In episode 4 of the webseries They’re All So Beautiful, they attempt to answer the question “Do Asian Women Have “White Fever”? Flipping the Yellow Fever the other way around, the short explores White Fever among Asian women. Do Asian women prefer white male over Asian males? Professor Elaine Kim look at both sides of Yellow & White Fever and the perceptions of Asian women to both. Why do some Asian women prefer white males over Asian men? Is it about confidence and conservatism? Do stereotypes creep into these type of relationships?

Previous episodes:
They’re All So Beautiful Episode 1
They’re All So Beautiful Episode 2
They’re All So Beautiful Episode 3

Talking head commentary from experts and everyday Asian/Americans, as well as interviews with patrons of Asian fetish forums spell out the implications of race-based romantic preferences with honesty and humor, making They’re All So Beautiful provocative while politically agnostic. It promises to surprise viewers with its thoughtful look at modern love and relationships, just as with Lum’s award-winning documentary, Seeking Asian Female, which provides the thematic basis of They’re All So Beautiful.

Weekly webisodes will air online leading up to the national broadcast of Seeking Asian Female on Independent Lens on Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

They’re All So Beautiful Episode 4

More about They’re All So Beautiful
They’re All So Beautiful is a six-part web series directed by Debbie Lum and co-produced by Maikiko James. The short online documentary episodes are designed to stimulate discussion on yellow fever – a unique but in many ways ubiquitous predilection Western men have for women of Asian descent. Each video starts with a question:

Episode 1: What is Yellow Fever?
Episode 2: Do you have to be white to have Yellow Fever?
Episode 3: What do Asian men think of it?
Episode 4: What about White Fever-Asian women who seek out white men?
Episode 5: What about marriage?