Mixed race couples on tv ads **Mod Warning in Post #556**

I really don't think it's that deep.

It's a lazy way that companies think they can show how progressive they are.

Was scoring virtue points a thing by drastically overrepresenting a tiny minority of our population a thing 10 years ago?

Again, to put this into really simple perspective - for every 100 people seen on television ads, 2 of them should be black, if we are concerned about fairness. Was that criteria met 10 years ago? Almost certainly it was.

Again, quite odd that we don't see too many Asians, Travellers, Eastern Europeans or Wheelchair users (just under 1 percent, so almost as many wheelchair users as black people).

Black people are the only game in town when it comes to showcasing diversity and representation. No other minority matters in modern society.

What are the demographics for the under 30s? Many black people only moved here in the last 15-20 years or so and a large number of black people (either migrants or Irish born) you see in our communities are young people. Guess what....it's this much larger cohort of younger people from ethnic minorities who are showing up in the TV ads.

I agree with you whole heartedly.

Everybody should get on with everybody else all of the time.

Life's not like that though, is it?

Not at the best of times at least.

The problem I have with this is the people that are driving it.

They just ram through their opinions and their actions and fcuck anybody who disagrees with them.

If you do, you are a Racist, a Homophobe, woman hater or whatever else label they can throw at you.

Liberals are very tolerant people.............untill you disagree with them.

How many cans of cider have you had today?

Minimal Unit Pricing put it out of reach

Seriously - racial stratification implies some sort of differences when there are none really...

Warmer climes do appeal in this weather!

And diversity is important to harmonise relations between races. Agree with you 100% on your point

LOL

Poster called Dellybelly complains about "mixed race" couples on TV.

I would love to know how "diverse" their marketing and advertising departments are.

The OP didn't say they don't know any mixed race couples. Read their post again.

And correct me if I'm wrong, if you look at the demographic stats of Ireland there are less black people here than Asian people.

From my experience in England, its, by far, mostly white women and black/ Asian/Chinese men.

Your experience is valuable, but likely to be far too small a sample to be instructive. The Census is where more reliable information is available, but it goes back to 2011. The next Census in the UK was March 2021, so I don't see any figures online for that.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/marriagecohabitationandcivilpartnerships/articles/whatdoesthe2011censustellusaboutinterethnicrelationships/2014-07-03#differences-between-men-and-women-in-inter-ethnic-relationships

This thought did occur to me - well before I saw this thread. Many of the Covid advisory ads seem to feature non whites or mixed race people prominently. Other recent ads include one where a couple are moving the man's elderly mother into their house and the "nice one" ad for bottled water where the girl misses her bus.

I'd have no issue with this if it was happening naturally/blindly but we all know it isn't. Ad agency is engaged to produce an ad and you can be sure that virtue signalling is a priority.

Public money is being used to produce the Covid ads. If you are a white actor are you disadvantaged and discriminated against?

I suppose it balances out for actors given that if an ad agency needs someone to play the part of an idiot or useless gobsh*te, white males are the first port of call. E.g. the series of ads for Currys PC World with the total idiot eating frozen peas and cooking the dinner using a barbeque. Not a chance that a black man would have been hired for that.