re: Why is absolutely every couple in today’s commercials an interracial couple?

Two great looking, thin, successful parents with 2-4 kids, living in a $450k+ home, and a daughter getting a new car... isn't indicative of the typical American family either -- since the typical American couple is a fat female and an average or below average-looking male, at best. Commercials aren't stewards of reality.

But such couples and families do exist no matter how rare; likewise the interracial couples depicted in commercials. The couples (interracial and thin couples) depicted in commercials are often far more represented in higher income areas; which is why the average American rarely sees such.

The way FAMILY and MEN are portrayed in popular culture. Pretty simple . The American Beauty paradigm. Men are weak and predatory, families are bastions of parental abuse , ignorance and bullying, etc.

I get that you are just being the douchcanoe that you always are, and are incapable of adult conversation, but the way that we portray our most basic human Institutions is actually very important. That’s why there are dozens of books written every year about such topics. Not that you would ever read one of them .

The part of the thread where you intentionally miss the point, seize on a guy making a point and go all literal . Good luck with that.

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Does it really fricking matter.

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Yes, why this is should matter. What is the agenda, it isn't a random happenstance.

Because American society needs to learn how to not be racist.

ad agencies rigorously test this. I read an article in ad age about demographics. And it pretty much said that there are some people who won't buy if someone doesn't look like them, and there are some people that will buy even if it doesn't look like them. I am sure these are tested prior to airing, at least for large brands.

That’s the nail on the head.

In particular, research shows that black Americans respond more favorably to commercials with black actors.

Multi-racial couples are a great way to trigger that response while also incorporating some white or other race actors.

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C'mon guys, use your head.

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I have. These are marketing people paid to deliver sales. You haven’t presented any evidence other than “use your head”

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Nothing wrong with that, and not sure why people get agitated and go into denial when people point out the obvious.

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I mean I just think the arguments are generally used to push some soft white nationalism about the risks of “mixing the races.”

What? Are you arguing people in this thread aren’t treating the “mixing of the races” as a concern? Or are you arguing that concern about “mixing of the races” is totally normal?