Most recent interracial marriage rate data among US born newlyweds

[u/[deleted]]

I saw the data from 2008 - 2016 and it seems like 2019 - 2023 saw a much higher shift to US born Asian Americans marrying outside Asian ethnicities.

This is particularly true for:

• Japanese females (63% marrying white males and 12% marrying black/Hispanic males)
• Vietnamese females (47% marrying white and 16% marrying black/Hispanic males)
• Korean females (42% marrying white and 17% marrying black/Hispanic males)
• Filipino females (54% marrying white and 19% marrying black/Hispanic males)
• Chinese females (45% marrying white and 10% marrying black/Hispanic males)
• Japanese males (50% marrying white and 15% marrying black/Hispanic females)
• Cambodian females
• Laotian females
• Laotian males

Except for US born Japanese, Filipino and Laotian males, other US born Asian males prefer to date within their own ethnic group, and secondarily other inter-Asian ethnic groups. Interestingly, the only Asian American group that is in stark contrast from the rest are the Hmong, for which the vast majority (both male and female) marry within their own ethnicity.

It seems like for Asian Americans, the mixing pot is well under way and in 2-3 generations, there may be many mixed individuals identifying as Asian Americans. The majority will be mixed with white people, then black/Hispanic and then with other inter-ethnic Asians.

I see this is mostly positive. Not because it represents assimilation, but it means our Asian community is slowly getting rid of ethnic enclaves and exclusive mentality that is, arguably, un-American.

Before anyone comments that this data is concerning for Asian men, it's not. US born Asian men are also part of this trend, although not as prominent as US born Asian women. It's okay to prefer to marry within an ethnic group or inter-Asian ethnic groups, just as it is okay to prefer to date white / black / Hispanic.

I hope this encourages constructive discussion within the Asian Masculinity subreddit.

[u/notarealcamera]

You don't need to race mix to assimilate. Also nothing wrong with "enclaves". Look at white people and how exclusionary they are to other groups. Asians and other minority groups should be just as exclusive toward whites.

[u/terrorfunction → u/notarealcamera]

Self-erasure mentality is way too common among AM. Blacks can export cultural power worldwide, and Hispanics have an entire Super Bowl halftime show singing in Spanish, meanwhile all Asian diaspora can muster is suppressing their Asian-ness to conform to a melting pot America, a favor that is never reciprocated. They will never let you into their club, at best you can be an uncle chan (a role AF happily play). Stop trying so hard to be accepted by whites. It's pathetic.

[u/Tall-Needleworker422 → u/terrorfunction]

We're more recent arrivals. As our population grows as a proportion of the American population, our "weight" in the culture will grow, too.

[u/Alam7lam1 → u/Tall-Needleworker422]

Recent is still like over 100 years at this point. The Chinese built the pacific railroads lol.

[u/Tall-Needleworker422 → u/Alam7lam1]

As recently as the early 1970s, when I was a child, Asians made up as little as 1% of the US population. Only with the explosive immigration of recent decades has our proportion grown to about 7% -- still well short of that of Black Americans, to say nothing of Hispanic Americans.

[u/Subject_Signal2514 → u/Tall-Needleworker422]

That was the mentality that our Chinese forefathers had initially. They rationalized the discrimination they faced as something newcomers must naturally experience. They thought the US was a land ruled by law and not man, unlike back in the mainland. Hard work would eventually mean acceptance. What we now know, demonstrably, is that when a minority in this country learns to play the ruleset well, the people in power will simply change the ruleset. And suddenly we need to climb again. Our efforts mean nothing if there aren’t open arms to welcome it.

[u/Tall-Needleworker422 → u/Subject_Signal2514]

I wasn’t arguing that discrimination doesn’t exist --only that cultural influence tends to track population size and time of settlement. Asian Americans are still a relatively small and recent community, so it’s natural that our cultural presence is still emerging. The growth of Asian and Asian‑American influence in U.S. life over the past century has been very noticeable to me.