- What were your parents' first impressions of me?
- Why is our son dating a Black woman?
(classical string music)
- [Interviewer 1] Hello!
- Hi! My name's Rachel and this is,
- Mike.
- Hi, I'm Tanya.
- I'm Acacia.
- [Interviewer 1] The theme of today's shoot
is interracial couples.
- That's us.
- [Interviewer 1] All right, then. Really?
- What? You're not white?
(Mike laughs)
- [Interviewer 2] What are each of your ethnicities?
- I'm from Honduras.
- I'm African-American and Alaskan Native American.
- I'm Puerto Rican and Black. And you are?
- Vietnamese.
- Basically, I'm a white mutt.
- My mom is Caucasian white and my dad is Black.
- [Interviewer 2] Is anybody nervous?
- Both of us.
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer 2] Do you wanna take a shot?
- Yeah. - Ooh, Please!
- I'm a little tense right now. (Acacia laughs)
- Who orgasms more in the bedroom? (Rachel laughs)
(hands thud)
- I probably agree with that. - Probably?
- Yeah. Probably. (Rachel laughs)
- I be busting the most nuts.
- Oh my God. (both laugh)
- You actually gave me the best head I've ever received
in my entire life.
- It's me! (laughs) Surprise!
- Do you fake orgasms?
- It depends. - Okay.
- Sometimes I have, because in all truth,
my epilepsy medication makes it so it is so difficult.
- Before we dated, did you have a racial preference?
- Black or brown.
I think for me, like in a relationship,
I really need to be like, understood.
- You don't wanna have to explain your Blackness to people.
- Literally.
- I'm, like, open to all racial preferences.
I do have a streak of white girls. Caucasian.
- Would you say that your most serious relationships
have been with white guys?
- Well, I was married to one.
- Mhm. And you're about to marry another one.
- And I'm about to marry another one.
- What were your parents' first impressions of me?
- My mom said you looked old. (laughs)
- What did dad say?
- You were small. Old and small.
- Okay, great. (both laugh)
(Interviewer 1 laughs)
- My mom was in love with you.
- Oh!
- I want to know what your parents thought of me
when they first met me.
- I didn't know how they were gonna react to me
dating you, Nicole, because like,
- Me having a disability?
- You having a disability.
But when my dad met you, it was like, boom.
You guys meshed. You guys took the photo ops.
I was like, "Wow.
My dad's taking a photo op with my, like, future to be.
Like, this is just crazy."
And I was just like, "Well, I have nothing to worry about."
- What were your parents' first impressions of me?
- I mean, honestly, why is our son dating a Black woman?
In their eyes, this was unacceptable.
My parents feel strong about, you know,
I don't wanna use, like, stick to your kind or whatever,
but that's how they came across.
Like Black people should marry Black people.
White people should marry white people.
And it's just so horrible.
(both laugh) It's horrible.
- [Interviewer 1] How do you get along with his family?
- I don't.
- Which family member of mine is secretly racist? (laughs)
- Your dad. - I know!
- Your dad, bro. (laughs)
He's,
- A Black man with a closed mind.
- Yep.
- Your mom is racist as fuck.
(laughs)
I'm just saying like, she's all the things.
- Yeah.
She's racist, sexist. Do you agree?
- 100%. (both laugh)
- Well, I would say all of them,
but if I had to pick the most,
I would probably say your sister.
Only because she has been the most outspoken
negatively towards me.
- What's the biggest cultural stereotype that I embody?
- Gospel. - What?
- Related to gospel. - Gospel?
- Yeah. Black people love gospel music.
- Oh my God. (laughs)
- You literally love gospel, bro.
I don't. I think it's more like culture than stereotype.
- I mean, you're really into math.
And yeah, rice, I guess. You really like rice.
- I could think of a few other ones that you've mentioned.
My driving.
- Okay.
- I'm Asian and a woman, so. - Okay well.
- I'd have to say your Starbucks infatuation. (laughs)
- Entitlement. Privilege.
You got in trouble, - Mhm.
- For trying to outrun a police officer.
Somehow, someway, you made it to the jail house intact.
If you would have been a Black male,
things could have gone very, very different for you.
- Yeah. I recognize that.
- What's my biggest stereotype?
- I mean, outspoken. Brash.
- There is a stereotype out there of the angry Black woman,
and I'm not afraid of that stereotype.
- What was something you were embarrassed to ask me
regarding my culture?
- Oh, about the language.
Why don't you want to speak Vietnamese
in the Vietnamese restaurant?
- I'm unsure of my skill sometimes.
- You speak Vietnamese to your parents.
- I know enough to communicate with them,
but just not enough to order properly.
- What was something you were embarrassed to ask me
regarding my culture?
- Maybe a little embarrassed to not know more about
Black history.
I didn't know about Juneteenth.
I wouldn't say I've been embarrassed to ask about it,
but, well I guess maybe I'm embarrassed to ask about it
just for fear of you being like,
"Why don't, you know this already?"
- So many people still don't know.
It's just something that is going to have to gain traction.
Like your kids now. They know. - Improvement for sure.
- So that's what we have to do I think,
as parents, is just educate our children
so the next generation coming up
does know about these things.
- [Interviewer 1] Did you learn anything new
about each other?
- Yeah. I did learn something new
about her faking orgasms, (bracelet clatters)
but other than that, it was pretty chill.