Japanese women dream of the USA
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DIMSDRIVE performed internet-based research involving 5,274 people in September of last year to find out which country’s citizens would people most want to marry. It is not stated whether or not the people interviewed were single or not.
The Asia versus the West split is quite noticeable in the men, but really striking amongst the women. I previously translated statistics regarding international marriages in Japan that shows that the ideals being expressed here do not seem to be realised.
On a slight tangent, I watched the last episode of an NHK English learning program which features an English-speaking Western blonde angel that prods a clueless office worker along the path to success at her job getting a date with her transferred from New York colleague, the ideal tall, muscular, tanned, well-coiffured white executive. The angel’s job was done because the glaikit Misaki finally pulled her man.
Research results
Q: Other than Japanese, which country’s people do you think would be good to have as a partner (husband or wife)? (Sample size=5,274, free answer)
Rank Votes 1 USA 1,144 2 Korea 505 3 UK 442 4 Italy 370 5 France 344 6 Australia 218 7 Germany 203 8 China 197 9 Canada 150 10 Russia 120 Q: Other than Japanese, which country’s people do you think would be good to have as a partner (husband or wife)? (By sex, free answer)
Rank MaleN=2,468 Votes Rank FemaleN=2,806 Votes 1 USA 368 1 USA 776 2 Korea 297 2 UK 347 3 China 174 3 Italy 278 4 France 134 4 France 210 5 Russia 117 5 Korea 208 6 Thailand 99 6 Australia 145 7 UK 95 7 Germany 131 8 Italy 92 8 Canada 99 9= Taiwan 73 9 Switzerland 47 9= Australia 73 10 Spain 34 First, looking at the East-West split – or more accurately, perhaps, the caucasian-Asian split (I’m not aware of any black Western role-models in Japan) we see that for men, 36% of the total votes were for Western wives versus 26% for Asian women, favouring the West (I’m including Russia, with Maria Sharapova as the popular image of the country) by just over a third. However for women there is a marked difference; about 74% in total choose the West (over 40% for the USA alone) versus a mere 7.4% for the East, a massive ten to one vote for Europe and the USA.
Next, looking at the detailed age breakdown, it’s only in the teenage girls group that the USA fails to top the charts, losing out to France and Korea, and equal with the UK. For men in their twenties, American women are preferred over the second-placed Korean women by almost 60%, and the Chinese are back in fifth, gaining just over a third of the number of votes of the USA. However, the older men get, the stronger the charms of the Asian neighbours become, with the gap at its smallest being just a mere three votes. Similarly, for men in their forties and over, Chinese women cut the gap from a third to about a half of the USA score.
For women, as they get older (ignoring the over sixty bracket which has a very small sample size, so may be rather inaccurate) the attraction to American men only get stronger; in their twenties, Americans get just under a quarter of the vote, but by their fifties, it surpasses three in ten. Despite the charms of the disturbingly Harry Potter-like Bae Yong Joon Korean men do not seem to be particularly favoured by the middle-aged demographic.
These two main trends noted above are perhaps reflections on Japanese society as much as on foreign stereotypes. The younger men hold images of themselves as charming the sophisticated Western woman, but as they age (and visit dodgy hostess bars…) they come to realise that perhaps only Asian women could accept their typical Japanese behaviour. For women, after having been around Japanese men for many, many years, they too may come to realise that the Western stereotypes of politeness and chivalry are the only things that could satisty them in marriage.
Bonus points if you can name the people pictured…
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You say:”I Just think that it is pretty sad that an entire race is judged by the actions of a few people. ”
And then say:”Asian women want to adapt the Black Culture (like our music clothes and style) ”
What IS Black Culture, music, cloths and style??? Are YOU not judging the entire RACE of black people based on the music, cloths and style that SOME of them utilize?
I am Black too, and I don’t listen to culturally black music, wear the same type of cloths or have the same style as most of the black people I know. Yet YOU judge Black people as liking certain types of music, having a certain style and wearing certain types of cloths….calling it culture.
