Why is it that anytime interracial relationships are mentioned, it always consist of Black-White?

Question

Usually in the media, when they talk about interracial relationships, most of the time it consist of a white person and a black person. And maybe once in a while, you'll hear or read about "Black/Other" or "White/Other".

Does anyone know why that is?

Answer 1

Possibly because oft times the difference is most visible.

Answer 2

In my experience the Black/White relationships are the ones least tolerated by others. A White or Black person with a Hispanic or Asian is more accepted in our society. So even though Black/White unions are less common than other interracial unions, I think that because they are more controversial they are usually the ones mentioned.

Answer 3

I don't think the media uses only black/Caucasian to describe interracial relationships. I think any relationship that the national heritage is different between the two would deem interracial. My dh is Black/Indian and I am Hispanic/Caucasian, we have an interracial marriage and multiracial children...Isn't life grand!

Answer 4

Depends what you read. Maybe you should broaden your horizons. My mum was a church of England protestant and later became an elder in the church of Scotland; my dad was brought up as a catholic. In Scotland and Northern Ireland that is considered as a 'mixed' marriage.

Newspapers that aim at the general population such as 'The Sun' tend to oversimplify things to the extreme - they also tend to pander to the white, working class - they don't want to confuse the punters with ideas that Chinese people marry Indians!