I Still Love You by Trinh TUAN
Whether I am in Los Angeles, Berlin, Shanghai or Tokyo, I run into mixed couples, that consist of a Western man and an Oriental woman. In fact, most of us who live in any major cosmopolitan city in the world know of such couples. I personally have Spanish male friend married to a Hong Kong Chinese-Canadian, an Englishman, the brother of a close friend, dating a Korean-American, a German gentleman, the father of another friend, married to a Thai woman and the list just goes on… However, what continues to baffle me is the lack of couples consisting of Caucasian women and Oriental men. I just do not run into them – not at social settings, not at the movies and not even at the airports. Its definitely not a cultural thing or some kind of a turn-off due to the Oriental machismo because I do run into Western women dating or marrying men from African, Middle-eastern, and all sorts of other backgrounds, that are as culturally different and may stereo-typically be considered even more male-dominated.
So what is it? What does makes a girl from London, New York or Paris not date a man from Kobe, Beijing or Jakarta?
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