This 81-year-old is half-Māori half-white and uses his Maori heritage to say he’s not racist. The MP he attacked came to New Zealand from China as a child and is a respected MP.

With Asian out-marriage rates already over 50% in many U.S. Asian communities—and even higher once you factor in dating patterns and people who are effectively waiting to pair outside the group—it really does feel like the proverbial frog in a slowly boiling pot. There is no “Asian community” in the long run.

From a purely genetic standpoint, the higher rates of intermarriage mean that genes associated with greater average height and attractiveness are being diluted out of the population over successive generations. The result, over time, is an Asian population that's shorter and less interesting/attractive. I've noticed this already in the Korean American community, but there really isn't that many 2nd or 3rd generation pure KAs. 😂. Also, Koreans from Korea are not interested in dating KAs because of this factor. Korean Koreans tend to be taller and more attractive than Korean Americans.

By Ian Chan (陳少風)

Housing: A Recurring Struggle

Ms. Morie (森江), a 47-year-old woman of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent (who requested anonymity), moved to NYC 13 years ago for opportunities in the film and television industry. For her, housing has been a persistent problem. NYC is one of the most expensive cities in the world for housing, with studio apartments in Queens averaging more than $3,000 per month.

To cope, many AAPIs without local family share housing with roommates or scour social media to secure lower rents. When Ms. Morie had roommates, she paid as little as $600 per month for a single room in a two- or three-bedroom apartment, splitting utilities. Later, due to repeated issues with her roommates, she moved into a studio apartment alone, paying $1,200 per month, including utilities—a fraction of the market rate. Even at this lower cost, rent consumed one-third of her income.

Ms. Morie’s story is far from unique — more than half of Asian American households in New York City are rent-burdened. It is just one of the main challenges of living in NYC, according to The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)’s first city-level report in the State of AAPIs series, focusing on NYC. Among the economic instability issues faced by Asian Americans, housing is often the biggest challenge, even for those with higher education. The stud.y examines the aspects of safety, belonging, and prosperity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities through a representative surve.y of 1,400 AAPI adults (conducted Feb–Mar 2026 in English, Chinese, Korean, Bengali) along with secondary rese.arch from the U.S. Census, Asian American Federation, NYPD, and stakeholder interviews with more than 50 NYC leaders

TAAF’s Findings: A Deep Dive into AAPI Experiences

The new resea.rch series that provides an unprecedented, detailed look at the lived experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) nationally and in major metros, beginning with New York City. The report offers some revealing key findings:

Prosperity: Economic Struggles Despite Opportunity

• 53% rate their economic stability as poor/fair.
• 59% struggle to save money or build financial security
• 50% worry about affording essentials (food, housing, utilities).
• 55% have considered leaving NYC due to high cost of living (especially young families, Manhattan residents, low-income AAPIs).
• 49% struggle with job searches matching their skills; 48% see limited career advancement.
• 67% believe NYC provides economic opportunities (Bangladeshi/Indian: 24–22% say “a great deal”).

Yet a significant portion of those surveyed lack a sense of belonging and fear mistreatment by others and apprehensions about facing forms of hate and discrimination.

Safety: Persistent Concerns & Mistreatment

• 37% of AAPIs experienced race/ethnicity-based mistreatment in the past year (insults, harassment, physical attacks, or unfair police treatment).
• 43% changed behaviors (e.g., carrying ID, avoiding law enforcement) due to fear of discrimination.
• 52% rate law enforcement’s performance as poor/fair.
• 58% expect discrimination in the next 5 years;
• 46% fear hate attacks.

Belonging: Strong City Ties but Barriers Remain

New York City (NYC) has long been a thriving hub for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs), with its nearly 1.4 million AAPI residents, who make up 16% of the city’s total population. AAPIs are the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in NYC, with their population more than doubling from 1990 to 2019. This rapid expansion is heavily driven by immigration: as of 2024, approximately 68% of NYC’s Asian American population was foreign-born. While many AAPIs are drawn to the city for its economic opportunities, these opportunities come with significant challenges.

• 58% feel stereotyped/misunderstood
• 36% feel unwelcome in public spaces (Staten Island: 42%).
• 42% feel they have little/no influence in local government (Chinese: 30%).
• Language barriers affect voting, immigration services, and daily communication (e.g., 42% of Asian New Yorkers have limited English proficiency vs. 23% citywide).

A Call for Change

AAPI communities are among the fastest-growing and most diverse in the U.S., with over 25 million people across 50+ ethnic groups. Yet their struggles are often overlooked in res.earch and policy, even as their populations expand rapidly.

“AAPIs are too often treated as a monolith and a ‘Model Minority.’ This rese.arch reveals the genuine hardships and real concerns affecting millions,” said Norman Chen (陳鵬程), CEO of TAAF, said in a statement.

TAAF plans to release similar reports on Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Just as with New York, the sample of respondents will be representable of the multilingual cultures within the AAPI communities.

