'Does online dating reveal that we're racist?' (1) Does it really take a brilliant sociologist to tell us that ethnicity 'still matters' in dating? (2) Since whites are said to be by far the most 'racist' group ...

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Does online dating reveal that we're racist? 

Ethnicity still matters to most site users when choosing a love-interest

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• Sociologist Professor Kevin Lewis found individuals are still most-likely to contact people who share their own racial background on dating websites
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• The University of California San Diego study said the tendency to contact someone from a shared race, is strongest among Asians and Indians
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• Professor Lewis said once an individual has replied to a suitor from a different race, they are more likely to cross racial lines in the future . . .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2487684/Does-online-dating-reveal-racist.html#ixzz2ju3t4Tla

     (1) Does it really take a brilliant sociologist to tell us that ethnicity 'still matters' in dating? 

     (2) Since whites are said to be by far the most 'racist' group by everyone from third-grade teachers, usually indirectly but clearly in the approved curriculum, to the latest Hollywood blockbuster films, it is very odd, is it not, when it is found that 'whites are the most likely to consider relationships with people from other ethnic backgrounds'? 

     (3) Why does everyone from sociologists to reporters reporting on sociologists assume out-of-hand that, when someone is dating, any warn feelings of affinity they might have for the people of their own largest kinship group is a terribly bad and backward thing that must be stomped out with PC jackboots?