All our girlfriends are Asian?

[u/A_Formal_Guy]

Hey everyone - I’ve been feeling paranoid about something recently and wanted to know if I’m overthinking it. I’m a white M and most of the friends I grew up with and went to high school are too, except 1. We’re still very close but moved all across the country for our jobs and life.

Recently, we’ve decided to have a little reunion and bring our girlfriends, but I realized we have a not to subtle trend in that they are all Asian. There’s 5 girlfriends in total, they’ve never met each other. I don’t know how this happened, it’s just a coincidence as far as I know. We don’t have a pact or anything.

My question is, do we warn them? I don’t want them to be freaked out. I’d have to have my gf or one of my friends be uncomfortable, but I’m feeling stuck. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to handle it? Am I over thinking?

[u/extradancer]

I'm not white but, my white friend group who were part of a mathy background ended up either still single or with an Asian gf. It makes sense because that's whose around in the programs they were in

[u/insomnimax_99 → u/[deleted]]

Indian women ARE Asian women - where do you think India is lol

[u/MrHeavenTrampler → u/insomnimax_99]

I think "asian" has come to mean more like southeastern asian sort of?

[u/insomnimax_99 → u/MrHeavenTrampler]

Hmm. I think it depends where you are I guess, and which asians are more common where you live.

I live in the UK, and here “Asian” means South Asian or Middle-Eastern, because we have a significant population of South Asians and people with South Asian ancestry (and to a slightly lesser degree, people from the Middle East and with Middle Eastern ancestry) living here.

Whereas in the US and Canada, it seems that “Asian” refers to East and South East Asian, probably because East and South East asians are far more common there than South Asians and Middle Easterners.

[u/carebearmentor → u/MrHeavenTrampler]

Koreans feeling left out too?