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I am a white male. My entire lineage is Jewish. I look quite Semitic, indeed. The typical large nose, could grow a beard in a day, dark eyes, etc. I have an “average” build.

 

Now, I do fairly awful on this site. And that’s okay. I don’t consider myself particularly attractive, although I do have a master’s degree, ambition, and writing is actually my trade.

 

What group, then, have I done okay with (percentage-wise) on this site? Jewish females. Surely, you will think, this is because of they see my religion as “Judaism” and instantly want a nice Jewish boy.

 

But you’d be wrong. My religion clearly states “Atheism.”

 

The point of this? I’m not sure. I think I’m trying to say that attraction to specific “looks” are ingrained into us in ways that are probably genetic and certainly programmed long before we can explicitly discuss race as a topic.

 

I also want to illuminate the fact that specific looks extend far beyond a simple “White” or “Black” label. A white U.S. Midwesterner will have different features than a white Jewish man with an Eastern European lineage.

 

October 29, 2009 at 5:10 pm

Peter says:

I think we are throwing out the baby with the bathwater here. What matters in a relationship is that two people are attracted to one another. Being or not being attracted to an individual is not racism. Even the fact that someone finds members of a certain race attractive or not is not racism, its just physical attraction.