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** ShrinkingViolet Alice looks especially for attractive Asian guys ''because'' they're Asian thus better husbands.

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** ShrinkingViolet Alice looks especially for attractive Asian guys ''because'' they're Asian thus [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan better husbands. husbands.]]
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** Bob looks for women regardless of race ''EXCEPT'' Asian women for whatever reason. Bonus points if the reason is [[AsianBuckTeeth something]] [[AsiansEatPets utterly]] [[YellowPeril stereotypical.]]

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** Bob, a white man, hooks up with a ShrinkingViolet Eurasian woman.



** Kimiko, a domineering Asian girl, looks especially for submissive or weak-willed White boys.
** Bob dates Kimiko because she's domineering yet caring and entirely unlike the stereotype.

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** Kimiko, a domineering Asian girl, DragonLady, looks especially for [[WeaknessTurnsHerOn submissive or weak-willed weak-willed]] White boys.
** Bob dates Kimiko because she's domineering yet caring and entirely unlike the stereotype.



** Bob and Kimiko hook up, but it turns out Kimiko isn't all that submissive after all...

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** Bob and Kimiko hook up, but it turns out Kimiko [[SilkHidingSteel isn't all that submissive after all...all]]...
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Renamed to Token Black Friend per TRS.


** The relationship crumbles when Kimiko finds out Bob is only with her because he needed to mend his hurt manhood and wanted specifically an Asian woman for their reputation of subservience and domesticity. She dumps him and ends up dating Jason, Bob's BlackBestFriend.

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** The relationship crumbles when Kimiko finds out Bob is only with her because he needed to mend his hurt manhood and wanted specifically an Asian woman for their reputation of subservience and domesticity. She dumps him and ends up dating Jason, Bob's BlackBestFriend.black friend.
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* '''Justified''': Bob is looking for a submissive girl, Kimiko is looking for a dependable guy.

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* '''Justified''': Bob is looking for a submissive subservient girl, Kimiko is looking for a dependable guy.GoldDigger.
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** The relationship crumbles when Bob finds out that Kimiko is only with him because of the stereotypes of tough, hyper-masculine white men.

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** The relationship crumbles when Bob finds out that Kimiko is only with him because of the stereotypes of tough, hyper-masculine she has a fetish for white men.



** Bob and Kimiko get back together when Bob and Kimiko both realize that she (Kimiko) also loves Bob because he's a true gentleman, not ONLY because he's white.

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** Bob and Kimiko get back together when Bob and Kimiko both realize that she (Kimiko) also loves Bob because he's a true gentleman, not ONLY because he's white.of her fetish.

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* '''Deconstructed''': The relationship crumbles when Kimiko finds out Bob is only with her because he needed to mend his hurt manhood and wanted specifically an Asian woman for their reputation of subservience and domesticity. She dumps him and ends up dating Jason, Bob's BlackBestFriend.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob admits to this fact but has indeed fallen in love with Kimiko and proves to her time and again that he's not with her ''solely'' because she's Asian, but because she's a good, respectable woman.

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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
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The relationship crumbles when Kimiko finds out Bob is only with her because he needed to mend his hurt manhood and wanted specifically an Asian woman for their reputation of subservience and domesticity. She dumps him and ends up dating Jason, Bob's BlackBestFriend.
** The relationship crumbles when Bob finds out that Kimiko is only with him because of the stereotypes of tough, hyper-masculine white men.
* '''Reconstructed''': '''Reconstructed''':
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Bob admits to this fact but has indeed fallen in love with Kimiko and proves to her time and again that he's not with her ''solely'' because she's Asian, but because she's a good, respectable woman.woman.
** Bob and Kimiko get back together when Bob and Kimiko both realize that she (Kimiko) also loves Bob because he's a true gentleman, not ONLY because he's white.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Kimiko is submissive because she was abused in the past, and she wants to use Bob as a living emotional crush.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Kimiko is submissive because she was abused in the past, and she wants to use Bob as a living emotional crush.LivingEmotionalCrutch.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Kimiko is submissive because she was abused in the past, and she wants to use Bob as a LivingEmotionalCrush

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* '''Played For Drama''': Kimiko is submissive because she was abused in the past, and she wants to use Bob as a LivingEmotionalCrushliving emotional crush.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Kimiko is submissive because she was abused in the past, and she wants to use Bob as a LivingEmotionalCrush



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** Both Bob and Kimiko have asian decent, but Kimiko has far more.

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** Both Bob and Kimiko have asian decent, Asian descent or heritage, but Kimiko has far more.

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* '''Straight''': Bob looks especially for Asian women and hooks up with Kimiko who fits the AsianHookerStereotype.

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* '''Straight''': Bob looks especially for Asian women and hooks up with Kimiko who fits the AsianHookerStereotype.who's a YamatoNadeshiko.



* '''Justified''': Bob is a rich and handsome white guy, Kimiko is a {{Golddigger}}.

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* '''Justified''': Bob is looking for a rich and handsome white guy, submissive girl, Kimiko is looking for a {{Golddigger}}.dependable guy.



