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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: anti-oriental
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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 11:59:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 11:59:33 1984
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[No, but I've dated a few Poland Chinas ... ]

> Frequently, I don't feel comfortable on dates because it seems that
> others are hostile to the fact that a Chinese male is going out with
> a white female.  Is this a real situation?  Are people hostile to
> non-whites dating whites (Especially non-white males dating white
> females.)?  Do people consider Orientals, hispanics, etc., to be non-white
> in male/female relationship (the case of black/white is the only one
> that usually gets discussed... when it does get discussed at all)?  Or
> am I just paranoid?

I can't speak for California, but Amherst (N.Y.) has a lot of
orientals, chiefly students at the State University.  (Until about a
year ago, the University's stipends for grad students were so low, and
local rents so high, that most American students could get a better
deal almost anywhere else.  Orientals made up something like 40% of
the graduate student body.)

And yes, there seems to be a good deal of anti-oriental feeling in
Amherst, though not at the University itself.  I suspect that with
so few black people in Amherst, her hateful souls must find some-
body else to hate.  I do not know whether this feeling extends to
interracial dating, but it seems likely.

Does anybody know of manners, clothing, or the like, that will help to
defuse anti-oriental animosity?
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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