Love Flower

In the late 1990's, I was teaching English in Kyoto, Japan. Many of my students were stunningly attractive, young Japapese university students. For the first four months of my contract, I did not even consider dating an asian women. It is not that I wasn't attracted, I had just never considered that a relationship with an asian woman would be pratical for reasons of cultural and geographical differences.At some point, I began to realize that a few of my students were flirting with me, but I tried to ignore their advances and tried to tell myself that I was just imagining things. It wasn't that there would be anything morally wrong with dating any of these women: I had just recently graduated from college myself, and some of my students were actually older than me. It occurred to me that I was struggling with a kind of unconscious prejudice against dating women of another race. It wasn't that I had anything against interracial couples, I just thought that it was not something that I would personally get involved in. The whole thing came to a head when I was invited for an evening out with a bunch of the students. One of the women that had been flirty with me kicked things up a notch and began to get very insistent in her advances. After several beers and a lot of dancing, something just snapped in me: I thought "wow, this woman is really gorgeous, and she really digs me...why have I been fighting her off?". Since then, I have never gone back to dating non-asian women. It's not that I have anything against same race couples, it's just that it is no longer right for me.