notice how common WMAF relationships are in EDC/Rave culture
I’m an Asian guy who’s been in the rave/festival scene for years, and a lot of my close friends are white guys, and many of them date Asian girls. Over time, I started noticing how common White male / Asian female relationships seem to be in rave culture.
It feels like almost every Asian girl I’ve genuinely liked either rejects me for a white guy, or eventually ends up dating one of my white friends or another white guy in the scene.
What makes it harder is being around it constantly. Some of my white friends know this bothers me, and they tease me about it. Sometimes they’ll make jokes about how “Asian girls love white guys,” or joke that they already know how things will end whenever I say I’m interested in an Asian girl. A few of them are also very physically affectionate with their girlfriends in front of me — kissing, grabbing them, picking them up, dancing on them — almost like they know it gets in my head.
And honestly, I can’t ignore how much attention that kind of confidence gets. When new Asian girls come into the group, they immediately notice those relationships. They see white guys being loud, confident, dominant, openly affectionate, and completely unafraid to show attraction in public. The girls naturally start talking about those couples or becoming drawn toward that energy.
Meanwhile, I feel like a lot of Asian guys, including myself sometimes, are more reserved physically and emotionally in public. We overthink things, avoid making moves, or worry about coming off wrong. So when you compare that to someone who’s bold and expressive, it can feel like we’re invisible before we even get a chance. One time to show some confidence, one of my white friends would challenge me to see how fast we Asian girl instagram. I went into this group of girls and I started stuttering and felt soooo embarrassed but I told them I can buy them some food if they give me their instagram, I bought the food and they left, didn’t see them again lol. While my white friend got all of a group of Asian instagram and they came over to dance with us. I of course had to buy all of them food, which was the punishment.