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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this comes from the fact that people are so obsessed about what others think of them.  So many people have such a need to be accepted by everyone.  But everyone cannot be mainstream.

[b]I'm white and am married to a black man.  I don't care if I see "interracial" couples on tv. [/b] I don't care if people support or criticize us.  I don't need a cheerio commercial.  That recent one would be cute with any couple and any cute kid.  My husband and I are just living our lives the best we can.  Sometimes, I feel a little patronized when people feel the need to voice their support for us, and by interracial commercials.  It's fine to me if that's who they happen to cast, but I think it's weird to purposely cast an interracial couple to make a statement.[/quote]

I think that a person of color married to a white person would feel very differently. You have had the privilege your entire life of seeing people like you represented as "normal" in the media.  The Cheerios commercial isn't patronizing.  It just happened to show a multiracial family.

I think that it's also weird to intentionally exclude interracial families, same sex couples, etc.  Now THAT is making a statement.  One way or another, a statement is being made, and Cheerios chose to make the statement that interracial families exist. Shocking, I know.  But hardly patronizing or offensive in any way.[/quote]

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