White person travelling can be broken into two categories – First World and Third World.
First world is Europe and Japan, and man, this travel is not only beloved but absolutely essential in their development as white people.
Every white person takes at least one trip to Europe between the ages of 17-29. During this time they are likely to wear a back pack, stay at a hostel, meet someone from Ireland/Sweden/Italy with whom they have a memorable experience, get drunk, see some old churches and ride a train.
What’s amazing is that all white people have pretty much the same experience, but all of them believe theirs to be the first of its kind. So much so that they return to North America with ideas of writing novels and screenplays about their experience.
Upon returning home, they will also find an affinity for a particular beer or liquor from a country they visited. They use this as an excuse to mention their travels when at a bar. “Oh, I’ll have a Czechznlishiyush Pilsner. You see, that was my favorite beer when I was travelling through Slovenia and the Czech republic.”
The second type of white person travel is Third World. This is when they venture to Thailand, Africa or South America. Some do it so that they can one up the white people who only go to Europe.
But like with Europe, white people like to believe they are the first white people to make this trip. As such, they should be recognized as special and important individuals.
That’s right, by going to a country, riding around on a bus or train, staying at a hotel or hostel and eating – they are doing something important for the world.
If a white person shows up in your country, you can make them feel fantastic by saying how you’ve never seen a white person before, and that you are amazed by their iPod – “a device that plays many songs? impossible!”
They might give it to you, then you can sell it for profit. Repeat as necessary.
Stuff White People Like 
some of those ppl look italian or mexican, do they count as white?
I went to Argentina. Does that count as South America?
They love dirty hostles more than travelling. I think they travel to stay at dirty,funky hostels. what do you think?
I just love sitting on my porch!
This blog is hilarious, but also bonus funny for people like craiggers who just show how true it is!
“when I was in Africa…”
becomes the intro to every story, sentence, thought upon returning from their trip, too. It’s quite charming.
Some of my favorite moments in life have been while traveling in Latin America and Africa.
I had a friend who once went AROUND THE WORLD, from London to the continent across asia to Thailand and Japan. like 8 months.
He wins.
“the continent?” Africa has a name you know
Machu Picchu…the Ace of Trumps for WP travel.
“the continent” refers to continental Europe, as in, not the British Isles, which is also part of Europe and happens to be where London is. Which is the starting point in dbt’s story that went nowhere.
but yeah even though you’re basically just describing university educated, urban liberals of any ethnicity . . . this stuff is hilarious. Scrolling through them all quickly i probably fit 2/3 of them. But so do my 3 asian friends and my one black friend.
People need to stop taking themselves (or this site) so seriously.
When you’re so rich that you’ve been to all of the good countries by the time you’re 20, so you need to go to Goa or Hong Kong to feel like you’ve been somewhere. If you’re really hardcore you go to Nepal or a village in India, where you just piss off the villagers because you won’t take them with you.
The people who come back from Goa all hippy-trippy and “enlightened” and therefore superior to absolutely everyone, they are the most annoying.
Hey, I’m from Slovenia, and we don’t have that beer. But we got Laško beer 😛
One white I met takes her travels bragging rights even higher and says she likes to stay with people she knows in other countries and really absorb the culture. And of course, she loves to share that info with everyone she meets.
this one i felt was badly written. of course traveling does good: some places make a good bit of dough on tourism.
white people that i like go to third world countries to fuck tons of cheap hookers.
white people that travel to find themselves are fucking retarded.
A white co-worker of mine just invited a group of us to view a slideshow of her Africa trip photos. She actually scheduled a conference room for this during company time! I could barely get in the fact that I also went to Africa. 🙂
Also, I noticed that when white people visit Africa, they NEVER visit the civilized, citified places. No, just safaris where they can almost get eaten by wild animals and meet some natives.
Meanwhile, when I visited South Africa, I spent most of my time on the beaches and in the cities. Safari = 3 hrs of my time there and that was enough for me.
“. . . and my one black friend.”
I know we’re a minority, but dang, does every white person only have “one black friend”???? Does said black friend have any other black friends that he can introduce you to? some cousins? LOL
I’m overseas in Brazil right now. I feel so bad for the WP cause they’re like walking theft targets . . . although, it might help if they:
a) weren’t all dressed in the J.Crew/AmericanEagle/Banana Republic/Abercrombie spring collection
b) tried not to speak English so loudly since Brazil does have tall, blond, pale people of their own
c) stopped asking the shadiest looking people on the street for directions (i.e. the creepy guy on the corner playing the illegal lottery instead of the bank’s security guard, WTF?)
d) didn’t keep their ipod, digial camera, wallet, in their front pocket and pull it out, display its contents prominently
e) attempted to blend, just a little bit
I think that there’s a third category who travel to Cuba, the DR, and Mexico. This category consists of “just out of highschool”ers who “need to get away” (from parents, home towns, ect) and cannot afford European or African plane fare.
stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
but let’s talk about what happens when white people meet a black american who is not in the military, does not play sports, didn’t rap or dance his or her way around Europe, you might find some funny responses to this dilemma
I’m white and the furthest I’ve been was Niagara Falls, Canada. I wish I could travel more, so help me out as to whether I’m cool or lame.
Know what I like? People who can spell “traveling” correctly.
Oh, well . . . . and your site, sort of. It makes me feel white as hell, but it’s hilarious.
More stuff white people like, I suppose: Feeling cool for reading a site bashing other white folks. (God, is there any way out?)
Liz, I’ll keep asking if there’s a way out for you.
Cut the white and black shit, man. I’m in IRAK, and we gots diversity here, ok? There’s everything a young person would dig. Action, sunshine, exotic foods, illicit sex, rape, robbery, and the latest terror film. DIG IT.
holy shit Raymo! WTF?
RAYMO, please refrain from criticizing Americans. We don’t take anything seriously, especially ourselves. In fact, we hate ourselves and cover it up with humor about the unimportant minutiae in our lives, such as this blog. We’ve resigned ourselves to the fact that we can’t be as important as the historical figures we celebrate, and it depresses us. So when your backwards culture makes it to that level, then you can have a place at the table. Until then, keep ignorantly believing you live in a materialistic bliss. You’re luckier that way. Next.
I currently live in India and can’t wait to get back to the states so I can brag and tell of my adventures of the encounters with the not so fortunate and destitute. “One day I was eating and a man at the next table threw a bone and the ground. All of a sudden, a man and a dog came over to the bone and stared to fight over it!” Oh how cool everyone will think I am, being so cultured with all my travel experiences!!!! Now where did I put that journal……..
I love this blog!
Remember to talk about “when I went to Europe” like it’s one country.
I spy an Inca Kola shirt. Are they in Peru?
When I go abroad, Europeans make fun of Americans that we don’t travel ENOUGH. I don’t blame them. Perhaps if more people were interested in the world, we would elect better leaders and have a more enlightened foreign policy (aka dispelling the naive notion that people around the world truly care about democracy).
In fact, Asian Americans, who are usually to busy earning money/buying status symbols or polishing their resume/academic credentials, never travel abroad.
African Americans and Hispanics don’t travel either, mainly because they have neither the curiosity nor the money to do it.
And so some white people travel to third world countries. But remember that the majority of Americans don’t even have a passport. So, this is one of the many positive attributes of white people that’s being framed as something we have to feel stupid about. Who cares if white people like to brag about travelling? At least they actually meet some locals. If you see Japanese tourists, they all stick to themselves on a tour bus and say less than a word to the locals.
When I go abroad, Europeans make fun of Americans that we don’t travel ENOUGH. I don’t blame them. Perhaps if more people were interested in the world, we would elect better leaders and have a more enlightened foreign policy (aka dispelling the naive notion that people around the world truly care about democracy).
In fact, Asian Americans, who are usually to busy earning money/buying status symbols or polishing their resume/academic credentials, never travel abroad.
African Americans and Hispanics don’t travel either, mainly because they have neither the curiosity nor the money to do it.
And so some white people travel to third world countries. But remember that the majority of Americans don’t even have a passport. So, this is one of the many positive attributes of white people that’s being framed as something we have to feel stupid about. Who cares if white people like to brag about travelling? At least they actually meet some locals. If you see Japanese tourists, they all stick to themselves on a tour bus and say less than a word to the locals.
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it appears RAYMO is speaking as a soldier stationed in Iraq rather than an Iraqi (no?)
in which case, i can totally get behind his statement. bear in mind, i’m definitely not for the war, but if you’re looking for the most salient example of people resisting the deplorable cliches written about here, troops win: americans, of any race, and of (typically) lower economic status, seeing the world and having much more opportunity for introspection given the do-or-die, breakneck pace of their mission.
as far as traveling’s concerned, troops have you hipsters WELL BEAT for bragging rights.
Ha! This is too funny. I’m SO one of the white people that has traveled to Europe between the ages of 17-29 (four times to be exact), and ya…my experience was WAY different than anyone else’s:)
Your site rocks. Seriously- some of the funniest reading I’ve come across in a long time. May I suggest “blogging”, “Oprah”, and “camping” as future topics?
Whitey no.11…”Your one black Friend”?
How very WP of you
This is so me, but I am West Indian-black.
This is my favorite post. There is nothing, I repeat nothing, white people love talking about more than their travels.
your_other_black_friend, nicely put. Active duty has taken me to (in order, through the years) Australia, Japan, Spain, Nassau, Sicily, Qatar, Djibouti, Norway, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Iraq, and England. And all on taxpayer dime! It’s tough to “blend in” in places like Qatar, but a little Spanish goes a long way in most places. Except when you’re drunk and try to talk to a Filipino in Spanish because the islands were once owned by Spain. Oops.
…if white people stopped traveling so much, would this blog satirize their tendency to stay secluded in their own countries for ?
This one is funny because it rings true (why the hell do we -all- think we’re the first person to get off our ass and take a trip outside the country?) but misses the mark a bit.
To my fellow white people, I think the gist is that the standard of living happens to be higher in caucasian countries and the middle/upper classes eventually have nothing better to do but go abroad, and that well they’re there they have a tendency to treat everything they see as somehow existing for the sole purpose of their momentary enjoyment.
I am Chinese (the kind that grew up in China) and my boyfriend is a white boy grew up in the US. Ever since he came back from South East Asia a year ago, he cannot stop talking about his travel experience there (like riding on the back of a truck on mud roads and meeting people from New Zealand). Every time when we go to a Thai restaurant, he has to order a beer Charn – the cheapest beer you can get in Thailand (kinda like the indie music affinity) – and he cannot stop talking about him getting a beer Charn on the Sky Train after running for it train. Man, I have heard that story for a million times by now and he’s talking to someone who actually grew up in SE Asia.
I’m an Asian and can be considered to be moderately travelled…
I think that some of the whites I’d seen abroad behave as if they’re superior as they’d crossed 1/2 the world to Asia. But to us, they look pretty dumb and ignorant.
And oh yes…there’re Asians who know English ok?
I’d seen the whites’ mouths wide open, jaws dropped when they hear Asians speaking fluent English…
It’s so true. Travel is dumb. Outside interests are stupid. Stay home.
I´m from Brazil, it´s really funny..
I´ll use this when i see some white people from USA
this is the best post
=)
i really hate backpackers. but i like to travel.
so, i guess im guilty just the same.
but this blog is so true.
“this one time, in ASIA, i ate ________. it was CRAZY.”
“we saw LIVE __________. it was CRAZY.”
*’crazy’ is interchangeable with ‘life changing’.
My god! You must be right! Nobody ever does ANYTHING just do to it cause they want to. They must be an underlying reason!
People need to chill out. This site is clearly just for the humour. Roll with it.
I went to Haiti when I was twelve, which is the last time I exited the U.S. of course, this was for an “OMFG SAVE TEH HEATHENS” missionary trip, but yeah. I guess I’m not as white as I thought I was, though I do like to bring up my Haiti trip to point out how stupid I was when I was christian.
I love this entry. One of my pet peeves is people who turn their traveling experiences into some sort of snob shield that they can wave over your head. As if going to some tourist traps for 2 months makes you so much aware of the world.
Here’s quote I like:
“Newsflash fellas – you’re not smarter. You’re not more experienced. You don’t have great insight that we cannot comprehend. And by the way, the fact that you spent a summer “abroad” in Europe getting shit-canned, reading Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, listening to Pierre complaining about American oppression, and sleeping with as many people as you can on what really amounted to nothing more than a semester-long spring break, doesn’t give you any great wisdom either.”
Hilarious site, maybe most I’ve laughed ever at something I read on the internet, and I’m on the internt a LOT.
Although the blog is not to be taken seroiusly in the sense that it is bad to act white by doing these things, I’m afraid that some unsuspecting whites will soon find it cool again to ‘not care,’ which is not as in vogue right now as it used to be and was much less useful for society as a whole.
I like how the blog mentions Europe, Japan, Latin America, Thailand, and Africa as acceptable destinations for White People. As for the Middle East, it’s left out entirely for good reason – White People only go to Israel. Maybe Egypt, because they’ve been learning about the pyramids since they were like two years old. Oh, and did I mention I’ve been to every country in that region except Iraq (yes, including Iran and KSA)? Ok, now I’m officially white.
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I’m black (Haitian-American) and left the country for the first time when I was a wee little thing. I’ve been all of Europe with a little bit of central america tossed in. I’m learning Arabic so the middle east is next on my list.
Vialed…your church was aware that most Haitians are in fact Christian. We tend to be Catholic.
…Isn’t Europe where they keep the fresh supply of while people??
I’m actually from Argentina and everyone has an Ipod, that shows how ignorant you are
Do they have sarcasm in Argentina? I mean, how could you actually take this blog at face value?
I actually understand why “craiggers” would think that Argentina doesn’t count as south america, I know this is going to sound stupid but in Argentina people are white, not like Mexico or Chile, I’ve been there an year ago or so, it’s a beautiful city, really big and crowded, kind like new york but with a bit of more parks and stuff
wait, did I just said that Argentina is a city? haha I meant buenos aires, it’s the only place of Argentina I’ve been, anywayyy..
How about adding couch surfing on here? I’m on a mission to collect all the cool points I can. lol
That is soo true! but come on meeting other places is really cool! the other time i went to this country name Ecuador in South America.. and its really nice but comme on they DO have Ipods and electronic stuff.. and a lot! believe it or not even though they are a 3rd world country they’re technolgy isnt bad at all! Go to Guayaquil really nioce city you’ll love it white ppl! LOL
i was lucky white boi my daddy n mommy took me over to europe 5times starting when i was 10, but ive been to south america with my friends and going to central america next JUST to one up the people that have gone to S.A and EU
that would be Slovakia and the Czech republic, not Slovenia and the Czech republic
#0 continent would be Europe not Africa (going by the route mentioned) you know…
People that like to boast of all their travels just make us poor people angry.
Sometimes I feel kinda white cause I’m the only Chicana I know that’s been to Scotland. The only places Mexican-Americans travel is Mexico, Las Vegas and Hawaii.
Ha ha. I trump you all. I LIVED in Europe. For years. And then I came back. Do I ever get respect!
Did you mean to say Slovakia when you mentioned Pilsner? Slovakia, not Slovenia, right? I just happen to be from Slovakia 🙂
#41…”I think the gist is that the standard of living happens to be higher in caucasian countries”
Yep…it just “happens” in White countries…
What an AMAZING coincidence!
Oh god!! Reading everyones comments just made me realize how sad and predicable we are!!
And #65 has proven this blog correct…by the way, I’ve lived in Europe before as well…frig I’m so white.
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My life has been wrong. I’ve been doing stuff all these years when all I should have been doing is sitting on the floor and staring at it.
All my friends are white, like me.
I have been to the Czech Republic and Machu Piccu. Both very high on white peoples travel Cred list. Machu Piccu trumps most of the time. My sisters boyfriend went to Sri lanka, (czech spelling here) and that does, infact on-up Peru.
i would like to travel to the united states some time
it seems like a strange and exciting place
this site should be renamed http://www.limousineliberals.com
There is nothing so white as being hipper and cooler than all the other white people who think they’re hip and cool. You know, like the white people who go on and on about the distinction between being a “traveler” and a “tourist.” But it’s whiter still to look down on the travelers. Or to write a ironic blog that makes fun of irony.
I was too busy sweating rent from 18-29 to travel and have suffered a lot of ‘tude for it, and now that I think about it, it was all white dudes razzing me. What I like to call the: “I don’t like to date people who haven’t traveled because they are so closed minded” syndrome.
Why would anyone want to travel to furrin’ countries. We got everything we need here in the good ‘ole USA. That’s why all them furriners is always trying to move here and use up all our social services. USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
You got me….
Czech beer really is amazing and almost nothing in the US is even remotely comparable. As such, if I see a wide selection on the list, I ask for the imports.
I have to agree with this one however whether it be South America or Africa, I’ve always noticed the Japanese as more of the stand out gadget carrying tourist.
I’ve got all my white buddies trumped on this one. It’s not about how many places you go to, it’s what you do there. Common shit like sleeping in a hostel/adopted family/american themed hotel and drinking the local beer doesn’t count. It’s the crazy shit like eating fried crickets in mexico or sucking the blood out of a turtle in micronesia that cut the cake. You ain’t travelled till you’ve lived off the land where you went, buddy.
Ngifunde isiZulu eNyuvesi weKwaZulu-Natali.
If you can’t win that, *I WIN BITCHES*
QUOTE FROM: la legione di resistenza
but let’s talk about what happens when white people meet a black american who is not in the military, does not play sports, didn’t rap or dance his or her way around Europe, you might find some funny responses to this dilemma
If this hasn’t happened to me a million times while traveling! I quess I can’t cant pay for a trip the same way you do.
you guys forgot to mention the backpacker circuit. basically that is every college kid or recent grad who squeezes a few grand out of mom and dad heads off for grand adventure in asia only to find that most of asia is really dirty, crowded, and quite possibly hazardous to their health and while that bowl of fried noodles being made by that flickr worthy wrinkled old lady on the street looks good it will probably cause major intestinal problems so maybe its just safer to have a portobello sandwich from that funky little cafe over there with the cute asian waiters all dressed up in hip shirts and sip a beer while taking to other white kids wearing equally hip shirts bought on khao san road about how they’re going up to Laos to find “some real jungle”
no section about white travel can be complete without this phenomenon
you don’t need to know my name @ 39 said:
This is my favorite post. There is nothing, I repeat nothing, white people love talking about more than their travels.
Not true. I’m retired USAF and lived overseas for well over ten years. I don’t talk about it at all, unless someone asks… mainly because no one gives a sh!t. I do blog about some of the fun things and places in the way-back, though.
I’m white, too.
This blog is about the funniest piece of writing I’ve seen on these here inter-tubes in a long, long time. Nice work!
ironically, whilst traveling though, all they do is whine about the skin tax and brag about their country..oh and i absolutely lurve feigning amazement at their gadgets before whipping out my Iphone. and they say we asians don’t have a sense of humour.snigger.
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As a Brazilian I would like to point out that , if you happen to visit our southern states, you will be amazed to see our (sic)”tall, blond, pale people”. Real brazilians, the whole lot.
You see, we have had a massive wave of german immmigrants, who settled in the south because of the milder weather.
So, please, do not attempt to judge a whole country’s racial population by the people you see at one given place.
Travel around a bit more before expounding this sort of crude approximation.
This is hilarious because I am one of these European backpacking girl and actually thought of writing a novel about my experience upon my return. I soon returned to reality and realized nobody would want to read it, but that’s another story.
Sure, Aline, I’m sure many of these Germans who live in Brazil go way back… to approximately 1945-1947.
Wonder why they emigrated?
about brasil…
i spent a year there and people just thought i was argentinian (even though im from nz) coz of my paler skin and accent.
i agree with aline, a blonde may attract attention in bahia… but not so much in rio grande do sul
Paris? You’ve never been to Paris? I just love Paris. You must go to Paris. When I was in Paris……
City dropping. It’s the best.
I travelled to the supermarket to get my white bread.
Does that count?
“a device that plays many songs? impossible!”
That’s hilarious.
