White men and "Asian fetishes"

Marie Claire's recent article about White men marrying Asian women has ruffled a few feathers, including Slate.com columnist Nina Shen Rastogi:

Quote:"Now, I'm not about to pretend that race doesn't play a role in sexual attraction. And I won't pretend that the white man / Asian woman pairing—not unlike the black man / white woman pairing—doesn't carry some heavy cultural baggage. But this particular attempt at sociological analysis does nothing to move the discussion forward … the article doesn't put much faith in the Asian women's agency. Chu herself notes that most of the women she's talking about are accomplished, educated professionals. Why, then, would she want to even suggest that they’re comparable to “concubines” and “mail-order brides”? Chu brings up globalization as a reason why Asian women are such “hot commodities” now, but it doesn't seem to occur to her that globalization has also created more opportunities for foreign-born women to gain power, money, education—and entrée into upper social echelons on their own steam, with or without a “silver-haired Western suit."

What's your take?