History Main / AsianGalWithWhiteGuy

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* The ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga has Mei from Xing (a FantasyCounterpartCulture of China) who dreams about meeting a tall, handsome white gentleman and is very eager to meet Ed from Amestris (a nation based largely on a mish-mash of 20's-era Europe) for this reason. Unfortunately, it turns out that Ed [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller doesn't fit her expectations of him]]...but luckily for her, his brother Al ''does'' fit her ideal (although you have to take his word for it at that point in time) and they're implicitly paired together in the finale! Admittedly, this is more like the quasi-Asian girl having a specific preference that not all quasi-white men fit, instead of a general preference for white men, but it still kinda fits.

** Even further subverted when you look at Shinobu and see that he has HairOfGold ''and'' blue eyes, having inherited [[PhenotypeStereotype his German mother's looks.]] [[spoiler: Which were shared by Larissa's dead husband... his long-lost maternal half-brother Sasha, whose father was a Russian count.]]

** Fusae Campbell Kinoshita, Dr. Agasa's UnluckyChildhoodFriend, was the daughter of a Japanese woman and an English man. She herself was the victim of bullying due to her origins [[HairOfGold and her naturally blond hair]].

* In the shojo manga ''Manga/{{Lady}}'', the main character Lyn Russell (original name, Rin Midorikawa) is the daughter of the Englishman Sir George Russell and his Japanese second wife, Misuzu Midorikawa. (Curiously, she looks ''very'' Western with her HairOfGold and GreenEyes, inherited from her dad.) After Misuzu's death in an accident, Lynn has to live with George and her half-sister Sarah, and faces quite a bit of discrimination.

* ''Snow Falling On Cedars'': Averted, as while the Japanese girl Hatsue is very much in love with the Western guy Ishmael, circumstances force her to marry a fellow Japanese. In the book, however, the relationship between Ishmael and Hatsue wasn't quite that simple.
** More likely it was because she could never contemplate a life with a person who couldn't correctly pronounce her name. It's ha-TSU-e, not HAT-sue....

* ''Flypaper'' with Lucy Liu
* ''{{Face}}'' with Bai Ling

* The French movie ''Augustin Roi Du Kung Fu'' (the title character has a platonic relationship with a Chinese immigrant played by Maggie Cheung, and eventually moves to Beijing where he marries a local woman)

* ''Lucky Number Slevin'' with Josh Hartnett and Lucy Liu.

* Sorta genderflipped (in a PG manner) in Anime/{{Hamtaro}}. The transfer student from Brazil, a DarkSkinnedBlond soccer genius named Roberto, is very popular among the girls of Hiroko (Laura)'s school.

* Manga/{{Amakusa 1637}}: Seika "Mariana" Akishima, one of the {{Time Travel}}ers thrown in the Nagasaki of the XVIII century, catches the eye of Dutch man named Jan who saved her life when she arrived into the past. In a subversion, she doesn't necessarily reciprocate Jahn's feelings for her.
* In the shojo manga ''{{Manga}}/Lady'', the main character Lyn Russell (original name, Rin Midorikawa) is the daughter of the Englishman Sir George Russell and his Japanese second wife, Misuzu Midorikawa. (Curiously, she looks ''very'' Western with her HairOfGold and GreenEyes, inherited from her dad.) After Misuzu's death in an accident, Lynn has to live with George and her half-sister Sarah, and faces quite a bit of discrimination.

* In season 8 of ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' the American Oz is in a steady relationship with the Tibetan Bayarmaa. Race is not shown to a be a factor at all; they have instead bonded over [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent other things]].

* Robert Lecter and Lady Murasaki, in Hannibal Rising.

* The French documentary ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbltfq_femmes-asiatiques-femmes-fantasmes_travel Femmes]] [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbltky_femmes-asiatiques-femmes-fantasmes_travel Asiatiques]], [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbltpt_femmes-asiatiques-femmes-fantasmes_travel Femmes]] [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbltsn_femmes-asiatiques-femmes-fantasmes_travel Fantasmes]]'' (''Asian Women, Fantasy Women''), analyses the roots of the Western men fascination towards Asian women, in the past and the present, without shying away of some of its [[{{Squick}} squicky]] sides. Of note is that the female director, who is of Korean descent, was adopted as a child by a French couple, therefore she has Asian looks but doesn't feel Asian at all.

* The French documentary ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbltfq_femmes-asiatiques-femmes-fantasmes_travel Femmes]] [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbltky_femmes-asiatiques-femmes-fantasmes_travel Asiatiques]], [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbltpt_femmes-asiatiques-femmes-fantasmes_travel Femmes]] [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbltsn_femmes-asiatiques-femmes-fantasmes_travel Fantasmes]]'' (''Asian Women, Fantasy Women''), analyses the roots of the Western men fascination towards Asian women, in the past and the present, without shying away of some of its [[{{Squick}} squicky]] sides. Of note is that the female director, who is of Korean descent, was adopted as a child by a French couple: she has Asian looks but doesn't feel Asian at all.

* Inverted with [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Irish redheaded vampire ninja war goddess]] Aoife and immortal Japanese swordsman Niten.

* Increasingly common in the United States. Asian-American women are by far the most likely group to marry outside their own ethnicity, with nearly 40% "marrying out" (compared to less than 20% of Asian-American men). The large majority of these interracial marriages are to caucasians.

* ''Welcome to Hard Times'' features a subplot with two minor characters, a White man and a Chinese prostitute, falling for each other.

* In England, there are many cases of men (white, obviously) going to Asian countries with great amounts of poverty, marrying an Asian girl, then coming back to England with them. However, the joke is on them; sometimes the "docile and obedient" wife will disappear with a citizenship through marriage.
** The same happens in Canada too, but most of the men choose Filipina women instead, forgetting that in the dominant Filipino culture men rule everything... ''outside'' the house. The home is the woman's domain and the man forgets that at his peril. So he can decide who's going to be Prime Minister, which team's going to win the Stanley Cup, etc. but she decides where and how they live, what they eat, where he works, how the money is spent to the penny...

* Played straight and then averted in ''ReGenesis'': One of the main characters, Mayko Tran, is a Vietnam-born woman who has relationships with two Caucasian men in turn, one of them her boss. Said man, however, later goes to China and meets a pretty woman doctor without any romantic development resulting (then again, they were in the middle of an epidemic and had other things on their minds).

* In season 8 of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' the American Oz is in a steady relationship with the Tibetan Bayarmaa. Race is not shown to a be a factor at all; they have instead bonded over [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent other things]].

# Maybe race is a little factor – at least one of them have a preference for the other race without being obsessed or anything. They think that the other person, as an individual, looks nice and have a nice personality – and that the racial background contributes a bit to this. From what research is known, people with [[UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome Asperger's Syndrome]] tend to hang out [[RagtagBunchofMisfits with social outcasts]], so if she is shunned for who she is, whether it be racial or social (AsianNerd notwithstanding), that could be a factor. Sometimes this results in NotWhatItLooksLike, which is embarrassing for the Asperger's individual.

# Maybe race is a little factor – at least one of them have a preference for the other race without being obsessed or anything. They think that the other person, as an individual, looks nice and have a nice personality – and that the racial background contributes a bit to this.

* In the shojo manga ''Lady'', the main character Lyn Russell (original name, Rin Midorikawa) is the daughter of the Englishman Sir George Russell and his Japanese second wife, Misuzu Midorikawa. (Curiously, she looks ''very'' Western with her HairOfGold and GreenEyes, inherited from her dad.) After Misuzu's death in an accident, Lynn has to live with George and her half-sister Sarah, and faces quite a bit of discrimination.