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How Does This Movie Rate Among Interracial Romance Movies?


Even though I know this movie wasn't just about love/romance I have to rate this among the more tastefully done interracial romance movies I've seen. It was so well done that even though I knew he was sleeping with a woman who was about to marry someone else, I was couldn't blame him for doing what he did.

But as far as interracial romance movies goes, how does this one rate to you? Here are a few of my other favories:

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Jungle Fever
Our Family Wedding

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There was nothing really "interracial" about it. She's Indian, he's from North America.

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He's white. She's a brown Indian. If that's not interracial then I don't know what is.

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I'm sorry clogan8307, you seem to be laboring under some misconceptions as to what constitutes being from a different race. Unfortunately you are probably not alone, though. An aside: it is interesting, that even though for over two decades many experts have convincingly shown that the whole commonly accepted concept of race is without scientific basis in anthropological or genetic fact, we continue to use these rigid categories, either through a misguided sense of convenience or willful ignorance.

However, since my aim is not to argue controversial topics on a movie message board or to be overly pedantic, I'll stick to the commonly "accepted" concept of "race" for the purpose of responding to your post:

Over 90% of the rather vast population of India are, in fact, considered Caucasian (i.e., they are of non-African descent, and this would also include many peoples of the surrounding Middle-East). So when you say "She's a brown Indian", you are confusing race for skin color, which is primarily a function of climate. My grandfather was an extremely darkly-complected Southern Italian; my grandmother, whom he married, was from Sweden, and very fair-skinned. In photographs, they look like "night and day" (literally) next to one another, yet they are assuredly of the same "race". In parallel fashion, there are many Asian peoples who have very light skin, however they would not be considered Caucasian (and it's somewhat ironic that many--if not most-- people would not refer to a pairing of a European "White" and a light-skinned Asian as "interracial").

In any case, by the standard definition I would once again re-assert that there is nothing inter-racial at all about the Todd/Asha couple in Outsourced.

By the way, it's interesting that you assigned any sort of import at all to the "race" angle (even if you had been correct in your assumption that they were of distinct races). When I watched the movie, I found that any "mismatch" in this pairing (and the entertaining dynamics thereof) were wholly cultural.

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clogan8307 wasn't speaking in scientific terms. Scientifically human is the race. Indians are not "Caucasians" anyway... but "Caucasoid" - meaning they share facial attributes, bone structures, phenotypes similar to that of Caucasians (Europeans).

Politically in the US Indians and Whites are considered two different races.

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can't outrun your own shadow

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nikkiten1979,

I understood in what terms clogan8307 was speaking. I was trying to point out to the OP (as politely and as articulately as I could), that the initial question itself was defective. I appreciate your attempt at clarification, but I think the points you raise, although reasonably valid, neither contradict my response nor even bear on the original question and response in any direct way. This is because I was:
a) generalizing, in order to draw out what I believed to be 'faulty' assumptions on which the original question was predicated, and
b) not intending to veer into an anthropology discourse.

If we wanted, we can further split hairs by ignoring the Indians for a moment and saying that neither are the U.S. Whites to be considered Caucasians, as they are technically not "from the Caucasus." Likewise your point about the way the U.S. (and many other countries) "politically" distinguish the races was immaterial; we were not having a conversation about equal-opportunity employment, school-zoning, or the U.S. Census data, for example.

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I wasn't trying to contradict your response, but his question wasn't "defective". There was nothing wrong with his question - if anything it was as accurate as it could be in today's society where an Indian or "Hindu" and a White person are of two different races... even though technically and scientifically it's the same race.

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can't outrun your own shadow

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... even though technically and scientifically it's the same race.

That's literally the point I was trying to make.

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Ir would have rated higher if they got a hotter broad.

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She was plenty hot.

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Falling for Grace.

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Watch:
"Sabah" from 2005
"Ae fond kiss" from 2004

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