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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read that over 50% of Asian American women are married to white men OP.  Do you find that a little odd?[/quote]

I did at first but not anymore.  I think that's changing anyway.  In any immigrant group in the U.S., the women intermarry earlier than the men.  Also, an extremely disproportionate number of Asians go to college, which is where they start serious dating.  You date from who is available.  There are a lot of white kids in college.

Also, Asian culture tends to place more responsibilities on the sons, and greater resources are also spent on sons.  As an example, aged parents expect to move in, and be taken care of, by their first-born son.  Children may perceive, even in the U.S., that the boys need to pick their spouses more carefully to please their parents, but younger siblings and the daughters can be more experimental.  Less is expected of them in some ways, and greater freedom is thus given.

But this is all an Old World point of view.  With the younger kids nowadays, I really don't think it applies as much.  Watch that number change, PP, and soon it will become meaningless.  Asians, both male and female, will "interrmarry" with whites in the coming generations at the same rate that Italian-Americans or the Irish did in the early 1900's.  I mean, there was a time in this country when a kid with an Italian surname was being adventurous if they dated an Irish girl.

So, no, I don't find the patterns of immigration and assimilation odd.  It's an age-old story as American as apple-pie.[/quote]

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