I haven't seen any commercials that show loveless, irresponsible mixed race couples. It's almost always two smiling, preppy-looking people buying a house, bathing their kids, opening a checking account, etc. Really the only thing remarkable about them is that they happen to be from different races. We should wish all couples were as placid and well-adjusted as the mixed race couples in tv ads.
Besides, even without the ads, I'm sure insecure and irresponsible women and men would still find each other and manage to ruin each others' lives. Their problems go much deeper than just being turned on by a Gap advertisement.
...just like white guys are always dumb and clumsy and black guy cool like Billy Dee Williams with less meat on his bones some of us...maybe not you. are tired of having it shoved down our throats ad nauseum...
I've also noticed the way white men are usually portrayed as the goof-up in commercials. It bothers me too. But that's because those commercials are putting down an innocent group of people. There's nothing wrong with being a white man so white men shouldn't be routinely portrayed as stupid and incompetent.
The interracial dating ads are different. No one is being put down, it just shows two people in a happy relationship. Unusual, maybe, but no more so than the commercials where some guy is "lounging" around his house wearing pressed slacks, a dress shirt, and loafers. I hardly ever see that in real life either but I've never taken offense to it.
is this reflective of how they wish our culture was rather than how it is?
i think most folks think people can couple with whom they like, that is a personal choice but given how statistics show how most folks behave it seems that around 95% choose to couple with their own kind...race, often religion and culture
so again why do they push something so few folks do?
i am old enough to have lived thru the real racism (52) and remember when choosing to marry another white person rather than a black woman was not considered racism....to me racism is about supremacy, suppression and violence...none of which have to do with why I am now married to a white woman by choice
but now apparently to you youngsters 95% of America is now racist about coupling choice....I'm not sure I'd call that progress
this is how the left attacks and divides us and creates their victimhood blocs
let's look at this situation differently...I admit I know that I'm not attracted to most black women(i doubt they'd want me either)...it's just how it is...with some notable exceptions(Thandie Newton, Selita Banks) who would have nothing to do with me anyhow I'm simply not attracted to them and those I do cotton to are mixed usually...it's just my preference...in a perfect world I prefer Castillian women and Southern peachy blondes or Sarah Palin (and my wife.
But I don't live in a kumbaya world of how I wish things were....take black men and white gals...I have lived almost all my life in majority or near majority black environs worldwide, it is true that blacks men often desire pale white women for many reasons..fine....they can go in almost any white bar outside Vidor Texas and hit on white chicks and nobody says anything even though most white males may not like it too much they will be polite about it.
now, let me go into a black bar in the hood and start getting all frisky with the sistas and see how long I last.
when do you think Madison avenue will show that reality to sell something?
say body bags for example
btw...my ex was latino from Brasil so I'm not ‘xactly a stranger to this sorta thing you know