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Author: Alrune

Mar 5th 2013 at 1:54:49 AM

Reworking the examples:

!! Film

* ''TheLover'': Being a period piece about French Indochina, the fact that the heroine's lover wasn't White but Asian made things even worse for her since her relationship, once exposed, was met with unanimous disapproval. The romance doesn't work out because... this trope.
* ''JungleFever'': The movie is basically about this trope. A married Black guy (Wesley Snipes) is attracted to a White woman (Annabella Sciorra) to horrible consequences since he was already married and his paramour being White only makes things worse, for both parties.
* ''SaveTheLastDance'': Sara (Julia Stiles) is confronted by Derek's (Sean Patrick Thomas) ex-girlfriend because she's a white girl. They have to end their relationship.
* ''AnnaAndTheKing'': Jodie Foster has plenty of ShipTease with ChowYunFat, especially several dances together, but they never go anywhere romantic because... this trope again, lampshades in-show that Asians and Westerners have a completely different - read: incompatible - view on love.
* ''{{Freeway}}'': This trope seems averted but only in appearance. Vanessa, a white girl has an incidental relationship with Chopper, a black guy. However, their relationship ends brutally with Chopper's death. 
* ''ThePelicanBrief'': TheFilmOfTheBook where the male lead is DenzelWashington and the female leas is JuliaRoberts. In the book, they get together. In the movie, they don't, despite many occasions to do so, because of this trope.
* ''WaitingToExhale'': Invoked. Bernardine's rage at her husband is amplified by the fact that TheMistress is a white woman.
* ''LiveAndLetDie'': A white woman is in a non-sexual relationship with the black Big Bad, who is saving her virginity because it grants her the power to see the future, And Thats Terrible. Whereas Bond has a one-night stand with a black woman, and that's just fine.

!! Live Action TV

* ''AllyMcBeal'': Averted. When Ally tries to date one of her Black clients, her relationship doesn't work out not because of race but because of her own insecurities, as usual.
* ''{{ER}}'': In early seasons, Eriq Lasalle's character had a brief relationship with a British white woman and invoked this trope as for why they couldn't be together.
* In the LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek ''Not Without my Daughter'' a white woman's Iranian husband takes them to Iran where he plans to stay; the remainder of the film is the woman trying to rescue her daughter from the clutches of the evil evil man. Whereas if she'd just settled down with a normal white man she wouldn't have had any problems.

!! Music

* Stated outright in KanyeWest's ''Gold Digger'' song where he states that if the Black gold digger in question doesn't clean up her act, her guy will leave her for a white girl. AndThatsTerrible.

!! Others:

* Chris Rock alluded to this issue in his show ''Kill The Messenger'' where he talks about interracial relationships of Black man/White woman from Black women's perspective, saying that Black women aren't attracted to Whitey the same way Black men are attracter to White ladies. (ie Black women would settle for a REALLY, REALLY hot White men, while Black men would fuck any White woman.)