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Are white women considered more attractive?

  • 21-05-2017 1:33pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 484 ✭✭


    I say considered because it would be wrong to claim that any race has women who are objectively beautiful (even though they may posess more objectively beautiful traits).

    What do you think? Have you really ever thought a person of another race was attractive?

    Have you ever considered a person outside your race attractive? 204 votes

    I have been regularly attracted to someone outside my race sexually and physically (aesthetics)
    0% 0 votes
    I have been regulalry attracted to someone outside my race sexually but not physically
    94% 192 votes
    I have been regularly attracted to someone outside my race physically but not sexually
    2% 6 votes
    I have neither been attracted to someone outside my race sexually or physically
    2% 6 votes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,485 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    When I was in Iran I saw some of the most Beautiful women I have ever seen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Absolutely. How could you not like some mixed race ass.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Everybody's beautiful to someone
    Everybody's beautiful to someone
    She might not do much for you, son
    But you should see what she does for someone else

    Everybody's beautiful in their own way.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    I have been attracted to some Mongoloids.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭C Montgomery Gurns II


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    Have you really ever thought a person of another race was attractive?

    You would want to have pretty narrow parameters to say absolutely no woman of another race was somewhat attractive :confused:

    When I was in Iran I saw some of the most Beautiful women I have ever seen.

    I am quite baffled at how these Hadid sisters who are all over the media are considered so stunning. As half Middle Eastern birds go they are strikingly and untypically plain.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 484 ✭✭jeanjolie


    When I was in Iran I saw some of the most Beautiful women I have ever seen.

    Aren't Iranian's caucasian though?

    It's said that even 'foreign' (non-white) women shown on TV, emulate white features.

    In regards to a person who doesn't have the typical Caucasian features...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Doltanian


    I'm attracted to all races, each race has their own unique characteristics and set of good and bad points.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭EndaHonesty


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    I say considered because it would be wrong to claim that any race has women who are objectively beautiful (even though they may posess more objectively beautiful traits).

    What do you think? Have you really ever thought a person of another race was attractive?

    Outside my race?

    The human race?

    I don't think I've ever been attracted to flora or fauna.

    In fact I think that's illegal...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Having been to Sweden I would confidently say they are the most stunningly beautiful people I've ever seen. Men and women.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    As a member of the human race, I am going to say No. I'm fact there is a good half of the human race that I have never found attractive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    It's a toss up between white women and latinas.

    The rest are meh.

    Although Kelly Rowland is Top 10 of all time.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Yes I would say good looking white women are considered more attractive than the other races, but I can only speak from a white person's point of view. There have always been far more white pin ups in western society but then we're a white majority. But I wonder if a guy in Kenya would prefer to bang the hottest Kenyan woman or a white pin up? What a ridiculous thread why am I even thinking about this...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 484 ✭✭jeanjolie


    You would want to have pretty narrow parameters to say absolutely no woman of another race was somewhat attractive :confused:

    Hmmm..see what you mean there. Obviously that's true.

    The thing is though, when we talk about attractive women, we have to talk about the average white woman vs average black/asian woman you see on the street. Some buggers are probably going to start posting image of black African models claiming that it's a racist thread and that all races have attractive women in them.

    The thing is, those are models and not the average minorities you would see in Ireland day to day. Now if the question is focused on whether you find the average black woman vs the average white woman you encounter on a normal day attractive (disregarding sexual attraction) what would your answer be?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭DredFX


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    Aren't Iranian's caucasian though?

    Caucasian does not necessarily mean 'white people'. It's a very broad taxon that has arbitrarily changed over the course of the last two or so centuries.

    I remember reading that Irish people were once not considered Caucasoids!


    As for the question, I've found members of every race and skin tone attractive. In general, I found olive skin the most attractive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Conservative


    Judging by my own personal taste (I wouldn't be a fan of the famed "most beautiful women" at all I think it is all fairly random as to what people like and dislike.


    That or I have poor taste.


