Does anyone else find it strange how many interracial couples there are on modern TV shows?

No because I see it all the time. Many friend groups I see in Houston are very diverse, including mine. So it's not "interesting (really, Woke)" to me the way you're implying.

OP, where do you live?

It’s even more in commercials and has been for a while. Not sure why, but the bw/wm pairing seems to be the most popular, despite being the lowest % of interracial relationships in real life.

I meant where in California?

R1: OP said ‘couples’ rather than friendship groups.

If you watch the BBC in the UK or an advert break on one of the other channels you’d assume the only kind of relationship allowed in the country is an interracial one.

Reality doesn't seem to matter. Woke.

I notice interracial couples a lot on TV and YouTube commercials.

R3 I live in the Bay Area. And from what I see, the two largest groups, Chinese and Indians, overwhelmingly stick with their own. Latinos seem to be the same way. They gays are much more likely than the straights to date interracially though.

Interracial couples have been here for generations now. It makes me wonder where the white supremacists itching for a race war think this demographic will line up in the new civil war.

It’s more that it’s always black/white. If they wanted it to be realistic about black/white couplings it would be a 300lb white ogress with a black guy (not married ofc).

I’m in an interracial marriage and I am the ONLY white/non-Asian married into his entire family. Siblings, cousins: you name it.

I’m actually surprised to read R7 and R9 posts. The wm/aw pairing is pretty high, I would assume every Asian-American family has at least one of them.

If some people would have their ancestry researched, they might be in for a big surprise.

I'm biracial and two of my first cousins are in interracial marriages (black/white), my uncle's second marriage was interracial, my nephew's ex-wife is Mexican, etc. so it's normal to me.

I see a few interracial couples a week in my neighborhood and I regularly see women with children who [italic]look[/italic] biracial walking home from school.

[quote]If they wanted it to be realistic about black/white couplings it would be a 300lb white ogress with a black guy

Yeah. This has always mystified me but to each his own. The two couplings I see the most are white guy/black woman and white guy/West Asian woman followed by white guy/East Asian woman.

It’s capitalism at its finest. Everything can be turned to make a buck.

#WhiteGenocide

Yes. The media always overdoes it. I practically see no same race couples in ads. I live in DC and I don't see as many mixed race couples as I see on TV. It's the trend. Like showing blue haired binaries everywhere.

Every TV show and commercial feels they have to have a diversity representation. That just isn't the way it is in real life. Random diversity makes sense and is expected but strict diversity placement is just fantasy.

Because god forbid we see BW and BM actually giving a shit about each other? Who knows.

It's been going on for the past decade or so, mostly on shows geared toward millennials and Gen Z. For example, on The Vampire Diaries, Kat Graham's character Bonnie only had White guys as love interests. Every Black male character was literal vampire food. On the spin-off show The Originals, the closest we ever got to seeing an actual Black couple was with Marcel and Rebekah were together while she was trapped in the body of a Black witch.

Yes, it's strange. It would be equally strange to never see IR couples, but indeed, it's overdone, especially with BW/WM pairings, which is incredibly rare in the first place.

No. It started in commercials. Around Jenner trans time- everyone jumping on diversity bandwagon.

I have zero issue with interracial relationships, but the commercials seem so patronizing. It's like every ad agency doesn't actually know what an interracial family looks like, but they just throw together a UN family ,

[quote]Reality doesn't seem to matter. Woke.

Then don't expect tons of gay couples either since the overwhelming majority of the world is not gay couples.

"you’d assume the only kind of relationship allowed in the country is an interracial one."

Because for centuries the only kind of relationships allowed were same race ones?

I'm guessing you're not an "I Love Lucy" fan.

The same-sex couples are usually lithe, young "lesbians", femme & femme.

It’s a plan to quincy jones the population. Three generations in and voila….white

I just got fucked by a black man today on a Grindr this afternoon, a work from home quickie. It was really good. He had 6 pack abs and a huge cock.

I live in CA and I don't see a ton of black/white relationships. The largest interracial couplings I see are are probably white men/Asian women. As someone else said, gay couples might be more diverse.

They couldn’t give bisexual Superman Jon Kent a white boyfriend, they had to give him a sleepy eyed ASIAN boyfriend!!

