Seeking Asian Female

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film, Seeking Asian Female, Steven, the film's protagonist, cleans house in preparation for a visit from Sandy, the Chinese woman he met on the Internet who he hopes will agree to marry him.

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film, Seeking Asian Female, Steven, the film's protagonist, return from China with Sandy, a woman he met through a website which caters to American men looking for an Asian bride.

In this video companion piece to the Independent Lens documentary, Seeking Asian Female, the filmmakers survey people in interracial relationships on the topic of yellow fever: Western white men having an obsession with East Asian women. In this and the other episodes, They’re All so Beautiful opens with a question, provides answers, and then asks some more.

When it comes to "yellow fever,” many argue it’s a two way street. In this webisode, Asian women confess reasons for preferring white men including that they’re “more confident, better looking.” Academics unpack the reasons why, including “hiergamy,” the sociologists’ term to describe a universal female desire for marrying above one’s own socioeconomic status.

Looking beyond personal ad profiles and first dates, how do cross-cultural relationships with or without the “tarnish of yellow fever” work in the long term? Interviews with interracial couples, as well as experts and those on the hunt for love reflect on what it takes for initial attraction to evolve into real and lasting commitment.