Trend (i.e., more Chinese women marry whites than Chinese men do)?Įconomists and sociologists have previously proposed models focusing on education and socioeconomic status in order to explain these patterns, apparently without much luck. The United States and Britain most blacks who marry whites are black men marrying white women, rather than black women marrying white men? And why do most Chinese who “outmarry” exhibit the opposite Sure, maybe it’s centuries of colonialist perceptions of certain racial groups as “masculine” or “feminine,” “dominant” or “submissive.” But maybe it’sĪ recent Center for Economic and Policy Research discussion paper looks at pronounced asymmetries in interracial couples.
