Just wondering about others’ experiences.
Feel free to elaborate.
Our experiences of a race and dating/partner poll? I don’t recall completing one lately.
I’ve dated only caucasians, but Hispanic and non. I don’t have a specific preference for caucasian either, I don’t usually find black guys attractive, but Asians (either the US or UK definitions thereof) yes.
Damn - screwed up my own poll and forgot:
Currently married/Partnered with my own race.
(Regardless of dating history.)
Geez - just when you think you have your bases covered. Sorry.
Can a mod add that option to the poll?
One I could have checked off had it been available:
Have been married at least once with someone of my race. Married for five years to another Caucasian, but we’re now divorced.
I’ve dated women of Hispanic, Arabic, and Chinese descent. I’m attracted to other races as well, but my dating life tends to be slow and inactive, so it’s not like I’ve been able to act on some of my attractions.
I’ve only dated/had partners of the same race as I am, though that’s more for lack of opportunity than specific preference.
My current partner is from a different ethnic background - I am Caucasian, he is Asian (British definition; his parents were from India) - but everyone else I have dated was broadly speaking Caucasian. Some Turkish, some Greek, but interestingly(to me) I think they were all at least second generation and had a British passport as does my partner.
My partners have always been of a different race/ethnicity to my own… Mainly because an Indian guy of a different religion would be too weird for my family, but someone from a totally different race/ethnicity is easier for them to handle. And as for not marrying within the religion, there’s a lack of guys who aren’t just plain intimidated by me.
At this point, while I am not against the idea of marrying an Indian anymore, I very much doubt I will find another Indian with all of the same values as me:
atheist;
doesn’t want children;
prefers to maintain a healthy distance from family;
etc.
But that being said, most of the men I have dated have actually not been Indian, and most of the men I have been really attracted to have also not been Indian. I prefer what is exotic and unusual to me.
And of course I am in a relationship with a Chinese.
My heritage is Eastern European Jewish, and my partner’s is Persian (Iranian). Does that qualify as different races?
And before we met, I dated men of all different shapes and colors.
20-year old white male here. A little over half the girls I’ve dated have been white. Throw in some Hispanics and one American Indian and you’ve got a pretty good picture of my dating habits.
I’ve always dated white girls. Pittsburgh isn’t really racially diverse, so the numbers are against me anyway. Everyone there is either Irish, German, or Polish. If you’re German-Irish, that’s considered multicultural. As it is, I don’t find black women attractive and I don’t get the whole asian thing either. If I were to date outside of European descent, it’d be Arab or Indian, I think.
Of course, I haven’t been single since I was 20, so it’s not like I had a lot of time to get out there and date.
What’s a different race? I once lived with a woman whose father was Sinhalese from Sri Lanka – but, in spite of the brown skin, that’s just a variety of Caucasian. On the other hand, one of my great-grandparents was probably Chinese, so (on the principle of “one drop”) any dating I do is intrinsically inter-racial, even if I just take myself out.
I only dated other white/caucasians – not by conscious choice; but there were not a lot of minorities where I grew up. My wife is the same.
Oh wait! There was this (half-Japanese) girl in high school that I always flirted with but never asked out because one or the other of us was always seeing someone else. After graduation we didn’t see each other until our 5-yr reunion, and we wend on a date and made out on her couch. But I was living in another city and we never got together again after that. Does that count? Then I answered the question wrong.
I have dated white, Filipina, and one half-white/half-Mexican woman (whom I was married to at one time). I have not dated within my own race thus far. I am, apparently, one of those.
I was a fan of Asians when I was younger. 
Also dated one black guy, the rest Caucasians but other nationalities/ethnicity.
I selected “Never had the opportunity to date another race.”, but really, it’s just that I’ve had very few dates with those of other races; one black woman, a couple of Asians, and that’s it. I don’t consider dates with Indians, Hispanics or the like to be cross-racial, but rather cross-cultural if they aren’t native-born and/or assimilated into mainstream American culture.
Why no opportunity to date black women? In the places where Ive lived, there was only a very small black middle-class, and very few peer black women compared to white women. There’s also vast cultural differences; middle-class white versus very urban/Afrocentric.
Define race.
I’m white. I dated mostly whites, but I married an Asian.
I’m white (f/38) and have only ever dated/slept with white men. I’ve definitely been attracted to men of other races, but have never had the opportunity to date/sleep with any of them. 