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Hey! This is only true of American whites. We European whites don’t do that kind of stupidity.
hahaa…so true… i have so many white friends who do this.
the especially annoying ones are the ones that say they had the most amazing time experiencing a foreign culture after studying abroad in London of all places…i had a coworker name drop london every day at least 10 times…”when i was london, blah blah blah…” one day we were in a conference and she was talking about how “different” london was (“did u know that they call elevators lifts and frrench fries chips?”) and she started asking people where they’ve been. i just had come back from working at a malaria research institute in kenya. after that she didn’t talk about london for the rest of the day, LOL…
If you go to London as an American semi-anglophile (very common white/US trait), that city will cure you of it immediately. No false kindness in that metropolis.
Overall, it’s good to get your ass handed to you once in a while. And, yeah, you’re bound to talk about it. Hmmm..:”Research in Kenya”, eh? So, you changed the mosquito nets now and again when when the towels were dry.
Poseur
Holy S#*t this is funny as Hell.
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Well. I am white, from America, and I have traveled a lot. Currently living in the Middle East teaching school to ex-patriot children from all over the world.
I think this blog is hilarious….and I have to admit that I feel even more white after reading this. (guilty as charged with most things).
I’m from Canada. Does the US count as South America? Its south, its America, what more do you want from me?
This blog is mildly amusing, but ignorant as fuck.
Also, the cold war is over. “Third World” and “First World” Countries do not exist. There are developed countries and there are developing or underdeveloped countries.
This is a great blog but I think you should change it to ‘stuff white Americans like’.
I’m so white, I’m from the Midwest, but live in Europe and have travelled in over 50 countries, many of them on a number of occasions.
My wife & I have also done eco-volunteer trips in Siberia, Namibia, Brazil, Swaziland and Kenya.
I am not so white that we have adopted any children from any of the countries visited, though.
I hate to admit it but I think I recognize the picture used here – not the people, but that kitchen looks a lot like one at a hostel I stayed at in Budapest. See I’m doing it now too… classic WP move of “city dropping”!
Also, you mention Thailand but I think the new hotspot for white people is really Cambodia (near the Angor Temples) – I thought it would be “exotic”, but its completely packed with white people, all the locals speak English and they even take the US$.
Keep blogging – this list seems like it could go on forever! Too funny!
I think that the name of this blog should be changed to “Stuff spoiled middle class people like”. I’m not white, but about 75-80% of the entries apply directly to me (There have been a couple of posts that do in fact apply only to white people). I took 2 trips to Europe in my 20s, AND I did the 3rd world thing in Asia. What does all this mean? This blog has taken its toll on my racial identity.
I think white people should stop pointing out that this site should be called “stuff well-off white liberal people” because it’s been said like 4,000 times already.
Start your own WP blog and name it whatever you want.
mybad
Like. Stuff well-off white liberal people -like-.
I like that everyone is prefacing their comments with, “I’ve lived in blank for blank number of years” or “I’ve traveled to blank”….
I traveled to the Republic of Texas and never left. Who needs to visit underdevelped third world countries when we have one right here in the good ol USA?
#1 asked ” Are Italians white?”
It seems someone hasn’t travelled enough.
You do realise Western culture began with Italy? Ok, so the ancient Greeks and Celts also provided one or two foundation stones for Western Europe, but anyway…
And as Americans seem obsessed with defining white – which in the rest of the world just means being of European ancestry – by hair colour, some of us Italians even have fair hair (esp. residents of Florence, Milan, Venice…)
Anyway, this blog is very funny. It mirrors many of the observations I had about America, I didn’t realise theses behaviors were so based on the American in question’s ethnic heritage…
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“This blog is mildly amusing, but ignorant as fuck.
Also, the cold war is over. “Third World” and “First World” Countries do not exist. There are developed countries and there are developing or underdeveloped countries.”
you are debating about lables. since when are we supposed to call it ‘developing’ countries. and why? am i saying ‘third world’ with a negative intention, like i would use ‘nigger’ to put down a black person? they are called ‘third’ world countries because they primarily rely on agriculture (sector number 3 – industrialized, such as factory work, is number 2 and service, such as office jobs, is 1)
it’s that kind political correctness bullshit which is just waaaay to white (north american white)
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So if traveling to or living in Europe makes you ‘white’, what does being born there do? I am white, Northern European. It’s a funny blog, but from a European perspective it needs to be renamed “Stuff Americans Like”.
Yup, done that before (and will do again.) Was tons of fun and I am 99% sure that i stayed in that hostel pictured in madrid.
Why is it taking you so long to get to Craigslist?!
You are a bit of a cunt arent you?
To even bring up the issue of race proves that.
Cunt.
Part of this is having the feeling of being “poor”, rich people like this.
That’s why they ride a train, stay in cheap hostels, talk to locals….its something that white suburban rich kids never actually experienced during their lives, so they want to “slum” it like the “rest of us”. Makes them feel good.
I just want to stay home and play Wii.
@ 114 JC:
“1st, 2nd, and 3rd World” are in fact Cold War Terms. 1st World referred to the US and its allies. 2nd World referred to the USSR and communist bloc countries. 3rd World referred to those countries not aligned with either of the two superpowers.
Now the proper terms are Developed, Developing, and Less Developed (or Least Developed). At least, that is the terminology used in Political Science.
But as a Poli-Sci student, I only use those terms with other Poli-Sci people. Nobody else knows what I’m talking about. I just use the term third world countries to refer to poor countries.
the next time you travel overseas, go to a nice quiet place and just close your eyes. Within a few minutes you can hear the typical American girls talking:
“so I was like, like yeah, ah yeah, like no, like no way, as if, yeah, fuck yeah, like you too? no way, like crazy” and soon you will be LIKE…………………………….
Did you seem to forget that there are white people in Europe? You mean Americans specifically the white americans that you know. Funny story, an acquaintance of mine asked me to take him to the airport. He was going to Ghana then to Paris. That be traveling and he is not white.
“1 mylosh
some of those ppl look italian or mexican, do they count as white?”
Hey! this is the kind of comment that makes a just-learning racist’s head spin.
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guilty your honour.
One thing is very clear. People from other countries hate Americans….though, they are just lumping us all in to one group, and don’t really know any of us.
Still….a very funny site.
what about traveling to places like Alabama?
The reason travel-bragging is subtly annoying is because it’s really bragging about being privileged, i.e. having the money and freedom to go traipsing around the world for leisure, but it’s disguised as something better and more enlightened.
Of course travel really is fun, and it really is interesting to any human being to see and taste new things and meet people and all of that. But it’s fun in part because you’re experiencing privilege and freedom and not the mundane (or occasionally downright miserable) existence of the people who live in the places you visit. That’s true whether you’re in London or Laos.
The blog is funny. I probably lose for even trying to say something serious.
“I went to Argentina. Does that count as South America?”
Craiggers… borrow a map from one of your black friends.
OMG….traveling yt people are so annoying! Especially white Americans. They expect everyone to speak English and cater to them. I spent a year studying abroad in Ghana, and I was always embarrased by their behavior. I’m a Black American, but I never want to be in the same category as traveling yt folks. ughh.
“I went to Argentina. Does that count as South America?”
No, when you get to the chilean portion of Antartica, you know you are in southamerica. seriously.
I fucks with this blog tough. You are very observant, creative, and you don’t give a fuck.
peace.
Hey! I’m white and I like alot of these things on the list.
Especially travel.
Gosh, what’s wrong with me? Maybe I should re-think my priorities….
NAH, fuck it! I like eating breakfast with a group of friends.
I like sushi. I like Thai. I loooove travel.
Yes this is all true.
I would also like to add that there is also a growing percentage of white people who consider travel as a “a way of life.” Carpe Diem is their official motto. This group travels around third-world countries and scoffs when they enter a city or country that has too many white people. You see they like to think that tourism is bad, and that popular tourist destinations are too overcrowded with white people, thus not allowing them to fully experience the culture (when not getting drunk at the local bar). They can’t seem to understand that they too are tourists.
Also, I can’t help but mention that the true “traveler” must post all his or her photos on myspace/facebook and show the world how wonderfully creative and unique he/she is. In these pictures they must reveal the beauty of the country, sunsets over the ocean, sunset silhouettes of themselves doing yoga on the beach, group shots of “good-times” at the hostel, old women sorting laundry, children playing soccer in the street, jumping in the waves (often times, Synchronized group jumps), the perfectly posed picture of them staring off into the distance (deep contemplation of what is wrong with American capitalism), and of course a picture of an empty hammock on the beach (sometimes the hammock contains a friend with a beer or mandolin/ukulele)–the title of the picture, “Beach Life” or “The Good Life.”
The white traveler must then express their new identity by getting a tribal tattoos. The best ones are the tattoos gotten in remote locations and hammered into their skin in traditional tribal fashion. Don’t ask them what tribe they are from though.
hehe nice entry, and seemingly true of Western whites, myself included. Though I would say plenty of other races do the same things.
Not that I’m taking the article or many of its comments too seriously, but I’d like to point out that some people do have good intentions when they venture out into the world.
Jeff said:
“Part of this is having the feeling of being “poor”, rich people like this.”
Perhaps, but this isn’t always a bad thing. Maybe some people realize that they have lived sheltered lives and want to get an appreciation for those who haven’t been so lucky. Traveling to a lesser developed country might give them a sense of worldly responsibility, something I’m sure many of us can use.
“I can’t help but mention that the true “traveler” must post all his or her photos on myspace/facebook and show the world how wonderfully creative and unique he/she is.”
If that’s the reason, sure. I’ve been here in Taipei for a couple of months and have been posting lots of pictures as you’ve described, but my reasons are not so shallow. Firstly I enjoy photography so I partly do it simply as a hobby. Nothing wrong with that. But also, I do it to show my friends at home what another part of the world is like, in the hopes that they will venture out as well.
I think it’s important for everyone, especially Westerners, to visit other places and see what the world is really like. How can you have a balanced world view if you haven’t seen any of the world? Maybe people would be more appreciative of the daily struggles of people in other places if they at least tried to live in their shoes for a day. That appreciation might bring a sense of responsibility to actually make the world a better place.
Its called disposable income, I know many minorities dont know what to do with left over money other than get shiny rims on there mini van, and necklaces, thats cool.
some comedians do really well by pointing out universal truths…but this is neither funny nor is it very universal.
im thinking of a word to describe it. its kinda garbage…and its kinda embarrassing.
YES, it is GARBARRASSING!!!
http://www.garbarrassing.com
for funny stuff that everyone likes…
made with comedy, not crap
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Dear jjg.
Aactually, german immigration to Brazil was strongest between 1820-1939.
Few were admitted during WW2 beacause Brazil sided with the Allies – and also fought in the war.
After WW2, immigration decreased.
Here are the official numbers:
1824-1847 – 8.176
1848-1872 – 19.523
1872-1879 -14.325
1880-1889 – 18.901
1890-1899 -17.084
1900-1909 -13.848
1910-1919 – 25.902
1920-1929 – 75.801
1930-1939 -27.497
1940-19496 -.807
1950-1959 – 16.643
1960-1969 – 5.659
So, if you were attempting sarcasm, it was a pretty lame try.
I have less than a year to go.. and then I am not white anymore… cause well… I have never left the country
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This is so true – evidenced by the “places I’ve been” map applications now available on facebook.
Great list…but seems to be more for Stupid-but-Well-Off American Whites. You could add a bunch of other items to the list, such as:
Go to the Nutcracker every December – even if they hate ballet and/or classical music, it is imperative that they attend a Nutcracker performance every year
Have Super Bowl parties – sort of like Oscar Parties. The chance to show-off new expensive sweaters, pig out around the TV set and occasionally check-in on the score.
Try to join country clubs – this is THE Ultimate, baby – the opportunity to dish-out $10K a year for the chance to play golf 2-3 times a year in “your club.”
“The Most” or “The Biggest” or “The First” of anythig – Stupid White Americans love to read about Guiness Records, such as today’s newsbite that Patterson has become “the first blind and black governor in the history of the United States”!
I only travel (#19) to be outside (#9) snowboarding (#31) or mountain biking (#61), necessitating that I bring my outdoor performance clothes (#87), my vintage (#49) t-shirt (#84) collection and (of course) my iPod (#40)(#41)(#69)(#38)(#77). Usually by the end of a trip, I’m ready to move to Canada (#75) with my dog (#53) because global warming is effecting the length of winter in the states. Perhaps I should recycle (#64) my 4Runner, get a Prius (#60) and quit bitching (#50). Sorry about that (#55)…
I went to Europe AND Japan.
Europe, for education (and some hilarious hijinks thanks to my fellow American travelers- but I think there’s ALREADY a movie similar to it).
Japan, to work in an orphanage.
I never was delusional enough to assume I was special compared to everyone else, though.
I live in Slovakia. Which is next to Czech. NOT Slovenia. Slovenia is next to Croatia. Many miles apart. Very different country.
Pilsner is great beer and I am white.
What about some feedback? This blog works for me in that it is entertaining… it’s a whole lot disturbing, too… as I read it, I often feel hurt, angry, irritated. Also, what I read here calls me on a lot of stuff… Don’t know whether to feel irritated, hurt or ashamed (for being stereotypically white, and for stereotypically white behavior of us white people, which sure is pretty absurd and destructive at times). Well, I think I’ll just keep reading.
This is probably the 8th post I’ve read on this blog. In addition to noticing this more about yuppie behavior than white behavior, I’ve also noticed that the author seems to think that the only motivation for white people’s actions is to improve their image. Ever think that we do these things because we want to? Just because you are not interested in doing anything besides sitting on your porch doesn’t mean white people aren’t interested in doing things for their own sake. If you wanted to make a real critique, you could say white people get bored easily. Doing the same old thing over and over again is not interesting to us. Even that observation is more applicable to american whites.
“I had a friend who once went AROUND THE WORLD, from London to the continent across asia to Thailand and Japan. like 8 months.
He wins.”
oh yeah?! well i met an AUSTRALIAN couple who went around the ENTIRE WORLD in just ONE YEAR!
I took my 6 year old to Russia one Thanksgiving. Now he is a freshman and we are going to Ireland at Christmas. (tried for this summer, but once they are in high school, august is closed)
Traveling is great, and finding out new places and cultures is a way to enrich yourself.
Americans should learn there is something outside of their little big world…
Maybe if some have travelled more, we would not have to read silly questions like “do Italians count as white?”…
“Ever think that we do these things because we want to? Just because you are not interested in doing anything besides sitting on your porch”
“Traveling is great, and finding out new places and cultures is a way to enrich yourself.
Americans should learn there is something outside of their little big world…”
See? Arrogant presumptions and a latent sense of superiority. How nice of you to prove the point.
Oh, when people find out I might go to school in another country…the number of times I’ve smiled and nodded through the “It’ll Expand Your Mind” talk.
ok, I think travelling through ex-ussr countries, romania, ex-yugoslavia countries (maybe excluding slovenia), etc should get more hard-assed third world cred than many south american countries (brasil, chile, argentina, etc). just sayin’…
I’m white and didn’t visit Europe till I was 39. Maybe I’m not true-blue white?
As for Third World travel, you forgot to mention that when White People are in Third World countries they will avoid all eye contact with other White People so as to maintain for themselves the charade that they are forging new territory (this would relate, of course, to White People behavior in ethnic restaurants). It’s a trick, to be in Bangkok and persist in believing that you are the only White Person Visitor, but White People can really accomplish amazing stuff when they put their minds to it!
Damn it! I hate when I get called out on this website!
What I find most hilarious are travelers that complain about other travelers as though only they have the right to be there. I’m sorry but much of the world is a well trodden path of the wide eyed westerner….it is extremely difficult to find somewhere ‘unique’ and ‘untouched’. Stop trying though! It doesn’t make it any more valid just because a white toe hasnt yet stood there.
I got back from working in Cambodia/Thailand/Vietnam a few months ago and I can totally understand why people have this view of the arrogant white kid ‘making a difference’….at the same time however, there are those of us who do just have a genuine interest and passion to explore without the egotistical attitude of trying to impose our own culture on anothers.
I made some fantastic friends while I was away, not because I ‘pitied’ them or wanted to help….just cos they know how to drink and have a good time!
As much as I find this site amusing (and I hate to admit…quite often true) I think it is sliiiightly unfair to tar everyone who has traveled with the same brush – A didgeridoo (blatent hollow stick) playing, dread locked, weed smoking, twenty something flip flop who is going away to ‘find themselves’. They do exist though, and my GOD do they piss me off!
Oh also, traveling isn’t just a trait of the ‘rich’.
I’m 19 and saved for a year working in a cafe. So please don’t assume if you have been abroad you are an upper class snob who is bored and feels the need to ‘slum it’ cos they feel guilty.
I went to learn and appreciate another culture, not be be cool by staying in rat infested guesthouses.
And shoot me for wanting to pass on my stories and suddenly developing a love for passion fruit.
I do my best to only bring up a story from traveling when it really fits the conversation and I know I’m around people who genuinely care. I feel more awkward talking about places I’ve been than the people listening so I’d rather wait till a question is asked.
BTW, Traveling/Travelling <— both correct spellings of the same word.
The only places I have ever traveled was to Canada, and Mexico. All though Canada as an idea sounds really great to go to(I think this is mentioned in a future post), all the Canadians hated us when we were there. Canadians would ask us for directions in french. We don’t know any words in French except for manage et tuais or whatever. This did not work, and were immediatley told to F-Off. They shoved their middle fingers at us and screamed that we were stupid Americans because we didn’t speak french. When we went to Mexico, everyone just wanted us to buy leather jackets…and I already have 2 so another one is just too much..I didn’t really like Canada or Mexico after that. I did WANT to travel abroad some day, but after going hardly anywhere, I felt better being at home in the US where I hate Americans, and the way society is, and our culture, but AT LEAST other Americans are hating it with me, not AT me. 🙂
craiggers…this blog shows just how ignorant americans are when it comes to the rest of the world…which is but another reason why americans are not liked overseas…add that one to the list
Im black(carribean/african american.), but I’ve always wanted to travel. Guess it’s just a common thing with white people, but who knows. Traveling seems interesting though, gotta hand it to whoever does it.
Geraldo you are an idiot. I have traveled to 85 countries with an American flag displayed on my pack. I even displayed it in places they told me not to, like Nepal, the West Bank, and other ‘unfriendly’ places. Never had a problem. I even told a Maoist in Nepal to pound sand. He asked for a ‘donation’ I told him I was not interested in donating money to his cause and walked away. (he was armed)
I ran into far more people who liked the USA than did not.
Especially in the Middle East and S.E.A.
Where are your first person travel stories? Or are you a parrot fro the MSM in The States? Don’t bother answering. I already know the answer.
Tool.
zomg, another total home run. dood, you had better be a writer. It’s your calling 🙂 Seen about a billion blogs. Even have three of my own. So I suck at it. I should take them down…
“a device that plays many songs? impossible!”… I am cryin’ here.
You rool.
I can’t believe you didn’t mention Rick Steves and all his fanny-pack-toting-middle-class-slightly-overweight cultish followers!!!!!!!
-I like how the idea of “traveling” and “going outside” can be mocked by someone sitting inside blogging on their computer.
-People respond to this blog because it was made with an intention to invoke a reaction.
-I think white people just have a fascination with other countries, as in how my one friends loves a beer from a foreign country, simply because it’s from there. Little does he know, that beer is considered one of the worst beers they drink there, but to him, it’s foreign and exotic.
-I played baseball in Belgium for the US International Team, does that make me completely white? Because a lot of other countries foreign to that region were there too…
lolz @ 166
you didn’t play any goddamn baseball in belgium, you played cock and balls in africa when you went on your snake safari sucking cocks just to catch a fresh taste of hiv.
you should post under the name of night mouth.
But now White American People can not travel to Europe anymore. It became too expensive. Even if you stay in a Hostel here in Europe, it’s too much expensive for your empty pockets.
lol, as a archaeologist who works in Belize i must say the behavior of my countrymen has always caused me to hold me head in shame. Fuc+ ya, this observation is so true and must be fixed. because the “special experience” that so mean torrests crave, comes directly at the expense of the people of the third world country they chose to visit. the worst part is that while in the third world American and European torrents spend the entire time in the company of one another, but then return full of stories about the “authentic” experience.
