Asian fetish

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An Asian fetish is a strong sexual or romantic preference for people of Asian descent or heritage. The term usually refers to women specifically of East or Southeast Asian descent though it may also include those of South Asian descent. The origins of the sexual fetishization of the people of Asia are unclear. Male Dutch colonists fetishised Southeast Asian women in the Dutch East Indies, on the basis of the darker skin and hair colour of the Indigenous women. Similar accounts were reported in other colonized territories such as the British Raj, where it was common for English men to have Indian mistresses against a backdrop where Indian women were sexualised through what scholars describe as a typical colonial gaze and viewed as seductive, sensual and exotic. After World War II, Japanese women gained prominence in American beauty pageants, at a time when large numbers of Japanese war brides were entering the United States. Targets of Asian fetishization report a number of harms and psychological...

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