I'm white but I date a lot of Asian women. I never gave it much thought at first until I realized that I seemed to disproportionately lean that way and wondered why. I realized that I was selecting heavily for women who were middle class, non-progressive and not overweight. Maybe it's just life in Toronto but it seems that almost all people who are like that are Asian.
I also care about how the media has a virtue signaling anti-white agenda and how there are now more interracial black and white couples in commercials than just plain white couples.
I made a comment about this in a thread a few weeks ago. You might be right that there's an element of virtue signaling behind interracial couples in commercials but most likely it's heavily driven by a much older advertising philosophy. I'm just going to copy and paste my old comment below:
The interracial couples stem mostly from an advertising philosophy that the potential consumers should be able to see themselves in the ads because it will make them relate to the product more. It's what let to ads to continue being overwhelmingly white even as true racism subsided. Basically if 80% of the potential market is white then using a white actor will allow target your ads more effectively to 80% of the population. Eventually advertisers started thinking that using interracial couples will allow them to market to an even broader audience. i.e. If 80% of the market is white and 10% of the market is Asian, then using a white-Asian interracial couple will allow them to market to 90% of the population.
It's not a terrible idea from a business standpoint although it does contain certain questionable assumptions. Will an ad featuring a white man and an Asian woman appeal to an Asian man because he's able to see an Asian person and a man in the same ad? If not instead of getting 90% of the market you're getting half the white market and half the Asian market (45% of the total based on these fictional numbers). Additionally white men and Asian woman may not identify with the idea of being in an interracial relationship so you may see further drop off of those numbers. It's the same basic idea of why an ad featuring a heterosexual couple may not appeal to gay men simply because one of the people in the ad is a man.
The thing is that black people are only 3.5% of Canada’s population. So even if every single one of them was in an interracial relationship, that would still only be 7% of the population and the direct target market.
Which is why I think they are virtue signalling to an audience who they think wants to see interracial couples instead of white couples.
From my observations there are just as many, if not more, black/white couples than white/white couples in advertisements. Which is statistically impossible to naturally occur.
I'm white but I date a lot of Asian women. I never gave it much thought at first until I realized that I seemed to disproportionately lean that way and wondered why. I realized that I was selecting heavily for women who were middle class, non-progressive and not overweight. Maybe it's just life in Toronto but it seems that almost all people who are like that are Asian.
I made a comment about this in a thread a few weeks ago. You might be right that there's an element of virtue signaling behind interracial couples in commercials but most likely it's heavily driven by a much older advertising philosophy. I'm just going to copy and paste my old comment below:
The thing is that black people are only 3.5% of Canada’s population. So even if every single one of them was in an interracial relationship, that would still only be 7% of the population and the direct target market.
Which is why I think they are virtue signalling to an audience who they think wants to see interracial couples instead of white couples.
From my observations there are just as many, if not more, black/white couples than white/white couples in advertisements. Which is statistically impossible to naturally occur.