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Author: Dacilriel

Oct 25th 2012 at 10:43:50 PM

I'm a bit confused by the description. If I understand it correctly, it's about cases when writers/executives deliberately avoid depicting a romantic pairing between a white person and black person? And it is due either to personal bias or to a preconceived notion about what the audience will accept?

I'm not sure how you can trope that without knowing exactly what was going through the creators' heads. If there is a romantic pairing between say, two African-American characters how do you know whether they were deliberately avoiding an interracial romance, or whether the two best actors to audition just happened to be the same race? It seems that WordOfGod is the only thing you would have to go on.

''BoyMeetsWorld'' had Shawn (Caucasian) and Angela (African-American) as an interracial couple, and I don't think they ever brought up race as an issue.

''{{Scrubs}}'' had Turk (African-American) and Carla (Latina). They actually talked about race and cultural issues in a very mature and realistic way. They never made a huge deal about it, but they talked about things like whether they would raise their children to be bilingual. They focused less on race, and more on cultural differences.

Romantic pairings in ''{{Rent}}'' are almost all interracial.

In ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' Naveen is prince of a fictional country called Maldonia.

I'm not sure whether this is tropeable or not. It seems like any romantic pairing where a black character and a white character don't end up together could potentially qualify, in which case it's just a list of things that don't happen, possibly PeopleSitOnChairs.