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Originally Posted by tiger_handheld
Social class - There is not a snowball's chance in hell that a guy making 30k is going to win and keep a girl making 70k. Lets be honest, our incomes dictate our tastes and interests.
Heritage/Ethnicity - Find me a cbc girl who wants to date a guy who has parents from Pakistan but born in Canada and has no religious affiliation and I'll retract this statement. Interracial dating (besides the conventional whiteguy/asian girl ) has not caught on in Vancouver and doesn't seem like it ever will.
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I think you're jumping to a lot of assumptions which are quite wrong.
Social class - I agree with you to an extent. I think in most cases it still kind of goes back to the old fashioned notion that the male should make more than the female. Things are changing. It's still not common for the female to make more than the male, but it's not exactly uncommon either. Maybe not at such a big salary gap, because lets face it.. if the guy is making 30k and the girl is making 70k+, there are bigger underlying issues than just money. But if it were closer, at say, 60k/80k, then I don't think it's a huge deal.
Ethnicity - This part I have to completely disagree with you. If anything, I think Vancouver's pretty forward in interracial dating.
One of my best friends is Muslim/Iranian (born here), and he's been dating a Chinese girl (also born here) for years.
I'm Asian, and with one exception, every girl I have been/am involved with was/is Caucasian. My younger brother and cousin are also both dating white girls. At this day and age, speaking from experience, people date certain people because of interests/compatibility, not race. Having said that, it's stereotypical, but race does give people a general idea of your interests, mannerisms, habits, etc. I mean, I may be a bit of an anomaly -- I grew up and hang around mostly around white people, so I grew up skateboarding, listening to/playing rock/metal/country music. So just through meeting people through the people I hang out with, I'm naturally just more drawn to girls with similar interests who just happen to be white. This has very little to do with what race we are.