stuff white people like (again)

i think i might have even written about it on this blog before, but the website is so great (and i ran across it this morning) that i feel the need to discuss again what a funny website it is.

a few select quotes/themes:

-#112 Hummus

-"Throughout history, white people have a pretty poor record when it comes to promises (see Americans, Native for examples)." (under #115 Promising to Learn a New Language)

-#116 Black Music that Black People Don’t Listen to Anymore (lol so true)

-#75 Threatening to Move to Canada: Whenever they are presented with a situation that seems unreasonable to them, their first instinct is to threaten to move to Canada.

(later in the same entry)

Note: Canadian white people threaten to move to Europe.

Note: Europeans are unable to threaten to move anywhere.

(my very awesome white friend who studied at mcgill wrote to me: "i didnt just threaten to move to canada, i did!)

-#9 Making you feel bad about not going outside (SO TRUE)

-"White people will often say they are “spiritual” but not religious. Which usually means that they will believe any religion that doesn’t involve Jesus." (from #2 Religions that their parents don’t belong to)


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and a spot-on explanation of how the website is actually a satire from an la times columnist:

By "white people," Lander doesn't actually mean the more than 221 million Americans who check that box on the decennial census. But that's part of the fun. Lander is doing to whites what scores of journalists and politicians do to non-white minorities every day, "essentializing" complex identities -- that is, stripping away all variety and reducing them to their presumed authentic essences.

One irony-deficient reader complained that the blog was less about white people than it was about yuppies. And without knowing it, she was cutting to the heart of the joke. Lander is gently making fun of the many progressive, educated, upper-middle-class whites who think they are beyond ethnicity or collectively shared tastes, styles or outlook. He's essentially reminding them that they too are part of a group.