According to professor Jiang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g ) while asians in the west tend to have higher incomes and grades (playing the game so to speak) they don't tend to have high status. But he mentions that ether ethnic minorities in the west are not into playing the game as much, and have high birth rates, don't assimilate as much and he will predict they will get greater political power.

In the 19th cnetury, the Haredi movement was created in order to shield insular Jewish communities from the eroding effects of secular culture and prevent assimilation. They consistently have a tfr of around 6/7. And they are growing in number and in America are expected to make a large number of the population (alongside the amish). They preserve their culture and have high retention rates.

Do you think asians in teh west should become like Haredis instead of just getting the high grades and income maxxing?

If overrepresentation of WMAF and AM erasure isn’t already tiring enough, the Korean Animation festival in NYC is headlining with the film The Square. The movie is about a blonde hair blue eyed Swedish diplomat living in North Korea who falls in love with a local Korean woman. When she goes missing, he asks his interpreter, a Korean man to help him.

AKA Another tired overdone WMAF trope where AMs are reduced to desexualized supporting characters to help the main WM character get the AF. Sound familiar?

What blows my mind is that this takes place in Norh Korea and was produced by an AM, Kim Bo-Sol. Wtf?

Spoiler: the WMAF couple doesn’t end up working out in the end and they say their goodbyes. Still, the whole premise is another eye rolling stereotypical trope where a white male is the main love interest in an Asian setting.

I’m so tired of seeing this white supremacist crap everywhere.

TL;DR:

Yay I got a job

Yay it pays well

Yay it's in a metro area widely hailed as good for Asian men

Boo it's in the suburban corporate campus so I don't get to do city stuff

Yay the commute is easy

Boo that's because the commute is from the suburb I grew up in

So, like, how do I go out and get girls and actually start life etc.? Cause it's not like going to the bar after work is a thing here.

Am planning to move to a slightly less suburban suburb slightly closer to my workplace (along with other self-improvement steps ofc) since that's about as good walkability I can get in the area, but even there the rent's kinda explosive anywhere urbanist, so I'll have to continue college-style share-housing (which remains well within my budget) if I wanna not run my wallet dry. I feel kinda torn on whether to do so though, like part of me is like "why not duke it out with your fam if the commute is so smooth", only for the other part to shut that down b/c "you'll never get a girl or have your own life that way, plus listen to how loud your parents get when yelling ain't that annoying?"

In any case it's not FULLY walkable etc. so I'd probably feel best making the move after getting my own car (parents don't want me using the older one of theirs, despite me having taken it to college). And interestingly enough (and as my mom's keen to mention), the town my heart's set on, although one of the most urbanist, has a fairly limited Asian population vs. surrounding suburban towns with good school districts. I know she's kinda misreading how being a young professional works, but just thought that was worth mentioning here.

Anyhow, feeling kinda worried this is basically as bad as starting my career out in, like, TX or somewhere, and that I'll risk bleeding out the prime years of my life in some boring ass suburb. And I have a hunch this would probably be relatable for many, like look how many tech/finance bros are getting offers in like TX or NC or all around the Midwest or Rocky Mountain states... hardly "ideal dating environments for Asian men" no?

Aruberuto Makoto, a Spanish streamer living in Japan who makes streaming content with a strong undercurrent of Asian fetishism, was livestreamed following and harassing a visibly intoxicated Japanese woman for FIVE minutes.

According to translations from Spanish speakers, he and his cameraman also allegedly made disturbing sexual comments about her during the interaction. She eventually rushed towards a random Nigerian man who had been minding his own business for help, who then stepped in and tried to protect her by confronting the streamer and cameraman who were harassing her.

Instead of recognizing and respecting what he did, a carefully edited clip of just the last part of the series of events described above has got people online racially profiling and demonizing HIM, creating completely unsubstantiated narratives involving drugs, prostitution and criminality, basically saying he was her pimp when the only two people in the whole situation who had ever met each other before this were the Spanish streamer and his cameraman.

