Yellow Fever

@rinse if we are talking full blooded asians like born and raised and both parents from that country, then yeah. But if its like they are just an asian-american had no knowledge of the place they were born and never visited/lived there. Then their culture is pretty much the same as yours.

Well you can't help it if asians is your preferred type, but I can see it can be something because "animuuu weeaboo I can only like asian girls" But it's not hurting anyone it's just cringy at worst

I think as a lot of people have already said, it's fine to have preferences, but when those preferences extend to personality expectations, that's when you start going wrong. I will say as an Asian woman in the US who also tends to work conventions where a lot of the men who are stereotypically attracted to Asian women tend to go (not saying that anime fans are the only ones with yellow fever cause lord knows that's not true), there's a reason why I tend to work backstage lol. Also, the amount of extremely racist and gross messages I get on dating apps are just... a lot. It's a lot :/

It's kind of hit or miss. It's not really a bad thing unless you stereotype the person. I think it's pretty normal to like specific traits like skin tone, builds, facial structure, etc. but when you don't get to know the individual then it's an issue. Like I had one girl interested in me only because she was interested in Islam and she kept pushing me to be religious even though that's not really my thing which I kept telling her but she didn't care. She also had stereotypes of how Muslim men should be. So that was annoying and I broke it off. Then I had another girl who just liked tan skin. No big deal there. It really depends on the intention. If a person likes a culture then gets to know someone from that background but still values them for who they are then it's good but if it's a dehumanizing obsession then not good.

idk about asian fetish as a whole but akidearest is fucking waifu https://i.pinimg.com/originals/57/9b/3b/579b3bca74a527f7b605f0167247a247.jpg

So does this extend to Asian men who exclusively prefer dating within their own race or is this exclusively about western men who prefer Asian women? I don't find it a big deal if Asian men only want to date Asian women, White men only wanting to date White women etc... as for westerners... I believe I read it's actually Asian women who prefer White men, not the other way around (also not saying they're aren't White men who prefer Asians, of course there are), the logic being (In America at least) Asians prefer wealthier partners, which they usually won't get by marrying Blacks or Latinos. As for me, being the Slav, I would like a Slavic girl, but at the end of the day, I'm not really particular. People can have their reasons for either or, but if some people are limiting their racial preferences to a different race by cultural stereotypes... well, they're in for a disappointment, but that's their problem...

Recognize that they are a person outside of their race. And they may not fall into your preconceived notions about people in that group. Don't deify their culture OR put down other cultures/groups of people as inferior Far as I'm concerned beyond that it isn't really a problem. If a guy/girl is exclusively into asians, whites, blacks, hispanic, indian, etc. then that's their preference. You can't force attraction in others. If they ONLY date asians, it still isn't really an issue as Panda said, it's just limiting their own dating pool.