I was wondering…when I see mixed-race couples the vast majority of cases seem to be a white woman with a black man. I very rarely see the reverse and I don’t see many other race-mixing patterns either. So, what are the real statistics behind all this or am I just imagining things?
This link explains it.
I don’t have the cite handy, but IIRC, based on the population of the minority group vs. the total population, Asian-American female/white male is most common.
However, I don’t know if that study looked at Hispanics as a separate group.
I see scads of white men married to (Asian) Indian women and a few Indian men married to white women.
There was an article in Time about this several months ago. They charge you to go through the archives so I can’t link it here, but IIRC kunilou is right; they included non-white hispanics in the study and found that non-white hispanics and whites to be the predominant interracial coupling followed by what kunilou said. The article was also interesting in that it examined how tolerant different cities were of interracial marriages.
This is just IMHO, but black men seem to have a different “taste” in women than white men, and are turned on by larger, curvaceous women (white or black). I’ve never been given a second look by white guys, but I have been called beautiful by several black guys. If white guys are, for the most part, looking for that perfect submissive little waif, he’s hardly going to find it in the population of beautiful, curvaceous, strong black women.
(please don’t flame me. this is just my opinion from experience.)
And this is just GQ.
I make that about 6 unfounded generalisations and stereotypes in one paragraph. Well done.
My observations have been that most of the time you see a white woman with a black man, the woman is often of the obese, Jerry Springer-watching, trailer-trash variety.
(please don’t flame me. this is just my opinion from experience.)
Men who like women like all types of women. There are black men who prefer slender women just as there are white men who prefer a more rotund woman.
I won’t even bother with the ignorance coming from tarpal.
We’ve discussed this subject already at some length.
I’m pretty sure tarpal was being sarcastic. At least, I hope so.
There is some truth to what tarpal said.
Not the ignorant Jerry Springer BS he spouted.
However, I have found that black men in general are much more tolerant of overweight women than white men are. White men have been trained to want the blonde hair, blue eyed 120 pound supermodel. Black men tend to like women with a little meat on their bones and, to me at least, seem to pay more attention to a woman’s personality than white guys.
I’m white, and married to a white man, but 9 outta 10 times whenever I get hit on, it’s a black guy.
Just my personal opinion here, anyone else have similar/opposite experiences?
PS: the city I live in must be the Interracial Relationship capital of WV, judging from the people I see in public. Most of the time it’s black guys with white girls, however I do know some married couples in which she’s black, he’s white.
shrug
Black Women & White Men are a growing trend according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. I first read about this story at Slate.com.
And they give a nice statistic from the Census Bureau. That in the 20 years between 1980 and 2000 the number of such marraiges have gone from 27,000 to 80,000 while only increasing by 1000 in the 20 years before then.
Here are the aforementioned tables from the US Census Bureau. The last complete data set comes from 1980 which shows that there were 94 thousand Black male/White female relationships compared to only 27 of the reverse.
The largest group over all was White male/Asian Pacific female at 129 thousand. But API (as they abbreviate it) is a very very large grouping of diverse people. Indians, Japanese and Maori. Only 52 thousand of the reverse.
So after BM/WF and WM/APIF the next biggest grouping is White male Native American female followed by it’s reverse at 124 and 121 thousand respectively.
It’s too bad these data sets are so badly out of date as Dylan was right, the times, they have a-changed.
Actually the largest group (which I purposely ignored) were White husband and Other wife at 194k followed by White wife and Other husband at 165k. Which would presumably include Hispanics which is stupid since they are such a large group and certainly deserve there own lines in the table.
Have you noticed that on the rare occasions that interracial couples are portrayed in movies or TV, they are never a black man with a white woman?
I don’t understand why people are getting so worked up over the generalizations made. Of course white American and black American cultures have different standards of beauty. Isn’t it common knowledge that white men favor skinny women and black men do not? It’s not true for every single individual, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a fair generalization about the culture.
Actually, I’ve noticed exactly the opposite.