Since you won’t close this waste of webspace please add the following to your stupid list :
Bondage
Country Music (the BS kind)
Serial Murder
Nascar
Raising loud ,noisy , bratty children
El Caminos
Kid Rock
Racism
Republicans
Rush Limbaugh
Saying “like”
Dressing like slutty (women)
Smelling funny (while working in coffee shops)
Smelling funny and acting stuck up (while in coffee shops)
Roughies
Talking Ghetto when black people are around but accent goes back to normal when talking to other whites
VWs
Coffee Enemas
Stealing Ideas
Americanized Sushi ( all the BS salmon and cream cheese sushi rolls )
Oprah and Dr. Phil
movies just because they are in french (women)
any movie that contains a song that was in french(women)
Claiming the crown of rock and roll
To be right
Dried out chicken (white meat)
Hating on people with a culture
The Who
Hitler
Hello website creator ,
Please move out of your little yippie-facist , california town and move to the south because you haven’t a clue about anything. This website isn’t even funny and you are not Chappelle .
Right on! Sure it’s not 100% accurate, but so many white / Americanized people fit this description that it’s too hard to ignore. If you don’t know any such people, you should do a little bit of traveling yourself.
He’s (she’s?) poking fun at those who use their travels to increase their social stature. I get this “when I was in….” crap waaay too often, especially from people who don’t know crap and didn’t learn crap from their journeys, and as if I had never heard similar stories before and there was no possible way I’d ever have or had that experience.
So if you’re military, grew up abroad, worked abroad, or traveled out of sincere curiosity, please calm down! You’re not the ones being made fun of, even if you are white.
On #163:
Oh, my. “Ace” has posted two of the most ironic comments I’ve seen on this blog. (The other one was on the Wes Anderson entry.) I’ll re-post just part of it:
“I have traveled to 85 countries…”
Ace, you just hurt yourself. 🙂
Brag, brag, brag… that mentality is the target of this blog.
Inca Kola tastes terrible.
Hilarious. I know I do this when I travel– feeling just a tad like it’s the first time anyone has ever made such an important, life-altering, novel-worthy journey.
Lighten up people and learn to laugh at yourselves.
It is also important to talk shit about America while being an American traveling abroad.
another question, black people count as white people if they are from US and are traveling to Europe and South America? Or they just behave totally different… ?
Robyn says I’m white and didn’t visit Europe till I was 39. Maybe I’m not true-blue white?
Certainly not. You won’t be coming to any of my dinner parties! Well, unless you spent some of that time either doing archeology in South America, teaching English in Japan or traveling around India.
This blog needs to be renamed “Stuff White Americans Like”. Someone from Europe does not take a trip TO Europe between ages of 17 and 29 as they already live there. Nor do they care much about going to the US. The Japanese and now, the Chinese, on the other hand, have long inundated all European and North American sights and cities. Except unlike white travelers, they stay in huge, loud groups and wear ridiculously big vizors.
It’s simple. To travel, you have to have money. That’s why it is mostly white people. And the Japanese. And now, the Chinese. If and when South American Latinos, Africans and Indians become rich – well, then watch out, World. The days of lone white backpackers will seem like long lost paradise.
C- for the post.
probably because all you did was fuck black and spanish men you couldnt get with in north america while you were there
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LOL!
Good observations.
Dried out chicken (white meat)
LOL!!!!
good one!
don’t forget to refer to the USA as “the states”
Ergh, I ran into a Nazi demonstration held in Munich. 10,000 riot police swarmed the streets in attempt to stop those who were throwing Molotov Cocktails/ napalm. I’m sure every white person witnesses this event every once in a while on their journeys… : /
I am very proud of myself for going to Machu Pichu on my 15th wedding anniversary. I really just love saying Machu Pichu lots and lots of times. I even get more points because I am over 40 and slept in a tent instead of a sheshe hotel.
Living overseas. Esp Asia/Africa. Lots and lots o’ white people points. (Did I mention that I lived in Singapore for two years. With kids- 25 bonus points)?
You beleive Hong Kong is 3rd world. Wow your a moron. Detroit is 3td world, maybe even L.A. Hong Kong is NYC times 10. And yes i am white and have to been to all those places
Yep.
My friend told me about that happening in Prague… sorry to burst your bubble
i love drugs!!! hahahahahahaha!
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les americains , vous avez des problemes…
complexes, racisme ordinaire…
qu’est ce qui vous prend? apprenez la modestie et reflechissez sur vous memes!!!
je ne vous salue pas.
‘The continent’ is Europe (ie Continental Europe) you ‘tard.
Um what? That didn’t make much sense in english…
do American, you have complex problems
…, ordinary racism…
which is what takes to you? learn modesty and reflect on you same!!!
I do not greet you.
ha ha. French people are funny. I do not greet you either anonymous french guy. ROLMAO!
I pooped my pants
Well, I travel so I think I’m some pale shade.
But then, while I was sitting in the open bar in (fill in the blank) this group of pale faced travellers got together under the tropical night sky, every night, to sing “Heimatslieder” to the accompanyment of an accordion.
None of you people are really white…THEY are the only white people on this planet, or any other planet I have visited.
P.S. The worst experience you can have is to leave an accordion in the back seat of your open convertible in (fill in the blank) and it doesn’t get stolen!
well quite a few go much further back. one of those “why we fight” movies from the forties mentioned a fear of German Brazilians…
Nice to meet you.
I had a look at blog.
Please link to this site.
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Your a moron? You’re a moron.
I re-thought that P.S….
Actually there is a worse option: You come back to the convertible and find TWO accordions in the back seat.
Agio knows.
Anybody can do Paris. What White People really like is eco-friendly adventure travel to mildly exotic third world destinations.
In that way, they can demonstrate their commitment to the environment, support the economies of poor and oppressed peoples, and wear their MEC clothing.
The most prestigious destinations are:
1. Machu Pichu
2. Galapagos
3. Angkor Wat
4. Antarctica
The most prestigious way to travel to these locales is with G.A.P. Adventure Tours, because G.A.P. plants a tree for every white person who travels with them. With G.A.P., you can be guaranteed to meet a wide variety of fellow travelers, ranging all the way from white young people from Australia, to white seniors from Sweden.
Even if you can’t afford one of the big four, don’t throw in the towel and head down to the Dominican Republic for seven days lying on the beach and drinking from the open bar at an all-inclusive. No! No! No! There is no prestige in a holiday spent kicking back and relaxing.
Cash-strapped white people can up the envy-quotient of any holiday by touring anywhere on a bicycle, since such a holiday is even more environmentally correct, and involves even more discomfort and suffering than a trip to the third-world.
No, those are pedophiles who go to Bangkok
There is no such person!
Lame and poor
Does that make IOWA a third world country?
Evergreen: “And shoot me for wanting to pass on my stories and suddenly developing a love for passion fruit.”
Hahahaha FANTASTIC.
I’m bilingual and I’ve lived (LIVED!) in four different countries and that still gets me *no* street cred with fellow white travelers. It seems if you haven’t had diarrhea by the side of the road in a country you need a series of inoculations to visit – well basically your travels “don’t count.”
Wouldn’t the most eco-friendly way to travel be not traveling at all?
Why don’t I just watch the Travel Chanel from the comfort of my environmentally friendly green couch – made from timber run-off harvested from the Brazilian Rain Forest and stuffed with mink pelts – on my 65″ plasma TV I keep plugged in and running 16 hours a day.
Somewhere, there’s gotta’ be a bracelet for this.
There is a such person me. I grew in England. Have white friends. Have white friends in America who rather talk to african americans(black americans) in my neck of the woods. Because american blacks dont travel but go south. I vacation back home to England every summer and go to the caribean in the winter. White girls love me even though they want to make sure they are not stealing me from a black girl (american) to be exact. If the american black girl normally wants to visit the caribean the white girl wants to go both places. The black american girl is scared of england because she thinks its all white when theres 20 million of us live there excluding pakis. Oh well my point is if theres a black person who travels and own homes overseas he will never let u know thas why u think there is no such person. ps I’m not biracial nor abducted and adopted.
I am eager to travel the world. I’d like to explore the world together with my beloved man. It is just a good way to get new emotions and experience, to learn different cultures and traditions, to visit new places.
Backpackers and other travellers on a budget get my respect.
At least they’re on the ground, so to speak, interacting with the locals and sampling the locale in a manner that is far less contrived, staged, and faked than it would be had they been on an “everything paid for, everything set up for you” tour or cruise.
What’s annoying is when people pass through my country of birth on that latter kind of tour, and then come back to tell me what my motherland was all about.
They never left the comfort of their tour group and suddenly, they’re fucking Ian Wright.
… I mean, it’s kinda like me, landing in Nebraska and proclaiming the whole of the USA is as flat as that.
It didn’t say Hong Kong is 3rd world, reading comprehension anyone?
my jesus. its so surprising: i am a third world-bred asian yet i speak english, owns an ipod, and travels to white territories. its disturbing how whites think of asians as fairly stupid. the world is growing more and more dense. you just can’t accept the fact that imperialism is gone and that slavery is dead.
FYI, i wrote this from a very biased perspective. but then again, a lot of people think so too, not just asians. and as for the americans, they can’t stop migrants-slash-asian domestic helpers from “benefitting”. if they’re gone, what’s left of “greatest country”? incompetent porno-freak americans? then again, USA will be a ruckus if they leave; something a lot of people pray for. cheers!
Because THEN you’d really think you were so well traveled you’d be sure you could author any kind of book with travel or a destination in it!!! Ugh and Barf!!!!
As a retire travel agent, who has spent a good deal of time listening to people come in and ask for a job because they are sure they would be an excellent TA because they’ve seen two or three foreign cities, I’m here to tell you that you are deluding yourself if you think travel means the slipcover on your couch moves you from the seat to the floor.
Yes, actually it’s a festival held every year around that time, repeated thrice each day. Just like a Chinese visiting Ghettosburg stumbling on a civil war reinactment.
Hey Linda,
I hear you on that one… but this site’s got me thinking (I can’t but imagine the authors intend it this way) that middle-class white people (like myself) are also, in fact, stereotypical. There are a lot of things/behaviors/idiosyncrasies that are true of white people as a group, without their awareness or conscious consent of it. This is an eye-opener probably because, you know, only “other” people exhibit group behavior, but “I’m unique!”
Acknowledging this is only disparaging and shameful if we insist that the group behaviors and stereotypes of other races and group identities can be freely used by us as a means of disparagement. If I want to laugh at/berate/lament X group for Y behavior, then I must also accept the reality that I too can be laughed at for Liking to Travel (and the 80 things on this website that I do, in fact, like). Posters who take this blog’s satire and turn it into an attack on the behavior and the people engaging in it are missing the point. Stereotypes aren’t inherently bad because they apply equally to good people as well as bad. Heck, stereotypes are a useful way of processing information about the world. What’s dangerous and wrong is when we let ourselves use them to put others down for their differences and feel superior (white kids from my particular suburban town–myself included–did this all the time, without fully understanding it). We can either enjoy our differences for what they are, or we can use them as weapons against others, but we can’t do both. Not after reading this website, anyway.
Ok, flame away.
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LOL for real!! although i may be guilty of being someone’s only black friend, she is my best friend and has definitely met my other friends/family.
Ha, you’re so right about white people in Brazil!!! i saw my white friend get robbed right in front of me…i told him they were going to do it LOL, but in the end, he was so rich that it didn’t matter, he had insurance and he was almost happy those kids took his brand new $500 watch…
Well lately Europe acts like it’s one country, and i understand saying that too since it’s so small, and many countries can be reached easily by train or 1hr flights…but i love how anecdodes about trips to Africa sound even more generic and pointless then globe trekker. I mean damn, can’t you at least get regional like sub-saharan africa, west- africa, etc if you can’t manage to remember the actual names of the countries you visited…
“African Americans and Hispanics don’t travel either, mainly because they have neither the curiosity nor the money to do it.”
just stop it…you may be right about the money issue, and let’s not go down that road…but stop assuming we don’t have the curiosity or the interest. i had to always fight with ignorant (yet rich and uber educated) white girls in high school that used to say stuff like that. it’s ridiculous and false.
LOL!!!
True, but stop fronting like you don’t have the most black people outside of Africa…LOL, not you personally Anna, but c’mon…
WHAT? LOL THAT’S A LIE!!!!
If it were a country, indeed it would be 3rd world…
ROFL
I’m white and I love to travel.
Especially to places that don’t have alot of white people.
This is the funniest blog I’ve run into since Americangirlsareeasy.com
Keep up the hilarious work
THIS IS GENIOUS
How about creating a point system for white travelers?
Canada, Mexico = 0pts
Caribbean = 1pt
Europe = 2pt
Japan = 2pt
South America = 3pts
Africa = 4pts
SE Asia = 4pts
As far as points are calculated, I am liberal.
I have 4pts, just a white belt I guess…
Another very true observation. Most of these stereotypes of the white American traveler reflect the youthful modern white male and female Californian.
The Southern Californian is the most ridiculous creature I have ever encountered abroad. Although, not having come into contact with them during my normal life in the Midwest and East, when abroad the Californian is rampant.
On my last trip to Spain to intern you had to really seek out neighborhoods where the Californian wasn’t talking about killer waves, healthy foods, marijuana, and how skinny they strive to be.
I am Italian and caucasian. There is no need to ask if we are white. Thank you.
“Ex-patriate”….I sure hope u don’t teach english:) Jus kiddin…The Middle East must be one hell of an interesting place though…
Heck..That would make India a “first world country” what with its booming service sector…
Well no wonder, european’s can walk a few miles down a road and be in another country before lunch time.
As for the Japanese, agreed, they treat a trip overseas like they are looking into a fish bowl.
We have one Japanese tour operator over here in australia who take the japanese tourists for dinner to an all you can eat japanese restaurant!
Here’s a story. I live in SE Asia. I was a friend’s (foreign-run) bar one night and some bacckpackers came in and only ordered a couple of cokes between four of them. Something’s off in any country when 19-yr-olds only order cokes in a bar. Sure enough they had a bottle under the table. When the manager booted em they bleated “but we’re pooooor!” ignoring that, ta-da, sports performance clothes, iPod and airfare combined were much more than their waiter’s annual salary.
And how come everyone has to wear poo-colored clothes?
Up until the Civil War, I wonder if slaves in the South were charged only 60% of the train or ship fares charged to their owners. You know, the 3/5 count in the census of those days. That is, if they had any money at all…
(partially snark and partially being sick of the politics of race, the current Dem primary being relevant. I’m an Obama supporter and he’s worth at least ten, or a hundred, Bush 43’s!)
My first pint of Smithwick’s* in County Cork sooooo changed my life! Did I mention I’ve been all the way to Ireland? I mean Eire.
They drive on the wrong side of the lanes there, so I had to as well. Very irritating, especially at those roundabout thingies.
So many memories…did I say I’ve been to Ireland?
*to be authentic, say “Smiticks.”
Does travelling while in the military count? I’ve stepped foot on 3 continents and 6 countries, only to come to the conclusion that every place is just someone else’s neighborhood. Travel bores me. Wow, you see some really old crap and listen to people yammer away in whatever jibberish they call a language while you try to figure out if they’re trying to rip you off. Blah. What’s the attraction? Anyplace of any interest has a TV program about it somewhere or DVD. Why deal with schmoes on a crowded airplane, hassle with packing, passports, money exchange rates, only to stare at people whose country is a crap hole that everyone who lives there wants desperately to leave? It doesn’t make sense to me. I’d rather spend that money on a new gadget for the house or leave it my savings acocunt. Whatever. This white person does not like travelling–it’s more work than rest, and I love rest.
I have also been traveling with work on a Navy Ship. This was in the Merchant Navy so its not the exact same situation, but its not the same traveling for leisure. Being invited on a sailing trip through Slovakia and going hanggliding with locals in Philippines are examples of why its worth traveling 😉 Not seeing old churches and just staying with other people from the same country..
At least this is my point of view.
Well, as far as the Philippines is concerned, it’s one of the places I visited both as a sailor and a tourist about 20 years apart, I must say it’s still chock full of poverty. Dirt poor people from Manila all the way into the mountains. The local flavor was great: standing in the parking lot of a local market while the whole village stares at you is a blast; having some dude try to sell me a prostitute while I was standing right in front of my hotel was also very cool; oh yeah, and having some whacko run up to me as I get out of our “taxi” (which I was sharing with 6 people) and try to sell me knives from underneath his trench coat was an utter joy. I have seen so much local flavor in the places I have been it makes me sick. I live in LA and the air in Manila is black in comparison. I need to travel to suck in the fumes of foreign auto traffic? I think not. I don’t know how all the other tourists end up doing cool stuff, but I always end up staring at mud huts and staying in places with no f*ing water (or water that will cause serious gastrointestinal problems). Seriously, I would need to be very wealthy in order to travel well and avoid the crap holes of the world. I don’t need to fly somewhere to see poor folk, we have plenty right here. Since I am not very wealthy, I think I’ll just retain my couch jockey position and leave it to the rest to tell me how great their vacation was 😉
Good analyse, although I think there’s a discernible difference as to why people travel. What you’re describing sounds like the vacation traveler. It should be noted that this includes those who do a semester abroad. I mean let’s face it, a semester abroad is nothing more than a prolonged vacation. Plus you are traveling with a TON of people who are the same age as you, kind of hard not to have a great time.
It should also be noted that the white traveler automatically becomes an expert after spending a month or more in a foreign country.
The other type of traveler is one that travels because for business; that being said, they are not really travelers not all, they are simply white foreigners. These people travel for the money; the location – like the accommodations – are not always great, and the amount of free time is quite limited. They don’t brag about how awesome thier trip was… if anything they talk about how hard life abroad can actually be.
These people can be easily identified from the vacation traveler.
The vacation traveler will talk about all the great things he/she did while he/she were on their trip. They may not say but will surely imply that their trip was life-changing; and let’s not forget the you-can’t-understand-because-you-weren’t-there mentality. Please note that this includes those who travel for brief periods to developing nations; except these travelers will focus on the native customs more than anything and how they feel ‘so bad’ for the people living there (this feeling passes within a few weeks).
The business traveler will simply remark that he is glad to be back home, as he sips his whiskey.
Oh and I believe the quote you are looking for is as follows:
“Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.” -Sidney J. Harris
Post Script. I think the label white travelers should be changed to Americans. Not that it is a racist issue but rather that Americans across the board act the same way while abroad. It’s a cultural thing.
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Good on you for seeing that side of the Philippines! Although I do hope that you did not see JUST that side, because if that’s only what you experienced. Then it sure sucks to be you.
Should you be carrying in your head a conclusion that, that small part of the Philippines which you saw, is what the whole Philippines is all about, then you’re exactly what I mean – though from the opposite extreme. You see one section of the place and you conclude the rest is just like that.
Hi i just want to say that when there was something about beer author siad that he was traveling around czech and slovenia. i think he ment Slovakia as Slovenia is different country ner Italy Slovakia is in the Heart of Europe betwen Czech and Ukraine under Poland and Above Hungary.
Dusan.
This whole site is hysterical! I am white, and I can’t believe how many people are offended! All of this is supposed to be funny. You know why it’s funny? BECAUSE IT IS ALL TRUE!! Gotta go. I need to make more coffee and pet my child…oops…I mean my dog. My husband can’t write a post right now…too busy looking at asian porn.
Too funny…as I TOTALLY agree with this after coming home one night to find that just about every person in the hostel had no intentions of doing anything other than getting p*ssed AT the hostel.
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This is such a racist entry. I don’t know. You talking about white people and the picture shows multi-racial people. I don’t get it. It’s not about first or third… it’s about the place. I wish you realize that.
Hey! Judging from what I have read in this site, and from what you describe as being the things white people like…I wouldn’t be so quick to say that these is strictly an American thing, neither that South America counts entirely as your so-called Third World experience. I am pleased to inform you, that I am white, I live in Brazil and I know a whole bunch of white people who like exactly the things you say “white people” like. Including that famous Eurotrip, which most of the people I know have made. So please, don’t commit the mistake of assuming that South America is so exotic and “third world”, that just makes you and all other “white people” who possibly think so look like fools. And by the way, I lived in France for two years and “white people” are the same everywhere. So there you go..
