“When I first came out and entered the online dating scene, you don’t know how many profiles read: ’No fats, no femmes, no Asians.’”

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"I admitted that there are some things we eat that may be considered unconventional by Western standards, but you could easily find examples in nearly any other kind of cuisine. I could tell there was no amount of convincing I could do to sway her conviction.

I was puzzled because every time we'd eaten together, it was something relatively Western like pizza, burgers, and fast food in general. I'd never eaten anything 'weird' in front of her, so I didn't get why she felt the need to say it to me. Not to mention the restaurant we were at served typical stuff like sandwiches, pastas, salads, etc., so there wasn't even anything 'weird' for me to order, even if I wanted to. 

I was pretty disappointed in her for so easily believing an outdated stereotype, but looking back, I'm more disappointed in myself for staying for the rest of the dinner and not walking out at that moment."

"Of course, I never really gave a crap and just did what was right for me. I also learned I was not a real American because she decided I had never seen a gun and assumed I just stepped off the boat, so it was ‘fun’ listening to her explain America to me. It’s also fun for us STEM people to be asked if we paid for our things by selling secrets to China, a country I have zero allegiance towards. Funny how I’ve never seen a white guy get asked that question."

"Sigh. Many of them also had this weird thing with thoughts of having hypothetical babies with me, and what that would make the babies. How much Korean? How much white? They were unsure if they could love the baby if the baby looked more Asian. Double sigh."

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