Guess what, every ethnic group of people for the most part adopt a certain mindset which makes them belong and fit in to their culture….example being the Black culture. This same thing holds true to Japanese, Chinese, White, Mexican etc. yet, there are still SOME who don”t readily fit their own culture. So its not about judging a person or a culture its about recognizing that most people of a certain race automatically adopt the habits of their race…PERIOD. Its not a bad thing.
About her family, I see nothing wrong with wanting to keep the purity of a culture in tact. It does not mean you NEED to look down at or hate any other culture it only means that family values their culture AS-IS and does not want it to be weakened or diluted by people from other cultures. Beautiful paintings are in fact beautiful because of the DIFFERENCES in tones, colors, shades etc. If they all blur together that distinctive flower or tree becomes nothing more than a blur in a sea of blurred colors, and textures. Though I myself am married to a Japanese female I do not want to see what I have done nor what just about every member of my family has done [which is to marry outside of their race] to be adopted by everyone. I value the distinctive difference of Japanese culture, Latin culture, French culture etc. I want to see those cultures continue to be distinctive. If we all just blended together the unique qualities that make all of our cultures true and beautiful and rich will cease to exist. Furthermore it is their right to feel any way they choose for themselves and their loved ones. They are Blood, you are an outsider just one person in 6+ Billion people on earth that might cross her path.
Getting along with other races does not mean intermarriage, or sharing aspects of dress, music, styles etc. it ONLY means excepting a difference and valuing that difference as unique to itself. Its simplistic thinking that leads people to think my culture is better, that culture is worse, and wanting to do away with all that are different. Again back to the painting analogy, what if blue thought red was worse and more un-pure what would a painting of only blue look like? Diversity needs to be kept intact as much as possible otherwise there is no beauty, blurring and mixing ends diversity as all becomes one.
I say respect their right to want what they think is the best for their daughter and their culture and move on…. What hurts me the most is seeing a interracial couple have kids and see those kids not contribute or know about their own culture. I see White/Asian kids that don’t know a single word in Japanese. How is weakening the Japanese culture one child at a time good? How is weakening any culture one child at a time good? And which culture will that child how adopt as its own? For people in a interracial relationship good, I hope it works and they work out the complex issues that their children will face….an issue neither parent knows first hand and can truly understand. Having children is more of a responsibility that people take it for, indeed most of it is about selfish lust.
Coconut,
You make some interesting observations. Much of your post has the appearance of a viewpoint that is strikingly similar to certain aspects of the “seperate but equal” racial segregation that occurred here in the US until the 1960′s. I’m not saying that it reaches the same extreme, but there are similarities.
In regards to your painting analogy, while it is true that if you blend all the colors together, sooner or later they all become a mess of grey, but don’t forget that without the mixing of the three prime colors, (red, blue and yellow) we wouldn’t have greens and oranges and purples and all of the other colors in the spectrum.
Regarding this:
” I say respect their right to want what they think is the best for their daughter and their culture and move on…. What hurts me the most is seeing a interracial couple have kids and see those kids not contribute or know about their own culture. I see White/Asian kids that don’t know a single word in Japanese. How is weakening the Japanese culture one child at a time good? How is weakening any culture one child at a time good? And which culture will that child how adopt as its own? For people in a interracial relationship good, I hope it works and they work out the complex issues that their children will face….an issue neither parent knows first hand and can truly understand. Having children is more of a responsibility that people take it for, indeed most of it is about selfish lust.”
I would like to offer a few observations of my own.
I have met my share of “pure-blooded” people of just about every race who have no knowledge or even interest in the culture of their people. I know people of Chinese decent who don’t speak a word of Chinese, Japanese decent who don’t speak a word of Japanese, Hispanic decent who don’t speak a word of Spanish and so on.