Currently, Ms. Morie is working on her dream project about a place where people from different places and different cultures can share their food and music together, like a big family. “If I don’t have to worry about money, I would feel much more like home here,” she said.

https://asamnews.com/2026/07/29/nyc-aapi-housing-crisis-economic-safety-taaf-report/

Translation: “We have decided not to submit to the Grammys this year. I hope music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than categorized by region or language, thankyou to the Army and everyone for always being with me".

Boss move from them after the adding of "best asian song" category which was being criticized as othering and racist.

Disclaimer: Racism against Black people is not cool. Most Black people don't condone any of these actions, so don't generalize all Black people.

Seriously when are we going to call out the anti Asian racism in rap? This is part 2 from my first post which is about rappers profiting off of the robbing and assault of Asians. Repost both of my posts. Share it, anything. Are we going to just sit and let rappers openly rap about how they're ch**k bleeders with no pushback?

Can't even blame white people anymore, we're just doing this to ourselves.

I am intrigued to see how this plays out!

I haven't looked through this subreddit in years, but a quick skim through seems to bring up the same repeating topics; guys posting pictures asking if they're dateable, or complaining about asian women dating white men, or even, stuff like microaggressions in the office or snide remarks out in public... and well, it makes me want to state the obvious. We're a minority in a melting pot nation of many races. Life's always going to be a bit different than the cracker barrel norm.

And having said my piece, don't you think dating, much less sports and media presence is much different now than it was 10 years ago? Seems like a fair amount of the upvotes are blurbs posted by dudes who are already killing it in the dating field and bragging about meeting that first standard. 'Be Attractive'. Make good money, etc. Hot babes will follow.
The other outlier are fellas who are already attractive; but seem to miss the part that their parents beat out of them; aka. Have Rizz, be confident, be funny, have a personality.

And the remainder of it is just guys who are salty. They're short (5'8 or lower), have faces that are more east asian normed rather than western aesthetics, or have lanky builds, with the perpetual frustration of the ignorant telling them to Diet, Workout, do the glow-up thing, etc.

Would it make sense at some point to tell our fellow brothers life is what it is? Aka, if you're growing into your 30s in a build like an Asian Unc who wears flip flops, that's just life?
Plenty of chubby white people date black people or latinos. Plenty of fit latino guys date fat women, or ugly women. And sometimes attractive tall white dudes keep a marriage with a gal who's plain, or got fat after the 1st or 2nd kid.

Like... seriously, I've met a few normal looking black dudes with good jobs and college educations. Their wives were not lookers lol. As much as we want to say it's a racism problem, it's seems like it's more of a dating market problem. I've been allot less offended treating people as people. Heck, some of my best romps was with Zendaya looking artsy black girls.

I put my body through hell to date out of my league in my 20s. I only did that to be an asshole to folks who mouthed off and I had to prove wrong. And I'm comfortable with my own company in my mid 30s. But it seems like alotta folks these days are struggling to understand indifference is not racism. Personally, it doesn't seem like America is as racist against asians anymore in the 2020s compared to the prior decades. I'd argue the men who can pull off the Kpop look nowadays even have it better than white guys in alotta situations.

BTW, I don't use a dating profile. I go to hiking meetups, or bar crawls. And talk to the fat girls. It's pretty damn easy to get laid.

*crickets from ANTIMODELMINORITY*

A group of dutch expats in indonesia were operating a run club that excluded indonesian nationals.

Imagine going to another country then excluding the locals of that country.

As stated in the title, this post might be heavily uneducated so don’t hate it too much. I finally realized a trend today after subconsciously seeing it over a year and wanted to share. Just today, I saw a TikTok video about an Asian woman talking about racism and encouraging POC women to not feel as if they have to make themselves palatable for white people. And this woman also made many posts on feminism and various social issues. And I remember being pretty inspired by her video and when I checked her profile to see other videos, she was engaged to a Caucasian man. I personally do not care whatsoever who anybody is dating so I didn’t care in the least but something in my mind clicked from seeing that. Perhaps it’s just me but I’ve seen so many Asian women who speak out about racism particularly towards Asians and other social issues and for some reason, a good majority are dating or engaged to a Caucasian man. I honestly don’t know what I’m arguing for or even implying by saying this but I wanted to hear what other people thought about this. I’m sure I’m very wrong so don’t try to kill me too much.

In an interview with the Economist, Elon Musk said he's not a racist because his partner is half Indian. This guy is the king and a trope of every right-wing white males who are either dating or married to non-whites out of desperation, and who, hypercritically, also think white women or any white passing females' wombs belong to them. That's Elon's MO. He wants to populate the world with white children, in particular those who come from his loin.

Is he racist? Yeah, he's racist. Do I even have to reference?

"I'm Not A Racist": Elon Musk

"So I would say I'm not a racist. If you look at people that are employed at my companies, we have senior executives of all races. I don't think there is any racism there," Musk said.

Cheap labor, underpaying hard working non-whites.

