A professor teaching a course on race relations at Penn State put what many Asian Americans men unfortunately know into stark terms.
Asian American men need to make a boat load more money to be equal in the eyes of women when compared to White men.
Next Shark reports Professor Sam Richards has quantified the difference into dollars and cents.
The professor picked out an Asian student identified as handsome by other students. He then chose a White student.
“In spite of how handsome he is,” Richard said pointing to the Asian student, “for him to compete with an average White guy with equal handsomeness… for Andy to compete with Chris on the dating market, Andy has to make $247,000 more per year than this dude right here,” Richards told hundreds of students in a packed lecture hall.
He then picked out a White female student and put her on the spot.
“Do you find these guys equally attractive?” Richard asks.
“Yeah.”
“You have to say that. You might say that, and she might say it, and all the women here might say it. What we know, if we put all of them together, and you’re going to decide to go out on a date with this guy or this guy, what we see is that this guy has to make a quarter of a million dollars more than that guy to be equal in your eyes on average.
“Asian guys tend to be seen in different ways. that’s the place of Asians in the United States. That’s f’ing profound. No matter what he does in the dating market, its a quarter of a million dollars more.”
“Seems pretty shallow,” the girl retorted.
“It’s subconscious. It’s not about being shallow. It’s about understanding yourself,” Richards said.
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RE: There’s Gold in the Dating World for Asian Men, If you Make Money: I think Professor Sam Richards’ methodology sounds flawed or the Asian Am news headline and article is misleading! How the female subjects assigned dollars to attractiveness does not equate the man’s income. If dollars substituted for attractiveness points, however the subjects rated the white and Asian males does not equate to earnings/wages earned by these men. This is not Asian Am’s best subject or reporting.
RE: There’s Gold in the Dating World for Asian Men, If you Make Money: Great bait click blog!!! By clicking on the link that was provided, I was able to fully read the article and get a better understanding. I wonder if it is because that is the way they present themselves or the fact that they don’t really approach women unless they have some type of money?