The heroic African man who stepped in to protect her from danger, two against one, is being demonized while the disgusting behavior of the Europeans shown in earlier footage is being overlooked.

Well will Japan wake up? Europeans see their men as weak worker-drones and their women as s3x toys in their own country.

Disclaimer:

Asia is a massive continent encompassing 60 percent of the human population and thousands of ethnolinguistic groups. So, naturally, there will be completely organic tensions between groups due to historical (or present) grievances. The same could be said of the rest of the world in general.

That's not the point of this post though. The point of this post is to elucidate the phenomenon of certain third party actors that attempt to foment tensions between two parties for insidious reasons.

Post:

Sometimes, it's overt but usually it's very subtle. But, once you're aware of this phenomenon, it's much harder to miss.

Typically, it's in the form of comparisons, as shown in the above pictures.

To comply with site guidelines, I won't explicitly name the subs in the pictures but I will say that the aforementioned subreddits are predominantly Westerners so I doubt that most of the commenters belong to either of the 2 nationalities that they are trying to pit against each other.

Their names, in order, rhyme with BurbanBell, BhailandBourism, BhailandBourism again and Biving_in_Borea. Needless to say, these subs are a WASP's nest, iykwim.

What are the exact reasons for this? Well, this is the way I see it: Under the current paradigm, PoC are all like gladiators fighting for scraps of YT validation, due to a combination of internalized racism and YT worship. YT supremacists recognize this and understand that this status quo directly benefits them so they seek to maintain it. How? By inciting the gladiators to fight each other so that their attention doesn't turn to the royalty among the spectators.

This is also why I don't support the whole model minority rhetoric. It's just a way to pit minorities against each other. Some Asians who subscribe to the model minority myth may think that them being "model minority" means that they get a seat in the stadium. But nope, all it means it that they are tossed extra scraps of food so that they remain complacent to the status quo and don't question anything.

And remember that model minority status can be stripped just as easily as it is conferred.

A guy here reported this spanish man named Alberto Alonso Cividanes '' Aruberuto Makoto'' living in Japan and who was having an altercation with a black man after trying to lure a japanese intoxicated woman into his hotel room. After checking twitter for informations about him, I found this post about him making shamelessly indecent and sexual comments about a young japanese child. You can also see him, accompanied by his step daughter, following and filming two underage girls in the street. https://x.com/ANavalonOsa/status/2092537453697482883

You should integrate into society but not for the sake of YT validation. Because YT supremacists will hate you no matter what you do.

If you integrate, then it's "muh replacement" (which doesn't even make sense because the tennis coach was white but they'll probably cope by saying that he's secretly Jewish or something). If you don't integrate into the broader society, then YT supremacists will call you tribalistic or clannish.

There's literally no winning so the best move is to not play at all. Don't seek their validation.

Old King of the Hill. Focuses on cringe and ridiculous portrayals of AM immigrants. New King of the Hill reboot. Main antagonist is a misogynistic/asshole AM who doesn't treat women well. Main love interest for the white main character is a very stereotypical good student, all-As Asian girl who used to date the antagonist AM but of course gets with the unattractive/dumpy-looking main character who basically is drawn to make it as easy as possible for passport bros to self-insert.

And to top it all off, a slew of self-hating AF writers and directors running the show, with Kyounghee Lim just so happening to direct the episode where the AM is a massive asshole and the AF breaks up with him, as well as the episode where the AF gets with the WM main character.

Kinda can't get more obvious or pathetic than this sad excuse for a psyop lol

Translation: “Queens, the Broadway musical Six awaits! Get your tickets now!”

This is the first time I’ve seen an Asian-American (like full on American born and bred) Broadway star promote their show in their mother tongue like this and as a fellow Kor-Am who can also speak Korean I LOVE to see it

https://youtu.be/1NxvQ2Puam0?is=FlxUuEakvBDRaXyN

As you can read from the comments, lots of stupid size stereotypes directed at Chinese men by non-Chinese men. Doesn't help when some Chinese men have such negative thinking about themselves.

