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'''Asian fetish''' is a ] term which refers to an interest or attraction for people, culture, architecture or other things of ] descent or creation by those of non-Asian descent.<ref></ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,176330,00.html|title='Directors Want Freshness'|publisher=Time Magazine|author=Stephen Short|date=26 September 2001|accessdate=7 November 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2001/11/29/abandoned/print.html|title=Identity crisis|author=Theresa Pinto Sherer|publisher=Salon|date=29 November 2001|accessdate=7 November 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/fashion/sundaystyles/02tattoos.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print|title=Cool Tat, Too Bad It's Gibberish |author=Cindy Chang|date=2 April 2006|accessdate=7 November 2009|publisher=New York Times}}</ref> The term '''Asiaphile''' is sometimes used to describe the same phenomenon, as is 'Yellow Fever'.<ref name="Vicky">{{cite book | first=Vicky | last=Nam | title=YELL-oh Girls! | publisher=Harper Paperbacks |isbn= 0060959444| year=2001 | pages=131-132}}</ref><ref name="Phoebe">{{cite book | first = Phoebe| last = Eng | year = 2000 | title = Warrior Lessons : An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power | chapter = She Takes Back Desire | pages = 115 – 142 | publisher = Atria | location = New York|isbn = 0671009575}}</ref> A ] study found no evidence of a general preference by white ] men for Asian women.<ref name="Slate" /> '''Asian fetish''' is a ] term which refers to an interest or attraction for people, culture, architecture or other things of ] descent or creation by those of non-Asian descent.<ref></ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,176330,00.html|title='Directors Want Freshness'|publisher=Time Magazine|author=Stephen Short|date=26 September 2001|accessdate=7 November 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2001/11/29/abandoned/print.html|title=Identity crisis|author=Theresa Pinto Sherer|publisher=Salon|date=29 November 2001|accessdate=7 November 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/fashion/sundaystyles/02tattoos.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print|title=Cool Tat, Too Bad It's Gibberish |author=Cindy Chang|date=2 April 2006|accessdate=7 November 2009|publisher=New York Times}}</ref> The term '''Asiaphile''' is sometimes used to describe the same phenomenon, as is 'Yellow Fever'.<ref name="Vicky">{{cite book | first=Vicky | last=Nam | title=YELL-oh Girls! | publisher=Harper Paperbacks |isbn= 0060959444| year=2001 | pages=131-132}}</ref><ref name="Phoebe">{{cite book | first = Phoebe| last = Eng | year = 2000 | title = Warrior Lessons : An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power | chapter = She Takes Back Desire | pages = 115 – 142 | publisher = Atria | location = New York|isbn = 0671009575}}</ref>


== Terminology and usage == == Terminology and usage ==

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Template:Globalize/USA Asian fetish is a slang term which refers to an interest or attraction for people, culture, architecture or other things of Asian descent or creation by those of non-Asian descent. The term Asiaphile is sometimes used to describe the same phenomenon, as is 'Yellow Fever'.

Terminology and usage

Two loaded names for this preference are Asiaphilia and Asian fetish. An Asiaphile is somebody who is characterized as having an Asian fetish.

For example, Sheridan Prasso calls a website an "Asiaphile Homepage" that is part of the "proliferation" of sites on the internet that cater to the stereotypes that people have towards Asian females.

Edwin C. Symmes called himself an "Asiaphile", partly because of his great interest in Japanese miniature carvings.

Ronald Lake uses the term as a label for people who invest mainly in Asian financial products.

Other slang names for the preference include "yellow fever" for the preference, and "rice kings", "rice chasers", and "rice lovers" for the men who espouse it. The gay slang term used for a man, usually white, who exclusively dates Asian men is "rice queen."

In the afterword to the 1988 play M. Butterfly, the writer, David Henry Hwang, using the term "yellow fever," a pun on the disease of the same name, discusses white men with a "fetish" for Asian women. Hwang argues that this phenomenon is caused by stereotyping of Asians in Western society.

Phoebe Eng wrote in her book Warrior Lessons,

While hypersexualized, commodifying images exist for all women, and especially women of color, the image of the Asian woman combines with this the notion of ultrapassivity. Sexuality for an Asian woman is so tightly wound up in issues of power and global economic order that it is virtually impossible to address the spector of an Asian woman's sexuality without examining the subtle roles of governments and enterprise in perpetuating this situation, especially in developing countries.

Eng writes that some Asian females find the attention that they receive "liberating".

In a collection of writings from Asian American females, YELL-Oh Girls!, Meggy Wang calls a man "Mr. Asiaphile".