Simply because a child is biracial, it does not necessarily mean that they are weakening the culture. I wonder if you may be confusing culture with race. I have several friends who are deeply knowledgable of cultures without being the race from which that culture originated. For instance, I have a white friend who is very knowledgable in both the Chinese and Japanese culture. Just because he is white, it doesn’t mean that culture has been diluted. My sister-in-law is biracial (hispanic/white) and she can speak Spanish. Once my nephew is old enough, even though he is 1/4 hispanic, I expect that he will be able to speak Spanish as well.
You say:
“Its simplistic thinking that leads people to think my culture is better, that culture is worse, and wanting to do away with all that are different. Again back to the painting analogy, what if blue thought red was worse and more un-pure what would a painting of only blue look like? Diversity needs to be kept intact as much as possible otherwise there is no beauty, blurring and mixing ends diversity as all becomes one.”
This seems contradictory. You imply that an all blue painting would be bad, but then you say that diversity must remain intact. If that is the case, then you would have an all blue painting, an all red painting and so on. Her family rejecting him simply because he is black may have nothing at all to do with preserving their culture and more to do with preserving their race. Her family may very well want to do away with all that are different.
Mixing races does not damage diversity, if anything it creates more diversity. Combining cultures results in formations of sub-cultures with their own distinctiveness. Keeping a bloodline “pure” for it’s own sake is an outdated idea. It is the precursor to racism and a step back for us all.
“Simply because a child is biracial, it does not necessarily mean that they are weakening the culture. I wonder if you may be confusing culture with race. I have several friends who are deeply knowledgable of cultures without being the race from which that culture originated. ”
First off lets be clear as to what Culture is and what Race is…Culture is indeed a living entity bought to life by people of a certain Race that practice it, ie Keep It Alive. There are races of American Indians who keep their culture alive via dance, telling stories and other ritualistic activities. The Arabic race keeps its culture alive by family gatherings were the men sit and smoke from a shared pipe, drink, eat and talk. This is but one way the Arab race keeps its close family ties and bonds….via practicing its age old culture. Because of this these cultures, some of which are centuries old are still alive even when individuals of their races have long since died. Thinning out a Race will in no short order mark the end of that Culture -or- the blending of that culture into other cultures as the Races themselves blend.
I have bi-racial children in my family and know ‘second hand’ because only the bi-racial child itself knows first hand what it must go through in terms of racial and cultural identification. Often times the child grows up not bonding to either race and thereby chipping away at both races ability to stay alive.
“This seems contradictory. You imply that an all blue painting would be bad, but then you say that diversity must remain intact. If that is the case, then you would have an all blue painting, an all red painting and so on. Her family rejecting him simply because he is black may have nothing at all to do with preserving their culture and more to do with preserving their race.”
You car confused, a painting or world with only ONE color would be a bad thing because it is not diverse…. The analogy was to show that diversity is needed, colors can blend a bit, shades and change but ultimately clear differences are needed in order to provide contrast and life to anything. How good would that burger be if it was blended up into a homogeneous soup of one consistency and color? Do you eat your food as distinguished separate things on your plate or do you blend it all up into a grey soup and drink it with a straw?
“Simply because a child is biracial, it does not necessarily mean that they are weakening the culture. I wonder if you may be confusing culture with race. I have several friends who are deeply knowledgable of cultures without being the race from which that culture originated. ”
First off lets be clear as to what Culture is and what Race is…Culture is indeed a living entity bought to life by people of a certain Race that practice it, ie Keep It Alive. There are races of American Indians who keep their culture alive via dance, telling stories and other ritualistic activities. The Arabic race keeps its culture alive by family gatherings were the men sit and smoke from a shared pipe, drink, eat and talk. This is but one way the Arab race keeps its close family ties and bonds….via practicing its age old culture. Because of this these cultures, some of which are centuries old are still alive even when individuals of their races have long since died. Thinning out a Race will in no short order mark the end of that Culture -or- the blending of that culture into other cultures as the Races themselves blend.
I have bi-racial children in my family and know ‘second hand’ because only the bi-racial child itself knows first hand what it must go through in terms of racial and cultural identification. Often times the child grows up not bonding to either race and thereby chipping away at both races ability to stay alive.