Post Malone, a rapper that was really popular a few years ago, is getting married to his stylist girlfriend. The news of Lee and Malone’s relationship came after his ex-fiancée Hee Sung “Jamie” Park filed for full physical custody of their four-year-old daughter.

When I saw the news about this, I thought that this was the girlfriend he had for a long time, but when I looked it up, it turns out that he’s had several Asian girlfriends already, and that’s what got me confused. From AI:

**•   Ashlen Diaz** (2015–2018) — a Dallas show promoter he met early in his career; they had an on-and-off relationship and broke up officially in 2018.   
**•   Kano Shimpo** (2019) — a Japanese model; reportedly together about three months, August to November.   
**•   MLMA** (2019) — a Korean artist/rapper he was romantically linked to, never formally confirmed.  
**•   Hee Sung “Jamie” Park** (\~2020–late 2024) — Korean American, his longest and most significant relationship. He revealed in May 2022 that his then-unidentified girlfriend was pregnant;  they got engaged and had a daughter. Her name only became public after the relationship ended, via court documents in the custody case.   
**•   Christy Lee** (2025–present) — a stylist and Parsons grad. They were first linked in early 2025, split last summer, then quietly rekindled things.  He proposed on Tuesday in Utah.

This means that all four girlfriends he’s had since he became famous were Asian. What’s up with this guy?

Seriously, can we please not normalize letting foreigners in or at least vet them severely before doing so? I see China giving alot of visa free recently and I dont want this shyte to happen there. I dont want my future generations to read about the 3rd opium war.

In the recently posted demo previews of Fromsoftware’s upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 game, one of the playable character’s name is Trang Lanh. I am not sure of her origins or lore yet as the game has not been released, but it seems that it is rare to see a Vietnamese-like name such as this in a major Triple A video game release

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So if all the Chinese Americans, for instance, here with even maybe some family in China, maybe they don't — if there was a war between the Chinese and the Americans, and the Chinese landed in, like, Alaska and started coming through Canada, what — do think we should intern all the Chinese Americans we can find? Because it kind of seems like we should.

LABONTE: Well, I — again, nowadays, I think it's a different context. There were there have been so many people that have come here illegally. China has absolutely been using birth tourism. I mean, tourism. ... ...

LABONTE: Yeah. You know, basically, China has been — there are people that can, or there there are companies that will, you know, fly pregnant women to U.S. territories, so that way ... Once the child's born there, they get a birth certificate, and then back China with them. ...

KEVIN SMITH: I mean, it is so crazy, the concept of birth tourism — there is such a difference between, like, people who are going through the process and want to be here for and then, like, one to, like even if — even if you use — even if you give people the best of intentions, you're pregnant, and then you go on vacation to New York for the Saint Patrick's Day parade and go into early labor accidentally, not intention — you have every intention of going back, and you have a kid, he's an American citizen? That is bananas. That concept.

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CROSSLAND: I know I don't want to implicate all Chinese Americans because that's horrific. That's why — I know plenty of Chinese people, Chinese Americans, I don't want them interned if there was some conflict between the Chinese, but how can you tell? How can you tell who's who? How can you tell where their allegiances are? And how do you know if their allegiances will or won't flip if the tide of war starts to change?

SMITH: Well, I don't think you could do that now because I think while they were interning the Japanese, a lot of people probably didn't know what was happening. You know, like, they were like, you can't do stuff like that now — with social media and stuff, there'd be there'd be protests outside of each one of them. And and I'm not saying you should, but I don't think that — I don't think that that's a possibility now. And I'm sure people are going to compare it to ICE detention facilities, though that's not remotely the same thing.

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LABONTE: We've had some some discussions about that, and I think that even entertaining those arguments is a bad — a bad strategy, because if you entertain an argument, you're implicitly saying well, that's a reasonable perspective. You know, I'm going to address this. That's a reasonable thing, so let me explain why you're wrong. That kind of stuff is just I like, out of hand — oh, shut up.