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This is hilarious! As a member of the military I travel all over the place so it has become kinda second nature but
I do however love the stereotypes addressed. One I would like to add is going to foreign countries to do “American things.” I was in Puerto Vallarta one year and all of my white friends had to go to Gloria Jeans. I would of rather went to a local cafe but yeah “white people.” Other than that I love the stories that people tell me of how “travel educated” they are. After having been to many different countries I have found that the best trips were the ones here. Grand Canyon, AZ, Smoky Mountains, TN, and road tripping from STL, MO to Puerto Pinasco, Mexico were my favorite trips and those are all within the US. I would also like to say as a non-white, it is not just white people it is most Americans or US Citizens. This is funny though and very true.
Yep, I am one of those who prefer Europe. But I like Japanese beer from my trip there when I was 12. Also I like Taleggio cheese from Italy.
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Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?
http://www.survival-international.org
Munich is just the best for the neo-Nazi demonstrations!
Maybe, but you can get Inca cola in other places in South America.
I got it right here in New Rochelle, NY
I am an Asian conservative, and I score 12.
Indeed. I also have to wonder how any self-respecting list of ‘stuff white people like’ can be considered complete without that most obvious, prominent and world-changing of white pursuits: *science*. Whites will happily pursue a practically obsessive lifetime dedication to studying the most incredibly intricate details of highly specialised subjects, e.g. the interaction of proteins and genes in neurons, in order to decidate themselves to saving the lives of millions of people of white and other races. Whites like “curing diseases”, like “understanding and mastering the laws of the universe”, etc. … it’s a central tenet of white cultures.
You say that with an implied value judgment that this is a bad thing. But it’s just a fact that there is a feeling of emptiness involved in growing up in middle-class white suburban culture; the pampered, plastic-y artificiality of it all leaves a desire to experience something more “real”, more “hardcore”. This is examined in revered but curiously undiscussed movies like “American Beauty” and “Fight Club” (and the novels they’re based on), it’s reflected in our marketing and branding choices e.g. ‘ghetto’ style clothes for silver-spoon suburbanites. But so what? This is not something whites are “guilty of” nor does it make them stupid; just human.
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Uh, China is not in SE Asia.
I was reading the comments and I fit right into the definition of what a young white person does between the ages of 17-29. I’m now in my thirties and went to Europe 4 times between those ages and traveled by train, stayed in hostels, got drunk, etc., but the only difference is that I’m not American. I’m Brazilian! and I am WHITE! My background is 100% Portuguese and I have a daughter with red hair and green eyes. Anglo-saxons ARE NOT the only white people in the world, and being born in Brazil doesn’t automatically make one ‘non-white’. I have brazilian friends who have 100% German, Russian, Italian backgrounds, but they are also brazilian. And I also HATE the term ‘hispanic’! What is hispanic anyway? Anybody born south of the USA-Mexico border? What if they have those backgrounds I mentioned earlier?
And Brazil, with its 190 million people, has at least 30% of that population made of whites. That’s 57 million people, more than most European countries. And don’t forget Argentina and Uruguai, which also have a predominantely white/caucasian population.
The USA was colonized by Europeans, like any other country in the Americas, but you seem to think you’re superior to everybody else.
Of course they are white, ethnic whites!
I thought the post was great — just answering some comments.
“The USA was colonized by Europeans, like any other country in the Americas,
but you seem to think you’re superior to everybody else.”
I’m a young Argentine and I live in the U.S. I can honestly say it’s not at all that they think they’re superior, it’s just mere ignorance. They were brought up to think the rest of the Americas, minus Canada, is made up of the same color of people – Latin America is made up of many different colors, including people as white as any European.
You’d be amazed at how many people around here can’t get this concept. When I tell them where I’m from, they try to tie me back to the U.S. by saying shit like, “oh, you’re HALF American?” o.O
At the end of the day, you’re only hurting yourself when you get aggravated by their ignorance – There’s nothing you can do to change THAT many people’s way of thinking. Sometimes you can’t even change one person.
I am white.
I have never been out of the country, but would like to.
My parents (both white and in thier 40s.) have never been out of the country.
This is my second favorite on the list (the first is the “going outside” one) The part about ordering the beers is pure brilliance. I’m so sick of hearing about what beer people drank on their vacation…
http://death-sentences.blogspot.com/
I’m one of these!!
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This couldn’t be any more true. As a white person, I can definitely say one of the more aggrivating things about white people is how they always feel they have to mention past overseas trips to make themselves appear superior in culture.
this list is like a litany of white person bids for global/ethnic credibilty and authenticity:
http://thetravelersnotebook.com/activity-guide/50-things-to-do-before-you-die/
Will someone please tell me where in the hell the Second World is? I need to book my next vacation.
It is frustrating to be listening to someone speak about something which they have studied intently (such as the sociopolitical climate in country “x”) and be rudely interrupted by someone else who disagrees based on “the time they’ve spent there.” This time usually amounts to about two weeks of relaxing (or maybe even helping build a church) in one particular village or town, and for some reason, those two weeks have given them a better perspective than someone who has not only lived in the country/region, but who has had countless hours of focused study on it. I honestly want to turn to these people and smack them silly.
A missions trip with a church or outreach group does not amount to academic cultural experience in a place.
Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.
It always kind of bugs me how when people visit any place on the continent of Africa, they often return referring to their visit “to Africa” as if they toured the entire continent and have some insider knowledge of it lands, people, culture, and politics. Africa is a pretty diverse place. All you have to do to see that is google image “The DRC” and “Cameroon” and you’ll see that. Also, a visit there does not constitute a PhD.
I don’t believe that you’re in Iraq.
Ive come on this to the conclusion that the reason white people like all of the shit on this website is the following:
If you got it like that why not experience more with your life.
Shit I golf, snowboard, rockclimb, mountain bike, live in manhattan, drive a fat asS bmw suv, fuck asian women, have plenty of black friends, got sweaters and motherfuckin t-shirts that I’LL wear on a plane to San FraCisco if I damn well fell like it. Shit Ill Even invite my lawyer to my beach house on a sunday for coffee maybe some tea while we read the fuckin New York Times. Yes the Liberal rag that sweats Barack Obama. After that we will indulge in some microbrews on my vintage sail boat.
When I get Bored ill travel the fuck where I want probably to snowboard somewhere usually Utah the whitest fuckin state there is. Ill take in some wine before I watch a film at sundance while I am there.
Just for a challenge I will go to a farmers market get some organic shit go home and order some sushi. You see I am trying to get in shape to run a fuckin marathon. After I finish the first thing I am going to do is shut of my i-pod loaded with free music, grab some bottled water and spark a fat mother fuckin spliff!!!!
YEAH I LOVE BEING AWARE OF DIVERSITY.
HOWEVER THE IRONY OF THIS WHOLE THING IS BEING WHITE FOR ME ONLY FOR ME!!! kICKS BIGTIME ASS!!
haha they ain’t coming to europe anymore 😛 thank god, white american backpackers are unforgivably obnoxious… keep them!
Lol. Communist countries 😀 – not many left…
White people also love saving Africa. They do this by taking pictures of poor African street kids, not because they’re poor but because there are no poor black kids in America, or else working with NGOs to figure out why local cultures are so backward, misogynistic, and uncivilized. Clearly, paternalistic condescension is synonymous with intellectual curiosity in these cases.
Yeah now we get to put up with obnoxious European backpackers in the US, except they think they’re somehow different and better. Life’s funny like that.
They are trying to help though. They are putting themselves at risk when they travel to foreign countries.
Your statement “there are no poor black kids in America” really made me think.
Although our definition of poor does deem that there ARE poor black kids in the US….even our poorest families seem richer than those dieing in Africa.
I like the fact that white people are trying to diversify themselves and broaden their horizons by exploring other cultures. Good for you!
Yea right. I worked 16 yrs. in 9 differant African countries. What passes for “exploring other cultures” differs little from watching the Discovery Channel. Save your speeches on moral equivalence. Most of these cultures worked. That is until TV contaminated their minds with our social values.
As an ex-pat worker, it is your job to answer questions from the locals about their encounters with the strange 3rd World tourist types. What really blows them away, is that I could tell the difference between the various White Tribes. The English really are different from the French.
There is a White Tribe that everybody can spot. The Americans. Americans do not have to say a word. They do however, have to open their mouths. The teeth give us away.
My only experience of feeling hated in Africa was from American Peace Corp workers.
Awesome. I went on a mission trip to Ecuador because, ya know, I believed what I was told about how we would be helping in clinics there.
We spent 9% of our waking hours working and 91% of the time congratulating ourselves for being there.
I should write a screenplay about that, shouldn’t I? 😉
half.white.all.american: people die of poverty in america, too. dying is dying whether it’s here or in africa.
Open Mind, will you stop putting the same friggin comment on EVERY MESSAGE BOARD on this site??? Man, you are NOT CLEVER! Get a life!!!
That’s right, keep those Yanky doodles on their own continent. We no longer want them plaguing Europe; our beautiful, diverse nations…..Oh, hang on a second, they cannot afford it any more.
Well that is a damn shame, isn’t it !
What is that name of the country that the world finds repugnant, vile and a little thick….
Travel in the third world is so overrated; just close your eyes and pretend it is all wonderful. (‘ooo it’s so exotic)
Julie Burchill has it spot on:
HYPOCRITES’ HOLIDAYS
Everyone loves a few weeks off in new surroundings and hypocrites are no different.
Always remember, however, that the hypocrite is never a ‘tourist’ but always a ‘traveller’. Got it? Good. Pack your bags and prepare to visit the destinations of double standards.
1. SOUTH AMERICA: With all those jungles, this region is the place to go for the Green hypocrite.
You can even plant a tree in your name to help the environment (because it is, after all, all about you). And thanks to fuel-guzzling air travel, it’s all only a matter of hours away. Remember to take your Sting CD to listen to on the flight.
2. AFRICA: My goodness, you’re right on if you go to Africa. Remember to haggle with the locals during every financial transaction. You’re there to enjoy yourself and, after all, there’s no greater feeling in the world than haggling a poor African man out of three pounds.
3. ARAB STATES: You love the culture and believe that the sheer authenticity of it makes Western values seem so corrupt and futile in comparison. And if you ask around in the right places, you will be able to find those underground bars that illicitly serve alcohol, while you watch pole dancing. Cheers!
4. INDIA: The Taj Mahal, the deserts, the mountainous Himalayan regions and the garden city of Bangalore. It’s lovely. Those bloody beggars almost ruined it, though.
5. WARSAW: They say this city is ‘the new Prague’. Anti-semitism and homophobia thrive in this city – yet the modern hypocrite will still flock there for ‘the marvellous culture’ (read: cheap booze). Not that their love of travelling to Poland will prevent them from moaning about Poles coming to the UK.
Yes, traveling is great, but I’m not going to any third world countries. I like to be able to shower when I travel.
And I’ve never even seen an IPod close up. I don’t know anyone (including whites) that have purchased such an outrageously priced device. I don’t have any Apple computers either…. I would but they are just too expensive.
Oh, I haven’t gotten to the Apple one yet, sorry.
Im black but I love to travel. I’m 14 and I’ve already been to 4 continents, and lived in 3 of them so I guess im pretty lucky. Last summer I even visited Japan!
When I came back from a Bahama cruise (NEVER again!) with my wife and two girls, I realized it was just another bullshit, disneyland-ish, rip-off experience with warm weather. We were even forced to walk through a mall for a half hour in order to get to a resort (I was sickened).
The whole Western world has been “Walmarted “and it’s all starting to look and feel the same. Behind our backs, the locals just laugh at us white people and charge us for everything under the sun. White people are the MOST GULLIBLE PEOPLE ON EARTH – all thanks to our pathetic need for “awareness.” Try paying more attention to your kids for God’s sake!
I have had much better times just hiking with my daughters in beautiful preserves just a few miles away here in Bucks county Pennsylvania. Traveling is always a big disappointment – unless it involves a relatively undisturbed natural wonder (parts of Alaska, Grand Canyon, any state preserve etc..).
But cities are always a huge disappointment. They HATE us white Americans in places like Paris – and you will gain about the same “cultural awareness” as you would from a “Pepe le Pue” cartoon.
As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes said: “I find that traveling NARROWS the mind”
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I went to Antarctica, what would you call that?
Great! I’m bringing my children to Paris and Namibia in the same trip. We’re certainly going to do some of the requisite outreach in Namibia, but we’re also going to hire an exclusive safari company. Is this white? Can I be white? I so want to be white.
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Shiiiiit…my black ass aint going nowhere…
Check this shit out:
http://andthisismyamerica.com/2008/09/23/bah-fucking-humbug/
WP particularly hate to check bags. One-bag travel is de rigueur.
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I have to agree on this one. :D. Actually, the story about ipod does still happens in some part of africa:D
Mention should be made of those white people who one up fellow third world travelers by attempting to assimilate themselves into your culture. They are the ones donning local clothing, eating only at street stalls and using crowded public transportation. They refuse to interact with other white people, preferring instead to attach themselves to a white-wanna-be from your country.
haha.. true true so true! backpack, sampling local cuisine, train rides, hostel/cheap hotels, meeting people from mostly other white peoples country, always find excuses to talk about the travel at home whenever i see anything like pilsner, sausage, cheese, old churches, buildings an so on. i do feel superior to anyone back home who have never travel anywhere. this guy got it 99.9% right! 1% wrong is because i am not white!.LOL
you’re no better than anyone else…you are however fairly hateful. You feel free to stay where you are too. Cheers mate.
and 0.9% wrong because you suck at math…
us whiteys hate bad math almost as much as bad grammar.
Dude, he is only 0.1% wrong, not 0.9%. We, Russians, hate whities who suck at math. You also offend my second language by misspelling plural of “whitey”! What gives!
maybe i’m just way whiter than i think i am , but i really feel as though my extended trip to europe could make a good film. i certainly have never heard of a vacation like ours. in germany we were arrested for petty larceny while under the (very strong) influence of absinthe and in amsterdam i was date-rape-drugged by a taxi driver and suffered a concussion as a result. anyone heard of anything similar?
No, absolutely not.
No North American has ever gotten completely shitfaced in Europe, especially Amsterdam.
Unheard of.
That’s definitely a one-upper
ha-ha-ha, times infinity.
classic. I almost had tea come out of my nose.
Yes, yes I have heard something similar. I had a roommate that went to Europe as well, almost, got arrested in Spain for being way to drunk (if that’s possible in spain) And also got the crap kicked out of her when someone robbed her. Overnight hospital stay and everything.
I’m sure that at least one other white person has been arrested and sadly at least one other white person has been sexually assaulted.
Spanish people don’t get drunk obsenely. They drink moderately, with gusto and very slowly. The tourists in Spain are the one that get pissed.
wink, wink 🙂
Hmph, I guess I’m not white. Most of these items don’t pertain to me. I am wondering however when the Black Panthers will decide that this book is an attack on them.
Yes, and it happens quite often to Americans and others not familiar with Europe. Remember there is a White Slave trade in Europe.
I’m writing a blog, mostly about how I am one-upping those white people who travel to Europe. Been there, done that. It’s Africa for me. I’m not the first white person to go there. But you can still check it out at Planet Perspectives.
I don’t get why white people think they’re special getting perspective visiting a third world country. I never brag about the poor kids and terrorism outside my grampa’s house when I visit the Philippines.
what’s a hostel????
Well, you’re not white, are you??
Hehe. The last part is very true. It’s all about the arrogance.
do you mean the czech republic and slovakia? or are you just choosing random slavic countries…?
hahaha…It’s funny that this gets mentioned in this book when most people in the US never gone out of the country… I guess that’s the pride from traveling … Having only 20% of the population with passport and at leat 50% of those people goes out of the US on business travel, not necessary liking the “traveling to much”… that remaining 10% could be actually “special” 🙂
Gawd, lol. He pretty much described my graduation trip to Amsterdam. (Popular with white guys, I hear)
I constantly used my “Amsterdam” T-shirt for a convo. piece.
How lame, lol.
I am soooooo white.
I know, this site contradicts itself a lot. It’s all funny but it kinda seems like the author is one bad day away from torching some fair trade coffee selling, missionary, yoga nuts.
Or anyone looking vaguely European or Anglo-Saxon.
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you do know that there are showers in third world countries, right? yea, there are plenty of areas the have people who live in homes with no showers but i doubt you’ll be living there.
ive never understood whats wrong with calling it “the states”..please explain..i’ve been trying to figure it out since 8th grade when i moved to America and one of my friends pointed out that it was weird.
he got a beer on the sky train? um..maybe im misunderstanding you but i lived in thailand for 4 years (i just moved to the us this summer) and i dont remember them selling beer on the sky train or even allowing food and drink on it.
i dont think that traveling to foreign countries will help. living in them for a period of several years, maybe. but just traveling there means that all alot of people will do (obviously not all) is go, get drunk, eat local food, and buy tacky touristy gifts. plus, as much as you try, traveling somewhere for only a couple weeks doesn’t give you enough time to ‘experience the culture’
My favorite activities when travelling abroad are staying at resorts where only English is spoken, drinking to excess and eating indigenous food. None of this can be done at home.
i had to laugh white people in the picture, in what im guessing is peru, presumably drinking a nice cup of coca leaf tea.
possibly.
good times 🙂
i love this blog. im like 15 and british and poor as hell but im well on my way to becoming a white person. im so pleased.
go me!
Does it make me more or less white that the only reason I would travel is for animal sight seeing and maybe do something good for their habitats? I don’t give a damn about people, there’s already too many here in America.
Its true, living in a Latinamerican third world country Ive met many WP who come here with the sole purpose of buying cheap beer and fucking the locals, then they buy an ethnic bracelet so they have something to show off when they’re back in their white countries. Im not complaining though, us third worlders enjoy fucking backpackers and making them buy us beer so its a win/win for all parties involved.
It´s a funny thing when people so vacuous and empty like u.s. citizens (I refuse it to called americans) try to “embrace” other cultures. They try really hard to learn salsa, speak spanish or portuguese and it´s just hysterical how they managed to make a fool of themselves.
I really enjoy showing off my culture background and my lovely and smart brunette wife, and all the small things that make me a true smart latinamerican.
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In fact, finding glamorous hotels with amazingly intricate showers is nearly a thousand times less expensive in third-world / developing countries. Except Thailand.
I do these things, I’ve even been called on it. I go out off my way to find Czech beer, I say things like: ” oh, in “X” they do it like this or that etc….
I feel so good about myself when I wear the t shirt I bought in Morocco, that says- “MOROCCO” in english and then again in Arabic ( at least I hope it says morocco and not; I’m a stupid white uppity tourist who pretty much just went to morocco just to buy a t shirt that says morocco on it so I can go back to my white person country and they can look at me in awe of my ability to go to morocco)
We always look for that authentic experience everywhere we go, and it just happens to be the same stereotypical experience every white person there is looking for and we all just resent each other because we always feel that whichever other white person there is just a big poser and probably traveling on their parents’ money and they haven’t toiled the way you’ve toiled. This is usually followed by checking your bank balance online (as the locals do I’m sure) and thinking -it’s OK, I’ll just borrow some money from dad when I get home….
That ipod thing sounds like a good idea…hmmm…lol
Ohh love love love it, I think that would make a great movie, would definitly watch it! I have heard of it before but that is what makes it so great!;D And I had simular experience while traveling to the states, as we WHITE EUROPEAN WOMEN like to do!!
Well its still the cosmopolitan dream, but I guess the main problem is that this page/book is wrongly named it should be called what white, male, north american, middleclass men like (cause thats the spot they are always hitting, even if they sometimes mention other groups, but here the white north american male truly is the norm, a nice reflection of society dont you think?). And if thats the target group they are brilliant;D With all respect for the fact that the world is habited by individuals that sometimes break out of their social patterns;)
I like this blog very much, guys, but let’s not make it into “oh, it’s so true. All white americans (or U.S. citizens) are this way.”