    (I actually do.)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,253 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Personally I've only ever been really attracted to Caucasian women(that would run the range from western Europe and into the ME). Never really got the Asian buzz a lot of men seem to, nor women of African extraction. I can certainly see why attractive members of those groups do get attention, but not my thing TBH.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Races don't really exist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 484 ✭✭jeanjolie


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Personally I've only ever been really attracted to Caucasian women(that would run the range from western Europe and into the ME). Never really got the Asian buzz a lot of men seem to, nor women of African extraction. I can certainly see why attractive members of those groups do get attention, but not my thing TBH.

    Well when it comes to sexual attraction, I don't doubt that men would pass up the offer from any race of women. I also have a loose theory that men who are attracted to many races of women mostly prioritize 'traditional femininity' a long with sexual appeal.

    In reality, if you were to forget the sexual attraction and just consider the aesthetics and different cultures, I believe you would see the number of men who were attracted to asiate and African women fall.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 MikeenRonanJr


    I'd personally know a hell of a lot more good-looking white women, although that is probably just the reality of living in a 95% white country. I never really found east Asians attractive (that seems very common). If I'm being honest, I always had a thing for dark-skinned African women, just something gorgeous about them.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Doltanian


    Races don't really exist.

    You are wrong, there is several races, each with their own differences and DNA proves this. Leftwing liberalism has tried and often succeeded to crush racial science but the truth is that there is still difference. There is different breeds of sheep, cattle, dogs and cats etc. Humans are just animals who evolved to become more intelligent. Yes there is the human race and within it are the differences.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭DredFX


    I am quite baffled at how these Hadid sisters who are all over the media are considered so stunning. As half Middle Eastern birds go they are strikingly and untypically plain.

    All due respect, you could extrapolate that to most women the minute the makeup and hip-hugging dresses come off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭bmwguy


    If you showed me a great looking woman from every one of the 200 countries in this world I would be attracted to them sexually and physically. Hard not to be really. So would most other guys. Ditto for females if you showed them good looking males. If someone has the time to post them up, or even a link or name we can Google it would be a fun way to pass the time!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    I like Black White women... like Halle Berry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    By white I'm assuming we're not talking Albino, which is a shame.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,518 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    I say considered because it would be wrong to claim that any race has women who are objectively beautiful (even though they may posess more objectively beautiful traits).

    What do you think? Have you really ever thought a person of another race was attractive?


    Yeah, loads of times, sometimes their characteristic features draw more attention than the average white woman, like big bums for example, or their eyes which can be a different shape or colour, or the most visible characteristic of course being their skin colour.

    I couldn't say as a group that one group was more or less attractive than another, but there are a few among any group that have tended to stop me in my tracks. Obviously though they're not average, because average implies something isn't particularly noticeable, regardless of their race, ethnicity, etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Racial science isn't real either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭DredFX


    Races don't really exist.
    Racial science isn't real either.

    What else isn't real?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Been attracted to people of most races..ethncities whatever..but cant say Ive ever been physically attracted to an eastern asian male, even some of the better looking ones still did nothing for me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭Exeggcute


    When I was in Iran I saw some of the most Beautiful women I have ever seen.

    Absolutely. Stunning women. Very nice people too, they have a grace and elegance you don't find here too often


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    If I've got a type it would probably be the classic tall dark and handsome. If he's got nice shoulders and can make me laugh he's in dream man territory. His race wouldn't matter to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    DredFX wrote: »
    What else isn't real?

    I think God is top of that list, but it is a long list.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,253 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Races don't really exist.
    In 19th century terms, no. However populations that share a genetic heritage and geography with shared external characteristics do. And those populations roughly follow the broad strokes of "race". For me the pendulum has swung a little too far from the previously held definitions that gave rise to all sorts of insanities and tragedy, to the "we're all the same you know". It's understandable why and a welcome swing indeed, but looking at the human species as a whole, if we were any other animal, I am quite sure we'd be described as one overall species, with "subspecies" of each other.
    jeanjolie wrote: »
    I also have a loose theory that men who are attracted to many races of women mostly prioritize 'traditional femininity' a long with sexual appeal.