“This seems contradictory. You imply that an all blue painting would be bad, but then you say that diversity must remain intact. If that is the case, then you would have an all blue painting, an all red painting and so on. Her family rejecting him simply because he is black may have nothing at all to do with preserving their culture and more to do with preserving their race.”
You car confused, a painting or world with only ONE color would be a bad thing because it is not diverse…. The analogy was to show that diversity is needed, colors can blend a bit, shades and change but ultimately clear differences are needed in order to provide contrast and life to anything. How good would that burger be if it was blended up into a homogeneous soup of one consistency and color? Do you eat your food as distinguished separate things on your plate or do you blend it all up into a grey soup and drink it with a straw?
Put another way, all the races like individual meats, vegetables, herbs, and spices and their associated essences and aromas which are their cultures need to remain as individual as possible while at the same time celebrating each others attributes like a stew. Every ingredient is clearly seen, some have gotten smaller yet all lends itself to the whole in the celebration of life and the essences of each contribute to the whole stew which we call humanity.
“Simply because a child is biracial, it does not necessarily mean that they are weakening the culture. I wonder if you may be confusing culture with race. I have several friends who are deeply knowledgable of cultures without being the race from which that culture originated. ”
First off lets be clear as to what Culture is and what Race is…Culture is indeed a living entity bought to life by people of a certain Race that practice it, ie Keep It Alive. There are races of American Indians who keep their culture alive via dance, telling stories and other ritualistic activities. The Arabic race keeps its culture alive by family gatherings were the men sit and smoke from a shared pipe, drink, eat and talk. This is but one way the Arab race keeps its close family ties and bonds….via practicing its age old culture. Because of this these cultures, some of which are centuries old are still alive even when individuals of their races have long since died. Thinning out a Race will in no short order mark the end of that Culture -or- the blending of that culture into other cultures as the Races themselves blend. A Culture is a race of peoples oldest living relative, sadly too many cultures have already died off and are being neglected.
I have bi-racial children in my family and know ‘second hand’ because only the bi-racial child itself knows first hand what it must go through in terms of racial and cultural identification. Often times the child grows up not bonding to either race and thereby chipping away at both races ability to stay alive.
“This seems contradictory. You imply that an all blue painting would be bad, but then you say that diversity must remain intact. If that is the case, then you would have an all blue painting, an all red painting and so on. Her family rejecting him simply because he is black may have nothing at all to do with preserving their culture and more to do with preserving their race.”
You are confused, a painting or world with only ONE color would be a bad thing because it is not diverse…. The analogy was to show that diversity is needed, colors can blend a bit, shades and change but ultimately clear differences are needed in order to provide contrast and life to anything. How good would that burger be if it was blended up into a homogeneous soup of one consistency and color? Do you eat your food as distinguished separate things on your plate or do you blend it all up into a grey soup and drink it with a straw?
Put another way, all the races like individual meats, vegetables, herbs, and spices and their associated essences and aromas which are their cultures need to remain as individual as possible while at the same time celebrating each others attributes like a stew. Every ingredient is clearly seen, some have gotten smaller yet all lends itself to the whole in the celebration of life and the essences of each contribute to the whole stew which we call humanity.
Well said.
Generally, culture is defined as the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic or age group. From an anthropological standpoint, it is defined as the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another. Neither of these definitions prohibit those of other social, ethnic or age groups from participating in a culture that was started by a specific group.
A perfect example of this is the Native American Lumbee tribe. The Lumbee currently consists of members of black, white, and Native American ancestry. It is believed that the original tribe joined forces with abandoned English settlers in the late 16th century, later joining forces with several other local tribes to defend against the Europeans who were trying to eliminate Native American tribes en masse. The Lumbee adopted english as the common language and over time, became even more diverse as they absorbed runaway slaves and white deserters from various wars into the tribe.
