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When talking about Asian women, the first thing that comes to most people’s minds is the slit eyes, the petite bodies – we automatically think Japanese, Chinese, Korean ... East Asian. If you don’t believe me, try searching ‘Asian Women’ on Google and see what the search results will bring.

There is a lot of information about how to date Asian women and their culture. But all this isn’t quite comprehensive because certain groups are somehow forgotten in this category. One of the groups left out is that of Indian women. We kind of take Asian to mean oriental. But according to the United States definition of Asian, the group also includes people from Southeast Asia and Indian subcontinent.

When we talk about Asian women dating and we generalize based on Chinese or Korean women, are we doing justice to Indian women? They say Asian women mostly date white men. In fact most “Asian women” I know are married to white men. But when coming to such conclusions, do we think of Indian women?

I decided to go onto interracial dating websites to look at the categories that are there. Most have a different category for Asian women and a different one for Indian women. Indians now have their own online dating sites for those interested in having relationships with them. And since most Indian women usually wait for someone to arrange their marriages, the internet through dating sites have become tools for empowering them to make their own choices about dating and marriage. They can now make acquaintances with members of the opposite sex without fear of social rebuttal.

But much as interracial dating within the American-Indian community is rising and more Indians are marrying outside their race, most Indian women in America still complain that they often find themselves caught between two worlds – A non-Indian man may not understand and fit into a traditional Indian family and also Indian men are hard to come by in the U.S. coz they avoid the Americanized Indian women.

I don’t know why we Americans don’t consider Indian women in the category of Asian women. However, I think it will be nice if we try and write more about their attitude to dating and online relationships, and how - even with their stringent cultures – they take online dating into the real world. How does interracial dating online affect their cultural and intercommunication practices and how does online dating bring social change for Indian women?

Interracial Dating And Marriages

People always talk about the rise in interracial dating and interracial marriages. In fact most studies usually predict that in years to come, more and more people will date and marry interracially.

Katie Xiao is an immigrant from China who has been living in America since she was 4. She has always considered herself to be Americanized. As far as interracial dating is concerned, she has dated White men and Latino men before but the subtle cultural clashes that led to very bad break-ups made her realize how Chinese she is and she now wants to meet an Asian man. She has even started attending events organized for Asian Americans and immigrants to increase her chances.

Recently, Sociologists began studying how children of immigrants in the U.S. will date and marry. Much as the generation of today is more open-minded and open to interracial dating and marriage, contrary to conventional wisdom, scholars have noticed a decline in the rate of interracial marriages among immigrants.

According to Ohio State University sociologist Zhenchao Qian, the numbers fell from 27 to 20 percent for Hispanics and 42 to 33 percent for Asians from 1990 to 2000 - and the downward trend continued through to last year. Apparently, most single immigrants in their 20s and 30s are now turning to cultural events because they suddenly have a yearning to connect with someone they share the same roots with.

Bhavna Pandit a political consultant of Indian descent says much as most people try to rebel against their parents and run away from their traditions, now that she is 29, she cares about her heritage and wants to find an Indian man which has been hard for her since there are very few of them in Capitol Hill.

After following children of immigrants in New York as they navigated adulthood, researchers found that they always struggled with the desire to being open to interracial dating and people of all backgrounds against family expectations and their own desire to sustain their culture. Most of them want to marry someone within their own ethnicity … someone who understands their life story.

Will this threaten interracial dating and interracial marriage in the future?