Why do you suppose interracial couples on TV and film are almost always depicted as black male/white female?
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At first I was going to say that black man/white woman was the more sensational and therefore prone to higher ratings but then I realize that since Monsters ball they probably realize the potential for exciting sensibilities in the opposite direction by switching it up.  I still have friends who are driven nutz over the relationship between Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thorton.  I guess turnabout is fair play...lol.\n\nIn NYC I see more white man/black women than the reverse, in the streets that is.  You never really know who is dating who since most of the time in the street people are on their way to work or some sort of business.  I think in TV the ultimate reason is just that the idea of the big bad black man "taking" a white woman is still one of americas biggest fears.  Also white men want to see white women as desirable by everyone (whether they value their own women or not) and so they portray them as such.\n\nIve heard it said that the white woman is the black mans krytonite.  Who knows?
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Man... some of you people have real issues!  My wife is black and I see none of any of this crap some of the answers have been spewing!\n\nSome of you need to wake up, throw away those stereotypes and look at reality.\n\nWhere I live you see more and more BF/WM couples.  Like another answer said, this is the fastest growing IR relationship type.  \n\nWhen people start to realize people are people, regardless of race, then, this country can really start to do great things!
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I noticed that firsthand as well. I can think of four factors to explain that:\n\n1. Because it's unusual. I clearly think it's the dominant factor. Most of the times, people date people from the same "ethnic group". Any relation outside that group tends to attract attention just because it is a rare type of relations and what is rare gets noticed.\nYou can imagine that a couple where the woman is much taller than the man would attract attention for the exact same reason, and no one would suspect "sizism" or any other *ism.\n\n2. "Racial jealousy". I don't know if it's a behaviour selected by evolution or just a culturally aquired one, but people from a specific ethnic group tend to get annoyed if they see one of them "lost" to another ethnic group. \nThis factor might be even more relevant with women. They have long been considered "tradable goods" and they still receive much more social pressure regarding their sexual behaviour than men.\n\n3. Communitarianism. From the minority point of view, such relations can also be seen as "selling out". Might or might not be just the same as factor #2. Some black thinkers suggested that black people dating white people were doing so out of a complex rooted in the period of slavery or colonisation.\n\n4. Just plain racism. Like you can see in some of the answers above, this is obviously a factor. But I tend to think that this is a very marginal one. Might or night not be an extreme version of factor #2 as well.\n\n\nJust to clarify for the few naive persons who think that the whole world has gone Benetton. Interracial relationships *do* attract attention and you just need to be in one to be constantly reminded of that fact.
861964
You have just pointed out and responded to one of the most popular and solicited questions of the century!  It goes to show you what kind of nation of people we are, and how really confused we can be. There really is no such thing as "acting black or white" - the reference is only made toward races when it seems each has somehow consumed and metamorphised the ways and actions of the other.  It's like saying that a person's character or personality has to be all or nothing....not true.  The accusation is what people try to limit each other to. No other race or culture of people display such silliness as we do.  You just do you,.
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I think the exact opposite. i could never see myself with someone of a different color. Race,a different story. I am polish/german and my girlfriend is hungarian but we're both white. it is very comfortable. Thats all I can say from my standpoint.
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It's a cultural thing still with a lot of people. I'm caucasian (White) and I've dated African-American women and I know that a lot of AA women are uncomfortable with dating someone of a caucasian part of the race. AA men dating caucasian women is a male "look at me, I'm dating a white girl, are'nt I a stud" kind of thing. It will take another generation before "black" and "white" are truly comfortable with one another. The sad part is that we are are all genetically the same, skin color is meaningless. Slavery did not help relations between human beings at all. But the genetic history of the human race is that we ALL came from Africa and that the caucasian skin color was a fairly recent  (about 3000 years ago) in the scale of human history.
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Good question! I believe Hollywood only wants to betray Caucasians in a wealthy and historical light because all the black actors and actresses are portrayed in a ghetto image such as pimps,prostitutes,drug lords, and gangsters. Sadly,but true!
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At this point, in the United States, this seems to be a regional issue.  In some areas of the United States, interracial marriages are frequent enough to not even garner any notice whereas other areas, this would still be considered a scandalous occurance.\n\nFrom my experience, here in Southern California, it is common to see interracial couples.  I personally am a Caucasian who it married to a Hispanic/Indian (from India, not Native American) and we don't seem to garner any special attention here at home.  We have noticed that we get some looks when we travel to other regions of the U.S.  We also had a friend who was having a wedding in Illinois that we were going to participate in who warned us that we may get some looks because of our interracial marriage.\n\nIn the long, I believe that interracial marriages will end up being a non-issue although it may take a lot of time in some regions.
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That is an excellent question, because the same thing once happened to me i was walking around campus when a girl named melissa goes "is your dad like white or indain" and when i said no why would you ask that she goes "your hair is very pretty" that answer upset and astounded me all at the same time, it was an answer of ignorance and i couldnt belive someone would actually think that i was mixed as dark as i am (more like a nice chocolate color) and i have noticed even the most kinky haird girls (i mean no harm) will claim "yeah im 1/3 indain"  "im half spanish" (the new trend) and i will just shake my head, they think its cute and makes them more attractive to guys. I also have heard some say when given a compliment like "your very pretty" they quickly say "yeah my dads half asain" "im half indian" and so on, wich just puts our culture down more and hyping up the steryotype that black women are only beautiful when mixed, which is not true. there is nothing wrong with being black but society has brainwashed everyone to beliveing that there is, and you would think going on past things like slavery and other wars ppl would see its not all that great to be white (no offense to my boyfriend) becuase they always seem to be thinking evil things and doing evil things (hitler anyone) and they are quick to seed away anyone who isnt "pure white" i think black women need to come together and realize balck is beautiful and you could go anywhere else in the world and be praised for your black beauty only in america will we be continuously put down and told when all black you cant be beautiful but thats not true in other countires the darker the better "mixed..thats ok" "black..your gorgeous"
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I was going to ask that too.  They are very rare, so rare that when you see it it really stands out.  I've dated black women and felt like everyone was watching, and I have a friend in LA that is married to a black woman and after 9 years he says it's always uncomfortable, especially around black men.  I can't say anything about the asian part but that you never seem to see at all.  Believe me, it's not because white men don't find black women attractive either.  I just dunno.