Though they are no longer the “pure-blood” Native American tribe that they once were, their traditions, culture and beliefs are very much alive. They are currently more than 40,000 members strong. Just because the ancestry of many of the members is not necessarily directly connected to the ancient original members of the tribe, it doesn’t make them any less able to continue to promote their culture.
You said:
“…Because of this these cultures, some of which are centuries old are still alive even when individuals of their races have long since died…”
The cultures still live because they are passed on and practiced. Regardless of who began the practices, as long as there is at least one person, be they of the race of the culture’s origin or not, who practices and passes on said culture, it will continue to live. So, theoretically, an entire race could be killed or die off, but as long as someone still practices it, the culture could live on.
Another thing to take into account is the fact that cultures like people evolve through the passage of time. Look at Japanese culture. Some of the ways still continue, but other ways have been abandoned or adapted in order to progress. These progressions do not mean the death of the culture, only the evolution of it. The Native Americans you mentioned still have the dances, stories and rituals that they practice, but they also drive automobiles, live in houses and buy food at supermarkets. As for the Middle Easterners, let’s look at Yemen. They still have their traditions, such as the majority of men wearing a knife known as a jambiya, which is a dagger that men have worn since long before Islam was around, the wearing of the Niqab (the face veil) by women and the traditional smoking of the hookah while conversing with friends or family, but they also watch television, drive cars and own automatic firearms (some studies has shown that there are almost 60 million guns in Yemen and 98% of men own at least one; most own 4-5). The cultures that don’t adapt have a tendency to die off.
You said:
Often times the child grows up not bonding to either race and thereby chipping away at both races ability to stay alive.”
I don’t really see this as the case. For every biracial child, there are hundreds to thousands of single race children who are born. This is hardly a “chipping away” of either race. Let’s look at the flipside of the coin. What about the children who bond to both races? They are then able to pass the two cultures on to their children. That’s a two for one deal. Maintaining the culture is the responsibility of the parents to pass on, as well as the responsibility of the child to retain. A single race child can reject a culture just as easily as a biracial one, just as a biracial child can retain and pass on a culture just as easily as a single race child.
While many cultures are much like your stew analogy, in that they are individual ingredients, there are also those that have blended or changed, much like the broth/water and flour that make up the gravy of the stew. Each ingredient does remain whole to an extent, but part of each ingredient becomes absorbed into the gravy and blends with the other individual ingredients. These absorbed ingredients compliment the surrounding parts. They don’t dilute them. In order for the stew to work, some blending must occur. Without it, you would just have piles of meat, vegetables, spices, flour, broth and water.
Very well, we have both expressed out opinions…in the mean time life goes on…
I enjoyed this debate. Thank you.
With regard to the comment of a lack of positive black role models in the Japanese media, I present exhibit A: Dante Carver, aka “oniisan” from the Softbank family. He’s an unusually positive image amongst ALL ethnically non-Japanese TV personalities to be honest. Based on a recent published interview, this is due to careful choice about the acting gigs he chooses to ensure none are belittling.
Anon, you’re correct indeed that Dante Carver is a positive role, and I have a lot of respect for him for not just being “another gaijin talent”; however, I initially made this post before Dante Carver started his Softbank role.
It’s time people knew the truth, and the only person that can vouch for Dante Carver being a positive role model is me…. his girlfriend of four years… Or should I say two years! Imagine the shock and heart break of finding the man you were gonna spend the rest if your life with has been cheating and lying to you for the last two years… AND to this day won’t admit the truth to you despite the overwhelming evidence!
Does living in a foreign country permit a person to leave behind their morals and human decency?!?!
Does becoming famous allow you to treat people like crap!?!?!
I’m sorry but I do not think these actions qualify someone as a positive role model, and I’ve long list ANY respect for him!!!!!
You people need to get a grip and back up from the Drama wagon.
First off, its not Dante’s “Responsibility” to be anyones role model.
Second, he, you and me are all human and are liable to do everything humans do….and guess what, its not anyone else’s business but their own and those personally involved.
People in the USA “THINK” they have a right to know every detail of “Famous” peoples business and that those people should live up to some higher standard….Not!
