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It’s extremely difficult to date as an Asian in the us. The traditional dating sites and apps refuse to implement finer grained Asian ethnicity filters, so more
by plutorecreate 8y ago
It’s extremely difficult to date as an Asian in the us. The traditional dating sites and apps refuse to implement finer grained Asian ethnicity filters, so more than 80% of our effort on apps that do let us click “Asian” such as Coffee meets bagels is spent simply trying to decipher whether the person is from Hong Kong, mainland China, or Taiwan, or some other random East Asian country.
Tinder is basically useless as it refuses to allow us to filter by only Asians.
Not to mention as an Asian in the USA, after you locate a person who is from the same place you are, you then additionally need to decipher how westernized they are. It’s sometimes obvious in the profiles, but this is all quite annoying.
The (single) Asian market in the USA is still not large enough to sustain an app that allows finer grained choices. I wonder when someone will realize that a small shop with just couple engineers could swoop in here and make an impact that economically viable for them too.
- plutorecreate 8y ago2redbeans is a cesspool of superficiality such as the group in this article - it’s not a good enough solution either.
- GuiA 8y agoBased on what you’re describing, is this specific to dating as an Asian? Or to dating as someone who has specific socio-cultural criteria they want to restrict their search to? Ie is there a difference between the scenario you describe here - seeking someone who grew up in a western country with their roots in a specific Asian country - and someone seeking to only date someone who shares their religion, or income level, etc? It’s interesting how internet mediated human interactions constantly walk that line between giving people access to people/communities/points of view/etc they would have never intersected with without the internet, and at the same time people wanting to remain within the human defined boundaries they grew up within.
- DarkStar851 8y agoNarrow-filtered dating for all ethnicities - RacistDates.com coming soon!