Just for once, can a white bisexual male character have a white male love interest?

In Hellraiser, Brandon Flynn's boyfriend was a hot person of color. I bought it for the show but was on the fence about whether they would be a couple in real life. He boyfriend was ripped, so maybe.

r7 Among all major races Indians are the most unlikely to marry outside their race because unlike other religions one cannot covert into Hinduism as you can only be born a Hindu. The same goes with Muslims though their "interracial marriage" meaning a mandatory conversion for the non-muslim party.

Indian men LOVE white boys. It's almost a fetish with them. Same with a lot of Asian men.

According to my Hindu, everyone is born Hindu. Christians are Hindu,Muslims are Hindu, Jews are Hindu. They just don't know it. It's all different brands of Hinduism.

[quote]The same goes with Muslims though their "interracial marriage" meaning a mandatory conversion for the non-muslim party.

Not true. My cousin is married to a Muslim and she didn't convert and he has several family members (both male and female) married to Christians and none of them converted .

It's wishful projection in response to societal pressures. It's presenting an image of a more integrated society for the purpose of normalizing a less racist future.

The interracial relationship OP is in Is with Candace Owens.

For advertising purposes it is to attract a broader spectrum of buyers. Disney has done this for decades - to hook ‘em early.

R20: the UK has never had any law that prevented interracial relationships/marriages.

It's just bone headed advertisers casting a wide net. They think, wrongly, that this appeals to the greatest number of people.

I don't see the big deal. Every time I see this topic come up people act like there are no more same race couples depicted in tv/ movies and that simply isn't true. They're just depicting mixed relationships more often than they did in the past.

Anyway, interracial relationships do seem to becoming more common now.

R29 In Islam, a man can marry a non Muslim woman, but a woman cannot marry a non Muslim man.

[quote]According to my Hindu

Where did you acquire this Hindu, R28? Was he expensive?

It is common because it is a good way for companies to show they are about diversity. So, you see commercials with either a biracial family or all minorities. You don’t see many white families on commercials anymore.

The problem is, all the companies are doing this, all at the same time. So, the market is flooded.

^Exactly. Saying it's "more common" now in real life doesn't mean it's the norm. Not by any stretch. Real life is still 90% segregated, 10% mixed. In ads these days it's the opposite.

[quote] In Islam, a man can marry a non Muslim woman, but a woman cannot marry a non Muslim man.

R36 Because in Muslim societies, the child obtains his cultural identity/social status from his father.

It's like a bunch of redneck grandpas in here, complaining about advertisements (of all things) and insisting that the real world isn't like that and the ads don't appeal to anyone anyway.

[quote]According to my Hindu

Did you put your Hindu in a glass jar with a stick and a leaf to simulate their natural environment?

R41 Advertising, like news, is about social indoctrination. Reality plays no part.

R36, I specifically said male and female because I knew someone like you would base your knowledge on not actually knowing the real world. I know of three Muslim women married to Christians, including one married to a born-again. Guess what? No one "stoned" them. And you know what conversion entails? Saying a stupid prayer and it ends there. No one is expected to suddenly get a prayer rug and show up to a mosque. Get out more, you might learn something.

They stick out. While there may be more on TV than in real life, there's really not that many on TV - they're far outnumbered by same-race couples.

I'm in an interracial relationship too, and I have noticed it too.

We just got our benefits book at work and literally every picture on every page is either all black, or interracial families.

Also if someone moved to the US from Asia or Russia or Mars and spent 5 hours watching network or ad-supported TV, they would assume the US is 50% black at least, despite actually being 13 black.

God imagine being upset about this. You people are just so far gone, like really wtf is wrong with you?

R47, I don’t think anyone is upset about it, it’s just an observation.

R41, you need to visit LSA, who are certainly not rednecks. They’ve had multiple threads over the years discussing this topic. I don’t get the defensiveness of some on this thread.

R48 they’re upset. This isn’t the first (or tenth) thread about this, it clearly bothers certain types of commenters.

its pitiful, every tv show, every commercial, everything gotta be interacial......even tho they only 12% of the popullation. weird

The only thing that bothers me is the tokenism of it. If you look at an ad or a government pamphlet of some sort, you can see they’ve clearly cast people by race, ethnicity, and ability, and that seems patronising and insulting to me (I say that as a disabled person).