It’s true that it’s not his responsibility, but he does have to realize that his chosen profession puts him in a position where he might be looked at as a role model. He also has to realize that public image can make or break a career in the public eye. The majority of us can get away with more because when we screw up, it usually doesn’t make it onto the cover of every magazine in the country. If famous people care about their reputation or their public image, they need to set a certain standard of conduct that they should follow.
As far as knowing the details on famous peoples lives, personally I don’t really care. My viewpoint has always been the “shut up and sing” kind of thing. I don’t care what an actor’s political views are. I don’t care what causes they support. I don’t care who they are sleeping or not sleeping with. If they are good actors, that’s all that matters to me.
Good observations Detective. This guy might want to have his PR person get in good with the press, as it seems the media can make or break someone. As we have seen with Tiger Woods, the media can publish enough bad press on someone as to make their own mother hate them. The public as a whole is pretty weak minded and generally are influenced easily. If this person makes a living based on public sentiment then a steady stream of damage control [before the damage] ie maintenance of his public image would be prudent.
Having said that, I think the Japanese culture as a whole is one of a “Hive” mentality….where individualism and uniqueness is not necessarily embraced. In Japan public sentiment can probably sway extremely fast. Probably few cultures realize the differences between citizens of different countries on a sub-conscious level. When someone in the US says “I am an American” they are only saying they are a citizen of the United States, culturally they could be of any race, hold different cultural values and maybe even speak different a different language. When someone Japanese says “I am Japanese” they speak of shared citizenship, language, and culture with every other Japanese as well as the land.
Very true. Using your Tiger Woods example; in the US, even when he was in the deepest of the hole he dug for himself, he still had a following of supporters. We tend to be very forgiving of the transgressions of those who are in the spotlight. That or we tend to forget the transgressions easily.
In Japan, given the “hive” mentality, all it takes is one piece of truly bad press and suddenly Dante would be lucky to find a job flipping burgers, let alone an acting gig. From what I have heard, the Japanese can have a tendency to hold a grudge from time to time.
As usual all of you are fools and it’s left to me to sort out the wisdom in a matter. The fact is these polls mean nothing for polls can be manipulated to say anything you want them to say. The use of polls is nothing but a psychological tool by racists to advance the ridiculous idea that they are superior in some way and people who take them too seriously are fools. The fact is that when two brave hearts meet often they will let their love for one another determine the course of their actions even if their love does not have pleasant consequences. There are not always happy endings to a love affair whether you’re marrying outside your race or not. But for true love you owe it to yourself to at least try.
Sappy romanticism aside, I seem to have missed the “wisdom” you claimed to possess on this matter. Let’s say there is an upcoming wedding with 100 guests attending, the question of chicken or fish for the meal is posed. 75% say chicken, 19% say fish and the remaining 6% say that they have no preference. The meals chosen for the 6% is divided into 1/2 chicken meals and 1/2 fish meals. Because those without a preference were assigned those meals, does that make the “poll” somehow fixed? Is it still, as you say, “nothing but a psychological tool used by racists to advance the ridiculous idea that they are somehow superior in some way”? I realize the absurdity of this question given my example, but your comment is made as a sweeping generalization, and as such, would include polls such as the one mentioned above.
A poll is simply a series of questions asked of a set amount of people. While it is true that certain polls can be manipulated, I see no reason why this one would be. It is a simple ‘If you couldn’t do X, what would you choose. Your options are A, B, C, D, E…’ and those who took the poll simply chose from the options.
Your claim of racism is entirely unfounded in this case. What you apparently fail to realize is that DIMSDRIVE is a Japanese company. If you don’t believe me, here is their website: http://www.dims.ne.jp/
Their headquarters is in Tokyo.
This wasn’t a survey taken by a bunch of white men looking to inflate their egos. It was Japanese people asking other Japanese people a list of questions. Because you happen to disagree with the questions asked, does that still make the DIMSDRIVE a bunch of racists (again, using your all-encompassing definition of a poll)? I think not. What would be their reason to manipulate the data?