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When you discover the answer to this question, let me know..lol I don't know what the attraction is, but you're right, you do see more black and __________ (fill in the blank with any nationality) than you ever have. Maybe because racial boundaries are becoming a little less stringent and people are acutally becoming more socially tolerant to mixed relationships. I personally have never dated outside of my own race, but feel that if you want that option you should not be judged for it. I mean. you can't really help WHO you fall in love with. Peace.
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A personal observation: I have notes more so lately than ever that there a quite a few Black women out there with men not of the black race. Interracial dating is happing at both the high class and lower class levels, of black women. So I think that as black women we are “expanding our horizons” but unlike some others we are not forgetting our “past view.”
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Does it matter if your black, white, yellow, brown or otherwise? Let's think about it, when it all comes down to bone structure and level of mallamon (not sure of spelling!) in your skin, then why do we see people so differently? We are all people sharing this planet, it's our belief structure and how we act that differentiates us from one another.\n\nSo may answer is you is 'Yes' because you are dating the person not the race! Cultural backgrounds sometimes need to be considered, but really the same rules would apply if you were dating someone of the same race.\n\nMy wife is Asian and I am Caucasian. I am attracted to the beauty of the person and my wife.
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Nope, they're are just broadening their horizons like everyone else.  Some who have been hurt by black women turn to not just white women but other races also.  It's the same on why some black women date white men or others.  For some it's a preference to date outside their race but others it might be curiosity.  I've dated other races besides black men and it's not a preference, it's an opportunity to sample the appetizers.  Why have one kind when there is so many varieties?
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Probably because they aren't biologically his! ; )\n\nIf you've never saw a biracial person in person before, just look at Vanessa Williams, Halle Berry, and Alicia Keys...it's quite clear that they are partly black, as opposed to Nicole Kidman, Brittany Spears, and Paris Hilton.\n\nI suppose that a black person and a white person could have a child that presented as fully white, but that would probably be rare, and would probably require the black person to have a significant portion of Caucasian blood.\n\nThat's all I've got.\n\nEDIT: The skin condition he supposedly has (vitiligo) would not change the genes that make dark skin, so it wouldn't cause his children to appear white. Maybe his children would acquire vitiligo from him (I don't know if it is a genetic disease that can be passed from parents to children), but I'm pretty sure that vitiligo doesn't discolor ALL of the skin. Besides, his children have typical white features, which vitiligo would not cause.
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Although your questions deals more with race than with sexuality, a brief observation is in order: heterosexual intercourse being exclusively the ordinary route to natural human procreation, lifelong homosexuality is understandably rare among persons.\n\nPerhaps as a consequence of this, most cultures seem to have adopted a 2-person form for romantic relationships -- and in some instances, homosexual relationships are sanctioned by the State.\n\nHaving so stated, and in answer to the particulars of your question, this is what I recall from my college studies:\n\nThe following sociological stereotypes were derived by scientists from years of observation, and apply only when the entire earth population of each group is considered: caucasoid males and negroid females tend to be assertive, caucasoid females and negroid males tend to be submissive.\n\nBecause race is a function of evolution, were it not for advances in travel, there would be virtually no interracial couples.  The ancient aphorism is "birds of a feather flock together."\n\nAssertive persons tend to affiliate themselves with others on the basis of ideological compatibility; submissive persons tend to affiliate themselves with others on aesthetic grounds.\n\nNote: ideological compatibility does not preclude selfish motives; in fact, hope to realize one or more selfish aims may be for each party in a couple a driving influence (or even the sole influence).\n\nBeauty is subjective, but within cultural groups exist parameters common to the definition of a standard.  When this observation is applied on a global basis, caucasian women are generally more attractive than negroid women.\n\nThat doesn't mean there aren't stunning "Nubian" women, anymore than it means that there aren't any buggly "white" women.  Rather, it simply acknowledges a general trend that is always going to be locally rebuttable.\n\nOrdinarily, opposites attract (think of the poles of a magnet): assertive men desire as domestic companions submissive women, and vice-versa; however, the value of the aesthetic cannot be simply dismissed.\n\nAesthetic appeal is not limited to the beauty of physical form -- shape, color, tone, vocalization, etc. -- but includes personality.\n\nWith the exacerbation of competitive demands throughout both the global economy and local economies, psychoemotional pressures will continue to increase against effective assertive personalities -- (thus making them increasingly likely to be jerks).\n\nBy contrast, submissive personalities tend either to regard fate as cyclical or inevitable, and cope with the demands of life in a much more carefree manner.  This can't be lost on the "white women" that seem to crave "black men," and vice-versa.
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Why is everyone asking this question??? My man is Black and I'm his Kryptonite. He thinks white women look nasty, just like some white men think black women look nasty. I don't feel less of a person just because a black man likes a white woman. I get hit on by both white men and women, and other races too. It's their preference, so why should we care?\n\nAnd in case that "additional detail" was towards me allybama...\nI'm a black woman. No I didn't choose the dark brown complexion for my avatar because I am not dark brown. I'm more of a caramel or honey complexion. Black people come in different shades of brown in case you didn't know.