I’m a U.S.citizen/American and I do a lot of these things…. maybe I’m a douche, but I do speak Spanish and German (not a few words, but fluently), love my mom, and have travelled to a bunch of places paying for it by working; my mom doesn’t have that type of money.
I think I’m the wrong type of American.
Again, you have no idea what you’re talking about. “1st world and 3rd world?” WTF? The two types of travel are actually “tourism” and “travel.” Tourism is what most middle-class and prole Americans do when they decide to go on “vacation”: They sign up for group travel packages that take them to all the pre-fab destinations touted in travel magazines and on mediocre websites where they get a canned presentation of “facts” tailored specifically for their consumption. Travelers, on the other hand, DON’T wear backpacks, stay in hostels or do any of the quintessential euro-shit you attribute to everyone. In fact, they do go to Europe at least once. Only an ignoramus wouldn’t be marginally interested in that. Afterward though, they decide on their own where they want to go, what they want to learn, how they want to get around, live, etc. In many cases, they’ll even stay on for months, often obtaining employment in their new location, allowing them to stay on long enough to actually get something out of their immersion in a new environment, a new culture, your pathological obsession with commercialized stereotypes notwithstanding.
tl;dr
Well technically you just did.
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Man, you’re seriously a joke killer. If you don’t like the site, then stop reading.
Very precise observation and nice categorizing of 1st and 3rd world travel! I have always been annoyed by white people that would spend a day or two (or maybe a week) in my home country, then come back to the States and act like he’s my best friend, and continuously discuss with me in front of other white people all the “weird” things he ate while he was there, and repeatedly mispronounce the 3 words he learned while over there.
I went to Europe when I was 19. However my trip really WAS a first of its kind as my trip included attending the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
The worst is being hammed up by some Ozzie fuck. Either buy me a fucking beer or mind your own fucking business.
@Capitán – be sure to post again when you learn to write English! We love reading the thoughts of our latinamerican brothers!
“In many cases, they’ll even stay on for months, often obtaining employment in their new location, allowing them to stay on long enough to actually get something out of their immersion in a new environment, a new culture,…”
wow, that sounds really admirable. funny though, i am from the developing world and if i did as you beautiffully described i wont be praised but rather called an illegal immigrant. funny how the world works.
A perfect example of exactly what the article talks about — especially interesting because the writer clearly has no awareness of what a cliche he/she is.
Jrocco–get a clue. Simon you are brilliant and make an excellent point! I love “stuff white people” cause it is, unfortunately, right on target. I am sorry we white people are so predictable and boring but it is funny to read. Must go pack my Backpack for my Costa rica trip! I will even drive my prius to the airport.
@jrocco:
You are missing the entire point of the blog. Words like ‘irony’ and ‘parody’ pop into mind. It’s nothing to get so angry about.
To understand the demographic the author usually hits is only a matter of looking at the author. The blog is one big tribute to self-deprecating humour.
What annoys me most is those maps that people have on their Facebook profiles showing what countries they’ve been to. Might as well just post their bank statement.
wow….
Japan was nice, and we did run into some white people there. They were extremely disdainful of us normal Americans.
I discovered that there were different places for different gaijin.
If you wanted to chat up some American girls for a change, it could be done, but you had to put up with their whiteness. I loved the Japanese women anyway, so I saw no need to put up with the silliness just to talk to some liberal chick who hadn’t shaved her armpits in a month and actually thought that was cool.
hahaha, I’m white, but I’m also an immigrant, and there is one thing I cannot stand: people who visit 3rd world countries.
Wow, you paid, or got your parents to pay, or your parents’ rich friends to “donate” $5000 so you could go to a third world country and build a school/house. WOW, that’ll sure look good on your resumes and school applications. GOOD JOB!
Now that you’ve spent one week in a 3rd world country peeing in a whole you MUST know what true hardship is!! HA and you probably “appreciate” things more too. double HA
JRocco are you the funniest person on this blog or the dumbest? Cuz i wanna believe you get this site so well you’re going with the whole joke, but then again white people are dumb…
http://www.handheldstory.com
I ain’t takin no time off. Drugs and wine is way too up daya for me ta take no time off. besides, I got babies to make and blame to pass to da whitie!
lol. i love u simon…but it’s so true…
I lived in Italy for 2 years and Greece for 1..Germany for 2…was DRUNK…ALOT…
Looking at all those old photos, I think I would like to write a book…a NOVEL about my ‘unique experiences’ and all those nice little natives…awww….
😛
God, sometimes I hate people like me!
I think this is pretty funny. What I don’t like are some of the comments. Dissing people who go to third world countries to build a school? Yeah….that is wrong… ?! I guess all white people should stay home. You guys are right. Forget travel, we don’t need to interact with other cultures anyway.
?!?!
Hey everyone, I’m planning a kayak trip to North Korea next summer. Anyone want to join me?
Have you read the comment about being offended?
Plus some people really do believe that the stuff they do can make a difference.. for example, i worked in zambia for about 18 months building a new copper mine up there. One day when i went into town i met some white female who had come to zambia voluntarily to try convince the chiefs in the area to stop making charcoal to sell and instead start bee keeping.. she was doing this to try stop them cutting down the trees. Sure there is a small about of truth in this, but if u consider down the road where i was working a new mine was going up and i saw a bull dozer plough a clearing for some power lines about 20m wide to the horizon in a matter of days! If you compare the two the chiefs really couldn’t do that type of damage in their whole life time! So i feel dissing building schools is a bit harsh, but in general most of the “volunteers” really dont know what they doing and think they doing better when, in reality, they really wasting their time…. and believe me, staying in a mud hut in third world africa is not fun at all, especially for 2 years! u could get the same experience out of africa in 2 weeks.
Hope you have a good day.
P.S. if you go to africa to build schools, thats just great.. but its no use really if there are no teachers..
Wheeeew!! Busted!! Re. the extensive account of beekeeping vs mining, teaching vs ??!
Awesome account. Thank you.
I was beginning to think my travels to all 50 states, 30 some countries to entertain, and having paid for almost none of my travels, but being paid to do so, was meaningless and “white”. In fact, some was, I think . . .(?)
Artis (the Spoonman)
No, we really don’t need to interact with other cultures. They don’t want to have anything to do with us, so why should we force ourselves on them? If they want to see me, they can come here. If they can’t afford to come here, they’re probably too hungry to care.
depends on which part of Italy. Southern Italy was conquered by the Moors and you can easily when most people in Sicily look like people from Iraq. Italians from the south are basically Catholic Arabs.
Black people belong in Africa and they get culture struck when they come to first world areas and see all the innovative things white people invented.
Hey Bob Nutsucker, culture shock these nuts in your mouth and take your bitch ass back too Europe. They have plenty of room in your families cave for you. Put alil love in your heart. 🙂
Like someone would really want to see your ugly white ass anyways Mike. 🙂
well i went to europe for a month last year and it was great :] but nothing special really.. other than my mom getting drunk. lol but i love to travel and i think i would become extremely deppressed if i didnt travel.
actually i take back the nothing special.. lol
So what aspect of your apparently superior culture keeps your life from being so “vacuous and empty” as said U.S. citizens?
Man, maybe these people should just cease all attempts at learning about other cultures and languages. I suppose if they did that, you wouldn’t have to deal with them trying really hard to speak your language, you could just deal with them expecting you to know theirs.
Oh damn, I guess it’s a lose lose for them either way. Either they try to learn your language and get made fun of for it, or get called narrow minded and arrogant for not doing so.
Take your pick.
see note re “white people know what is good for poor people”… so obviously we have to go do stuff like this. it’s part of our whiteness to tell people they are doing it wrong and should do it like us… we can’t help it 😛
Yeah… I once flew to Madrid just to have a cup of Carajillo… and eat everywhere Hemingway did.
*Glances into the distance with nonchalant pride*
Well if they teach white people things then I think its best they don’t build that school as well.
yes, as long as we can do a layover in mombasa before we paddle across the arabian sea so i fellate my dear friend loqnedosho of the gutu tribe.
Classy…
Yes, your are obviously aware of the africans who are learning the queens english as we speak (integrate well into Britain and Europe) both cultures which look down on the IGNORANCE (subjects like yourself) of Americans. Oh, and don’t forget are learning algebra at age nine.
And one more thing, isn’t it funny how most Africans that come to this country become ENGINEERS. Culture struck, I think not my small minded friend.
AND ONE MORE THING….let’s talk about the down turn of the big 3 while Honda, Toyota and other NON-AMERICAN industries are dong just fine. Most consumers looking for the best don’t buy American, they buy foreign, and most of the things on this “White people” list aren’t even American they are a variated compulation of other cultures practices/products/foods.
Mike- are you my father?
I try my best.
🙂
Never heard of Czechznlishiyush beer, but Gambrinus was really good. The Czech Rep is very nice! Prague is awesome! Budapest is less touristy though!!!! HAHAHAHAHA! Ipod???? This is the 21st century! iPhone bitches!
Your grammar sucks. Go get a G.E.D…
I hope you’re not referring to me. I guess “sucks” must be a new edition to Webster’s. I do have a bit more typos then realized. I don’t really have time for online pointlessness. I think Law School surpasses a GED. 😉
Wow, I am going to be 30 in a week and I have never been to Europe. I must not really be white–since “every white person” makes at least one trip to Europe between 17 and 29.
“If a white person shows up in your country, you can make them feel fantastic by saying how you’ve never seen a white person before, and that you are amazed by their iPod – “a device that plays many songs? impossible!”
They might give it to you, then you can sell it for profit. Repeat as necessary.”
HAHAHAHAHAH dude..you are the effin MAN!!!!
dogg, i spent 2 1/2 years traveling around europe, from
1970 on. 6 months in south america in 1974, oh yea, only
two weeks in africa in 1973. best thing i’ve ever done in many ways. travel on!
I’m going on 29 and I have also neglected to make it to Europe. And not only am I white, but I have brown eyes, brown hair, I’m average height and weight, and I’m neither beautiful nor ugly. I am the most unoriginal white person ever and I still have failed to fit this traveling stereotype. Man am I boring. That should #121 on the list….Being Boring.
I did my First World traveling to the whitest place in the world: England.
I love to travel….. but there are not enough white people
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As a white person that falls between the ages of 17-29 i have to completely agree with you….
Thanks for making my day just a little brighter!
(Going backpacking through europe in about a month)
Is there really anything worth seeing outside of the good ol’ U.S.A.?
I think what should be added to here is the cross-country road trip. White people who live in a sheltered middle class life want to “see the real America”. This involves renting a car and drinking from coast to coast…..New York to San Francisco, Washington DC to Los Angeles, Baltimore to Los Angeles, Jacksonville to San Diego, whatever combination. This also means staying off the Interstates for at least part of the trip. Route 66 is always an obligatory part. Route 66 is desired because it evoked the good ol’ days of small town living, neon lit diners and soda fountains something that many white people are nostalgic about especially those over age 30.
Ireland. 1999. 21 years old. Guiness. Hit the nail right on the head.
very true… did this
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BWAAHAHAHAHA
i like reading these
well worth the 2 minutes :]
Rome, 1998, 2 weeks, Stayed in Hostel, Memorable afterdark experience at Colosseum, drank Kilkenny and grapa. also rode a train.
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Hey. wait a minute… what’s wrong with this thread? No one’s said anything hatefully racist, ignorantly self-righteous or totally missed the ironic intention of the original blog for several posts!
so here goes:
“I haven’t done this and I’m white”
” What, so now it’s only politically correct to make fun of white people? Isn’t that totally like racism? ”
“As an African-American woman I can tell you that although you’d like to pretend that this experience is something only white people have you are totally wrong. Your ignorance is so typical of white liberal hypocrites who try to make themselves feel better by treating people of color as equals just so you can feel better about yourselves. Which is the ultimate form of racism.”
…and except for those trolls who seem to really want to have sex with each other that’s pretty much 60% of the comments on this whole blog, as far as I can tell.
oh.
i’ve been there.
germany, october, drank amazing beers that i wish i could get back here. was still drunk from the night before on the train back to the airport and almost missed my stop.
I am not white, and when I am overseas and low on money hostels are the best places to make some money because white tourist leave everything laying around.
Im a black foreigner, and I love this blog. The best thing about it is it proves that whites are at the top of the heap socially just like they always were, only now its subtler. They are just as exclusive, just as bigoted, just as snobby as the white ViceRoys and Ministers of New Delhi and what have you, only now they compete over different things. They are still as petty and still as obsessed with status.
Something I noticed. I walk outside every day, and I am outnumbered, 10-to-1, by white people. Statistically I am an outcast. I don’t have many friends because I am not like 95 percent of the people I interact with (I live in the suburbs). Sure, they smile, they are polite, but I dont get invited to parties. I go to bars and only there am I granted the priveledge of interacting with white women who are drunk enough to display their disgust at me and white men who are threatened by me. I used to be egalitarian, but this blog made meunderstand that I will never fit into white people’s society unless i submit to being an occasional token. I hate all of you phony fucks. You have alll the power.
Actually Scotland is probably the whitest country in the world, its approx 98% white.
England is 90% white. Something like 48% of people living in London were not born in Britain.
Black people are jealous that white people go to Europe. When white people go to the land of their ancestors they get great beer and food. When black people go to the land of their ancestors they get aids.
you’re an asshole.
Yes, a giant asshole.
However this guy is also a giant asshole too.
Sorry you don’t fit in in the suburbs and that you have so much repressed anger over your lack of bar success that you need to post to blogs about it. If you chose to come to a country that is, at the moment, mostly white, and you chose to live in the suburbs, then you chose to tokenize yourself. Sorry there aren’t more people of color in Friendship Kansas or wherever you live.
Maybe it’s not that other people are intimidated by you or subtly playing out their racist superiority. Maybe you just suck so no one wants you at their parties.
Might I suggest you move to a city. If you still don’t get invited to parties it is because you are lame. If you do, then I am wrong and everyone in the suburbs is an entitled racist.
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Hahahaha, I might have possibly just broken my face with a smile. These were my thoughts exactly, because the whole moving to a country that is currently mostly whites, was dumb on your behaslf if you want to be surrounded by non-whites.
This was my favorite part “If you do, then I am wrong and everyone in the suburbs is an entitled racist.”
hehehe
Lighten up ladies and gentlemen. Be humble, patient, and gentle, ecepting eachother in love. Eph. 4:2
…and of course Africa is the land of all of our ancestors…but more to the point: the reason you’re an asshole is not just that your comment is ignorant — but that you probably know it’s ignorant and your idea of a good time is confusing racism with being pithy/witty; if there’s a definition of privilege that’s it (your own circumstances are so mild/banal/easy/untroubled as to have never made it necessary for you to develop empathy).
I suppose it’s possible your self-worth and identity are tied up in notions of supremacy which is so sad and so damaging (to you) I hope it’s not true. Instead, I’m assuming you’re just another robotic narcissist, a terribly boring cliche with a life so small you have to post anonymous messages on the Internet to feel like you matter.
Since I doubt the original poster will ever read this I’ll add the following for others who happen to stumble upon this thread as a means of altering the dialogue —
True statement: What people of all kinds find in Africa is a complex continent that vastly dwarfs our own little United States, a place filled with hilarity, beauty, and vast extremes of sweetness and sadness.
True story: When I arrived at 2 a.m. in an African country I won’t name and after a mix-up about my arrival time (my fault) with a friend I found myself alone at the airport and without usable currency. What happened? At her insistence, a woman I’d met on the plane (from the unnamed country) insisted I go home with her brother who was there at the airport with the rest of her family. I did, and after a shower in his house at the end of a cul de sac he insisted I sleep in his bed while he hit the couch. The next day he helped me track down my friend.
In short (surprise) it’s not just the war/disease/lovely animals trifecta on television.
way to fight the stereotypes
I don’t know if I’m the only one that noticed this but white people LOVE taking ‘artistic’ pictures of locals while traveling to developing countries. (especially people living in villages, people working in markets, children). It gives them something very ”deep” to show other white people when they come back
I’m a Hspanic girl who’s dating a white guy with sisters that brag about their travels on Facebook!
One of his sisters took a semester abroad in Australia and posted tons of pics hugging kangaroos, koalas or drinking with the girls. This same white girl also took her boyfriend to Hawaii to post tons of pictures of herself and her boyfriend on Facebook!
My boyfriend’s older sister is an aerospace engineer that also brags about going to Moscow to help with the Space station! and going to Brazil to help with the gas lines! This older sister feels superior about taking these trips and also going to Croatia.
My boyfriend made a facebook account and tried to add his superior traveling sister to be his friend on facebook but she turned my boyfriend down, shes like “You have to schedule an appointment with me in order for me to add you on Facebook or call me on the phone”. Geees! My boyfriend only wanted to show off his Italy adventure photos to his sister on Facebook!
This site nails it as I see from my boyfriend’s family, white people feel superior because of their travels and have to make it a habit to post on their Facebook Status “Jen is in NYC” or “Julie is in Hawaii”!
I think I trump the card on my boyfriend’s white sisters in traveling! I traveled to a third world country during a civil war in 1992! and boy was that an experience! maybe a movie to write about!
re: SWPL #19–Traveling
what WASN’T mentioned were the White people who do the “extreme tourist” circuit, those who go wa-a-a-ay over the top and visit places like Antarctica; Madagascar; or Nome, Alaska and then brag about it on the Facebook accounts as the settle down to their married lilly white middle class Aryan existance.
I find that Aryans are more willing to show their racist feelings in the suburbs. If they run their mouths off in the more diversified cities they run the risk of facing considerable back lash.
You probably caught the aids. You should go get checked.
While white people travle the world and experience new cultures, black people go to Six Flags and ride the rollercoasters.
hahaha
I traveled the world I been to europe, aisa ,canada and africa…my life has been changed forever visit http://www.thegreenlions.com
fuck you, have you ever been to africa. it’s a real nice place. you are a racist bastard.
don’t forget that black people favorite ride is johnny’s mother. Riding her from the backside has given many a black great pleasure.
beeotch.
don’t forget that the land of your white ancestors is the land of venereal diseases.
you gonorreahbeerdrinkinnotasteinyoureuropeanfood beeotch.
well… are you advertising a blank site or what>? there’s nothing in it…
This comment is just ridiculous.
A) How is it white people’s fault that you are outnumbered? I have been a minority in many situations and didn’t mind it. It will only bother you if you let it and if you have a negative mindset.
B) How can you not fit in with 95% of the population, I mean realistically that is impossible. There are so many different types of personalities out there obviously you just don’t WANT to fit in so you’re not actually attempting to make friends. I mean if there is a club for people who have fetish’s for licking feet, I’m pretty sure you can find something that you can relate to. Plus 95% of the population is not white!
C) I do not see how white woman “show there disgust at you”. My friend is white, beautiful and honestly awesome and she is dating an African American, she actually prefers darker skin men. I’ve never actually met a white woman who finds a “black man” disgusting or anything similar to that. Look at all the white women who love African American celebrities like Usher or Kanyee West.
Maybe you’re not getting invited to parties or into groups of friends because you are so incredibly negative. You think that everyone is out to get you and that all white people are racist. Yes, there are still groups of white people who are racist, which is an undeniable fact, however you cannot label every white person as a racist based on that small percentage of people. That’s like saying all Asian people love “Hello Kitty” or eat rice everyday, obviously just because some Asian people like those things doesn’t mean ALL of them do.
That’s so sad that you think only white people are up-top on the social ladder, it really is. There are so many African Americans out there who are executives, C.E.O’s, huge contributors to society, unforgettable actors and a president!!! Nelson Mandela one the most respected men in the world, Tiger Woods one of the best players in golf, Denzel Washington one of the most amazing actors and lets not forget Barack Obama who I think will astound the world (just to name a couple). You obviously are just hurting your own race.
In the end no matter what culture you look at whether it’s African American, Asian, White, European…….there are good and bad people, yes there are white people who are racist then there are white people who love and embrace different cultures. What you wrote is one of the most ignorant and judgemental things I have ever read and you should really re-evaluate your view on white people as well as black people.
