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At some point, I began to realize that a few of my students were flirting with me, but I tried to ignore their advances and tried to tell myself that I was just imagining things. It wasn't that there would be anything morally wrong with dating any of these women: I had just recently graduated from college myself, and some of my students were actually older than me. It occurred to me that I was struggling with a kind of unconscious prejudice against dating women of another race. It wasn't that I had anything against interracial couples, I just thought that it was not something that I would personally get involved in. The whole thing came to a head when I was invited for an evening out with a bunch of the students. One of the women that had been flirty with me kicked things up a notch and began to get very insistent in her advances. After several beers and a lot of dancing, something just snapped in me: I thought "wow, this woman is really gorgeous, and she really digs me...why have I been fighting her off?". Since then, I have never gone back to dating non-asian women. It's not that I have anything against same race couples, it's just that it is no longer right for me.
As an interesting side note: Recently there has been some suggestion from scientific evidence that through pheromones, we detect information about a potential mate's immune system. It appears that attraction is positively correlated with the degree to which a potential mate's immune system differs from ours. That is to say: men unconsciously seek out women who have the immune system strengths that they lack and vice versa. We know that different geographical regions combat a different array of bacterial and viral threats. Asian women would, theoretically have developed immunes systems of an altogether different structure than their North American or European counterparts. Does this mean to say that when European men to seek out women from Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand or even more far - off exotic places for dating, relationships or marriage they are fulfilling an evolutionary imperative? It's an interesting notion, and may at least explain the whole explosion in Asian / American dating and matchmaking sites. 
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