How online dating is erasing racial and social barriers

Many people greatly underestimate online dating and its importance to modern society. For the vast majority, these are simply convenient sites and applications to chat with new interlocutors and, if you're lucky, make new friends or, perhaps, a soulmate.

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On the one hand, this is true. But on the other hand, modern online dating is much more important for the development of society in principle. And in particular we talk about erasing racial and social barriers. This is exactly what we will talk about today.

How online dating erases barriers between people and why it's important

People from different social groups, segments of the population and nationalities intersect every day on the Internet. This is an extremely positive trend, because thanks to it, barriers between people, if not completely erased, are at least reduced. And this is already great progress!

But have you ever wondered how much influence online dating has in this matter?

According to the results of recent studies in the United States, about 30% of interethnic couples are people who met on the Internet. Quite a bit of. But that's not all. About 51% of such couples are representatives of different religions. Interracial couples are also more likely to form online—8% of cases. By comparison, only 3% of interracial couples are formed offline in the United States.

Interesting fact! Some sociological studies show that the tendency to initiate contact exclusively within one's own race is most common among Asians and Indians. And least of all for the white population.

In fact, online dating opens up truly enormous opportunities for forming new relationships that would never be created in real life.

• Any geographical boundaries are erased. A man from New York can easily meet a girl from Beijing, and this is just a matter of just a couple of minutes.
• Active Internet communication increases loyalty to people of other races, nationalities, religions, etc. Often, negativity towards something or someone is associated precisely with ignorance or misunderstanding. The Internet eliminates this ignorance and misunderstanding.
• Social barriers on the Internet are also leveled, because when you meet a person on the Internet, you don’t know who he works, how much he earns, and the like. That is, you can evaluate him as a person, and not rely on some far-fetched parameters.

What is more effective in the context of the topic of racial and social barriers - classic web dating or random video chat?

It is impossible to give a definite answer. Some people find it more convenient to meet and communicate in classic apps and dating sites, while others find it more convenient to meet people in online video chats. But we still believe that video chats in the context of our topic today have one very important advantage. Now we'll explain!

See for yourself. Dating sites and apps allow users to fine-tune their search for potential partners. And some will say that this is a plus. But in reality this is not entirely true. Using many search filters, you only drive yourself into certain limits that you cannot go beyond. That is, in fact, you yourself build barriers for yourself that you cannot overcome. This is where the question arises: do you need such barriers?

Random video chat is a radically different format in which, even with a strong desire, you will not be able to build insurmountable barriers. This means that you have a much greater chance of meeting a person of a different race, nationality, faith, life goals and principles. That is, more freedom.

Of course, video chats also have search filters, but these are only the most basic settings - gender, geolocation, list of interests, and the like. For the rest, you will have to rely on chance. And that's great! One click, and here you have a new interlocutor.

If the video chat format interests you, we can recommend the following platforms:

• Hinge is a dating app that uses a Nobel Prize-winning matching algorithm. In fact, the coincidences here, although not perfect, are in most cases quite successful. But this is not a classic random video chat in the usual sense.
• chatrandom - a very functional video chat, in which, in addition to one-on-one video conversations, there are thematic chat rooms for communicating with like-minded people. There is also a separate search by interests and video chat with girls. Access to the latter is paid.
• Chatous is a random video chat for smartphones that allows you not only to communicate with strangers via video, but also to exchange video messages, text chat, send multimedia files, and so on. This is a pretty good combination of random video chat and messenger.
• bazoocam — a minimalistic video chat with a rather limited set of functions. There's not even a gender filter, not to mention other fine-tuning options. But Bazoocam has online mini-games, as well as its own streaming platform. Otherwise, this is a classic video chat without any frills.
• KuMyt is a unique random video chat in many respects with a perfectly working gender filter. KuMyt knows how to connect men only with girls and never makes mistakes. It also has very convenient mobile applications for iOS and Android, plus a built-in message translator.
• Bigo Live is a large video streaming platform designed primarily for broadcasting video games. This is more of an alternative to Twitch than to classic dating services or video chats. But if you like to watch or even stream, Bigo Live might definitely appeal to you.

And, of course, don’t forget about alternative online dating platforms. These can be social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), instant messengers (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram), various thematic forums and much more. You don't have to focus only on dating sites/apps or video chats. There are a lot of options, and each can give you a chance for successful dating!

We summarize

The importance of online dating for modern society cannot be overestimated. The Internet has long been more than just an opportunity to conveniently communicate, learn new information, study and work. This is a tool with the help of which humanity itself is transformed. You may not notice it, but the process of such transformation is ongoing and even gaining momentum.

Online dating has truly succeeded in doing the impossible - almost eliminating racial and social barriers between people. Of course, it is not yet possible to say that such barriers have been completely eliminated. But the trend is definitely positive. And this cannot but rejoice!

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