have a fighting chance to impress without being automactially disqualified because we are the wrong race.
What a person looks like is not who they are. Reality is people have preferences. But we are also suppose to have enough class or style or manners to know when something should not be said out loud in public, out of respect for others.
Well said TokyoOG (especially the first 4 words:), you are the yin to my yang... or the other way around... the good one. I took a too direct and therefore rude approach to the question. Even if I emphasize that people have various preferences and even if I pick my own unattractive flaws as examples it is still not a nice subject to discuss and I went too far.
I would give Tomo the benefit of the doubt though, probably just expressing her opinion with no ill intentions.
It's just the matter of who you get attracted, whether white or black. Race does not matter it at all.
Ray says he'd pick a chick who he thinks is the most attractive to him if he was to select one from a hundreds of beautiful girls. That's what I say. If you say "I hate black girls coz they aren't attractive" or " don't care for Asian girls coz their eyes are small or not sexy" or whatever the reason may be, you are just talking their looks. But once you mention that "I hate the black coz they are black" or "I hate chinks" you're discriminating them by their complexion and the race itself. So appearance and race are completely different words to use and it is just the way one perceives others, You see a girl hot but the other may see her just OK-looking.
I belive, not only Japanese, but most of Asians have certain amount of inferiority complex towards Europeans in terms of height and sharpness of facial components or the colour of eyes or something...but it all depends though...
It is a bit off-the-point remark, but don't judge a book by its cover!
Some people prefer a well groomed look, some prefer a natural look, some guys like strippers and hostess with lots of make up, some guys like the girl next door. Some ladies prefer muscle bound guys, while some prefer thin model types, and the list goes on and on. That was a stupid question. Tomo, the next time you get a brain fart like that just keep it to yourself.
Asking people to agree or disagree to that was wrong.