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Older Japanese more likely to have dated foreigners

Older Japanese more likely to have dated foreigners

Here is a new-to-me survey company, Qzoo, who conducted a survey on behalf of Sirabee into dating foreigners.

It’s just a single question survey, but the figures were interesting to me, and hopefully to my readers too. However, there is a huge question; why have just one or two percent of those in their thirties dated a foreigner? The foreigner population is round about 2%, so by random choice, if was just a single partner that people had, it would be correct, but with multiple partners, plus given the stereotype that many younger single Japanese have never had a date, the ratio of foreigners in the dating pool may be higher than the raw 2%.

Discussion

Yubi #12833
The survey is not very convincing. Judging by what I have seen, this should be higher than 2% even if you assume that rural Japan has no foreigners. As for marriages, 1 in 16 marriages in Japan is with a foreign national now. It's a bit hard to correlate that number with this survey.
BarbaraEbara #12865
I have to agree. I think a lot of these "numbers" and statistics are blown out of the water and are exaggerated. I can't even fathom older men or women being single or having enough energy to "date" or going on them. lol