Black Men More Likely To Date White Women Online

Written by Associated Press on November 16, 2011 11:33 am

A recent study on online dating by researchers at the University of California Berkeley, shows that white people are unlikely to initiate contact with Black people online.

The study also shows that Black men are more likely to contact white women online than they are Black women.

Grio reports

The study indicates that more than 80 percent of the communication initiated by whites was to other whites. Only 3 percent went to blacks. Black members of the same site were more open to dating whites and were ten times more likely to contact whites. Black men were actually slightly more likely to initiate contact with white women than black women.

Professor Mendelsohn, attributed this to the influence of cultural imperatives on all American men. “In this country, our notions of feminine attractiveness are based almost entirely on images of white women… the hypothesis that some people have argued is that there is no surprise that black men should contact white women, because that’s where we get our notions of who’s pretty.”

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