One Asian-Canadian girl examines the racial stereotypes she faces on dating apps — and confronts her very own biases
Anna Haines
(Illustration: Elham Numan)
“Where are you currently from?” A asian-canadian guy asks me personally in the dating application Hinge. “I’m from right here! You also?” We respond. The discussion moves on. A couple of hours later on he comes back towards the subject. “What’s your back ground Anna??” My ambiguous identification is really a secret he could be plainly determined to fix. We cave. “My mom’s white and my dad’s Korean,” we respond. “I knew you had been a halfie, i simply wished to verify,” he claims.
It could’ve been even even worse. We wasn’t put through sexually aggressive racism like exactly exactly what this Zimbabwean girl in Newfoundland experienced on a great amount of Fish. (more…)