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That’s roughly DOUBLE the amount of WMAF couples then AMWF. If that’s not inequality , then I don’t know what is.In the United States, there are 529,000white male — Asian female married couples and just 219,000 Asian male — white female married couples, according to the 2010 U.S. census. http://cholakovv.com/en/blog/2450
What is this? This is basically a population control policy. So, of the approximately 40,000 Chinese immigrants that came to this country right before 1882 to break their backs doing the most menial jobs in this country (i.e., working railroads, washing clothes, and serving food to the White man), only 136 of them were women.Enforcement of the Page Act resulted not only in the reduction of prostitutes but also the “virtually complete exclusion of Chinese women from the United States”. In 1882 alone, during the few months before the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the beginning of its enforcement, 39,579 Chinese entered the U.S., and only 136 of them were women. Therefore, Chinese were unable to create families within the U.S. The Page Act was so successful in preventing Chinese women from immigration and consequently keeping the ratio of females to males low that the law “paradoxically encouraged the very vice it purported to be fighting: prostitution.” Not until after World War II was an appropriate gender balance established, because between 1946 and 1952 almost 90 percent of all Chinese immigrants were women. Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Act_of_1875
So not only were our Asian forefathers in this country forced to take on the lowest paid, most undesirable, most backbreaking manual labor jobs in the country, they were completely shut out of marriage and family life, and forced to die, childless and alone. That’s straight up genocide.Anti-miscegenation laws or miscegenation laws were laws that enforced racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage and sometimes also sex between members of different races. Such laws were first introduced in North America from the late seventeenth century onwards by several of the Thirteen Colonies, and subsequently by many US states and US territories and remained in force in many US states until 1967. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws
As you can see , genocide is not simply about just using artillery , guns , and bullets to wipe a group out of existence. It doesn’t have to be like the rwandan genocide in Africa. It is simply : The use of a coordinated plan of different actions aimed at destroying the cultural , language , feelings , and the dignity of individuals belonging to these groups. Laws such as the Page Act used to exclude Chinese woman from immigrating , and other anti-miscegenation laws used to forbade us from intermarrying with other races are major offences are a part of the coordinated strategies used to eliminate us.It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.
The birth of the WMAF pairing is rooted in American white GIs heading off to Asia to kill our Asian brothers in our motherlands, and carrying home with them Asian sisters as trophies. Not people , but trophies. Spoils of war. This was the first significant wave of immigration of Asian women into the US after the Page Act of 1875, and almost all of them were married to White men.During and immediately after World War II, more than 60,000 U.S, servicemen that married women overseas were promised that their wives and babies would receive free passage to the U.S. The US Army’s “Operation War Bride”, which eventually transported more than 70,000 women and children, began in Britain in early 1946. The first batch of war brides (455 British women and their 132 children) arrived in the US on 4 February 1946. By one estimate, 300,000 foreign war brides came to the United States following the passage of the War Brides Act of 1945, of which 51,747 were Filipino.
But now you see this flood of Asian women coming into the country, but they’re all hitched to white guys that participated in the killing of your brothers, fathers, and uncles abroad. You can’t touch any of them, and you stillcan’t find any love or happiness outside your race, because anti-miscegenation laws would not be repealed for another generation until 1967 in Loving v. Virginia. Meanwhile, you’re still confronted with daily images and media propaganda that you’re fundamentally a vile human being, alternately sexually deviant and asexual, who no woman in her right mind should consider marrying because society has considered you subhuman. They want to eliminate you.Chinese men hurt white men’s ability to earn money, “while Chinese women caused disease and immorality among white men”
Meanwhile, we still face the same sort of media representation and emasculating stereotypes that came into being during the anti-miscegenation era to discourage intermarriage with Asian men. WMAF, on the other hand, has become totally normalized in media and Hollywood.When the Korean War ended in 1953, small numbers of students and professionals entered the United States. A larger group of immigrants included Western princesses married with U.S. servicemen. As many as one in four Korean immigrants in the United States can trace their immigration to the wife of a serviceman.
There are many , many , many more. Theirs enough enough space here to show them all , but you get the point.
So to the Asian women who are also reading this: Please understand that when you see that Asian Man on the street give you the stinkeye for walking down the street holding a white dude’s hand, it’s not because YOU don’t have the right to choose who you date or fall in love with, but because your relationship is a painful reminder of a NOT TOO DISTANT PAST when Asian men were specifically targeted for slow genocide through institutional and cultural means in this country. WMAF couples are simply a symbol of oppression. That means, right or wrong, you’re always going to face questions from the Asian Male community over the nature of the relationship, and if you can’t empathize or understand where we’re coming from, don’t be surprised when we don’t seem too sympathetic about so-called “yellow fever” and “fetishism.”Interestingly, some participants were most bothered when they saw Asian American women of the same ethnicity as theirs date white American men more than they were bothered to see the women date, say, African American men.
The stronger reaction to white American interracial dating is most likely a response to the very skewed numbers, meaning the white American males represent their main source of “competition” for Asian American women to date. What is more likely, however, is that white American males represent the privileges of hegemonic masculinity that place Asian American men as sexually unattractive.
However, participants were careful to explain that they were not racist, which reveals a complex attitude toward out-group dating. Participants upheld the individual freedom for people to date whom they wanted and also emphasized that racial harmony is an ideal. Their frustration, however, was with the skewed direction of out-group dating and, presumably, a frustration with being socially marginalized based on social identities outside of their control so that hegemonic white American males could enjoy more privileges.(Chen, 1999; Cheng, 1999; Connell, 2005).Source: “Being An Asian Male is really hard actually”