    In reality, if you were to forget the sexual attraction and just consider the aesthetics and different cultures, I believe you would see the number of men who were attracted to asiate and African women fall.
    Maybe and I see what you mean, but I dunno. There may be an element to that alright and it can come up in preferences, but there's also a very general innate drive for us to reproduce with "different", for sound reasons too. Variety in gene flow tends to improve a species.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Murrisk


    I am quite baffled at how these Hadid sisters who are all over the media are considered so stunning. As half Middle Eastern birds go they are strikingly and untypically plain.

    Absolutely and I think they've had a helping hand too. And they are still nowhere near model-beautiful, IMO. Daddy's money! I have seen women of Middle Eastern heritage in my everyday life who absolutely trounce those dead-eyed eejits in the looks department. Actually, I've seen more beautiful women of all kinds of heritages than those two.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Depends who you ask, eh? Hippos fancy other hippos, and swans other swans.

    Humans fancy other humans, some have a preferred "type" and some don't.

    I've always liked that line near the beginning of "Roots" where the boy growing up the in the Gambia sees the women blackening the palms of their hands.
    His mother tells him that the darker her skin, the more beautiful she is regarded: so for this special occasion, the girls even blacken their palms and feet. I don't know if this is actually a true incident, but it's a nice story.

    And my next door neighbour, a country-woman in her 90's, told me that years ago in rural Donegal, "all a girl needed, to be thought a beauty, was to have red hair."

    So you see it varies so much from place to place, time to time, person to person, about who is "considered attractive"!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    When I was in Iran I saw some of the most Beautiful women I have ever seen.

    They get RTE in Iran? Who knew.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    I was gonna post Iranian Persian women too.
    They are just stunning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Hmm, I didnt see how persian people looked better than many other races tbh..like I don't know that many, but from the ones Ive seen in person and in the media they seem decent yeh but not in any way more noteworthy on average than other groups


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Everybody's beautiful in their own way.

    AKA The ugly people's credo.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I think Latina women without a doubt are the hottest


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Well, if you asked me on a Tuesday, I might say..yeeesss


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    surely a personal preference


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    I think Latina women without a doubt are the hottest

    but you have to factor in the odd spicy attitude


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    I've been attracted to women from most ethnic backgrounds but I do favour olive skin, dark eyes and long black hair so Latinos and Middle Eastern women are top-notch for me ......... I find absolutely nothing attractive about African women or women of African descent unless significantly diluted resulting in stunners like Halle Berry, Beyonce, Rihanna etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    surely a personal preference

    What else could it possibly be ........ ??? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    I suppose the deciding factor is the amount of raincoats the women are wearing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Bambi985


    In Ireland at least, white women being predominant means that it's the norm, so our models, celebrities, TV presenters etc and all those professions that rely on someone being attractive, are white women.

    If you were to look at your average white woman on the street though, I wouldn't say she's any more attractive than any other race. The most attractive people I've ever seen in a "stop and stare every few minutes" type of way were in Toronto, which is a famously culturally and racially diverse place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,586 ✭✭✭Stigura


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    jeanjolie wrote: »
    Hmmm..see what you mean there. Obviously that's true.

    The thing is though, when we talk about attractive women, we have to talk about the average white woman vs average black/asian woman you see on the street. Some buggers are probably going to start posting image of black African models claiming that it's a racist thread and that all races have attractive women in them.

    The thing is, those are models and not the average minorities you would see in Ireland day to day. Now if the question is focused on whether you find the average black woman vs the average white woman you encounter on a normal day attractive (disregarding sexual attraction) what would your answer be?

    The 'average black woman' you see in Ireland (or at least where I live) would be different from 'the average black woman' you might see in other countries. At the risk of sounding racist most of the black women I see on a daily basis look like they've just arrived from The Congo or somewhere and are obnoxiously loud, covered in tribal garb, if they're not wearing head scarves have weird short spiked afros and are wearing these sandals that their feet keep slipping out of because of their weight. I suspect these women are only in their thirties or forties but appear far older.

    Some black women are gorgeous but I don't see many of them walking around Carlow town. I've seen loads of attractive women on television. I've even seen loads of attractive 'normal', non-celebrity black women on the likes of Twitter. In real life though I've probably seen maybe thirty, possibly less, attractive black women in my entire life.


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