sticky rice

n. an East Asian who prefers romantic partners of the same race. Also attrib. Subjects: English, Sex & Sexuality

Editorial Note: This term is often derogatory.

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Citations: 1991 Usenet: soc.motss (July 10) “Toronto motss.con: a retrospective”: He also mentioned a term for an Asian who likes Asians and a White who likes Whites ("sticky rice” and “mashed potato"). [1995 Richard Lloyd Parry Independent (Londong, England) (May 30) “Sayonara to Tokyo’s camp followers” p. 18: The young Office Ladies found the city’s gay men so cute, they latched on to their club scene. But now the ‘sticky rice girls’ have come unstuck.…A new phenomenon emerged: the okoge. The closest English translation is fag hag, but this doesn’t do justice to the expression. Okoge is a culinary term, referring to those irritating grains of rice that stubbornly glue themselves to the bottom of the pot.] *1996 Au Waipang Yawning Bread (Singapore) (Dec.) “Rice and Potatoes”: There are some who are “international buffet,” most of the rest are “sticky-rice,” i.e. East Asians who go for East Asians. They too can be quite specific about their tastes, and even if they think hard about it, they can rarely explain why they find fellow Asians a lot more attractive 1997 Chris Fox Usenet: bit.listserv.gaynet (Oct. 4) “Re: Writing like idiots was Re: Living like animals”: “Sticky rice” is a gentle joke, and I can tell you with some authority that Asians who date their own race are not considered to be “settling” for something less than a White Man. 2000 Amy Sonnie Revolutionary Voices (Oct. 1) p. 48: Here they have terms like…sticky rice.…Gay American culture insists that I am rice and my boyfriend should be a potato. My skin should be smooth, brown, and hairless, and his should resemble that of Wonder bread. If I go against this, I am labeled sticky rice and condemned as going against the natural way.

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