# Interracial couples **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010 "2018-05-11T20:25:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/61 "2018-05-15T08:59:43Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > 2013 Cheerios commercial with interracial couple (with child) got some publicity. > > [Article](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/cheerios-commercial-racist-backlash_n_3363507.html). [Another article](https://www.today.com/news/cheerios-ad-mixed-race-family-draws-racist-responses-6C10169988) Indeed, some people majorly Lost Their Shit over the mere existence of an interracial family in a commercial for breakfast cereal. > [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > What am I, chopped liver!? \>( On the internet, no one knows you’re chopped liver. Still not sure why the odd reference to “golfing buddies” was thrown in. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/62 "2018-05-16T04:37:45Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [Interracial couples have been in the news a lot lately.](https://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/img/fvQBAwg5oIbcxyVcnYxDpoElffc=/559x68:3000x1665/1600x900/2018/05/08/3765b8fd-2ec4-4ff1-a305-0d2014b12833/gettyimages-880450748.jpg) When I first saw that, I thought. ok, Britain. Because in the UK you get mixed-race couples, you just don’t see them on TV. Not like the USA, where you get mixed-race couples on TV, you just don’t see them in real life. But this thread reminded me that my automatic impressions are out of date, because the numbers show that the number of mixed-race couples in the USA is rising steadily. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/63 "2018-05-16T12:44:58Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Not like the USA, where you get mixed-race couples on TV, you just don’t see them in real life. I see a mixed-race couple literally every day in real life–I’m part of one. Obviously it varies by place, but I really don’t think inter-racial couples (I like that terminology better than “mixed-race”) are all that rare anymore. Even in suburban Indiana, where I live, we’re not the only inter-racial couple that I know of. We get the occasional look–more curious than hostile–but we’ve never encountered anyone who makes a big deal out of it. To be fair, another inter-racial couple that I know does tell us that they’ve been subject to rude comments, having loan applications turned down, having people suddenly not want to work with them, etc. That hasn’t been the experience for my wife and I, but I certainly won’t claim that it never happens. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/64 "2018-05-16T12:50:33Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > When I first saw that, I thought. ok, Britain. > > Because in the UK you get mixed-race couples, you just don’t see them on TV. > > Not like the USA, where you get mixed-race couples on TV, you just don’t see them in real life. > > But this thread reminded me that my automatic impressions are out of date, because the numbers show that the number of mixed-race couples in the USA is rising steadily. I don’t know where you live, but in Miami mixed-race was quite common back in the mid-90s (even more if you count couples of a similar coloring where one is Hispanic and one not); my African-American coworker whose wife changed color depending on who she was with was from Philadelphia and we worked together there in 2003 (she, Moroccan-born, was white if with him but brown if with her mother). It may be one of those things which are more frequent in urban areas or some such. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/65 "2018-05-16T13:14:25Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Not like the USA, where you get mixed-race couples on TV, you just don’t see them in real life. Black/white interracial couples are very common here (Maryland suburb of DC). I notice them because I’m in one. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/66 "2018-05-16T17:42:24Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > When I first saw that, I thought. ok, Britain. > > Because in the UK you get mixed-race couples, you just don’t see them on TV. You must not watch the same UK shows I do, because as I mentioned up thread (hyperbolicly) it seems like it is all interracial couples on UK TV. For example on _Doctor Who,_ there have been 3 recent companions in interracial relationships–Rose, Clara, and Bill (with watergirl.) On the current (really good, IMHO) \*Killing Eve \*there is an Asian main character with a white husband, a white main character with an Asian wife and a white main character hoping to date a black main character. I notice them because they seem much _more_ common on UK TV. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/67 "2018-05-17T09:14:08Z")
Cripes, it’s like nobody read down to the 4th sentence 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/68 "2018-05-17T09:49:32Z")
I did, but depending on where you live I understand having the idea that interracial couples are rare - or I go “bwah?” ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/69 "2018-05-17T11:20:24Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > For example on _Doctor Who,_ there have been 3 recent companions in interracial relationships–Rose, Clara, and Bill (with watergirl.) Four, you forgot Donna. Twice, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010/70 "2018-05-19T00:57:21Z")
I live in northwest Arkansas, and see interracial couples pretty often. I also smile on a regular basis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interracial-couples/814010.md?page=3)