I live on the west coast of BC (Canada), and no one here bats an eye at interracial (or, more accurately here, inter-[italic]ethnic[/italic]) relationships, but to see them presented in such an obvious, clumsy way in order to hit all the demographics just seems try-hard and ridiculous.

R20, how does that justify a fantasy world to the opposite extreme? Simple honesty and reality are the answers.

Corporate marketing

networks skwering to ethnic to avoid lawsuits from them. 'you dont show us enuf !'..

R47, people are sick of reality no longer being reality. Playing "let's pretend" instead of making actual change is the definition of SJWokester bullshit. The right loons hate minorities. The woke loons patronize minorities. Both are damaging. We need to get back to reality. Thirteen percent of the population isn't 50% of the population. Should be obvious, but not anymore. Women are female and men are male. Should be obvious, but not anymore. People are sick of being told that reality, facts, and truth no longer matter.

Gay couples of the same race are virtually extinct on television. We’re the ones they pile on all the diversity stuff.

It doesn’t feel like positive representation if we can only be justified at being given a place in a narrative if we’re also saddled with the issue of race, which then has to be the defining aspect of the relationship.

Yes, it feels forced and woke in the US because it's not organic in real life. I watch UK soaps and don't think much of the interracial couples there because it's much more common. It reflects the British society. Interracial couples on tv in the US don't reflect society because it's still not common there. That's why it feels forced and woke. With that said, there have been a few times where interracial couples have been successful on tv, like IWTV. But those instances are certainly not common.

It's because corporations are afraid of being "cancelled" on social media, so they over-compensate.

[quote]Chinese and Indians, overwhelmingly stick with their own.

What would people say if our grandkids' skin colour didn't match ours?

[quote]People are sick of being told that reality, facts, and truth no longer matter.

Slow clap for R55. WW

Coming from an all white family I just found out my niece is going with a black man. I'm deeply upset. I've been told he's overweight and plain. She couldn't find a hot buck to ride?

Yes. It's more apparent in advertising. Many outlets clearly prefer black models now. I'm located in Germany and how many dark skinned people you see varies. In my city, black people make up about...maybe one or two percent. I know a family from Kongo and one from Senegal. Their struggles also don't mirror in the glossy ads you see in TV. Every couple you see have to be interracial and also. 2:1 now are two women or two men, and of course every same sex couple looks like one is transitioning. They are really jumping the shark. I'm also sick of being told that I dislike black people or feel threatened by them. What I feel threatened by is by every magazine and every advertiser first pushing an agenda and then telling us it never happened and we're crazy. What really used to help is that I don't watch TV. However ads are inescapable now everywhere else as well. My most hated commercial though at the moment- and I share this sentiment with many of my countrymen, according to reddit - is that stupid Google Pixel whisper ad. It always wakes you up out of half sleep when you just want to listen to something on YouTube to fall asleep to or take a break. It's thrice as loud as the rest and feels like a burglar whispering into your ear.

Given one almost never saw a black or latino face on TV or in mainstream movies before 1980, I find the whole thing forced and bizarre. What looks really radical now in film is a straight or gay relationship where both partners are of the same ethnicity. Almost always the white man is teamed with a person who is white-adjacent: someone who could be mexican or central american or whatever, who reads as mostly whote but not white. It comes across as diversity tickboxing.

Interracial couples are common in real life. But TV would also make you think cross racial adoption is super common. When it does happen, it’s most frequently with Asian children. But TV has white couples adopting black and Latino kids way more than in real life. Shonda Rhimes also loves putting black actors in situations that are disproportionate to reality. How many black doctors work at Seattle Grace? I’ve honestly lost count—but it’s way more than you’d see at a real hospital in most US cities. In reality the biggest minority in medicine is south Asians, but they’re barely represented on TV at all.

fake bullshit for the suckers

No. Where I live, I'd say at least half and probably significantly more couples are mixed—both gay and straight.

You might ask a chicken/egg question of whether entertainment is reflecting this reality or influencing it, but it is a reality.

