In Mexico it’s the culture and the lack of education for the most part! Very deceitful boys only wanting money pass more photos and I promise you that you will never get one real photo in return! Safety is a big issue here! The gay organizations need to promote stop these acts of deception, abuse and prostitution from foreigners who prey on the poor people and the poor people prey on the foreigners who might have more money! I’m absolutely sick of the foreigners who come here and throw a few pesos at young guys and think they are a great guy and in reality they are scum living out some form of incest perverted ****** acts! Most guys here have no understanding of incest so the sick foreigners love it here! They should be nurturing others with kindness not more ****** mental abuse

It should be a standard option for free members to search for the ethnic group they want. I will be honest I go to other sites that have this because everything I don’t want shows upon here without the option.

Terrible idea.

This will be assist the hate to increase. You can block my profile if you hate me because I am white (or whatever), but why should your hate be given space???

It doesn't have to be on the profile but we should be able to control who we show up to. So as a person of colour, I rather only see men who have ticked "Asian" as one of the types that they want to see. That way, I'm not getting racialized responses back. Would just make the search less humiliating or demoralizing by being able to message someone who is into your type. Racial preferences are inevitable and it would make it easier for POCs to not be subjected to rejection based on race more than we need to be. It isn't to expose anyone but it would make our search more effective.

I’d like to be able to search by race

There should be an option to select Latinx (and also Latina) for "ethnicity." Spanish is a gendered language, and Latino is not aligned with non-binary and female identifying persons using this app, myself included.

Allow users to filter their feed by ethnicity for free. For instance, I do not want to date/meet black guys. In a country that is predominantly black, this app is mostly a waste of time for people that do not want to engage with another ethnicity for the reason they've joined the app.

It’s hard for someone that lives in a rural community to actually meet someone who isn’t part of the same race/ethnicity. Don’t have the money to pay for the whole membership.

I think you should have the option to choose the ethnicity of who and what you are looking for even if you are a free member. I know for me I would rather go to another app instead of being forced to see something I don’t care to.

Hi, i'm french and i live at the border of Germany and grinder haven't a filter for the country or the language.
It would be great

Add a Not Specified category to the Ethnicity filter, similar to the Not Specified category in other filters. Some guys just don’t specify their ethnicity and it would be nice to see them in the filtered results.

Dear Grindr Folks,

Firstly, I would like to thank you for the work you are doing on racism and discrimination. Moreover, Grindr brings the opportunity for people to connect. According, to research dating apps make it more likely for people of different ethnicities to connect. For example, if someone, say, white, sends a message to a brown person. The brown person may not respond at first, but the next time, a white person writes, they may.

The the reason I am composing this message is because I came to wonder why Grindr employs terms such as ethnicity and then add options such white, black, etc. Firstly, these are not ethnicities, but a different way to rank and categorize people. There is a notion that people have ‘preferences’ However, where does ‘preference’ stop, and where does bias, prejudice, discrimination, or racism begin? It may seem, in all the effort to fight racism and discrimination Grindr is using the same principles that divide people.

Preferences are not set in stone. Just like in real life, the more exposure you get to different people, the more diverse preferences get. The message should be, we are born equal, we are connected regardless of ***, gender, sexuality or ethnicity. Encourage people to talk to someone they may have not otherwise met in their everyday life.
We can use globalization and the internet to do even better.

In case there is an interest to look deeper into the matter, the statements above are based on research.

Happy holidays

Please change the classification of African people from "black" to African.

There's absolutely no reason that you can run an app in Africa, and still be okay with using derogatory classification and language, especially on people in their own continent.

LGBTQI+ related organizations should stand as defenders of human rights, and not stand as perpetrators of demeaning language. Most if not all african countries have made great strides in changing the terminology, I just feel it would be best if apps that people used reflected that change.

We a month shy to 2020, let's get it right. And be on the right side of history.

Please change the classification of African people from "black" to African.

There's absolutely no reason that you can run an app in Africa, and still be okay with using derogatory classification and language, especially on people in their own continent.

LGBTQI+ related organizations should stand as defenders of human rights, and not stand as perpetrators of demeaning language. Most if not all african countries have made great strides in changing the terminology, I just feel it would be best if apps that people used reflected that change.

We a month shy to 2020, let's get it right. And be on the right side of history.

Considering we only get 250 characters to work with, it's easier & quicker to say what you're not looking for as opposed to what you are

I live on the border of 2 countries and I would love to limit the research on my own country

I personally list the list of NO'S so people know exactly what i'm not interested in. No i don't know where to find drug paraphernalia, no i am not interesting in digging my raw pole in your anon hole, no i can't pick you up. etc... I get what i'm not into out there first.. It actually doesn't work either becasue NO ONE READS PROFILESSSSSSS.. my screen name says "READDD" and i get asked every single questions thats answered in profile... its PAthetic

When using filters, for example being specific on groups or race, the one turning on the filter shouldnt show up in search of others the filter excludes. Exp. If I am not into latino dudes my profile shouldnt show up in searches of ppl that are latino.

I think ethnicity needs a write-in option and I think you have to change most of the ethnicity options because most of them are races (which are scientifically disproven to exist; East and West Africans are for example more genetically different than Europeans and East Asians). I think you could add ethnicity options or nationality options, you could expand what's available (for example, should Indians and Chinese both have to write Asian as their option??? Realistically). Or you should offer a write-in. Or, procure a list of ethnic groups...but there's tons. I think you're using ethnicity and a euphemism for race (what this really is about people, let's be real...big black ****, passive Asian bottom, party lyf Latino...which isn't a race already...or an ethnicity even...so). Anyway...fix it! Haha.

The reason you see so much negativity is due to other users... Particularly old men that just hammer the **** out of every young guys profile... They won't take no for an answer and we have limited blocks... So we have to specify exactly what we don't want just to try stop being harassed by guys that won't take no for an answer