According to (a) theory, one's standards of sexual attractriveness are determined at least partly in early childhood and emerges from an average of the faces we encounter. Therefore, if, as has certainly been the case for most of history, we tend to be surrounded by people of the same ethnic background when we're growing up, we will favour people from that background as adults.
However, it's not a necessary or 'inbuilt' thing, and as society becomes more multicultural and we are surrounded by more ethnicities (both in people we actually encounter and those we see in media), this effect will weaken.
So whilst old fuckers like Mozza, and possibly a lot of the people on B3ta, may naturally have a preference for partners with a common ethnic origin, younger people who have grown up in a much more multi cultural society, and a much wider variety of ethnicity on tv, film etc., will probably exhibit this effect to a lesser extent. And probably think we're all big old racists because of this.
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FridgeBadger, Wed 26 Jun 2019, 9:47,
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