Relationships, culture, and safety
A curated reading room for people interested in serious relationships across cultural backgrounds. These resources cover Asian American relationships, intermarriage, modern online dating, and practical ways to stay safe while getting to know someone new.
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Culture and relationships
Useful research for thinking beyond stereotypes and understanding how immigration, family, culture, and generation can shape relationships.
Pew examines Asian American experiences in the United States, including attitudes toward friendship, family, identity, and intermarriage. The research finds broad comfort with relatives marrying outside their race or Asian ethnic group, while also showing differences by generation and age.
Read at Pew Research Center →A data-focused look at interracial and interethnic marriage in the United States. It includes the important distinction between U.S.-born and foreign-born Asian newlyweds and shows how relationship patterns vary across generations.
Read at Pew Research Center →Modern dating
Online dating can create real relationships, but users also report frustration, unwanted behavior, and encounters with suspected scammers.
A broad study of online dating in the United States, including why adults use dating platforms, how often relationships begin online, how users feel about the experience, and their views about safety.
Read at Pew Research Center →This section focuses on the human side of dating apps and websites: positive and negative experiences, message overload, disappointment, harassment, and how often users believe they have encountered a scammer.
Read at Pew Research Center →Dating safely
Romance scammers often build trust gradually, avoid meeting in person, move conversations away from the original platform, and eventually introduce a financial emergency or investment opportunity.
The FTC explains common romance-scam stories, why scammers frequently claim they cannot meet in person, the payment methods they favor, and what to do if someone you met online starts asking for money.
Read at the FTC →A concise checklist for spotting suspicious online relationships, including repeated excuses for not meeting, requests for money, investment pitches, and the value of reverse-image searching profile photos.
Read at the FTC →The FTC highlights a recurring warning sign in romance scams: a person who forms a strong online connection but continually avoids an in-person meeting and later asks for money through hard-to-reverse payment methods.
Read at the FTC →A useful companion for people who first encounter a romantic interest on Facebook, Instagram, or another social platform. The FTC describes how scammers use public profile information to build trust and then steer victims toward financial requests or fake investments.
Read at the FTC →Never send money, cryptocurrency, gift cards, banking information, passwords, or verification codes to someone simply because an online relationship feels emotionally serious. Take your time, verify independently, and use the site's reporting tools when something does not feel right.