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This is not only true but funny… I completely understand how she got this information and I agree. Yes I’m american and wish to travel to europe and third world countries, but not only do I want to one up the amaerican friends I have, I also would like to learn more about people and their history and get a better understanding of what this world is all about. I’m 16 and you can disregard this if you wish, but take into consideration the small percentage of people who many want more than to one up their friends.
Actually, I am white, from the US, and was also called an illegal immigrant. This is because I did not have a work permit. If you got a work permit in a foreign country, you could dodge this problem, regardless of whether you are from a developed or developing country. Of course, there is the possibility that someone from a developing country would be less likely to be able to obtain a work permit…
Guilty. -_-
Country: Australia, Memorable experience with an Irishmen, beer of choice = tooheys (not much better than coors) and is only mentioned in the presence of other ppl that also traveled to Australia so that we can gather and discuss our various experiences of drinking too much of it and being sick.
I always hate it when white ppl say they want to travel and help the world. You ask well what country do you want to go. I always hear Africa. Africa is not a country by the way. You ask them why. Answer: I just want to help the poor famished children with aids. Usually an answer around this. Truth is not all Africans are famished, there’s also famine happening in the U.S. Aids is also big in the U.S. but I think it just makes white ppl feel higher about themselves to “help” other races. I think it’s the guilt of past wrongs.
the best are adventure danger stories. “Have I ever told you the time I almost got knifed in Rome” (aka the waiter handed you the knife the wrong way) or “i was involved in a political protest and almost got teargased by riot police” (aka 10 taxi drivers went on strike and a lazy fat french cop looked on, uninterested)
or for the 3rd world traveler, nature danger stories. “i almost died in the costa rican rainforest” (mosquito bite on the leg and some sweaty clothes) or ” the lion looked right at me, it was just me and him…” (on a touristy safari, a lion appears 200 yards away and quickly runs off)
and of course, being somewhere where you dont speak the language means that when a conversation at the ticket counter at a trainstation goes bad, everyone there is out to kill you and you must tell everyone back home how you escaped the situation through white person cunning
at least THEY want to help.
while your five babie’s black momas look on.
after reading some of this I am quite astonished at how jealous non-whites and non-americans are! I’m laughin at your pity!
aids for you, laughin at your pity
Yeah this is so true… the 3rd world is right in our back yard. If you want to help black people just go to Detroit. Not as much fun and probably more dangerous, but you can accomplish more by helping those around you rather than someone half a world away.
@Andrea
you get that this is a satire right?
although, i have to say, this comes pretty close to the truth 😛 damn teenagers.
Do white people write this? Are you all white? Is this website for white people?
don’t forget that your white momma was in the next room servicing some black guys while you riding around in your pick-up truck.
beeotch.
and i’m laughing with your daughter, while i doggie style her. beeeotch.
well you better not have sex with your wife, beeeotch, because i just busted a move in her while you were out drinking with your redneck friends.
beeotch.
No, Heather, they are mostly negroes. If whitie had his own site such as miss white america, naawp, snow magazine, etc, the negro would be so far up in arms with the unreverened sharpton, and the castrater jessie j leading the pack. I enjoy reading their whinny bits on here though. Quite pathetic and humorous! lol
fuuuuuuuuck you andrew and the white horse you rode in on.
beeeeotch.
Let’s not forget that there are a lot of us whities that go to third world countries with the main intent of having cheap sex with locals,because girls of our own race back at home wont.
Not that it is all bad ,as we can think that the money they make in this dangerous occupation will go towards helping their families and help raise and educate future generations of prostitutes .
I lived In Thailand for a while to and the beer is Chung (elephant) tastes great and you have to smuggle it on board.
But who cares it’s cheap.And so are us whities that like to live there ! lol
queer
LMFAOOOO…. lighten up. This is a joke, but I swear its true to some extent! And I’m part white! Haha.
I will repeat myself.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck you andrew and the white horse you rode in on.
beeeotch.
*sigh, I feel much better now*
haha, whine on duh huh. belligerent little baby. you are what you are though.
how bout that cop servicing that punk on the subway
everybody, join me and say it loud and clear for all to hear:
FUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU andrew and the white horse you rode in on.
beeeeeotch!!!!
*sigh, I feel much better now*
oh you mean that cop who will soon be serviced in prison by many a convict after he is convicted.
hey andrew, FUUUUUUUUUCK you beeeotch and the white horse you rode in on.
*sigh, I feel much better now*
I hope all my ancestors’ wrongs converge upon your family Naija man. Fuck white guilt!
Also, there’s gotta be at least ONE white person on that staff. It’s just too accurate.
White people gave black people AIDS. Why would we help? Because we’re making moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Phizer! woohoo!
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whine on baby boy. whitie b lafin at u (you can read that better than proper grammar)
What about the white people who travel and either ONLY refer every point in a conversation to “well, when I was in India/Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam etc.” or else they don’t even bother talking to you because they think they are more worldly than you, and therefore you could never possibly understand what they’ve seen and how they feel about things.
“Stuff White People Like” is incredible. We’re all a bunch of privileged middle-class Westerners – about time we got called on it.
OMG you are white!! What is that? Oooh it plays music?!
Why, the thank you! Of course I know english not!
Cant wait to see the next white person.
Sound like Master Yoda, do you now!
Hey Andrew, since you are still hooked on phonics, I will help you:
F-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-C-K
Y-O-U
B-E-E-EE-E-E-E-E-EE-E-E-E-O-T-C-H
AND THE WHITE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!!!
Is that clear enough for you?
*sigh, I feel much better now*
Traveling can be spelled with a double or a single “L”….
Double “L” — British
Single “L” — American
The joke’s on you.
That is funny because when I was in Asia, I NEVER saw white people mingling with other Asian travelers. What is up with that?? Cliquish much??
And you talk about meeting locals, but the majority of them just wanna get drunk and party..?
I don’t get the appeal of alcohol. It’s overrated and brings out the nastiness in people.
It’s beer CHANG
not Chung Charn Chong, stupid.
I wouldn’t read it. Period.
Dear Brittany,
Wow!! Good for you!!
It’s such a BIIIIIGGGGGG DEAL!!!!
Congratulations!!
I like your attitude.
Some people think they’re better than everyone else because they’ve traveled.
My boyfriend is obsessed about travel and he’s one of those who travels to places to just “hang out” and take in the culture blah blah blah. But it’s all so hypocritical because he hangs out with other travelers in bars and pubs all the time. The last time he was in Vietnam, he spent 60% of his trip drinking in pubs with other travelers. And then he blames me – saying that he had to drink because he felt miserable hanging out with me.
We recently had a fight and he’s off to Cambodia to take a “break”.
Ha ha
Agreed.
But that’s their choice. No one should impose traveling on anyone..!
“White People behavior in ethnic restaurants”
It’s funny when white people be all cultural and sh*t and eat rice with chopsticks. I find that very pretentious.
I don’t understand this fascination with drinking and meeting people at the same time?
Yeah I get it — Alcohol lowers your inhibitions etc. etc. but i think many people depend on alcohol too much. Isn’t that unhealthy?
The Americans who I met while traveling are obnoxious, loud, annoying, imposing, narrow-minded, cliquey, and SELF-ABSORBED. They talk about themselves in every fuc*ing conversation. I can’t stand them. Period.
Haha you’re so funny.
But I don’t think I get the joke after reading that exhaustive list you painstakingly thought up.
Still, HA HA
HA HA.
That is genius! It’s so typical, pretentious, and annoying
Big deal.
I agree. It seems like some sort of pathetic little competition in attempts to prove to the other person that they are so fuc*ing incredible and awesome. People are so sick in the head.
Fucking PRETENTIOUS, much…???
Yes there’s showers in “third world” countries, but when you travel to certain places, there’s no running water/hot water etc. etc. etc.
Hey Uh Huh,
Lemme join ya:
FUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU andrew and the white horse you rode in on.
beeeeeotch!!!!
HAAHAAHAA!!!
I find that really hilarious!! It’s so true!!
Hi andrew,
Just out of curiosity….
Are you an immature high school kid or trailer trash? Or both?
Either way, I highly suspect you’re definitely a piece of trailer trash since your uneducated narrow minded opinions and the use of “Negros” and “Queer” imply you’re nothing short of a scumbag..
wooooo, you BOYS really got me THEN!!! I’m scared for life. Two worthless black boys are telling me off. lol
C, i think you mean a cunt, not a giant asshole?? That’s probably what your cunt/penis looks like — a giant asshole.
Quarter life crisis? Hang in there.
hey Andrew,
DOUBLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU and the white horse you rode in one.
you dumbass beeetoch.
*sigh, I feel much better now*
hey andrew?
care to ‘give a reason” as to why those four white cops got killed in Oakland this weekend?
Living in East Oakland, being a person of color, and talking to lots of people here I can tell you that cops in general are disliked by a decent (but not major) percentage. I can even go far as to say that minority cops are disliked more, but hey your trying to be edgy here by asking a person who writes a fairly comical blog about white people a serious question. So maybe I fell to your troll bait.
Why is it there are certain people are always trying to point out reverse racism like it could justify racism in general. There are obvious hypocrisies in both circumstances.
*that are always
Sorry for bad grammar in general
Obviously you do not know the background of my question. Andrew is one of those people you speak of, a believer in reverse racism. He defended vigorously that cop who was videotaped executing that brother in the subway by saying that the brother should not have acted a certain way in the first place (as if a person’s actions deserve summary execution on the spot).
I was curious as to what response Mr. andrew would have over this incident. As you know, the two worst nightmares for most white men are:
1) A well educated black man
2) An angry black man with a gun
In my opinion, and what i’ve read about the incident, I believe that the police pulled over the guy at the wrong time for the wrong reason (a routine stop is another way of saying DWB-driving while black). He snapped. He was already angry. He shot those cops. I believe he would have shot those police if they were black or hispanic or asian. He had issues with authorities.
But when he killed those two swat officers, I believe that the swat team thought they were going against just another brother with a handgun and they did not follow proper procedure (when was the last time you heard of not one, but two swat members being killed in a pursuit?). Arrogance played in their deaths. The guy had another weapon, an AK47 I do believe. Had they followed their usual cautious procedure instead of, most likely, being gong-ho in killing a cop killer, then, in my opinion, the perpetrator would be dead but those swat officers would still be alive today.
“…they have a memorable experience, get drunk, see some old churches and ride a train.” -refer to #3
In Bruges is a great movie. Yes I am very white and most of the items on this list describe me. Watch In Bruges, you may like the British humor/action.
it’s zombie hitler resurrection day, a must see if you travel to germany. don’t miss the local specialty, lizard steaks. yummy!
middle eastern and arabic peoples are actually classified as “white”… at least in america.
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Actually, they DID follow protocol. They threw “stingballs” and deafening/disorienting bombs inside. Usually, what happens is that the person inside gets disoriented and is able to be taken down.
In this case, Mixon was hiding inside a closed closet door, and listened for the SWAT team to pass by the said door and shot them with his AK right through the door.
Obv, the guy was aggravated and insane. But he had a calculated agenda. I don’t know how OPD or any other PD is expected to create protocol for every possible situation.
i COMPLETELY agree debbie, what could be more showy and pretentious?!
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Hey, self-righteous, clueless white guy: AIDS originated in central Africa. So, if you want to make that sort of accusatory comment, it would be more accurate to say that Africans gave AIDS to the rest of the world. Also, nobody makes a profit trying to sell things to people who are broke. So, how exactly is Pfizer going to make a profit off of the Africans ?
Speak for yourself, pervert.
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i’m concerned about whether or not travel of a less authentic yet equally affluent character (staying at five star monstrosity in aspen, the riviera maya, etc) borders on ‘the wrong kind of white people’ – is it okay after the age of 30? is it truly a form of white social evolution or should it be shunned?
I didn’t realize how white I was until now…
…now I’m fucking depressed.
At first this blog made me laugh, then it depressed me, now it makes me laugh again. First I laughed about how ridiculous other people were. Then I realized I was ridiculous. Then I realized it was funny how ridiculous I was because everyone is.
I find it frustratingly accurate and hilarious! Just when I thought I was being an individual, I was just being a honky!
Indeed, these blogs are pretty accurate 😦
You’ve been to Durban. Whoop whoop.
I know, seriously, I thought I was the only one doing half of these things, it amazes me how so many of these blogs describe me, haha.
Another thing white people love is to leave the most clever and insightful blog comment in a long thread. Like this one.
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Yeah, my white friends are always going on about whatever continents and countries they’ve been to. It’s pretty silly how people think buying a ticket, going to said country, going around eating stuff is somehow soulful. I don’t buy it.
AWESOME post David,
Sincerely,
An appreciative white person.
So, by this logic: anyone who leaves the country is a pretentious, status-obsessed white person? I guess its better to stay at home then(?) Who wants to know about the world outside America anyway- its full of foreigners, flies and bad food…
u sound like emerson i think or some other guy who wrote somthing about how traveling is pointless
I’m a little disappointed with this entry. I don’t knock anyone who would go to Europe, Japan, or even the Third World. I see them as way more adventurous than most of the travelers out there. They’re going someplace new, different, seeing the sights, taking in the culture.
The worst to me are the people who claim they’re into traveling, but all they ever do is go to Las Vegas, Florida, or take the typical cruises every year. Whoop-tee-doo. You got sloshed on the strip, waited hours to get into some overpriced nightclub (then claimed you got in ahead of everyone somehow), lost $300 on a roulette table, went to a strip club, and yet could not say one thing about the history or culture of the places you just went to.
I don’t care if someone goes to let’s say Romania, hits up a few pubs, gets sloshed, and comes home looking for that beer they had out of some need to look “worldly”…as long as they also tell of a castle they took a tour of. Of some interesting foods they tried. Took photos of streets and areas that aren’t the typical thing we see all the time in the US.
I knock those who never step out of their comfort zone. I am Greek and I find it funny at the amount of Greeks who never go anywhere but Greece. HELLO??? There’s a great big world out there.
Typical, ignorant American
HA HA! I was always regaled with these stories when I was in college. My rich friends would talk about how “worldly” they were because their parents paid for a summer summer trip to France. And I was always like, yeah, sorry I can’t be worldly like you, I’m too busy working and paying for my own education and bills. I’m too busy being responsible to be “worldly.”
And now I travel all the time, but pay for it myself. So, yeah, that makes it a little better, I hope.
good for you katie!
How sad you are…..what are you doing to experience a different culture or way of life outside of your little world?Oh thats right …you’re perfect as you are..in the good ole US….no need to journey outside our insular land…nothing to see out there…nothing to learn from anyone else…????Perhaps that partly explains why this site is soooooo irrelevant to anyone , white or otherwise from any where other than the U.S…friends said it was edgy and interesting…..sorry …nothing to see here…..same old myopic ,insular attitudes.
bored now………..bye
Just a hunch, but i think GG was being ironic..
Pff, travelling bites. It’s inconvenient & tiring & packing is a pain. I don’t buy the argument that faffing about the world treading on other people’s stuff is a way to refine your intellect. I go where I am invited & that usually works out OK
Agreed. I believe that traveling is a fun experience when you share with friends and loved ones, but no more than that. Been to several countries, and I keep seeing the same things: people like good food, like to laugh, and don’t like pain. Why do I have to jet around the world just to confirm what I already know?
I’m not sure why people come to this site to enjoy a dry chuckle, and then complain when something cuts a little close to the bone.
Actually, I don’t care, please continue to do so… I find it hilarious.
Strange article. Why do you divide white people into categories? I think people are just people. I like travelling a lot. My favourite city is Kiev, my favourite place there is St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral http://www.worldwalk.info/en/catalog/1281/ I feel safe there. I would like to travel around the world and have more places to enjoy.
i love travelling but by christ i cant stand other travellers, or bloggers….
Where is the Second World? Does anyone know?
if so, don’t follow me. I want to be the first White Person to go, and I don’t want to see any “travellers”, aka tourists, when I get there.
I will, however, happily bring back T-shirts (for irony), authentic indigenous trinkets (for the embracing of cultural diversity) and, for my Australian friends, stolen bar mats!
“Where is the Second World? Does anyone know?”
It spontaneously disappeared some time between 1989 and 1991.
What does insular mean?
What’s funny is people from other countries or even US states for that matter that live here (where ever you currently are) but go around talking about how great say, Australia is. Go live in Australia then. Where’s the humility?
Crik-ey
the second world originally meant the soviet union and other communist countries, obviously this classification system was made a long time ago
you dont get it.
Its the Old World Europe
The New World America
The Third World The rest!
Second World = places like Canada and Taiwan
Yes!!!!!!! With you on that.
yea, you sound pretty christ-like to us antitraveller….I guess you cannot stand that ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ line that christ stated also, eh??
hypocrite.
ditto for you too mcmuffin…
hypocrite.
Clearly, our history teacher was hitting the sauce a bit too much at prep because the First, Second, and Third world classifications are demotic and common.
During the Cold War the First World was The United States and its allies in the western industrialized world. The Second World was the former Soviet Union/anti-capitalist/communist bloc. The Third World (French – tiers monde) was the rest of the world or the developing nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The more formal term today is the developed nations and the underdeveloped or developing nations.
Tell that one to The General…
You need to go to summer school.
LOL. I love the comments to these, priceless.
When I was in island resort South East Asia, I saw a 20-something German tourist haggling. This guy was carrying a digital camera worth about $3K and he was haggling from a woman that earns less than $2/day.
I was so pissed off, I bought fruit from the lady and paid her $5. I told her, she must ask for more next time. I wasn’t patronizing the woman, but I was trying to be kind. She should negotiate for more next time.
Maybe it is my catholic upbringing, but it feels so wrong to see someone carrying $$$ worth of stuff and haggling a street vendor earning less than $2/day.
Whenever I travel, I only carry my old HS backpack and budget $500-1K/week. I stay at decent hotels and use the laundry service. I don’t understand tourists carrying expensive stuff, staying at hostels, worrying your roommate stealing your stuff and smelling like feet after 2 weeks.
Is this an attempt at humour? I sure hope you’re not American or British – cause if so you’re pushing 3rd world yourself these days.
…
You missed the entire point of the article.
FAIL.
You are awesome and I totally agree.
“I tried to see your point of view, but I couldn’t get my head that far up my ass.”
Apt for that comment.
AHAHA. God that’s so true. XD (I do that all the time)
Same here! Hahaha. Man us white people are dumb. XD
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My room mate is the definition of a “white person” on this website. Whenever I have saved up my money and gone to Europe for a vacation she patronizes me for going to see the Eiffel tower in France or the Prado museum in Spain. “The only real way to go abroad is to go to where the actual people are. I hate tourists, I hate travelers, blah blah blah”
I hope she goes to Brazil and gets all of her things stolen because she actually has no idea what she is doing, and no matter what she tells anyone else she is actually a little white girl who’s father earns 200 k a year and pays for all of her shit.
On another note, I absolutely love this website. We all do at least one thing on here, you have to laugh at yourself.
I like the picture of the white people trying to fit in with the south americans. Lol.
there’s nothing wrong with going to the Prado…there are plenty of spaniards who go there.
Even better than “developed/developing” is Northern and Southern countries. It’s not perfect, but describing them by location instead of some Euro-American standard of “development” is much better.
Alas for you, I am still more clever, as is this remark.
In response to the post wondering about the Second World: it used to be the Communist World, I believe– the Soviet Union vs. Western Europe and the States, with the rest of the world (3rd World) being battle ground between the two.
Unrelated matter, I just got back from Europe and this really summises my feelings about it all quite well (I try not to haggle…)
Is it still applicable if I’m pretty much only there visiting immediate family? (I think I’ve been outside of Hessen, Germany, once.)
…last time I checked Spaniards are white people.
Thanks for proving the point of this article; that you, too, are a well-meaning White (Catholic?) person. I mean, what does your Catholic upbringing have to do with anything??
