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Let's throw some data into the discussion:
First up is data on the racial preferences expressed by white men and women.
Next up we take a look at how people of all races act based on the millions of data points in the OK Cupid database. This chart shows willingness to reply to
a person of another race:
For instance, an Asian female will reply to 22% of contacts made by an Asian male, 17% of contacts made by a black male and 29% of contacts made by a white male.
The the stars and planets align and women actually reach out to men, this is what we see in the form of responses from the men:
When we increase the seriousness of the relationship and look only upon marriage, this is what we see:
When we look at risk of divorce, then we see the well-known high divorce rate for interracial marriages. Of note is the growth of unstable interracial marriages amongst the young. The older generations actually had marriages which were more stable than same-race couples, likely due to the social stigma and the couple therefore being very certain that they wanted to have a life together. Younger couples seem to have bought into the hype of "enlightenment" associated with interracial marriages and so these marriages are falling apart more frequently than same-race marriages and this divorce disparity is increasing as we look at more recent cohorts:
If we look into the nuts and bolts of the failed marriages, we see that when white women are involved, the risk of divorce skyrockets compared to when it is a white man in the marriage:
According to the adjusted models predicting divorce as of their 10th year of marriage, interracial marriages that are most vulnerable involve White females and non-White males (with the exception of White females/Hispanic White males) relative to White/White couples. Conversely, White men/non-White women couples show either very little or no differences in divorce rates; or, as in the case of White men and Black women, are substantially less likely than White/White couples to divorce by their 10th year.
Very nice info. That last indented paragraph doesn't surprise me one bit.