Please. This show is such a liberal fantasy. The black cop wants his hot white partner. The white cop is after the teen hood's sister. The Muslim cop is after the white girl, who of course has a black boyfriend. Hollywood loves pushing their interracial agenda, don't they.
sharejust like some people love pushing their own segregated theory agenda, don't they.
Gotta love hard core right wingers. I still see signs for Sarah Palin and Ron Paul running for president
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B.S. Yes, it happens in the real world. It's "normal" these days, unlike the 1950's, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. But it is NOT nearly as prevalent as Hollywood would have one beleive. Check the US Census stats (I just did) and you'll find that 95% of married couples are of the same race (tho they don't list Hispanic as a separate race). Granted, that's for the whole country, and I would suspect that for NYC, it's probably more like 80%-85%. But as the original poster indicated, Hollywood would have us beleive that 2/3s of relationships are interracial. It's just not true.
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There was a study done that showed that inter-racial couples were at an all time high. Now, how they came up with this information I have no idea. But there you go.
No, its not everywhere and every person doesn't but in a show that ostensibly is based in New York City, a fairly diverse place I am told, I imagine its fairly common.
Not to mention these are younger people and as someone who is somewhat young yet myself, I think my generation at least on the surface seems to be more inclined into exploring the aspect of inter-racial dating/marrying, etc, than someone whose 50-60, etc.
Not that common. I wouldn't underestimate the fact that Hollywood has been pushing that agenda for decades now. Opposites attract, they just can't live with each other. That doesn't just go for race but any couples. The more couples are alike, the more chance of it lasting.
shareMaybe it's better now but I remember an interview of Rae Dawn Chong talking about all the crap she got from black people when she was with C. Thomas Howell. Of course that might have been C. Thomas Howell specific. I can see that point of view.
It bugs me when I quite often hear the comment that biracial children are so much better looking. You mostly only see the cream of Hollywood pretty ones. Not the ones that look like Quasimodo.
"This is the worst kind of discrimination! The kind against me!"
It bugs me when I quite often hear the comment that biracial children are so much better looking. You mostly only see the cream of Hollywood pretty ones. Not the ones that look like Quasimodo.
Well good for you but we live in different worlds. One of the ugliest kids I ever saw was a Irish African mix. I feel if their pretty we are more interested in them and if ugly their chalked off too what ever race is dominant.
"This is the worst kind of discrimination! The kind against me!"
Really? Ever see tennis player James Blake's brother, Thomas?
shareB.S. Yes, it happens in the real world. It's "normal" these days, unlike the 1950's, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. But it is NOT nearly as prevalent as Hollywood would have one beleive. Check the US Census stats (I just did) and you'll find that 95% of married couples are of the same race (tho they don't list Hispanic as a separate race). Granted, that's for the whole country, and I would suspect that for NYC, it's probably more like 80%-85%. But as the original poster indicated, Hollywood would have us beleive that 2/3s of relationships are interracial. It's just not true.
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Nobody that knows my in person would ever call me a bigot. You have no idea of me or my background. My entire adult life, I have been surrounded by people of all colors and creeds, and have had many many mixed-race married couples as close friends, and several of my relatives are married to other-ethnic spouses. My wife and I happen to be same-race/color, but if my luck had been slightly different in my younger days, I might have had an asian wife instead.
The numbers I found (Wiki, US census 2010) are way diffenet from what you posted:
--- 2.1% of married White women and 2.3% of married White men had a non-White spouse.
--- 4.6% of married Black American women and 10.8% of married Black American men had a non-Black spouse.
--- 17.5% of married Asian American women and 8.2% of married Asian American men had a non-Asian American spouse.
A big city like NYC is a melting pot, so yeah the numbers will be higher, just as the numbers tend to be higher for military vs. civilian general population. And yes, I beleive the trend for the future is upwards. Fine. That's the way the world's going. Look, I don't care whom you date or marry. That's not the point.
The point is this show and many others coming out of Hollywood these days are pushing pushing pushing the mixed-married couples thing as being the predominate way things are. It's going beyond the idea of making the show "real and gritty" and is into the realm of pushing an agenda. This show, while only a few episodes in, as yet to show a same-race couple at all. It's not depicting "real world", but what should we expect from Hollywood? Saying that isn't being bigotted; it's calling FOUL when they hit the ball into the stand left of third base.
Nobody that knows my in person would ever call me a bigot. You have no idea of me or my background. My entire adult life, I have been surrounded by people of all colors and creeds, and have had many many mixed-race married couples as close friends, and several of my relatives are married to other-ethnic spouses. My wife and I happen to be same-race/color, but if my luck had been slightly different in my younger days, I might have had an asian wife instead.
The numbers I found (Wiki, US census 2010) are way diffenet from what you posted:
--- 2.1% of married White women and 2.3% of married White men had a non-White spouse.
--- 4.6% of married Black American women and 10.8% of married Black American men had a non-Black spouse.
--- 17.5% of married Asian American women and 8.2% of married Asian American men had a non-Asian American spouse.
A big city like NYC is a melting pot, so yeah the numbers will be higher, just as the numbers tend to be higher for military vs. civilian general population. And yes, I beleive the trend for the future is upwards. Fine. That's the way the world's going. Look, I don't care whom you date or marry. That's not the point.
The point is this show and many others coming out of Hollywood these days are pushing pushing pushing the mixed-married couples thing as being the predominate way things are. It's going beyond the idea of making the show "real and gritty" and is into the realm of pushing an agenda. This show, while only a few episodes in, as yet to show a same-race couple at all. It's not depicting "real world", but what should we expect from Hollywood? Saying that isn't being bigotted; it's calling FOUL when they hit the ball into the stand left of third base.