LOL, i should try the sell the ipod idea…LOL
Really? Maybe they just don’t like you personally. I don’t know where you live but where I live all the white girls wanna dance with black guys at bars and clubs.
rofle bofle, funny shit…n i came across this website as its written with wordpress in my computer class…anyways, the travel part should have the following in the 3rd world country:
white people do not go to 3rd world countries to experience the culture or anything, but simply meet up with other white people – then exploit and rape the place…once that has happend they move on to the next place. so basically the same thing as they do in the white country with other white peopl, the only difference is that it is CHEAP.
that’s my call
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lol guilty!
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
funny stuff, but what do i know
These dumb white folk go to visit other countries because they are pent up with guilt. They “care” superficially about truly learning about new cultures, people etc… rather they are bored, have lame-ass jobs, and need something to kill time for 2-3 weeks. So they pretend to get down with the 3rd worlds, shop at some slum, or ride a 2nd class train in rip-off europe to get down with the peeps. it is all a sham. Adds some “excitement” to an otherwise hum-drum white life. Now if you will excuse me, Jimbraski will go to work and penetrate a 3rd world ingrate.
Sadly yes, white people suck. Even sadder for me, I was the one kid in the family who got that pigmentation disorder so while the rest of my family is clearly olively skinned mediaterranean beauties, I LOOK WHITE. *sighs*
So now, when I go to Europe, all the European people will look at me like I’m a regular tourist, even though I’m in Italy to visit family and they’ll all pat me on the back and chuckle to themselves when I speak Italian.
Frick. Double frick.
Now we’re getting white people mistaken with Americans – the label “American” transcends races and genders.
Geeze, we coulda writteb this in the Revco sack wihile waiting in line at the Munch Parlor. Live and learn, man, THE DUDE ABIDES.
oh, you’ll get over it once you recognize that it really is soooo much better being white. Plus Italians are Europes n$#*ers
Fun fact: All white people want to be black, all black people want to be Italian. Therfore everyone wants to be Italian.
Three things to keep in mind when considering WASPilgrimage:
1) Anything South of Texass is Mexico.
2) Countries that don’t have/eat cows or eat uncooked food
are backwards and wrong –for proof see malnutrition
and shortness.
3) Going back to Europe is the white person equivalent of a
dog eating its own vomit.
Scrubs quote =)
I love it.
most black people i know hate eyetalians…
Weak
Somebody’s Cranky!
…Italians are white. If you live in North America, and speak English, and happen to be Italian, you are still white.
White people are not only from England.
You’re thinking that this website doesn’t apply to you.
You are just a white person who thinks they are more sophisticated then other white people because you call your self European. In fact, you are probably the more annoying variety of white person because of your superiority complex.
lol…
ye what the fuck are you talking about hippie stomper? what black people do you know that want to be Italian?
It is the same with european white people.
In their 20es, they all have to have a trip to New-York.
They eat a bagel and they bring back a pair of sneakers that are pretended not to be available in Europe.
LMAO hahahaha
LOL, to hear that made my day
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on traveling.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
No, not one country technically speaking, but they are quite unified, in many ways, under the European Union, which essentially includes has open border policy for the most part. Not to say that you are incorrect though, as you do have a valid point.
But, if you think about, the United States and Europe are quite comparable in size, and although the US is a single nation-state, certainly culture varies to some degree across different regions and individual states, yet when Europeans discuss their visits here to the US, I often hear, “oh, the last time i visited the States.”
Anyway, this really is neither here nor there. I find the site entertaining, which is what I believe it was meant to be. Sorry for rambling.
True, Kind of.
I just turned 17 and I already fit these two categories.And I’m not saying that to be ostentatious.
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She sounds like a pain in the arse, why do you live with her?
A less biased interpretation is that the First World was the USA and USSR; their allies/satellites (e.g. the United Kingdom, North Korea) made up the Second World, and the Third World consisted of the non-aligned countries, most notably Yugoslavia. The fact many of these countries were poor is entirely incidental, but this what Third World means these days.
Sure you are….you’re white for gawd sake.
OH the bias
some people just like to travel, because its fun…..
Why do people always assume alterior motives?
People ask you why you do something and either you get accused of being aimless, or being pretentious.
Umm…I think you meant Slovakia, not Slovenia. Slovakia and the Czech Republic border each other.
I lived there for a year and discovered myself, then wrote a memior about it. I know alot about Eastern Europe.
Every white person takes at least one trip to Europe between the ages of 17-29…
So if im 30 years old and never been to Europe does that mean i’m not white?
How absurd. This site is stupid, I must now pistol whip the person that recommended it to me.
I used to think traveling was a waste… until I tried it. Now I can’t say enough good things about seeing different parts of the world (including some very cool areas of the US).
My first trip to Europe will be in a few months… and I’m 30. Sorry, I’m a late bloomer. 🙂
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
MARK TWAIN, Innocents Abroad
you forget that europe is ‘white person’ central?
I had the opportunity to travel in Mexico twice, Canada once and France twice, the first time with additional road trips to Belgium, Holland and England from there. Traveling is a more in-depth personal way to see a different country, but nothing wrong with reading a geography book/mag. like the handy Fodor’s guides. My father is native to St. Omer, France and he guided me & my brother around to historic places like a cathedral goes back over 2,000 years and a local 16th-18th century Flemish art museum, near a FAST train station…and drive rural roads along the area’s numerous canals, some are pumped by windmill towers. +
Oh snap, I recall watching a two-part special “Everybody loves Raymond” trip to Italy, as the American family explore their Italian roots to find themselves strangers in their own land (ROFL). A much better episodic mini-series is the Bundy trip to England to an ancestral town, it had a mysterious curse of permanent darkness caused by Al Bundy’s ancestor and the only way to reverse the curse is to find and kill a male Bundy. The kind of Americans welcomed to Europe or anywhere else after leaving a bad legacy. +
Felix, the first world compromises of mostly industrial white northern countries (somehow Japan fits on the developed country list), the second world is the former USSR and ex-communist Eastern Europe and the third world: you got it, anywhere less developed. White racists use the label to describe where racial minorities come from, but the CIA factbook includes China, Mexico and Turkey in “developed country list” and the rest of the second world after the end of Communism being developed, yet less prosperous than the western capitalist democracies. +
The old “East and west”-ern world terms seems so out-of-date, we can have a “North and South”-ern world divide for the 21st century. Nearly 90% of the developed world lies in the northern hemisphere, only 10% south of the equator. In the western hemisphere (the New world), the USA and Canada are the only fully developed countries, and again, the Japanese “exception” in the Asian continent. +
Second world is the half-way between affluent/developed and predominantly poor/undeveloped: China, India, Israel, South Africa and Brazil are examples of the intermediate economic stage. White people from the USA seems to want to live in Fiji, Costa Rica or Dubai (the UAE) wherever the miniscule rich live in (walled) gated communities and drive in armored humvees (they carry handguns or uzis with ’em). +
…And don’t forget Jet lag, the 8 or 9 hour biological time clock mishap for a few days. On the west coast US, it’s 7AM when I wrote this post while it’s 4PM in France. It sure takes time to adjust your bio clock. +
There are countries like Greece as you mentioned have in some cases, entire villages have relatives on “working vacations” or EU guest worker programs across western Europe. When I was in Mexico near Puerto Vallarta, there’s a village in the mountains east of the ocean, known as El Miscato, Jalisco where the tour guide said nearly half the 1000 residents have family members working in the US. +
do NOT travel to the 3rd world country of mexico. travel the 2nd world country of california—mexicans galore!
what about white people in europe?
fuck you
Of course you discovered yourself and wrote a memoir. It’s a natural development of white psychology in america.
LoL, Kirin (the beer made in Japan). White Americans aren’t on a separate planet where the entire inhabitants are the same blonde-blue eyed-tall-Nordic freaks like the scientist twins on Doctor Who. To discover oneself is to seek a non white ancestor in your own family tree for self-discovery (go ahead, try it… and to clarify how Indian are you). +
We never understood why people travel to mexico–you have it right here in the US of A===california+ MS13, gangbangers, illegals, trash, fights, guns, drugs we have it all in United States of Mexico. mexicans, raking, blowing, toilets, planting, scavenging for cans, beat-up pick-up trucks, 10+ kids, multiple families inhabiting home illegally.
come to cally, where you can meet juan and julio as they take your job away to the tune of 12-31% unemployment rate in bankrupt CA.
uh asain dude, we white folk luv mexico for its acapulco brown dude…i would not be high today if it wasn’t for my amigos in mexico……uhhh….what was i just talkin about?…..oh…yea….uh…..nevermind……asain dude, you gotta ‘j’ i can borrow/?
This is a riot! I can relate! God its good to be White! 🙂
i am a loser with too many names and too much time. i think the reason why i’m skrewd up is cuz my dad rapes me… Blak pwr
Michael on August 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Sorry, that’s how I get through life. At work, in school and with other people. More of a Californian thing, if I wasn’t in the state of Cal. I wouldn’t be required to, then I’m one of those autistic nerds or something tries to get by in life. I’m a product of my own environment, middle-class people get down on their luck and have to face reality. I share this guy’s sarcastic sense of humor on how he perceives the world through a “white man’s” comical point of view. +
See autism boy, I can dig up alot more on your dumb ass if you continue with this race shit that you started.
Test me bitch.
YOINK!
troll. lawl.
“Kirin” means “giraffe” in Japanese. The beer is named after that. (Well, not exactly an African giraffe, but more of a mythical creature; its picture is on the cans.)
HAHA I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and think it’s DEF just a funny!!
Is there a stuffjewishpeoplelike.com ??
Wow, really? You’re an idiot man.
homophobe
Tiffany is a bit stupid (comment below)
Ignore her guys
the second world was the former soviet union. since the fall , there is no longer a “second world” so, yea.
(it is just better to label as a third world, for lack of connotation derived from the word, than to label underdevloped, which makes others think they are better for some reason, or makes them feel less capable, etc. you get it…)
If there was the number 1 item will be :
-telling you they are jewish within 10 minutes when they meet you for the first time!
I imagine myself at happy hour talking to a prefect stanger and droping within 5 minutes of the converstation : or BTW I am buddist!
I love that the dude in the photo is wearing an Inca Kola implying that this is a Peruvian photo which doesn’t seem to fit in the 1st world or 3rd world. Either way…buy some of it and enjoy an amazing drink. It’s my favorite and I haven’t even been there yet! Is it weird to want to travel somewhere for the soft drink?
Chas
http://StuffRichPeopleLove.com
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US troops’ bragging rights? Yeah, went to the third world, shot some brownies.
Why is having fairer skin than your family a pigmentation disorder? And, yes, no matter whether you feel that you’re European, you’re white and you’re American. The WORST are white people who call themselves Italian (Sopranos, Gotti-types from LI or NJ) ~ they think they blend in when they go to Italy to visit the very, very distant relatives? What a joke…they stick out more than any other tourist.
This website is a bloody broomshine joke. Poser, I say!!!!
Poser!!!!! What about Australlia, China, Russia( which is in Asia ), Egypt, Israel, bombay, even the freaky US states.
Dumb
You dumbfuck, it’s Machu Picchu. If you’d ACTUALLY been, you’d’ve seen all the signs with it spelled right. Geez. /bwahahahaha!!!11!
The hell it ain’t. It’s no longer hegemonic on the region, but you can bet your sweet ass that culturally and ethnically they most certainly are. And, more often than not, being typically merchants, getting treated like the region’s version of 1930s European Jews (ie, blamed for all of society’s ills, even those they never caused.)
you are not
Surely some people who go travelling simply want to get away from work, relax, have fun have an experience of their own and not simply so they can brag about it??
more info on slovenia
http://www.guide-to-slovenia.com
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this entire book/blog is tongue in cheek!!!
he’s not saying all these things are bad, he’s making fun of himself and other people like him, its not really even about white people, its middle class people, i’m not white and pretty much everything here applies to me..
Russia is in Europe AND Asia, it’s the biggest country in the world!!
Israel should be dismantled. Palestinians should be allowed to return.
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Nah, palestinians should be exterminated for the good of mankind.
It’s a parody of liberal loonies.
and btw nobody drinks pilsner in slovenia! 🙂
Egypt is in Africa you douche xD
And i think they were only naming the..cultural continents (?) (:
I’m white and I’m totally taking a year off to do all those things. I just wanna see the world. But, i couldn’t stop laughing throughout the whole of that – since, that is EXACTLY what i am going to do. xD
I think the author wanted to say Slovakia
I was going to say how much I enjoyed this ripping of my culture to shreds (which I did very much) and then I go and read all these posts from my fellow whiteys saying stuff like “I’m white and I never… blah blah blah” and “Well I went to Switzerland so explain THAT” and I have to say to them – if you are the type who picks holes in something funny and well written then you should go and look at lolcats or fail photos because you don’t deserve the high quality stuff that rarely crosses the internet browser’s path.
I think ‘smartphones’ is something White People Like.
Yup and they’re the ones that probably have the most fun but you’ll never hear about it.
I stumbled on the site and fell for 20 minutes laughing. Being of the South (by the Grace of God) it is refreshing to read about us as the “real” whiteys we is. As opposed to “We Might Be A Redneck If”. (All that’s true, too, but it segregates the refined whiteys from the rest of us.) Cool stuff!
(My wife and I actually took this year off to get out of politics and start a new business….we collect toilets, refill them with compost and sell them to refined whiteys as yard ornamental plant containers…..business is great.)
Important addendum for the Third World traveler: Getting a picture taken with young, smiling, Third World children is a true feather in a white person’s cap!
this site is hilarious, only that I am black and I enjoy a lot of these activities as well and had the European backpack experience…it was a blast, what does that mean?
\m/,(-.-),\m/
Great Idea, glad to hear it’s working
I went to a village in Borneo where the children were so used to teenagers coming over and giving them presents that they were exceptionally unimpressed with our meagre offerings. Also, they charged us £400 to build four metres of ‘covered walkway’, i.e. a shed without walls. But we fucked them over by refusing to go on their ‘trek’, so in the end, ultimate win 😀
This is so true. Especially the favorite beer part; I’ve definitely done that (estrella galicia, anyone?). So true, so funny!!!
It means you have been enculturated by white people and you have lost touch with your blackness. Sorry man 😀
Sounds a lot like the trip I did. In fact, so similar it’s actually exactly the same. World Challenge by any chance? Did you happen to visit K.K., Sepilok, Mount K. and Long Atip?
You have a fulfilling life. Filling toilets with dirt.
I’d say. Quite something to aspire to.
look at my back-pack, look at my back-pack, I haven’t showered in 2 days, b/c I am gettin’ down with das peeps. –my back pack’s worth more than the entire flea market in that crap-hole third world country that I am haggling over some plastic knick-knack crap to save a few sheckles. Then, I will go back to the states and brag to all my yuppie friends about those adorable third worlders.
OK I decided to put my first post here because I’m sitting in Pilsen, Czech Republic right now. In case you were wondering, that is, in fact, where Pilsner is brewed.
P.S. it tastes like shit
O, so true!
Yes, we know, as that IS a 3rd World beverage which is filtered through the public sanitary (I use that term loosely) sewer system. This not only saves a step in processing, it saves money, too.
Excellent commentary on young white travelers. So funny, but yet so incredibly true. Absurdly funny mindset.
Sir, you sound so ignorant I want to laugh but than again so are most “Americans” understandably that refers to whitey’s in America. Asian Americans are here, in Europe, Middle East, African countries, Pacific Islands and South American countries plus other places on this globe. How do you suppose they got there and I got here if Asian Americans don’t travel ?? And that is “too busy” not “to busy,” but I forgive you for your ignorance or lack of knowledge however I must agree with you on one minor point, Mexicans don’t travel but not for the lack of money, could it be because they are ignorant like you and have no interest in the world outside of their own little world!
YUP!!! U right about that b/c white regimes throughout history has oppressed, robbed and ruled the others. Haha!! truth finally comes out!!!
Yes, finally! Been to 29 of the 50 states so far and that took me 35 years of travels. Sure enjoyed countries in Asia, Pacific Islands and Few in Europe but nothing like good ole USA USA USA USA USA USA USA…most hilarious blog I’ve been laughing crazy for the last hour and it’s way past my bed-time.
THANK YOU MIKE, finally someone learned speaks up.
Nah, I’m white and a lot of this doesn’t apply to me. I hope most people understand the book and blog is all in good humor and I hope it doesn’t promote racism.
I can’t help it I’m white.
Yet if there were a book ‘Stuff Indian/Black/Hispanic People Like’ oh no, it would be on the news, the company woudl be sued, and likely be considered racist.
Just what I think, sorry for the rant. :]
Nah, back at cha…..I too am white (can’t help it either???) but I must disagree with you concerning what other races might say.
Blacks have Black History Month, Black Colleges, Black Caucus, Black TV, BlackMagazines and on and on. Indians have legal gambling casino rights on any of their reclaimed land anywhere in the U.S. they desire. And Hispanics have a new found freedom once they arrive here with tax breaks, American jobs, pretty much free medical (thru emergency rooms and clinics). And they have practically converted the language in several states to Spanish.
On the other hand, all us White folk get to openly share is a humorous book about what stuff we like.
Just what I rant, sorry for the thinkin’.
I was a little flustered. Having never traveled to Europe, I thought, “Maybe I’m not really a white person.” But then I met the Third World travel criterion. Whew, talk about major identity crisis. Now, I have to get in my giant SUV and head to Starbucks before my yoga class.
I just bought food from a man on the street who hasn’t washed his hands in five years. I’m so original.
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Kelly, don’t be so daft for crying out loud. When you are a minority colour in a country where 99 percent are white, like in the UK (1 percent black, although be cautious – Turkish Cypriot is classified as ‘black’, weirdly enough) you’re facing blatant racism every day (I don’t just mean the ‘percieved’ stuff, I mean people who feel it is OK to shout black c*** at you) so I think that really and truthfully, a fun teasing blog aimed at the silly things white people do is about as far from being racist as you can get. Really, think about it before using the R word.
yeah not a lot of thinking going on in there so don’t worry about apologising for the ranting.
Keep drinking it for a little while. It does grow on you 🙂
Try this one: If you live in a brown skinned Thirld World Country and speak English, and a White turist girl is there and then approaches you to ask you about something, teel her that she is the first green eyed English speaking person who visits that sorry place. You’ll be fucking her before sunset. Guaranted!
Hey, Mr. Yellow! How are you?
I’ll write about you right now… You’re very inspiring, even though I’ll probably never meet you.
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thank you. most sensible comment ive seen so far.
I dont even have ONE black friend! haha!
um… yeah right. everyone in argentina has an ipod.. haha
I literally never get sick of this web site!
Here’s another good one: http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
your retarded
I like Pancho b/c he takes White People seriously ….. that’s What White People Like.
ha!
Did you see the shirt of the white way, it says “Inca Kola” … I actually heard a withe guy said this to me: “My favorite soda is Inca Kola, this was my favorite drink when I was touring Peru last year”
White people, so funny!
Sooo…. Did you know there are white people in Europe too?
This site should be called stuff white American people like.
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hahahahha this girl nicole i hooked up with couldn’t stop talking about inca kola and south american gum! trying to impress me (a hispanic minority) about her competency of other cultures…quiet bitch…i am in your dorm for one reason…and its not to see your poster full of inca kola labels
HI ,
I live in France and strangely i recognize lots of traits in here; for instance travelling to the third world or …America or Africa (cheaper) with a back pack that’s so cool ;)… also stuff environmentalist like, camping, taking a year off, and
i forgot playing in a amateur rock band and wearing ray ban wayfarers!
perhaps it is because many white french people here tend to imitate white American people trends?
Anyway i keep on laughing thanks to this blog and its truths . I wonder if someone here in France would ever dare to do something like that…. (public indignation guaranted!).
but on the contrary, i’m sure this book would be huge success in France (politically incorrect and self deprecating humor) and it comes from America 😉 it s okay if it mocks at white people other than french people toughi i think there would be some public indignation too.
is it available inf French? if not there a serious market there :))
Great job
it should be called “stuff gringos like”. gringo! yeee-haw
Yep, it seems to cover white Americans more than any other group.
