History Main / MixedAncestryIsAttractive

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', Asian people are believed by the characters to have been wiped out, and Mikasa (half-Japanese and half-Germanic white) is thought to be the last person of Asian descent alive. This gives her a unique phenotype, with straight dark hair and almond-shaped eyes. She is considered beautiful, with Jean in particular falling in LoveAtFirstSight and extolling her features.

** In the third episode, Antoinette Brown (a white American woman) has a flirty expression and smiles at Louis when she divulges, "I like burnished [[note]]copper, which is brown, is a metal that is commonly burnished, so she perceives Louis as having copper-toned skin[[/note]] complexions."

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lampshaded by Lestat de Lioncourt (who is a wealthy Frenchman in an era when France was still an active colonial power, which includes colonies in Africa) when he mentions that he finds what he calls [[StarbucksSkinScale cinnamon skin tone]] -- a mix of African and European descent -- attractive while [[EatingTheEyeCandy gazing seductively]] at Louis de Pointe du Lac, who is biracial and fits in the "cinnamon" category. Louis becomes even more desirable in Lestat's eyes when the latter learns that the former has French ancestry (Lestat is delighted that Louis speaks French and has a French name), so Louis' "exotic" quality is more "accessible" to Lestat. Lestat frequently compliments Louis' looks (e.g. "beautiful face," "[[PrettyBoy pretty head]]"). This also extends to the biracial Lily because Lestat refers to both her and Louis as "misfit beauties." Lestat is madly (even obsessively) in love with Louis, seduces him, and then turns him into a vampire so that they can be companions for eternity.

* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': Joplaya's father is Caucasian, while her mother is strongly implied to come from East Asia.[[note]]the series takes place in the Ice Age, so precise locations can be tricky to pin down and most modern ethnic groups have yet to be formed, although her father lives in the area that's now France[[/note]] She inherited features from both parents and is noted by Zelandonii characters (her father's people) to have a slightly 'exotic' look to her, which in many people's opinion only increases her beauty and allure.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lampshaded by Lestat de Lioncourt (who is a wealthy Frenchman in an era when France was still an active colonial power, which includes colonies in Africa) when he mentions that he finds what he calls cinnamon skin tone -- a mix of African and European descent -- attractive while [[EatingTheEyeCandy gazing seductively]] at Louis de Pointe du Lac, who is biracial and fits in the "cinnamon" category. Louis becomes even more desirable in Lestat's eyes when the latter learns that the former has French ancestry (Lestat is delighted that Louis speaks French and has a French name), so Louis' "exotic" quality is more "accessible" to Lestat. Lestat frequently compliments Louis' looks (e.g. "beautiful face," "[[PrettyBoy pretty head]]"), and this also includes the biracial Lily because Lestat refers to both her and Louis as "misfit beauties." Lestat is madly (even obsessively) in love with Louis, seduces him, and then turns him into a vampire so that they can be companions for eternity.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lampshaded by Lestat de Lioncourt (who is a wealthy Frenchman in an era when France was still an active colonial power, which includes colonies in Africa) when he mentions that he finds what he calls cinnamon skin tone -- a mix of African and European descent -- attractive while gazing seductively at Louis de Pointe du Lac, who is biracial and fits in the "cinnamon" category. Louis becomes even more desirable in Lestat's eyes when the latter learns that the former has French ancestry (Lestat is delighted that Louis speaks French and has a French name), so Louis' "exotic" quality is more "accessible" to Lestat. Lestat frequently compliments Louis' looks (e.g. "beautiful face," "[[PrettyBoy pretty head]]"), and this also includes the biracial Lily because Lestat refers to both her and Louis as "misfit beauties." Lestat is madly (even obsessively) in love with Louis, seduces him, and then turns him into a vampire so that they can be companions for eternity.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight''. In "Field Test", Bruce Wayne begs off a meeting with another businessman (because he has to bust up a meeting between TheMafia and TheMafiya). Well aware of Bruce's reputation, he jokingly asks what girl he's going to see, and is impressed with the answer of: "Half Russian, half Italian."

In animated works, mixed ancestry is often used to justify unusual phenotypes, regardless of [[HollywoodGenetics how unlikely these might be in real life]]; these rarer skin, hair, and eye colors might contribute to the character's perceived attractiveness. For example, it is common in Japanese media for a mixed white/Japanese (''haafu'', a loanword meaning "half") [[InformedAttractiveness beauty]] to have [[PhenotypeStereotype light hair and eyes]], traits that stick out in a predominantly dark-haired and dark-eyed society.

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* ''Manga/FoodWars'': The Aldini brothers are half-Japanese and half-Italian and are both {{Chick Magnet}}s, with the elder brother Takumi having a dedicated fan club at Totsuki despite being a first year and making even older female students gush about him. While he doesn't have his own fan club, some members of Takumi's also comment on how cute they find Isami. Why the differential treatment? Takumi has blonde hair, blue eyes, and is slim whereas Isami has brown hair and is chubby (his eye color is also blue but you rarely see them).

