stuff white people like....

This website pokes fun at things white liberal middle class people are into. Currently the blogs lists 91 items and counting. To have much of what I enjoy and am about parodied, on some level, is not pleasant. It was tough to read at points (for instance, every TV show I like was mentioned-the wire, arrested development, Colbert report, daily show, sopranos, six feet under). But realizing that many of the attitudes and ideas that drift through my head are only part of a broader culture is liberating and perhaps it is worthy of ridicule.


#75 Threatening to move to Canada

Often times, white people get frustrated with the state of their country. They do not like the President, or Congress, or the health care system, or the illegal status of Marijuana. Whenever they are presented with a situation that seems unreasonable to them, their first instinct is to threaten to move to Canada.

For example, if you are watching TV with white people and there is a piece on the news about that they do not agree with, they are likely to declare “OK, that’s it, I’m moving to Canada.”

#60
The Toyota Prius
"Over the years, white people have gone through a number of official cars. In the 1980s it was the Saab and the Volvo. By the 1990s it was the Volkswagen Jetta or a Subaru 4wd station wagon. But these days, there is only one car for white people. One car that defines all that they love: the Toyota Prius.

#57
'Juno'
"As 2007’s Indie hit, it is alternative mainstream and white people love it when low budget movies do well, even though the $7 million budget is enough to feed thousands of villages in East Africa for a year,'' "White people, especially ones over 30, also love movies that take them back to a time when there was zero hip hop influence in white high schools.''

#2 Religion their parents don't belong to

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. Popular choices include Buddhism, Hinduism, Kabbalah and, to a lesser extent, Scientology. A few even dip into Islam, but it’s much more rare since you have to give stuff up and actually go to Mosque. Mostly they are into religion that fits really well into their homes or wardrobe and doesn’t require them to do very much.