Are you living TV's harmonious interracial utopia?

The perfect interracial world exisits in America, on your TV.

According to Charles Gallagher, a sociologist at Georgia State University, television advertising is creating a "carefully manufactured racial utopia, a narrative of colorblindness"

Only about 7 percent of all marriages are interracial, according to Census data. About 80 percent of whites live in neighborhoods in which more than 95 percent of their neighbors also are white, and data show that most Americans have few close friends of another race, Gallagher said.

"The lens through which people learn about other races is absolutely through TV, not through human interaction and contact," he said. "Here, we're getting a lens of racial interaction that is far afield from reality." Ads make it seem that race doesn't matter, when real life would tell you something different, he added.

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