The researchers found that most women speed daters said yes (meaning they’d like to see a man again after the four-minute speed date) less often to men of another race than they did to men of their own race. Here’s how much less interested they were in the other races, as compared with their enthusiasm for men of their own race:

African-American women said yes about 30 percent less often to Hispanic men; about 45 percent less often to white men; about 65 percent less often to Asian men.

White women said yes about 30 percent less often to black or Hispanic men, and about 65 percent less often to Asian men.

Hispanic women said yes about 20 percent less often to black or white men, and 50 percent less often to Asian men.

Asian women didn’t discriminate much by race (except for showing a very slight preference for Asian men over black or Hispanic men).

... The researchers, after controlling for all other attributes (height, weight, attractiveness, etc.), calculated how much extra income (relative to the income of the average online male dater, $62,500) a man would need to overcome the racial barrier. Here are some of the estimates (there weren’t enough data to do all the interracial permutations) of how much each extra income a man would need to be equally appealing to a woman as would a man of her own race:

... For equal success with a white woman, an African-American needs to earn an additional $154,000; a Hispanic man needs $77,000; an Asian needs $247,000.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
--Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The 15 minutes of seemingly benign American Idol fame for William Hung had a surprisingly negative effect on Asian-American students. There's a feeling that Hung perpetuated the worst stereotypes about Asian people and gave non-Asians permission to indulge in two years of racial stereotyping and mocking.

( As early as 1850... )

Random Redneck Woman at the Georgia Aquarium: I tell you what, foreigners are the rudest people in the whole world.
thepeopleseason: Thank you very much.

Me: You know, Bunsen Honeydew is just made to look Asian--he's got glasses, a round head, he's kinda yellow--
Pinky: --He's GREEN!
Me: Well, he's *kind of* yellow... and the lack of eyes are clearly meant to imply some squinty-ness.

fiyero2005

Veronica, I think when you get out in the world a little more, you'll discover that not all well-dressed, articulate, detail-oriented men are gay. Many of them are just...Asian.
-- Mr. Wu, Veronica Mars

batnandu

thepeopleseason: Dude.
batnandu: dude.
thepeopleseason: dude.
batnandu: dude.
thepeopleseason: ok I see your point.

"Is it me or is that guy dressed like he's in the Chinese Klan?"
-- AK

When you roll over and look at me in the morning sometimes, I can't tell if your eyes are open or not.

chinook_wind

1. digital I am very much a child of technology--I'm a gadget freak, computer programmer, internet addict.
2. drumbone Quite possibly the coolest musical instrument ever.
3. do Or do not; there is no try. All that I have done since getting to Atlanta.
4. dude If batnandu got this as a tattoo, I promised that I'd get "sweet."
5. dark A possible translation of my last name, and what my complexion was like the time my fortune-telling uncle told my father that I should not grow a moustache or beard.
6. dare This is the title of my favorite song from an 80s cartoon movie.
7. desire I am nothing if not a creature of desire.
8. devil Any mention of the word "devil" reminds me either of Grendel or the toast Dream makes with Hob Gadling in Sandman:

   "To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."

   It's a wonder I didn't fill this meme up with the names of the Endless...
9. dragon Despite everything that's been going on with it this year, I still love DragonCon, and hopefully will be able to go next year.
10. drury I don't know...it's a funny word--funny-looking, funny-sounding--maybe not as much as "turd" but funny still.

"Do you have a girlfriend?"
"No."
"Hey, listen, you should find a nice nurse or a teacher or something. Someone who has an income and can help support the both of you."
"Yeah, ok, dad."

Are you married...or are you gay?

3) 1.1 million e-mail addresses on 80-20's list. It is a factor of 3 increase over the 300,000 email addresses in the 2000 election.

• Positively Fifth Street
• Earnie's copy of Poker Nation
• Dumbing Down for the book club
• The Secret History
• Play Poker Like the Pros by Phil Hellmuth
• Girls' Poker Night
• China Boy
• The Rape of Nanking

• Find some way of getting those Texas Hold'Em hand pictures.
• Transcribe a bunch of Mandarin from Making Out in Chinese for taraljc.
• Hash out the plot/character problems in the Willow/Xander post-Chosen piece before July 15.
• Laundry.
• Dishes.
• Record and watch thirteen episodes of this season's Six Feet Under off of the TiVo for Jackie.
• Make the MP3 CD that I promised khubli a while ago.
• Fix the sound card problems with my mini-tower PC.
• Find some more ways of saving money before August 14.