Objections to the "Asian Fetish" label

There are those who object to being tagged as one with an "asian fetish." Ming Tan, author of "How to Attract Asian Women", quotes one man as saying that he thinks that "there's a massive, huge difference between such a fetish and my preference for Asians". The correspondent goes on to describe the "grace" and the ability to create "harmony in one's family, workplace, and community" that he finds attractive in Asian women.

Columbia University study

Fisman, Sethi-Iyengar, et al. conducted a two year study of individuals that had self-selected into a speed dating event at Columbia University. The purpose was to investigate the rarity of inter-racial marriages in the United States, and to investigate racial preferences in dating as its possible cause, and the relative importance of that preference with respect to physical racial segregation. Thousands of decisions made by more than 400 daters from Columbia University's various graduate and professional schools were compiled. The study, published in the Review of Economic Studies, was analyzed in Slate Magazine by Ray Fisman, an economist and one of the researchers of the study. He reported that based on the results of the study, there was no evidence amongst the speed daters for what is called "the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women."

We found no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women. However, we also found that East Asian women did not discriminate against white men (only against black and Hispanic men). As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating—but because of the women's neutrality, not the men's pronounced preference. Men don't seem to discriminate based on race when it comes to dating. A woman's race had no effect on the men's choices.

The study did report that the pairing between a white man and an Asian woman was the most common inter-racial pairing, but it attributed this not to a preference for Asian women on the parts of the white men, but rather to the preferences of the Asian women. The study found that the men, of all races, in fact had no racial preferences amongst women. Whereas it found that the women of all races strongly preferred men of their own race. It reported that Asian women, whilst preferring Asian men, were neutral to white men, but strongly avoided black, Hispanic, and Middle Eastern men. There is a neutrality towards white men on the parts of Asian women that the study and Fisman attributed the prevalence of the white man/Asian woman inter-racial pairing, in comparison with other pairings. The study cited prior work, including that by Ariely et al. and Mills et al. (see further reading), that had also suggested that women are less accepting of inter-racial romantic relationships than men are.

See also

Further reading

  • Dan Ariely, Gunter J. Hitsch, and Ali Hortacsu (2004). "What Makes You Click: An Empirical Analysis of Online Dating" (PDF). MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4603-06, SSRN 895442. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Jon K. Mills, Jennifer Daly, Amy Longmore, and Gina Kilbridge (1995). "A Note on Family Acceptance Involving Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships". The Journal of Psychology. 129 (3): 349–351.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

References

  1. Korean American women By Ailee Moon pg 134
  2. Stephen Short (26 September 2001). "'Directors Want Freshness'". Time Magazine. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  3. Theresa Pinto Sherer (29 November 2001). "Identity crisis". Salon. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  4. Cindy Chang (2 April 2006). "Cool Tat, Too Bad It's Gibberish". New York Times. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  5. ^ Nam, Vicky (2001). YELL-oh Girls!. Harper Paperbacks. pp. 131–132. ISBN 0060959444.
  6. ^ Eng, Phoebe (2000). "She Takes Back Desire". Warrior Lessons : An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power. New York: Atria. pp. 115–142. ISBN 0671009575.
  7. Prasso, Sheridan (2005). "'Race-ism,' Fetish, and Fever". The Asian Mystique. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books. pp. 148–151. ISBN 9781586483944. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |chapterl=, |month=, and |editilion= (help)
  8. Edwin C., Jr. Symmes (1995). Netsuke: Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature. Sheridan Prasso. p. 15. ISBN 0804820260.
  9. Ronald A Lake (2003). Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies: The Experience of Managers and Investors, Third Edition. Euromoney Institutional Investor. p. 267. ISBN 1843740516.
  10. Maggie Chang (April 2006). "Made in the USA: Rewriting Images of the Asian Fetish" (PDF). Penn Humanities Forum on Word & Image, Undergraduate Mellon Research Fellows. University of Pennsylvania.
  11. Bohling, James. "Embracing Diversity?". GLAAD. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
  12. Ayres T (1999). China doll - the experience of being a gay Chinese Australian. Journal of Homosexuality, 36(3-4): 87-97
  13. Hwang, David Henry (1988). "Afterward". M. Butterfly. New York: Plume Books. p. 98.
  14. Ming Tan (2002). How to Attract Asian Women. BridgegapBooks. pp. 31–32. ISBN 0971580804.
  15. Ray Fisman (2007-11-07). "An Economist Goes to a Bar And solves the mysteries of dating". Slate magazine. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. Fisman, Ray (Jan 2008.). "Racial Preferences in Dating". The Review of Economic Studies. 75 (1). Oxford: 117. ISSN 0034-6527. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
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