General Discussion

about 4 in 10 young black men have a white wife. Obviously this creates problems for Black women (presuming that equal numbers of men and women are heterosexual, which is about right). They either must find a partner abroad (and many do, usually from Nigeria and other English speaking countries) or take turns, or take a white partner (about 20% of Black women do).

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/how-many-black-men-have-white-partners-1307094.html

The other trend are white-male/Asian-female couples. I think the reasons are pretty mundane myself. Generally speaking, Asians are petite, have soft features, and are more like the ideal woman. Black men are taller, broader, and more like the ideal man.

The interesting fact is that where there is a cultural taboo against exogamy, women hew to it much more strongly and for longer than men. Jewish intermarriage was historically low before increasing up to about 55% in recent times. However, Jewish women lagged behind men for a generation. Their exogamy rates remained around 20% before finally climbing up to 50%.

The implications are quite startling when you think about it - something like one-third of an entire generation Jewish women forswore marriage rather than violate the taboo against exogamy when faced with a shortage of men.

Don't worry too much about the Americans upthread. It is very difficult for them to discuss race in anything but the most anodyne terms. Culture, history, etc etc etc...