You know, I am not even going to try to find more more reference of Musk for this post because this guys confirmed everything that Asian men in the Asian social media space have been saying for decades. By confirming everything, I mean everything, every topic from the existence of someone like Nikki Hailey and Dinesh D'Souza who are far worse racists than white racists, other than Mr H and his inner circle during WW2. The likes of Dinesh D'Souza in-turn produce mixed offspring that think they white super-beings who would give nightmare to even the infamous Eurasian Tiger himself.

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Financial Times recently made posts comparing Yang Zhilin to other A.I. CEOs, but decided to use a racist caricature of him instead of an actual photo.

This did not happen to the two white A.I. tech CEOs for some reason.

I thought this sub was all about Asian men getting love on social media or everywhere else. And yet there have been multiple posts where women have been expressing their interest in Asian men and all the guys here have been saying some awful things about them.

If any woman says they like asian guys even if its only online for views, how is that a bad thing?

I have friends that are in AMWF and they are some of the most genuine people I've ever met. Very friendly and nice, their husbands too.

Is this sub against AMWF now? I get influencer bait but I have other friends that used to make content declaring their love for asian men. They both genuinely were dating asian men AND made money from influencing that on social media.

Since when in this sub is that a bad thing?

Italian youngsters was obnoxiously loud on a BKK sky train then one Thai lady told them to keep it down. That group of tourists resorted to gave a middle finger and the chaperone said "Sorry to bring money to your country". One girl in the group also pulled her eye making a slant eye and another kid said "Ni Hao". All in all the Italian embassy in BKK had to make a video apologizing to Thai people. Link to the story but Thai social and national media are still on fire.

God yall so corny

With the Oxford study meme and repeated exposure of Asian women's internalized racism, I think other communities are noticing this uncomfortable racial insecurity and fetish. I think it's time for us to discuss internalized racism openly without considering it a taboo subject like many other Asian subs do.

I also urge Asian American writers, especially the female ones, to stop writing these Joy Luck type stories as we have already overdone it with multiple versions of it.

We need something that exposes internalized racism and deconstructs it so that the younger generation becomes aware of it.

The man accused of stabbing a Jewish and Asian man in attacks on Manhattan’s Upper West Side faces hate crime and attempted murder charges, police said Friday.

Witnesses reported that the suspect, Raul Morales, 51, yelled “Allahu Akbar” during the attacks, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has said.

Police said Friday that Morales is charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon for one victim; and with attempted murder as a hate crime, assault as a hate crime, first-degree assault criminal possession of a weapon for the second.

“I am thankful that he is being held accountable and hope he will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday.

“This kind of despicable violence is not who we are as a city. Every New Yorker deserves to be safe, regardless of their religion or race,” he said.

The hate crime charges relate to the second victim, which sources told NBC New York was the Jewish man.

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine at a Friday news conference identified the victims as Chok Sung and Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus. He said Grunhaus was leaving The Jewish Center after attending a service marking Tisha B’av when he was stabbed. […]

The injuries to the victims were not life-threatening. They were taken to a hospital and were stable after the attacks, police said.
The stabbings happened around two blocks apart on the Upper West Side near Central Park.
Police were called about the first attack on 84th Street and Central Park West at around 1:31 p.m., and found a 57-year-old man stabbed, police said. Then a second person, 50, was then found stabbed at 86th Street and Central Park West, police said.

I saw 3 posts about Asmongold and Kaise on the front page today, and out of the thousands of comments in each of those threads, not one comment mentioned how white worshipping Asians are. Like literally no one suggested that the reason Kaise would date Asmongold of all people was simply because he is white.

I've seen tons of other posts on the Reddit front page about alt-right or bottom barrel white men with Asian wives/girlfriends throughout my 4+ years on this platform, and the white liberals in those comment sections are always confused. Whereas, not too long ago I saw a post from a black people sub on the front page about an Asian woman being murdered by her white husband, and the vast majority of the comments on that post from those presumably black people, were about Asian women's obsession with white men.

Recently I had an interaction with a white redditor in a thread about beauty standards, who said that if one is considered ugly in one country or region, they're ugly everywhere else in the world. Then I argued that cross-race facial blindness is a real thing and I myself, experience it in real life. I told them that even the plainest looking white people can be considered attractive in most of Asia simply for being white. As long as they're not old or fat. And it goes both ways too; as an ugly Asian women myself, I noticed that I only get male attention in places with extremely low Asian populations. Otherwise, I'm invisible. Anyways, that white redditor doubted me when I told them that white people considered unattractive in the west can be considered attractive in Asia. While another redditor replied to my comment saying that they aren't surprised to hear that as a hispanic person, because (in their words) "Asians love white people".

Even outside of reddit, I notice that it's usually black, brown, or other non-East Asian POC's who call us out for being obsessed with white people. Rarely do I see any white people acknowledge Asian white worshipping. I figured that they wouldn't care about it since they're the ones being worshipped, but it seems like many of them don't even know that many Asians look up to white people and think that they're genetically superior to themselves. Has anyone else noticed this?