Anyhow on another note
To me she wasn't trying to get with a whiteman, she was just saying don't go out of your way to insult her, I think that's what she meant by "they just say that to me when I didn't even do anything"
Didn't do anything I guess means not trying to get with them.
But on another note, here's a little something about NZ.
"On dating apps, a lot of girls write 'no black guys, no Asians, no Indians' - that kind of thing," in NZ.
And other races are affected too. A
survey carried out in Australia in 2011 found gay and bisexual men were "remarkably tolerant of sexual racism", while black people in the US were found to be
10 times more likely to message whites than the other way round.
"A lot of that is down to our societal norm of ostracising people of colour, and not accepting them based on their appearance, unfortunately," she said.
"There are also cultural differences. Sometimes people want to stick with our simple social groups, and that means people who share the 'Kiwi white people' culture… There is this lack of familiarity culture-wise and lack of desire for people to explore outside of their bubble.
"And then we just have blatant, explicit racism - and that is a lot more prevalent in New Zealand than people realise."
Dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, OkCupid and Grindr allow users to swipe left or right based largely on appearance - and they haven't exactly tried to put a lid on race-based discrimination.
Prior to the
murder of George Floyd and
subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, most had ethnicity filters that enabled users to exclude people that didn't fit their racial 'preferences'.
Since then, some got rid of them but many kept them anyway despite the pushback. Match Group, which owns dating platforms Tinder, Match.com, OkCupid, Hinge and PlentyOfFish, did not respond to Newshub's questions on why it had retained its ethnicity filter.
What do you guys think of that?
Would you want to keep that ethnicity filter?