* '''Double Subverted''': ... but she's only playing hard to get. When they get married she acts exactly like an AsianAirhead, as Bob requests.

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Subverted''':
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but she's only playing hard to get. When they get married she acts exactly like an AsianAirhead, as Bob requests.requests.
** In the end, they broke up and Bob hooks up with Nadeshiko.



** Kimiko jokes about the number of white guys who have hit on her.



* '''Lampshaded''': "John is just out there looking for his Asian doormat as usual. You know the kind: [[AsianAirhead stupid]], [[ExtremeDoormat subservient]], [[FeminineWomenCanCook good cook]] and [[MyGirlIsASlut a pig in bed]]."

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* '''Lampshaded''': '''Lampshaded''':
** Kimiko jokes about the number of white guys who have hit on her.
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"John is just out there looking for his Asian doormat as usual. You know the kind: [[AsianAirhead stupid]], [[ExtremeDoormat subservient]], [[FeminineWomenCanCook good cook]] and [[MyGirlIsASlut a pig in bed]]."

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* '''Defied''':

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* '''Defied''':'''Defied''': Bob and Kimiko refuse to get together.
* '''Discussed''':



** "Hands off, white boy! I will not love you long time so go away!"
* '''Discussed''': See Lampshaded above.

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** "Hands off, white boy! I will not love you long time you, so go away!"
* '''Discussed''': See Lampshaded above.
away!"

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* '''Subverted''': Bob and Kimiko hook up, but it turns out Kimiko isn't all that submissive after all...

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Bob and Kimiko hook up, but it turns out Kimiko isn't all that submissive after all...all...
** Bob is white, and Kimiko is Asian...and Bob is quite boisterous...except Kimiko is also just as boisterous, her Asian nationality is ''First World Asian'' nationality, she is (at the very least) just as a successful a self-made career woman as Bob is, and she is also a feminist.

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* '''Inverted''': Kimiko, a domineering Asian girl, looks especially for submissive or weak-willed White boys.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Kimiko, a domineering Asian girl, looks especially for submissive or weak-willed White boys.boys.
** Bob dates Kimiko because she's domineering yet caring and entirely unlike the stereotype.



** Kimiko and Bob are daring for reasons outside of stereotype, but everybody believes they are and reacts as such.

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** Kimiko and Bob are daring dating for reasons outside of stereotype, but everybody believes they are and reacts as such.
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** Kimiko and Bob are daring for reasons outside of stereotype, but everybody believes they are and reacts as such.
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* '''Straight''': Bob looks especially for Asian women and hooks up with Kimiko who fits the AsianHookerStereotype to a "T".

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* '''Straight''': Bob looks especially for Asian women and hooks up with Kimiko who fits the AsianHookerStereotype to a "T".AsianHookerStereotype.
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* '''Inverted''': Kimiko dates Bob for his superiority compared to other asian guys.

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* '''Inverted''': Kimiko dates Bob Kimiko, a domineering Asian girl, looks especially for his superiority compared to other asian guys.submissive or weak-willed White boys.



** Alex, an Asian dude goes for Alice, and EnglishRose.
** Some white female VisualKei and K-Pop groupies and {{fangirl}}s.

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** Alex, Tao, an Asian dude goes for Alice, and an EnglishRose.
** Some white female VisualKei and K-Pop groupies and {{fangirl}}s.ShrinkingViolet Alice looks especially for attractive Asian guys ''because'' they're Asian thus better husbands.

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* '''Implied''': All we know from the couple Bob and Kimiko is that the latter comes from a traditional family background.



* '''Implied''': All we know from the couple Bob and Kimiko is that the latter comes from a traditional family background.

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* '''Inverted''':
** A {{gender inver|tedTrope}}sion. The Asian dude goes for a white girl because no Asian girl date will him.

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* '''Inverted''':
'''Inverted''': Kimiko dates Bob for his superiority compared to other asian guys.
* '''GenderFlipped''':
** A {{gender inver|tedTrope}}sion. The Alex, an Asian dude goes for a white girl because no Asian girl date will him.Alice, and EnglishRose.



* '''Implied''': All we know from the couple Bob and Kimiko is that the latter comes from a traditional family background.



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* '''Justified''': Bob is a rich and handsome white guy, Kimiko is a [=golddigger=].

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* '''Justified''': Bob is a rich and handsome white guy, Kimiko is a [=golddigger=].{{Golddigger}}.
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** Both the husband and the wife are Asian. However, the husband is from an advanced First World country (eg {{Japan}}, {{South Korea}}, {{Taiwan}}), while the wife is from a Third World country somewhere in the southern parts of Asia.
* '''Justified''': Bob is a rich and handsome white guy, Kimiko is a GoldDigger.

