Lessons I Learned From Dating a Dominican Man

A recent study on data from a dating app found all women except black women were most drawn to white men, and men of all races with one notable exception prefer Asian women. The numbers in this chart from Quartz show the percentage of people who responded to a “yes” on the “Are You Interested” app. All men seemed to be more interested in people outside their race. Black men and women get the lowest response rates to their messages.

All women except black women are most drawn to white men, and men of all races with one notable exception prefer Asian women.

A statutory definition of race arose because of one essential factor-how should the mixed race offspring of these couples be classified. With classification, people were given certain rights and privileges.

This article folds in person-to-person interactions, what one individual human being thinks of another. In Five years ago, the basics of race and attraction on OkCupid looked like this: In some ways, no. Unfortunately, daters are not more open-minded than they used to be. Here are the numbers from — — view each graph below to move through time.

These numbers reflect different people year-to-year. One interesting thing is to compare what you see above with what those same users have told us about their racial attitudes. Answers to match questions have been getting significantly less biased over time: This data sparks a couple questions. While we hope to help daters look beyond appearance and connect on a deeper level, there is an evident trend showing that race is a factor for many individuals, and in a consistent way.

This might say more about the cultural biases passed down in our society than individuals within it.. All this data is from a dating site. What does that have to do with my life?