Gender patterns in intermarriages vary widely, the study found. About 24% of African-American males married outside their race in 2010, compared to 9% of African-American females.
However, the reverse is true for Asians, where about 36% of females married outside their race compared to 17% of male newlyweds. And intermarriages for white and Hispanic people do not vary by gender, researchers found.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/16/us/interracial-marriage/index.html
Makes no sense. Different races have different standards of beauty and attractiveness. I'm not attracted to people outside of my race, as most people aren't. Lots of white women go for black guys because A) they want the big one and B) to piss off their parents or maybe just society in general.
shareI love how anyone that points something out is a "hard core right winger". Like someone said when the show started, the cast of this show is like a UN meeting.
shareI love how anyone that points something out is a "hard core right winger". Like someone said when the show started, the cast of this show is like a UN meeting.
I've read your posting history. If anyone has an agenda here, BB-84, it's you.
I found three other topics that you posted the same numbers, which seem to be highly inflated compared to those I found the official US Census web page. If anyone disagrees with you, you chase them off the board by calling them bigots and racist. Sorry, I'm not playing that game.
Again, you don't know me, you don't know my political views, you don't know the way I treat people. And yet you throw labels around, and no matter what I say you will claim it's false or not a valid defense. At this point, I don't care what you think of me. People that know me in person know that I'm not a racist or homophobe, and that I am pretty much dead-center on the political scale.
Gay marriage? I don't care one way or the other. I don't believe that a church must be forced to perform gay marriages if it's against their belief system. Why is it we have "separate of church and state" except when it comes to telling the church they must do what the left-leaning ideology want? But if the people of a state vote to allow it, fine, let them get married in the court house or at a church that welcomes them in. Just don't force a church that doesn't want to do it.
I've read your posting history. If anyone has an agenda here, BB-84, it's you.
I found three other topics that you posted the same numbers, which seem to be highly inflated compared to those I found the official US Census web page. If anyone disagrees with you, you chase them off the board by calling them bigots and racist. Sorry, I'm not playing that game.
Again, you don't know me, you don't know my political views, you don't know the way I treat people. And yet you throw labels around, and no matter what I say you will claim it's false or not a valid defense. At this point, I don't care what you think of me. People that know me in person know that I'm not a racist or homophobe, and that I am pretty much dead-center on the political scale.
Gay marriage? I don't care one way or the other. I don't believe that a church must be forced to perform gay marriages if it's against their belief system. Why is it we have "separate of church and state" except when it comes to telling the church they must do what the left-leaning ideology want? But if the people of a state vote to allow it, fine, let them get married in the court house or at a church that welcomes them in. Just don't force a church that doesn't want to do it.
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Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwn.
Believe it is an accidental representation of the great salad bowl if you wish.
that's because hispanic isn't a race, it's an ethnicity.
shareNYC is filled with people of many cultures. It is a normality in such multicultural areas I am sorry to tell you. I live in one of the most multicultural cities in the world, so I know the reality of it.
My body's a cage, it's been used and abused...and I...LIKE IT!!
Disagree with the extreme liberal agenda and you get called names and told that only their point of view is valid. Hmmm, sounds like the same way they viewed things in the Soviet Union. Shut the opposition up by any means and never allow disagreement.
shareI get the same response from the extreme right-wing side, too, so I must be doing something right. But, yes, that reaction does seem much stronger from left-wingers these days.
LOL@a guy named el jefe crying about interracial dating being shown in a fictional police drama based in the racial melting pot that is NYC. Really you and SGT G are just not comfortable with white women being paired with non white men because you feel insecure and inadequate and somehow think that all white women are going to see this and turn to the darkside. Like any of these white women were ever going to be interested in you anyway. But no if you can't have them then no one can right? Because really that's what this is all about, white guys are shown on tv all the time getting every race of woman under the sun in bed and it's never an issue. But let one, or god forbid two pretty white girls be seen on screen sharing feelings for a non white man and now it's a liberal agenda and a national emergency because the pure aryan race is being exterminated. Oh the irony.
shareLike white men are shown beating down the doors to date black women. That's a one way street my friend.
shareYou are so far off base it isn't funny.
Sure, I grew up in a small town where my options were limited, but I moved out into the real world and saw how things really are. Anymore, I really could not care less who marries whom. Indeed, I considered someone not-of-my-race, but fate prevented that from happening. I don't even care if you want same-sex marrages ... it's not for me, thank you very much, and I strongly believe that the law (court order) should not force churchs that don't beleive in it to perform such ceremonies, but other than that, who gives a rip?
That's not the point of this thread. It was to highlight yet another plot point that Hollywood has taken to extremes, to the level it appears to be agenda driven. (Another is the idea that young singles change sex partners more often than changing their socks, but that's another debate entirely.)
The idea that inter-race marrage is so normal that it's the predominate way these days is just simply flat out wrong. Yes, it happens. A lot in the military and in large cities like NYC, but Hollywood would have us beleive there are no same-race marrages anymore. There's another show, set in LA, where the only same-race couple are gay. All I'm saying is Hollywood needs a reality check once in a while.
New York City, even after almost 400 years of existence, is not a melting pot, but rather a stew pot. There are still large neighborhood that maintain an enthnic identity, be it African or Latino or Irish or Italian or Asian or whatnot, with little intermixing going on. It's going to take another 400 years before the city is a true melting pot.
The other person that attacked me has a posting history of calling anyone who questions his "facts" has being a bigot. He also seems to want to see more black men marry outside the race. Now, the funny part of that is if I truely were a racist, I'd say "more power to you, go ahead and bred yourself out of existence."
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