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** Both the husband and the wife are Asian. However, the husband is from an advanced First World country (eg {{Japan}}, {{South UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, UsefulNotes/{{South Korea}}, {{Taiwan}}), UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}}), while the wife is from a Third World country somewhere in the southern parts of Asia.
* '''Justified''': Bob is a rich and handsome white guy, Kimiko is a GoldDigger.[=golddigger=].
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** Both the husband and the wife are Asian. However, the husband is from an advanced First World country (eg {{Japan}}, {{South Korea}}, {{Taiwan}}), while the wife is from a Third World country somewhere in the southern parts of Asia.

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* '''Averted''': Bob and Kimiko aren't interested in one another.
** Alternatively, Bob and Kimiko's romantic interest in each other has absolutely nothing to do with race or stereotypes.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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Bob and Kimiko aren't interested in one another.
** Alternatively, Bob and Kimiko's romantic interest in each other has absolutely nothing to do with race or stereotypes.
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** Alternatively, Bob and Kimiko's romantic interest in each other has absolutely nothing to do with race or stereotypes.
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** "No thanks, I don't want to be labeled an Asian fetishist."

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** "No thanks, I don't want to be labeled an Asian fetishist.I'm not into Asians."
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** A {{gender inver|tedTrope}}sion. The Asian dude goes for a white girl because no Asian girl will him.

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** A {{gender inver|tedTrope}}sion. The Asian dude goes for a white girl because no Asian girl date will him.
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Trying to make this page a little more PC.


** A {{gender inver|tedTrope}}sion. The Asian dude goes for a white girl because he heard they're good in bed.

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** A {{gender inver|tedTrope}}sion. The Asian dude goes for a white girl because he heard they're good in bed.no Asian girl will him.



** "No thanks, I'm not into Asian girls."

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** "No thanks, I'm not into I don't want to be labeled an Asian girls.fetishist."

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'''Basic Trope''': MightyWhitey hooks up with a beautiful but submissive Asian woman BECAUSE she's submissive, exotic and valorizing.

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'''Basic Trope''': MightyWhitey hooks up with a beautiful but submissive Asian woman BECAUSE she's submissive, exotic and valorizing.



* '''Parodied''': Kimiko jokes about the number of white guys who have hit on her.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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Kimiko jokes about the number of white guys who have hit on her.
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'''Basic Trope''': MightyWhitey hooks up with a beautiful but submissive Asian woman BECAUSE she's submissive, exotic and valorizing.
* '''Straight''': Bob looks especially for Asian women and hooks up with Kimiko who fits the AsianHookerStereotype to a "T".
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is all over any Asian girl he meets, even if she's ugly or elderly.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob has a preference for Asian women but isn't looking for a doormat.
** Both Bob and Kimiko have asian decent, but Kimiko has far more.
* '''Justified''': Bob is a rich and handsome white guy, Kimiko is a GoldDigger.
* '''Inverted''':
** A {{gender inver|tedTrope}}sion. The Asian dude goes for a white girl because he heard they're good in bed.
** Some white female VisualKei and K-Pop groupies and {{fangirl}}s.
* '''Subverted''': Bob and Kimiko hook up, but it turns out Kimiko isn't all that submissive after all...
* '''Double Subverted''': ... but she's only playing hard to get. When they get married she acts exactly like an AsianAirhead, as Bob requests.
* '''Parodied''': Kimiko jokes about the number of white guys who have hit on her.
** Kimiko wasn't as submissive as Bob would thought of her to be. After marriage, she ended up [[HenpeckedHusband Henpacking Bob]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob, an Asian fetishist, sees Kimiko and goes wild initially, but then restrains himself. They get together later on... but for an unrelated reason.
* '''Averted''': Bob and Kimiko aren't interested in one another.
* '''Enforced''': Bob: ''(while in an east Asian nation)'' Wow, this woman sure likes me a lot. But does she REALLY like me, or does she only like me because I'm white?
* '''Lampshaded''': "John is just out there looking for his Asian doormat as usual. You know the kind: [[AsianAirhead stupid]], [[ExtremeDoormat subservient]], [[FeminineWomenCanCook good cook]] and [[MyGirlIsASlut a pig in bed]]."
* '''Invoked''': John, who knows both Bob and Kimiko, plays matchmaker and sets them up together.
* '''Exploited''': An Asian GoldDigger looks specifically for White boys to fleece them dry and use them for all they're worth.
* '''Defied''':
** "No thanks, I'm not into Asian girls."
** "Hands off, white boy! I will not love you long time so go away!"
* '''Discussed''': See Lampshaded above.
* '''Conversed''': "Many writers seem to have an Asian girl fetish these days."
* '''Deconstructed''': The relationship crumbles when Kimiko finds out Bob is only with her because he needed to mend his hurt manhood and wanted specifically an Asian woman for their reputation of subservience and domesticity. She dumps him and ends up dating Jason, Bob's BlackBestFriend.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob admits to this fact but has indeed fallen in love with Kimiko and proves to her time and again that he's not with her ''solely'' because she's Asian, but because she's a good, respectable woman.
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I swear, every time Bob goes back to [[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow the main entry]], he ignores Trope-Tan completely and goes straight for her Asian friends! He's got some serious yellow fever...!
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