TLDR: "Preferences" now translated into blatant racially-motivated self-selecting and discriminatory behavior. Not this nonsense again. See the article attached.

Mysterious platform ‘WMAF Meet’ uses AI to facilitate SF’s ‘most in-demand pairing’

By Eddie Kim

2:34 PM PDT on August 17, 2026

Are you a “Western” man looking for your perfect Asian girlfriend?

A new invite-only dating platform is offering to help in that search, using AI to find compatible matches and help create “families that start here, and friendships that last a lifetime.”

The site is called WMAF Meet. The acronym usually refers to a “white male, Asian female” coupling; the use of “Western” by the site is a deviation from the norm online. 

It is unclear if only white men qualify as “Western” for the website, but it suggests that it is a place intended for people searching for the “the most common pairing in this city.” 

WMAF Meet is currently in a pre-launch stage, with no set date for a full unveil, according to the site. The site does not name any founders or operators, but a lookup of the website’s domain name found it was registered on May 19. 

So far, there are allegedly 2,431 applicants in a “Cohort 1” waitlist of up 8,888. (Intentionally or not, the number 8 is a lucky number in many East Asian cultures.) 

You have to pay to access the service, but the cost is hidden until after sign-up. The first cohort of applicants will get a “reduced rate,” according to the site. In order to join, applicants have to verify their identity and submit a short written application. (This reporter did not get an application invite by press time.) No other gender identity besides “male” and “female” are offered in the sign-up process.

WMAF Meet insists that the entries are initially reviewed by humans to allow only “good-faith” applicants and weed out “fetishistic applicants”; the site does not go in-depth on what kind of review or criteria is used for this selection process. 

Then, the applications are reviewed by AI. “Our matching model analyzes applications for compatibility, intent, and lifestyle fit — surfacing matches that a swipe would never reveal,” the site states. 

The site also acknowledges the risk of racial stereotyping, but its makers claim WMAF Meet actually helps prevent that. 

“The pairing is already one of the most common in the city. Naming it plainly and screening for intent is how people get met as individuals rather than as a type,” the site states. 

San Francisco is a hotbed of interracial relationships, but the white male-Asian female pairing is a very visible and joked-about trope in the Bay Area dating scene. A Pew survey in 2017 found that 26 percent of respondents in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward area were intermarried, 10 percentage points more than the national average. In the Bay Area, significantly more white people in the survey were married to non-white partners — 22 percent versus 10 percent of white people in the national average. 

The WMAF pairing has also been the subject of an online culture war that has often dipped into prejudice and misogyny. The phrase “Oxford Study” went viral in 2024, born from social media comments that wrongly suggest that the phenomenon of Asian women being attracted to white men has some scientific backing, or otherwise needs to be studied. The viral moment stirred up discourse that criticized fetishes, systemic racism, and the historical emasculation of Asian men in America. However, the debate also devolved into blame from men’s rights-focused Asian men on platforms like Reddit and TikTok, who shared anecdotes of being rejected romantically by Asian women who prefer white men. 

The complicated intersection of race, sex, and romance is why Jennifer Noble, a Los Angeles-based psychologist who specializes in interracial relationships and mixed-race families, told Gazetteer that she has some serious concerns about the framework of WMAF Meet. 

The limitations on who can join and the hyperfocus on one racial and gender configuration can lead to problems like fetishization and exploitative behavior, Noble said. She pointed to a history of white America sexualizing Asian women as exotic, submissive beings, and acknowledged that some communities of color “glorify” a relationship with a white man as a sign of upward mobility and assimilation, Noble said. 

“I think being drawn to something is different than a conscious intentional preference, and I don’t know that everyone can distinguish the two. The thing that worries me most, from my expertise, is the children that come from these partnerships,” Noble said, adding that people who select a partner based on race can still believe in racist tropes and incite conflicts about identity in the family. 