Perhaps, in the future, you should make sure that you know what you are talking about before calling others fools, Daniel, lest you be judged as one yourself.
Isn’t THIS thread supposed to be about.
“Japanese Women dream of the USA”
You missed the wisdom detective because you are a fool. It is impossible for a fool to see anything that is wise because it goes against his nature. And your nature is to be a fool, for your father was a fool and his father before him. You got it honestly.
Given that you are unable to support your viewpoint with any actual facts, Danny, you resort to not only insulting me, but insulting my family. That is a sign of someone who lacks the intelligence or ability to support their side of a debate. Because of this, you have already lost. Instead of doing research, checking sources, and forming a clear argument to support your case, you chose to act much like a five year old. If you want to insult me, feel free, but the insulting of my family is just a sad, desperate, childish and cowardly act.
Since you seem to enjoy using the word “fool” so much, perhaps I should enlighten you on a quote by Abraham Lincoln.
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Since you lack any evidence supporting your argument, it would have been better for you to have remained silent. Instead, you chose to remove all doubt.
An Actual Detective and Coconut…
I will be honest here. The debate you two put on were absolutely incredible. I feel you both hit very valid points.
You both seem quite intelligent. I can only dream to have the brains you two seem to have. I’ve only caught the back end of this series of comments, but the learning experience was very pleasing. I thank you both.
Wow, reading through these comments full of ignorance and generalizations makes my head want to explode. Just like every other article I’ve seen dealing with interracial relationships. Anyway, back to the real reason why I am commenting.
I know this may seem a tad bit late (understatement) but how did you come to the conclusions that “women, after having been around Japanese men for many, many years, they too may come to realise that the Western stereotypes of politeness and chivalry are the only things that could satisty them in marriage.” Of course I’m assuming that the conclusion suggests that as Japanese females grow older, their taste for American men grow stronger. The statistics don’t support that and the fact that “Japanese” wasn’t an option makes me curious as to how you’ve come to that conclusion of the shift in interest of Japanese to American men.
If I wanted to prove your conclusion, I would have to study a large group of women over a span of 10 to maybe 20 years asking the same question “what nationality of men would you most want to marry?” each year and analyze any trends to prove the conclusion.
Just saying. Nice website.
That’s exactly what I was thinking, “Japanese” wasn’t an option, so we can’t see if there is any preference towards westerners at all.
There isn’t any chronological statistics going on either, so we can’t extrapolate any trends. These may have been the same results for the last 10 years,
or maybe they spiked for 6 months because of “My Darling is a Foreigner” or whatever it’s called.
What can be determined:
Given that this article was originally written on the 6th of January in 2006 and it states that the DIMSDRIVE internet survey was given in “September of last year”, we know that it was an internet-based survey given in September of 2005. Given that “My Darling is a Foreigner” was released in April of 2010, it has no relation at all to this survey.
It is an “alternative” survey. It is like asking “If you can’t get your favorite beverage, which one would you choose instead.”
Out of the alternatives, the US came out on top. That is all the survey is saying. It isn’t necessarily saying that Japanese women prefer American men over Japanese men . It is only saying that if Japanese men were off the table, their next choice would likely be American men. (and to a lesser extent Japanese men prefering American women as their primary alternative, given that the people surveyed included 2,468 men and 2, 806 women. )
you are right.
It may be more accurate if the survey has done at Okinawa, some girls wants to marry US soldiers…years ago…
The fact is Japanese women dream of the USA’s (and any other country including Japan)for money.(meaning economical security)
The reality is very few Japanese woman wants/ need to marry Americans not like some south Asian countries.
I think.
I would really like to meet Asian woman, 38 swm
I would like to find a Japanese country girl. Looking to come home to a all-american country boy.
i too. look forward toan asian wife. i will honor her, her parents, family and ancestors. hope she finds me and wants to come to U.S.A . She will be able to stand tall.