It's useless to discuss height (and, er, length) preferences without filtering for race. Asians and Latinos are just much smaller than whites on average, and women's preferences are not really extreme if they're just looking for whites.
Thank you for your comment. I think it would be very interesting to do an article on intra-racial preferences in dating, and how that correlates with height, but also hard to do. It’s unclear what percentage of white women prefer to exclusively date white men, and how much of that is just living in a highly white community versus a true strongly held preference no matter what. There are people alive today who experienced segregation so it’s unclear what percentage of historical marriages between white women and white men would still have happened in a less racist society. Of people in prime dating age in the USA, (18-34) maybe 60% are white alone and that figure is dropping. Today it’s a majority but a small one, so I really don’t know how it all shakes out. My understanding is that Chinese Americans are taller than China-born Chinese, so I also don’t know how long the height differences will persist. I think it’s a genuinely tough question to do write about with precision, but I appreciate your suggestion. This again speaks to how difficult it is to say, but when I was in high school “asian” culture (e.g. anime and JPOP, back then) was stereotypically the domain of nerds, very roughy speaking, but now I see kids running around with Kpop demon hunters shirts, listening to BTS and, anecdotally, many more white female asian male couples than a decade ago. I don’t have data, but it feels like the whole dynamic is changing in front of our eyes.
@Walt Bismarck bring this guy on the pod
It's useless to discuss height (and, er, length) preferences without filtering for race. Asians and Latinos are just much smaller than whites on average, and women's preferences are not really extreme if they're just looking for whites.
Thank you for your comment. I think it would be very interesting to do an article on intra-racial preferences in dating, and how that correlates with height, but also hard to do. It’s unclear what percentage of white women prefer to exclusively date white men, and how much of that is just living in a highly white community versus a true strongly held preference no matter what. There are people alive today who experienced segregation so it’s unclear what percentage of historical marriages between white women and white men would still have happened in a less racist society. Of people in prime dating age in the USA, (18-34) maybe 60% are white alone and that figure is dropping. Today it’s a majority but a small one, so I really don’t know how it all shakes out. My understanding is that Chinese Americans are taller than China-born Chinese, so I also don’t know how long the height differences will persist. I think it’s a genuinely tough question to do write about with precision, but I appreciate your suggestion. This again speaks to how difficult it is to say, but when I was in high school “asian” culture (e.g. anime and JPOP, back then) was stereotypically the domain of nerds, very roughy speaking, but now I see kids running around with Kpop demon hunters shirts, listening to BTS and, anecdotally, many more white female asian male couples than a decade ago. I don’t have data, but it feels like the whole dynamic is changing in front of our eyes.