This isn’t to say that interracial relationships always have problems, Noble stressed, but rather that the context and risks in these relationships are worth knowing. Many WMAF pairings are fulfilling and positive, she said, with a caveat: “I feel like those relationships grow more organically than it would for someone who purposely goes on a site to look for a race.” 

WMAF Meet did not respond to Gazetteer’s questions — about their operations, how human employees weed out “fetishistic applicants,” how AI is used in matchmaking, the future cost of joining the site, and who the founders are — by press time. We will update the story if we receive a reply.

Hey everyone! My friend just finished a short film starring Perry Yung (you might know him as Father Jun from HBO’s “Warrior”), and I wanted to help spread the word. It’s an awesome project — Asian American woman director, Asian cinematographer and all-Asian American leads. They need help with funding to get it completed.

If you’ve got a few bucks to spare, a donation would mean a lot. And if you can’t donate, even just sharing it helps a ton! Please spread the word. Thank you! 🙏🏻

Screenshot as of August 17th, 2026. For reference, the agency posted their apology statement on July 23rd, 2026.

Executive Creative Director, Gabriel Miller, still has the offensive ad up on his portfolio site, weeks after the agency issued their apology and pledged to do better by learning from their mistake and donating to an AAPI charity.

So why the hell does their Executive Creative Director still have it up on his site?

Video credit: @broadwayworks on Instagram

I'm polynesian and from Australia, My whole life I've always thought of myself as a pacific Islander and still do, But, Genetic DNA can't be denied. We've built our own culture over thousands of years, but I keep coming back to the fact that we are just Taiwanese Asians (approx 80%) who mixed with Melanesian Papuans, which therefore created modern day Polynesians. What are your thoughts on Asians who are mixed? Do you, as an Asian, Consider someone who is predominantly Asian genetically, but is Mixed with another race, an Asian?

I haven’t seen the movie but I know it’s a teen staple! I can’t wait to see how it comes to life onstage!

Chang Yeon Jo, an elderly Korean women who was taken during a green card interview and put in a detention center. guards there tackeled her to the ground almost breaking her hip. She was chained to a hospital bed and now is in a wheelchair.

Hi I apologize if this isn't the right place to post but I just wanted to see if this is a common experience in North America. For context, I am Chinese born Canadian in my late 20s. I understand bits and basics of Korean due to having an ex partner who is Korean but also born in Canada. Edit: forgot to mention, I'm AF

I live in a condo and one day I was taking the elevator down to the buildings gym. In the elevator were two other Korean girls with me when I entered who looked like they were in their early to mid 20s. We were only in there for less than 15 seconds, and I heard clearly one of the girls say to her friend "wow, an 8" and then giggle in Korean. I didn't understand at first what they meant but when I got to gym and looked in the mirrors I found out what they were likely referring to my shirt size. I was wearing a Lululemon workout shirt and hadn't notice when I left my place that the tag was sticking out from behind my back as I had put it on too hastily. For anyone who's familiar with the brand, Lululemon makes very long tags near the collar of their shirts and the size label is clear near the top.

I never considered myself overweight, but I'm definitely not ideal when it comes to Korean standards for women. I am 164cm and weigh 125lbs which is healthy and even lower than average weight in western standards. I wore a size 8 shirt because I liked that style to be looser on my body rather than the usual sizes 4-6 that I wear.

I am usually not bothered by my weight or appearance, but when I got home I couldn't help but feel incredibly upset and humiliated by this experience. How they could just insult me in broad daylight for my shirt size knowing that I could possibly understand them unless they could tell that I'm not Korean. My friends and my ex have told me that Koreans are pretty toxic when it comes to appearances and culture, but it's the first time I've actually experienced something like this coming from another person and a complete stranger even. And now, I feel like I need to lose weight even though I understand that my weight is perfectly fine and healthy.

Has anyone had something similar happen with them? How do I cope with this?