Originally posted by Texcoco II:
From a local forum
"I heard from a friend who did a research before on 500 NUS girls on what make a man attractive. After data gathering, she found NUS girls prefer these races in descending order:
1) Angmoh
2) Keling
3) Chinese
4) Malays
Is this prefernce biological or social conditioned? If it is latter, I would say sending my children to NUS/NTU is a very sad thing to do. Ancestors will turn over in their graves.
For man,I would still prefer chinese girl(not cheena specifically, but chinese, including malayisan, indon, thai etc...)
Am I racist?"

Seems to me that Chinese guys are falling in favour liao....
Quite honestly straight off, I can tell you that this isn't true at all. Unless you're a total swine, Singapore guys do not experience any disadvantage when it comes to attracting local girls. I was attached twice myself in Uni and they both were local girls.
Neither do I see my male Singaporean peers have any problem getting hitched to local girls. At least, not based on reasons relating to race.
That aside, let me just comment on certain things about this "study". Somebody has already pointed out one issue which is the composition of the 500 girls. If the girls were all
ang mohs, then it would explain the high indication for caucasian males.
Moreover, I realise that very often the data for such on campus research is done by asking friends or friends of friends to participate. As a result, there is a stronger tendency for a group of like-minded people giving results for this research. I'm not saying all 500 participants think absolutely alike, but the research may be more representative of a certain group within the campus than all the students as a whole.
It doesn't help also that most of the time Singaporeans are very bo chap about participating in this kind of ad-hoc things. Like I mentioned, a lot of the Singaporeans are merely helping out a friend. Otherwise, they'd only do it for free hello kitties or ECA points. I realise foreigners and caucasian students in particular are more enthusiastic when doing this kind of thing and they'll get their friends to do it together all for the fun of it. Singaporeans however will think twice about asking their friends to take part unless it was their own research and academic points on the line.
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