* ''VisualNovel/ShiningSongStarnova'': Julie Watanabe is half-Japanese and half-American, and is an attractive young woman with blonde hair and a flirty bad-girl attitude. [[spoiler:It's later revealed she's trying to exploit both this ad the GorgeousGaijin tropes by dying her hair blonde and exploiting Japanese stereotypes of foreigners as promiscuous in order to get by... and hide that she is having trouble navigating the cultural differences between Japan and America]].

This trope is TruthInTelevision: fetishization and exoticization for their looks is a documented experience by many mixed-race people, which they can experience from both white communities and communities of color. In addition, foreign (often Eurocentric) features figure into the beauty standards of many countries even if the vast majority of the population does not have them, resulting in mixed people who do have these features being upheld. However, while this trope usually focuses on the multiracial character's appearance, characters who don't look like a mix of their ancestries (like many real-life mixed people) can qualify as well, especially if one of their heritages is specifically stereotyped as sexy/attractive and adds a specific allure to them -- see EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench or InhumanlyBeautifulRace.

** ''VisualNovel/ShiningSongStarnova'': Julie Watanabe is half-Japanese and half-American, and is an attractive young woman with blonde hair and a flirty bad-girl attitude. [[spoiler:It's later revealed she's trying to exploit both this ad the GorgeousGaijin tropes by dying her hair blonde and exploiting Japanese stereotypes of foreigners as promiscuous in order to get by... and hide that she is having trouble navigating the cultural differences between Japan and America]].

* ''Literature/OnEarthWereBrieflyGorgeous'': Little Dog's mother Rose had features that were considered striking because she's the daughter of a Vietnamese woman and a white American soldier.
* Kita Charles of ''Literature/{{Parrotfish}}'' is half-black and half-Japanese, and the narrator considers her the perfect example of an ethnically ambiguous, mixed-race beauty.
-->'''Grady:''' In Kita the combination of racial backgrounds had produced a stunner: Her skin like polished oak, and she wore her black hair in long dreads. [...] You couldn't take her apart and say, ''Ah yes, that part is Japanese; that part is African''. She was a perfectly mixed combination -- her own unique person.
* In ''Literature/{{Remnants}}'', [[TokenEvilTeammate Yago]] is the son of the first African-American female president and her white husband. His skin tone is noted to be a perfect bronze color; since he's known to have had a lot of plastic surgery, [[BornInTheWrongCentury Violet]] wonders at one point if it's natural.
* In the first book of ''Literature/ModernFaerieTales'', Tithe, the main character's mixed heritage is fetishized by several characters who comment on how lucky she is for having Japanese features and blonde hair. This is made a little ironic because [[spoiler: she's not any human ethnicity, she's actually a fairy glamoured to look like a human. Presumably the changeling human girl she was glamoured to look like will grow up to have the same blonde hair and facial features]].

To avoid gushing over real-life mixed race people, this trope is '''Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly'''.

* ''Film/JungleFever'': PlayedWith. Drew is half-black and half-white. She gets concerned that her black husband's initial attraction to her was because she is lighter-skinned, because he cheats on her with a white coworker.

* Mixed with EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench in ''Literature/AndTheMountainsEchoed''. Nila Wahdati is a half-French, half-Afghan woman who is consistently described as strikingly beautiful. Her glamorous appearance, sexual poetry and love for high society and the finer things in life all fit her French ancestry. The ''mixed'' part is important too, as her Parisian audience finds her Afghani background interesting, while her {{oblivious|Adoption}}ly adopted daughter Pari (a full-blooded Afghan) unfavorably compares her "common" looks with Nila's regal ones.

--> '''Paula''': Oh, I just love mixed race babies...I don't know. I still think Jewish and Filipino is the best mix.\\

* In ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Lauren is initially attracted to Puck because she thinks he's an ethnically ambiguous mixed-race man, and is disappointed to learn he's a white Jew.

-->-- '''Lauren''' to '''Puck''', ''Series/{{Glee}}'', "Silly Love Songs"

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* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'': Down the ages of Middle-Earth, repeated mixed marriages first between the [[InhumanlyBeautifulRace angelic Maiar]] and the elves, and then between elves and Humans, have produced people of unearthly beauty.

* ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel''

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When being mixed-race - and more importantly, ''looking'' mixed-race - is seen as more attractive, interesting, and exotic InUniverse.

--> '''Paula''': Oh, I just love mixed race babies...I don't know. I still think Jewish and Filipino is the best mix.
--> '''Rebecca''': All right, Paula, come on, we got to get back to work...I mean, Nigerian and Greek is a close second.
--> '''Paula''': Oh, God, that's a beautiful baby.