Of course, if you live in Iowa where 99 percent of people are white and 99 percent of living beings are corn stalks, this is going to look like it doesn't reflect reality. But in urban areas on the East Coast at least, it reflects reality. We also do have tall buildings and not just corn.

[quote]No. Where I live, I'd say at least half and probably significantly more couples are mixed—both gay and straight.

You're just a liar. You are perceiving something that isn't there because it stands out to you. Of course, you probably only know three people, so...

The country is still around 68% white. There literally aren't enough minorities to go around to match what we see in all the ads now.

In Manhattan: I know several mixed-race couples and it’s not considered “weird” or anything notable, even. But the vast majority of couples I know (gay and straight) are of the same color. Just my experience.

I think the number of interracial couples on television is perhaps an over-correction but it doesn’t bother me.

R68, the problem stems from it being just another in a recent long line of things that are not real being put forth as real and then, when people say those things aren't real, they are the ones attacked. This country is turning into 1984 right before our eyes every day. Of course it's an over-correction but I guarantee that someone will tell you off about saying even that and then claim that it totally matches the real world and you must just like in some racist white bubble if you disagree.

It's the thing these days. It is even more the case here in Britain.

To watch series today you would think every couple in Britain is interracial, and that the country is half black, when the truth is the actual black population is about 4%. The country is still just under 80% white.

Black faces are inserted into every possible scenario, even when wholly inappropriate, either historically or geographically.

Interracial unions are most certainly on the rise, especially amongst the glitterati, where it now seems almost de rigueur to marry out.

But the idea that half the population is doing it absurd. For all their screaming about lack of divetsity in casting, here in the UK at least, blacks are now represented in television atc14% . . . More than three times their proportion in the population.

The most comical excuse is that this is "the way Britain looks today". Only what they mean is, the way London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, and Leicester look.

R67 I am not. I live in DC, which has a black majority, and people in higher income brackets here very often are in mixed couples—a white person and a Latin/Asian/Indian/some other person, less often black and white but that's not uncommon, either.

Almost all of my Millennial and younger coworkers are in mixed couples.

Of course, I used to live with a friend who is from Africa and a lot of people mistook us for a couple. I think that may be because (in my experience) it seems the group least likely to mix with white people in DC is black American people. I was told before I moved here that DC is a segregated city and I thought that was preposterous given the mix of people you see everywhere, but I learned at work that most black people tend to self-segregate (I think it's because they feel insecure around white people, assuming we feel hateful toward them.) I made a close friend of a coworker who was a receptionist and she told me after some months that I was 'the only white person I've ever talked to.' I laughed and said that is impossible, and she said she of course has talked to white people at work and in stores but she never in her life had had an actual conversation with a white person and she didn't trust me at all at first because I was friendly and chatty with her. That blew my mind.

From a person on Quora:

[quote] I am currently in an interracial relationship - though I won't give her details to protect her in this forum. However, we're very observant of the interracial dating trend here in DC and in the metro area. I will have to find some more real data - BUT - I see quite a bit on the metro nearly every day. I tend to see more white Americans dating outside their race than white Europeans. This does bring up the racism issue - typically first-generation Asians and Latinos are from a cultural standpoint VERY race-biased. This isn't just something new either.... Historically, for hundreds of years, in South America and Asia, including India, racism was woven into the social and economic fabric of life itself. The whiter you are - the better you are. Now, I'm not talking in a white-male POV here. I mean from a pure skin-quality slash purity standpoint. Asian (and Latina women) frequently avoid any sun exposure at all out of the FEAR of tanning. Take a look at your bottle of diet green tea you're drinking with the geisha on it - twirling her umbrella. That umbrella is NOT for the rain!!! This is even featured on the hit TV show, Fresh Off the Boat, with quotes from the Chinese mother-in-law about keeping your skin white. Here's some follow-up reading on that....

