# Why is it more common to see black male/white female couples than white male/black female on TV?

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-more-common-to-see-black-male-white-female-couples-than-white-male-black-female-on-tv/810106/26 "2018-03-07T11:03:35Z")

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> [@Omega\_Glory](#):
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> You obviously don’t know as much about black people as you think you do.

To paraphrase Mark Twain: "When America was younger, Blacks isolated themselves so much it could hardly stand to have them around. But when America grew up a bit, it was astonished at how much Blacks had decided to assimilate more into mainstream culture.”

:rolleyes:

**HoneyBadger** , viewing Black culture a) as isolationist; and b) as an exclusive choice of Blacks and not a byproduct of a long, complex history doesn’t really work.

Also, who moved? If populations like Blacks, Latinos and Asians (and LGBTQ folk, and Women, etc) are seen as “more mainstream,” did they come to the Mainstream, or did it come to them? Hint: it wasn’t the populations who have moved.

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