There are loads of white people in Africa too not just Europe
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Yeah, this is deeeefffffinitely true. Like the people who refuse to drink Guinness because it was “sooo much better in Ireland”, but then they’ll proceed do order some American piss like Miller Lite or something.
wow….i just did that last night
best response to this post! HAHA
i love europe – i really do love it… everything about it…. paris… amsterdam… brussels (best beer, yes it was the best one… not a beer buff here but i really liked Duvel 🙂 )….iceland…. germany!
but then again, i’m the wrong kind of white person (immigrated here from former ussr at a college age)
after seeing europe, i wanna live there now…. pretty fluent in french… and just started to learn dutch! (i guess most white people don’t do that lol).
… but yes yes and yes… i DO know what you are talking about here. those backpack trips (barf) – never(!). i’m always dressed well when i travel, sporty but leather footwear, tight jeans, no backpack, in fact no bag period, no hanging camera off my neck (it’s hidden in the pocket).
i do know someone white who fell in love with thailand though 🙂 – yes typical kind
True, true. I’m a “wrong kind of white” guy here. I’m an argentinian (white) so I understand what you say in both ways: As a local, watching the first world tourists here; and as a white guy, looking at myself and my friends.
Weird, I didn’t realize that Europeans weren’t white. So, ALL white people come from North America? Good to know.
It is piss…well, actually, was piss. Once it is cycled through a homogenized bergenfoamer then slowly dripped into a 4-layer charcoal filter system, then sprayed over a barley enhanced sand filter pit; it is then re-introduced to a seal containment vessel, for handling. (Better known as, a can.)
If only Europeans could be so “Green” minded the world wouldn’t be in this mess!
It is kinda true in a way. i mean a friend of mine who works for the police once stopped an american at the airport for random inspection. the guy was surprised for being stopped and searched and was irritated.
during the search my friend found his ipod in his pocket which he immediately explained ” this is an ipod. you know an Mp3 for listening to music. you can hear music from this”.
which my friend replied “i have one in blue”.
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too bad they can’t realize that people need help right in their backyards (not literally) but are too blinded by their righteous and “sense of duty.” People in other countries have priority than those right next to them. Now that who you should pity, and I’m not saying people who do not want to help people abroad are less inclined to help others. The more space one covers doesn’t necessarily mean they are better or more worldly because that’s faulty logic and self-selecting incidents.
this website trivializes my life and my entire sense of being!!
Thanks for sharing you guys. You are soo cool. i learnt a lot from you. keep sharing. thanks. i love your site.
Dude man,
Third world is so 20th century. We white people say developing world.
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If you decide to do this, obviously you should make sure before you book that your hotel accommodation is situated close to a subway station or major bus route. By major, we mean one that goes straight to the heart of the city without you needing to change buses two or three times.
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i really understand that this article open me my eye and it give me comforted.
This is perfect!!!! I cannot say in words how much I admire your ability to accurately portray and describe the situation. You deserve an award for this.
@ MIKEY on January 7, 2010 at 6:25 am
Your comment is a very common response among white Americans and therefore important to address.
There are Black colleges and Black magazines, because in this country colleges and magazines and other institutions are designed for white people. There’s a Black history month, because all the other months are white history month. Understand?
Materially and ideologically white is advantaged over Black. For example in the US, Blacks and whites do drugs at the same rates, yet Blacks are like 6 times more likely to actual go to jail for drug possession and use than whites. After jail, this then affects their ability to vote, find jobs etc. not to mention the psychological trauma of prisons where people face a strong likelihood of rape. Whites are doing the same amount of drugs but don’t have to deal with this.
Regarding undocumented immigrant workers: they do not get out of paying taxes. Actually they pay more than their fair share through sales taxes on essential items like clothing. They make so little that if they were on the books, they would receive and Earned Income Tax credit, which other low income people do.
There’s not enough room in this forum to discuss all the ways that whites perpetuate their class advantage over Blacks. For that you should research White Privilege. That doesn’t mean there are no poor whites, or that there are no rich Blacks. But in general, whites have more unfair advantages over Blacks.
WTF is British about In Bruges, a film about two Irish guys in Belgium?
I’m in Indonesia. I am an American. I am not white, but EVERY single tourist, NGO worker, volunteer or student abroad from Europe, America or Australia is white, and therefore…I am African, because I don’t want to go through the shit of explaining how it is possible that I can be from America and have the complexion that I do.
“White person travelling can be broken into two categories – First World and Third World. First world is Europe and Japan, and man, this travel is not only beloved but absolutely essential in their development as white people.” OK, I’m confused, where’s the second?
Since when Japan is now a “white” populated country? The Japanese were listed a developed industrial country since 1965, heiled to be the first non-Caucasian majority land to make the list. Unfortunate for Mexico to the south of the world’s lone superpower not to ever made the list.
THIRD WORLD FACTS
About 400 million Chinese, out of 1.5 billions live like Americans or westerners.
200 million Indians are graduates from a college, tech school or university.
Ethiopia is a majority-over half Christian of the Eastern Orthodox church goes back 1,800 years.
The United Arab Emirates has acquired extremely new types of skyscraper architecture, plus the world’s tallest building.
Liberia is the port-of-call duty nation for hundreds of luxurious cruise ships.
Costa Rica offers free universal health care and ranks the lowest infant mortality rate in the hemisphere south of the Rio Grande (US border).
40% of Chileans are of European/Caucasian descent and inherited the high consumption of local top-quality wines.
South Africa cities are relics of the peak of the British and Dutch empires, like electricity, sewers, schools, hospitals and gas refineries.
And finally, Europe has 2 poor nations: Albania and Moldavia, poorer than Eurasian Russia and Asian Turkey.
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Least not mention Nepal rock bands in tourist clubs! Proof the Himalyan hermit kingdom is not isolated from the outside world. A wikipedia article is devoted to Nepali Rock.
” Here read the 10 commandments of traveler to India,
http://www.mysecretplanet.com/10-Commandments-of-India-the-traveler
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Travelers need to go by the code known as the “out of towner” code. Don’t make yourself an ugly American or westerner/white tourist dreaded worldwide. Tourist dollars are at stake, but be mindful of the host country’s culture, customs and folkways…or you’re gonna get outta there!
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“this girl nicole i hooked up with couldn’t stop talking about inca kola and south american gum! trying to impress me (a hispanic minority) about her competency of other cultures…quiet bitch…i am in your dorm for one reason…and its not to see your poster full of inca kola labels”
Ok whatever, I might see bottles of Inca cola available in a wal-mart in Southern Cal. the marketers know Peruvians out of the Latino community may want to drink it. The drink is yellow like Mountain Dew (I never liked it, looks like pee) and have no idea what it tastes like. Peruvians are known for Pisco, a distilled grape liquor they value.
It tastes like bubblegum. Nasty stuff.
Holy shit. This is me. I dont consciously do it but i do go out of my way to order german beers and a lot of the time get into stories from when i went to germany… fuck.
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I’m actually from Czech Republic. And I can say that when in Prag, one can meet these whit people there on daily basis, if not more often. Usually, they go to the biggest and most authentic looking pub/bar in the city centre and they drink “authentic local” beer.
Too bad they don’t realize the beer is 2x or 3x overpriced and 2x or 3x less quality than in non-turist places… 😀
Oh and btw. you probably confused Slovenia with Slovakia…
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When you travel, it is about the experience of meeting new people not just to get drunk, that’s dumb (if you just wanted to get drunk, go to the bars in your town), but to learn about new cultures; and do your homework so that when you get there you know about their history a little. You don’t want to be a jerk, and be like: Oh did that happened here? Oh I never heard about? Or who knows what….
Make other Americans proud when you visit another country, that you at least know where the hell you are at, and what of major importance happened there!
By the way, you will enjoy the places that you visited much more when you have information about them before actually being there.
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This is so funny! Honestly, I’m not white, but being a yuppie, I find that a lot of the stuff here applies to me too!
LOL… I once backpacked alone in this rural area of India and the villagers told me I was only the second white person who had ever slept in their village. I felt so special, especially because I had learnt many sentences in the local language whereas the previous white people didn’t speak anything. And I was writing a travel journal to later publish as a book which never eventuated.
I didn’t need to travel to find myself; I only needed to read this website. haha
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For this particular post, I’ve always thought that “white” could easily be replaced with “middle America”.
My Asian American friends all think like this too.
I… am ridiculously white…
If by ridiculously white you mean well traveled, then yes, by making note of this fact you have just proven yourself to be very, very white.
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My favorite is the traveler that looks down on all the other White travelers. This traveler has Worldliness and Cultural-sensitivity that sets them apart. I mean, no local would even recognize them as being White. Rather, they surely are mistaken for being a native. Those other White people are merely *gasp* tourists. This kind of traveler often moves on to become the next level of White Traveler: the White Ex-Pat!
The pic is SO TRUE, especially the pathetic couple on the left. You’ll find one in every hostel you go to, and they’re so into each other that they ignore you in the most irritating way. Never mind that you look 10X better than her boyfriend.
yep and you would too if your ghetto ass could afford it.
I really love this blog. I checked at my workplace (I’m a college lecturer in the UK…how white can you get?) with my colleagues and one of them amassed 50-odd white attributes on the full list! I think I scored about 20. We have white people in the UK too! Lots of them! They read the Guardian, get involved in local charity events and live in self-congratulatory gentrified hell holes like Notting Hill in London, and Chorlton in Manchester, complete with pubs with microbrewed beer, juice bars and ‘renovations’. Sadly, these white people are now trapped in a downward spiral of negative equity, redundancy (and the self-loathing that comes with it now that they can’t afford to go to Bangalore to help in that slum education project) and rising free trade coffee costs.
This blog should run a story along the lines of ‘white persons and dating.’ OK, I’m pretty white, but I’ve just come out of a relationship with THE whitest person I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. If I had a pound for every time I heard ‘when we were in [insert any asian country], the poverty was so bad, the next time we visited [insert any asian country] we brought £400 pounds worth of stationary with us to help out a local school’, I would be a millionaire! This white person, was so ‘inspired’ by how poor parts of Asia are, that she decided to plan to adopt an asian kid, and explained that this was now ‘part of who I am’, and that it was non-negotiable. It seems that this white person would score highly on the scale of whiteness and become the ultimate white person. This conversation, was, by the way, held in a sushi bar, whilst we were drinking authentic Japanese beer that was reccomended to me by my white friend as a result of her extensive travels (or for me, travails) in Asia!
I know that this blog is a mickey take (for our US readers…a sideways look at white, educated, middle class urbane culture), but please, white people, I implore you! Your experiences when travelling should not be used as a form of cultural capital, because most white, black, brown, asian, red or pink people don’t care! And in my experience, they can ruin relationships!
There’s my two cents, or pence.
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Quite an interesting academic take on travelling as cultural capital.
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Btw, you probably meant Slovakia not Slovenia, and, Czech beer is best in the world indeed. Cheers
“Czech beer is best in the world indeed”
Lager and Pilsen – sure. Other kinds – not so. A decent Czech weissbier? Nonexistent. Ale? Sorry, none of them here.
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“There are Black colleges and Black magazines, because in this country colleges and magazines and other institutions are designed for white people. ”
That’s false. Whoever has the grades, test scores and the money will be a potential candidate. You just drank the “we the victim” Kool-Aid.
To address your other talking points: the black community, I would bet a good percent, are single parented and lack a male mentor. I’ve met a good number of smart black kids who are can succeed in college, if that’s what they wanted, but they have no clue how to approach the situation.
“But in general, whites have more unfair advantages over Blacks.”
Unfair advantages?
Stop blaming the white society because people are seeing through it the excuses and calling BS on it.
I was really bored so I read and skimmed through the first 17 pages of comments and I can’t help but laugh at people who are condemning this post.
This post is so true and the comments here shows the double standard that college educated, liberal and “open minded” people have. You can’t make of them, but they can fun of people who live in the interior of the States. Boy, that college education totally failed you.
To all the Yuppies (and I qualify as one) who think they’re better than another person because he traveled to another country here’s some advice you should take to heart: stfu because your travels more than likely haven’t made into a more enlightened person, whatever that means, it just made you more annoying and stupid.
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Nah, that’s f*cking moronic and of no consequence
up to this point I was wondering if I was really white since only 2 of the previous posts sort of were a little like me (yeah, you can put this in the white people like to count reply). But I see the problem now… this site is not for all white people, just for white people from North America… maybe you should change the name to this site -stuffwhitepeoplefromnorthamericalike- dumbass or get some more knowledge about other people in this world.. and I think you should not stop at just white people so you can actually gain some proper knowledge of human beings in general, no matter what color etc…
Yo, how about going back to school and learning that it´s called Slovakia and not Slovenia once for all, you stupid, illiterate pos?
By the way, I actually happen to agree with some of the points in this blog entry. The thing that surprised me about this post was the picture next to it. At least 3 of those idiots sitting at that table are not caucasian so LOL
You look like a total idiot. Slovenia is also a country… Wikipedia much?
Shep’s post is amazing, it’s like he’s talking to himself!
But Slovenia isn´t near Czech Republic.
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The premise of the “articles” of this website are sarcastic and close to be anti-white. Like only white people are superficial these days! Ha, this whole website is quite superficial and it’s tiring that white people have to reject supporting each other because of the past stupid acts of the KKK and the slave owners. It’s interesting that anything that black people do right now is better than any other ethnic group. Why is that— other than the media which has continued to promote rap, hip-hop music and gangster rap. White people think they are better- they’re different yes. We’ve had different experiences sometimes than blacks= not necessarily more benefits or better either. Why does this website sound like all whites are royal blood or a small fixed type of people? I think this website’s views are about as narrow-minded as the main stream media is. Liberal and wanting everyone to be brainwashed and stupidly believing what they say.
Most people are too dumb to understand the point of this website or it’s humor. You can tell by their posts here… they just don’t get it.
because its supposed to be funny. its not for realios. if they wanted to be realistic, they could title this what rich white people like. which would probably make it funnier though…
i love the white people being offended on this site. it adds a whole new level. im white by the way.
I’m only half white and I relate with like 87% of this stuff… Bravo for the laughs my friend!
Sarcasm!? You don’t say? Are you serious or are you one of those ironic white hipsters?
Sarcastic!? You don’t say? Are you serious or are you one of those ironic white hipsters?
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This blog is misleading as it is only about American’s not white people in general.
And you got the “worlds” wrong or at least missed the 100 mark as you mentioned that Europe is First world is partially wrong and as example you mentioned Sweden,Slovenia and the Czech republic which were in fact Second world as they were in Soviet Union in Cold war and Thailand’s (unfortunately for the post) First world.
Although the latter part was only for your knowledge I was offended by the white people being only United states residents in your book. Though the blog seemed amusing.
Shut up.
I was curious if you ever thought of changing the structure of your blog? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having 1 or two images. Maybe you could space it out better?
lol can´t win for losing. i was talking to this dark skinned girl who´s like half thai half african and raised in america about traveling. i told her i was traveling and she´s liek OH TO WHERE? and i´m like, to europe and the middle east and she´s like, OH, REALLY, EUROPE? I WENT TO THAILAND. like europe´s been done a million and one times and shit. bet if i told her i was going to africa she´d be like OH YOU LIKE CHOCOLATE HUH.
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This article is great because my brother is returning from Thailand on Wednesday and I can almost imagine the pseudo-enlightened ish that is going to pour from his mouth. I’m going to lock myself away so I don’t have to put up with it when his friends / my family coo over his “cultured” stories. I bet he picked up an STD too.
hahahaha yea the author is funny, and the irritated commenters provided further amusement!
We are all humans and, for the most part, respond the same to many life experiences, such as traveling. Just because some kind of action gets pointed out on a website doesn’t mean that one who can relate should feel stupid.
I hope the ones writing these posts actually go out and do some things they make fun of, otherwise, they would have no life experiences. But i figure they must do them all the time since their such experts.
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This is nothing new at all. People travel all over the place. Travel just means that you have money and have no fear of problematic situations. Honestly I am getting tired of the travel stories. I mean omgsh you have been their. I get the picture when people tell those stories, or attempt to be friendly but it gets annoying to hear it. Peace core, Military, exchange student, study abroad, teacher, scored a million dollars, was successful, or just plain married somebody. So many different lame stories to be honest.
The key issue is who is paying for the travel??? That is what people do not think about.
Another funny thing is that people might travel but they have like one egg in the fridge and an empty living room. All that time you spent making money and for what? Then you spent it doing that one thing. I mean zomgsh.
Yes the travel and tourism industry is awesome indeed. I mean focusing on that alone we can see people just running around the planet so that an 1% few could travel for free and enjoy frag-mental joy. But that is every industry isn’t it.
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The only thing white people like talking about more than travelling (and yes, it can be spelled with two l’s) …is talking about TV shows. I swear no conversation among wp’s fails to include “isn’t it like on (insert TV show or movie here) when (actor) said (whatever he said)!” It’s as if people didn’t have childhoods, or experiences….?!! Even as adults, the main experience is still ..fiction..something someone on TV did or said….it’s weird, man.
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And they love inventing stuff. I mean what the hell white people!?!? They invent cars, phones, air planes, modern medicine.
And they keep track of history; give it a break already white people! I would otherwise have no history of my African heritage, but here come some white people being all like “hey, look what we found out about your people and were able to track thanks to our writing and literature!?”
Like… what the hell!? My people chucked spears, and slaid competing tribes for land control. End of story.. .leave my African history alone. White people can go back to inventing their stupid inventions like computers, rockets, space travel and internet. Leave us alone.
Hmm, a little racist i think
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Just play rastafarian music, then you can charge white people double what you were and they will still think you are down to earth and care more about their well-being than profits.
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living in a third world country with a friend who’s a WP chaser (white fever? what do you call it a woman from another race who wants to marry WP and only WP?) allows me to meet this kind of WP almost every month. It’s really funny to see them keep talking for 3 days straight about their spiritual enlightment but somehow got confused and sometimes even contradict themselves in the process. they’re mostly overwhelmed by the spiritual enlightening processes so that they forgot how to talk about casual things like weather, music, and TV series. oh, right. they don’t watch TV because media is evil. “you should not trust media, you should see it by yourself” they are not into pop culture and even see one Rihanna’s MV and said things like “what’s wrong with that girl???”. they also do not use many social media. “just facebook”.
they keep on saying “if you have a time you should try meditate here or there it’s good it was life changing I feel like a different person” and also “I don’t believe in religion. they’re fucked up always ended up killing innocent people and are oppresive toward women. but when I travelled to India I found this cult that’s lead by a woman. it is a minority and hated by the government I don’t know why because their teaching actually makes sense! yknow unlike major religions out there”. they are sometimes kinda icky because they barely change clothes? I even met a woman who traveled for 18 months (or more I don’t remember) with only ONE backpack! shit can’t be real?! but she said “it teaches you that attachment to material things is not important”. I found it true but not to this extreme. most of these spiritual enlightment stories are interesting. but it gets really annoying when they begin preaching it without any strong bases and basically just say it because they really want to say it hut haven’t found anybody to hear about it until now. it gets really confusing because the more they talk the more they contradict themselves. but most of these WP are those in their 30s. younger WP mostly went here to teach english or to volunteer. those who volunteer in NGOs mostly are not interested in pop culture or casual talk as they are mostly kinda uptight.
but still, no matter how uptight or how they told you they don’t have TV or to never trust media and religion, they all watch Game of Thrones. so you can always talk about that 😉
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imagine 20 years later, 1400 million chinese will be richer than 650 million white people, the latter will no longer find it any fun in traveling in east countries.
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that day will come, slowly but surely.
This is a very racist story. I don’t know anyone who has traveled to Europe. Not all white people are rich. I have heard several black people in YouTube talking about their vacation to Europe. You need to stop being so racist. I have found several sites on the internet telling the best places for black people to go on vacation. Is there such places for just white people? No because it is very racist but Blacks are not called out…I am calling them out and you too.
I need to shoot up, no no not dope, with preperation H, my asshole is on fucking fire, and that itch! With that being said, let me get to the topic at hand. I base my travel, on the strip joints and whores, why else would I go anywhere, that is the only choice for a guy like me. One of the best whores I ever fucked was from Italy, really good.