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LoginBeing a person of colour very often means you become aware of ideas of race much earlier than your white peers. Colour-blindness is decidedly not a luxury we can partake in. And so young me had noticed a recurring trend amongst the couples I saw walking hand-in-hand in Chatswood and North Ryde my two main habitats, although sometimes I ventured into the city, where the same trend presented itself : all these white dudes and Asian women! Of all the interracial pairings that existed, this one was far and away the most common. Why was this? How did it come to be?
Yet certain patterns and common—and others are absent. Asian guys with Caucasian females? Not so much. Scientists have worked out why, and they can sum it up in a single word: dimorphism. The term is most often used in the study of animals to refer to sexual dimorphism: the fact that two sexes of one species differ markedly in shape. A male peacock has big multi-colored feathers, a female one is small, dull and brown.
Am I a 'race traitor' for dating white people? As someone who's slept with and dated many white men, and someone currently in a relationship with a white man, the idea of the "race traitor" is something I'm particularly attuned to. Even though it shouldn't matter, my first crush was on a Filipino boy, my first kiss was with a Vietnamese boy and I've dated and slept with men of varying ethnicities. For what it's worth, non-white boys have broken up with me as many times as I have broken up with them, and I've been on dates with more non-white women than white women.
The first white boy I loved was in the fourth grade, soon after I had moved from Taiwan to Australia. Ben was a pale, thin boy with sandy hair and hazel eyes. He often sat at the computer in the corner of the classroom, tapping away. Nonetheless, I liked sitting next to him with a book open in my lap, admiring his air of quiet intelligence. I imagined us kindred spirits, keeping a dignified distance from the ruckus of our fellow comrades.
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