{"id":82294,"date":"2018-10-13T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T12:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82294"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:07","slug":"white-people-prefer-white-people-on-dating-apps-but-there-may-be-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82294","title":{"rendered":"White people prefer white people on dating apps \u2014 but there may be a cure.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A study from Cornell University found that dating apps \u2014 like Tinder and Grindr \u2014 can help reinforce the biases or \u201csexual racism\u201d of users depending on its algorithm. The researchers offered ways to fight back against it.<\/p>\n

Dating applications can allow users to fall into their own racial biases while searching for a partner, a new study says.<\/p>\n

But in their study, researchers from schools like Cornell University say\u00a0the \u201csexual racism\u201d that plagues apps like Grindr, Tinder and Bumble can be stamped out<\/a>\u00a0with a few simple changes. The end goal, the study says, is to promote more diverse pairings on the dating sites.<\/p>\n

Jevan Hutson, lead author of the study, said in a press release from Cornell University that\u00a0\u201cit\u2019s really an unprecedented time for dating and meeting online\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which requires a more thorough look at how we can prevent discrimination on these dating apps.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore people are using these apps, and they\u2019re critical infrastructures that don\u2019t get a lot of attention when it comes to bias and discrimination,\u201d he said in the press release. \u201cIntimacy is very private, and rightly so, but our private lives have impacts on larger socioeconomic patterns that are systemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

So just how does this racial bias play out for\u00a0the estimated 15 percent of adults who use the dating apps?<\/a><\/p>\n

Take the case of Sinakhone Keodara for example.\u00a0He threatened to sue Grindr, a dating app for gay, bi and trans men, because of \u201csexual racism\u201d he faced on the site<\/a>, NBC reported. More specifically, Keodara says some users on the site had captions like \u201cNot interested in Asians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phumlani Kango, from Johannesburg, South Africa, said in an interview with NBC that the racism is prevalent in his country, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happens in Los Angeles \u2026 where you have \u2018no fats, no femmes,\u2019 it happens [in South Africa] as well,\u201d he told NBC. \u201c… They will say \u2018no rice, no chocolate, no curry\u2019 \u2014 which means no Asian, no black and no Indian.\u201d<\/p>\n

As noted by the study \u2014 which compiled data from prior research \u2014 white people are ten times more likely to receive a message from a black person on a dating app than they are to message the black user themselves. That suggests a hierarchy of attention on racial lines.<\/p>\n

The study found other examples of inequalty in dating apps, including:<\/p>\n