Back to the list ( I guess I should make a list) of racial dating combinations I've seen here.... so - here it is: - - Washington DC Interracial Dating Matches - - 1. White and Asian (seriously, this is something I see daily - very common) 2. White and Latin (very common) 3. White and Black (commonly seen, but I see more Black men with white women than vice-versa) 4. Black and Asian (not common except in either older couples from the Vietnam era or very young Millennials) 5. Black and Latin (Not common. Maybe only once and they were in high school. Generally this would have to be like Romeo and Juliet to happen - lots of bad blood here in DC - "they took our jobs" etc.) 6. Latin and Asian (not common BUT something that I know exists and is common in Latin America, but haven't seen here in DC)

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About the above: I agree with those observations mostly except I have seen seamless integration among Latino and Black people. Almost every black person I know in the city speaks conversational Spanish, having grown up alongside Latino people and just learning it naturally.

when will things stablize and the 69% white folks get representation thats accurate ??

[quote] I just got fucked by a black man today on a Grindr this afternoon, a work from home quickie. It was really good. He had 6 pack abs and a huge cock

Maybe you'll get pregnant and have a baby!!!

[quote] To watch series today you would think every couple in Britain is interracial, and that the country is half black, when the truth is the actual black population is about 4%. The country is still just under 80% white.

This is a non-sequitur, but I was quite amused to learn from Ancestry DNA that I (American) am 60% British, 33% Irish and the rest Scandinavian, while...

[quote] the average UK resident is 36.94% British (Anglo Saxon), 21.59% Irish (Celtic) and 19.91% Western European (the region covered today by France and Germany).

I find that so fascinating because as far as we know, the most recent immigrant ancestors I have are from Ireland and they came in the 1850s; the British immigrants (England, Scotland, Wales) came in the 1700s. And somehow despite the US being a nation of immigrants, I am genetically almost twice as British as the average British person!

Which of course doesn't mean I am British at all. It does mean though that what Britain once was has changed dramatically and that it seems ethnically defining genetic mutations that occurred among historically British people now are a minority in the place where those mutations occurred.

[quote] It doesn’t feel like positive representation if we can only be justified at being given a place in a narrative if we’re also saddled with the issue of race, which then has to be the defining aspect of the relationship.

Why does it matter if you're white and gay?! Traditionallly, the stigma against interracial relationships was procreation -- and particularly procreating white passing children (i.e. for Black and Asian). Do gay people mate to find validation in their partner's appearance?! For me, it's actually worse for the partner of color, as we are always paired with white men as if we can't have a successful pairing with a non-white man. Magnifying the dangerous intra-community perception that being gay is a perversion that only exists outside of our culture.

I mean, I know why POC find it unsettling but why do YOU?

[quote] [R48] they’re upset. This isn’t the first (or tenth) thread about this, it clearly bothers certain types of commenters.

It's the Klan Grannies...

a mess, in few yrs thing get back to normal....

Since BLM almost every ad on U.K. TV features black people. American Express, luxury holidays and cruises, deodorant, Gillette razors, furniture and everything in between. If you didn’t know were you was and switched on the TV you would think you were in Africa or the Caribbean. Black people are hugely over represented on U.K. TV.

[quote] If you didn’t know were you was and switched on the TV you would think you were in Africa or the Caribbean

Oh, dear.

Many women of color aspire to marry up.

People want to see themselves represented in a commercial if they are going to buy the product. This naturally leads to over representation so that all minorities can be shown. Advertisers are not going to give up these potential customers.

The same is true of TV shows that just want more viewers.

I think it does lead to a general sense that there are more non-white people and interracial mixing than is accurate. I don’t know if that is good or bad for society, but advertisers don’t care.

I don't understand how everyone is so self-centered with blinders on.

I remember when Absolut blessed gay magazines with rainbow vodka bottle ads and gay people felt blessed and clamored to be patronized to by more companies selling their shit.

I remember when Ikea published an ad with a gay couple in it and it sent waves of celebration throughout all of gaydom.

And then more and more came, and shows like Will and Grace and Modern Family, and some straight people were upset because they believed gay people were overrepresented in media. No gay person complained about overrepresentation in media.

But when it's nonwhite minorities being overrepresented...well, that's something that brings white people together, gay and straight alike.

I'm a white gay guy. Get over yourselves. This is the post-Modern Family world. It's a mixed country. Representation is not a bad thing. If you want to obliterate nonwhite people from commercials, TV shows and movies, then prepare to be obliterated from those, as well.

R69, you’ve convinced me. Seriously.

