It is a known fact that white people consume, on average 25 different teas in a given year.
Back in the old days, white people would go all over the world to get teas from places like India and Sri Lanka. They were pretty into it and all of a sudden white people are into tea. But as we moved forward, white people were like “man, one kind of tea is not enough, we need more.”
And now people are into Green Tea, Chamomile, Chai, White Tea, Red Tea, Jasmine Tea, Oolong Tea, Black Tea, Orange Pekoe, and other specialty blends. They are even opening stores and websites devoted to sending white people all sorts of tea.
If you find yourself in a situation with a white person, acceptable things to say include “I’m really into tea right now,” or “my favorite thing is to get a nice cup of tea and curl up in a chair with a good book.” But do not remind them about the role of colonialism in tea, it will make them feel sad.
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My nationality is Eurasian or Asiatic (Kazakh & Mongolian) and I must say people from my part of the world drink more tea than any of the white people I’ve heard of. In our culture the first thing one does when a guest comes by is put on a huge 10-litre samovar of tea…
I hear it is similar for other Eurasian countries, for most East Asians, central Asians, Middle Easterners, lots of African countries’ peoples too. As far as I know the white West has caught on fairly recently, and with little enthusiasm. More accurately, I would say it is a white people’s pretense to say they enjoy tea, when they actually mean expensive herbal teas or highly flavoured mixed teas and fair trade teas… in fact most couldn’t even tell you the difference between how black and green teas are processed, or what long-fermented vs. short-fermented oolongs mean. So drinking tea itself is most likely a thing more spread around non-whites… and, used as something to make whites pretend they are more cultural.
isn´t it funny (ironic…) to see a google advertisement for Tea under this article. Especially for “pure tea” the slogan is like “discover the variety and purity of organic tea” (translated from german).
haha. very good blog – all the best
seb
I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com(the MTV VJ) and must say it is just as funny!!
Did this guy make StuffJewishPeopleLike.com too?
Yeah. but noone in America actually likes it. People just pretend to to seem more cultured.
not true. i fucking LOVE tea. it is delicious. coffee blows.
Agreed. Coffee is only good in small, weak amounts. I live in the States and usually drink 2-4 cups of tea a day.
You must be drinking the wrong coffee then, Amanda!
almost every other culture in the world drinks tea. this one doesnt count C Lander!!!
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