[quote] Many women of color aspire to marry up.

Many women of color go ballistic when successful professional black men marry white women. (They don’t care when an unemployed loser shacks up with some bleached blonde fat trailer park babymamma.)

[quote] In 1994, IKEA became the first company to run a TV commercial featuring a same sex couple in the United States. The 30-second spot showcased two romantically-involved men browsing an IKEA store in search of a dining room table while discussing their relationship. After the ad aired, the Christian activist group American Family Association called for a boycott of IKEA, according to the Baltimore Sun, but the Swedish furniture maker refused to pull the commercial. AFA and its subsidiary, One Million Moms, have been constant foes to gay and lesbian tolerance in American culture. OMM is the group that took The Hallmark Channel to task for airing its most recent Zola ads showcasing same-sex weddings. In 2012, OMM publicly opposed JC Penney for hiring lesbian comedian-turned talk show host Ellen DeGeneres as a company spokesperson.

Congrats to the gays of the Data Lounge for so perfectly emulating the Christian 'American Family Association' and 'One Million Moms.' Well done! A win for bigotry that will please blonde Jesus when he returns for the rapture!

R76, it's the woke nazis!

Honestly, I dont even know how this is a topic at an ostensibly "gay" forum. What kind of gay person is offended by the sight of a non-white person or an interracial couple?!

R87 Toss up between octogenarian racist DLers or young MAGA DLers. Likely no one between ages 40-60 is TRIGGERED by seeing an interracial couple.

R88, I would guess very few of them are gay. It is outside agitators.

They are trying to get your attention not your consent.

[quote] I am in an interracial relationship myself

Sure you are.

You’re also Jewish, but you have a sneaking suspicion that Jews want to replace non-Jews.

And you’re gay, but you think Pride has gone too far , and of course you want to d.ro.p th.e t.

And you’re a democrat, but the democrats have gone way too far left…so you want to know if there are any moderate, sane Democrats out there like yourself. (Then you’ll answer yourself — “I feel the same way, OP!!!!!”).

You’re probably a woman too, in a relationship with another woman, but you call women “frau gashes

You have children as well and they’re very well behaved. You call other people’s children “crotch fruit.”

So you’re a Jewish Hispanic lesbian in an interracial relationship but you don’t like to call yourself “gay” because you don’t like labels. And you’re a democrat who isn’t a “far left wacko liberal” and you’re thinking of switching to Independent, Libertarian or the GOP in order to “send a message to Dems.” You don’t want a man in your daughter’s bathroom at school; you’re tired of “woke” books being forced on schoolchildren…how about teaching reading, writing and rithmatic so these kids can get a job instead of making the read about gender identity?

And you’re all for blacks getting educated and having good jobs, but they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps like your white ancestors did. And there are far too many of them on tv for your liking. Sure, there are too many gorgeous, fit police officers on tv, and impeccable dressed, well spoken lawyers who just want the truth. And TV/movies are chocked full of handsome, single architects and Park Avenue wives who plan to turn in their lying husbands in so she can “take him fir everything he’s got, Detective.” And gorgeous/handsome doctors who are secretly drug addicts.

But that’s not what’s bothering you. It’s interracial couples that have grabbed your attention

R87 - typical of the fallacy and dishonest framing that R69 referenced.

No one said representation does not matter or that there is “offense” at non-white persons. Just that the prevalence of interracial couples is way outside the norm.

People like you are why liberals’ brains short-circuit. As an example, my dad was complaining about all the blacks in commercials nowadays (ah the joys of a family Thanksgiving) and of course my mom got mad arguing representation matters!™️

I told her I agree, but why can’t I see more Mexican Catholic families represented in media? Why is “representation” exclusively black? Why not more Latinos or Asians? She agreed but then got all flustered when I said “okay so LESS blacks in media then?” And dropped it.

That’s the problem. Sure, representation is fine and good but let it approximate reality. It isn’t anymore.

Sing it, sister! @r91

R79 If you have nothing to add to the conversation do us all a favour and fuck off.

Caucasians have been marrying negros, orientals, and chicanos for years.

Get with the program, people.

Good God, the posts here cancel out all the goodwill in the 'Joe' threads.