White people are pretty conflicted about their culture. On one hand, they are proud of the art, literature, and film produced by white culture. But at the same time, they are very ashamed of all the bad things in white culture: the KKK, colonialism, slavery, Jim Crow laws, feudalism, and the treatment of native americans.
One way they can make up for it is becoming marginally acquainted with foreign cultures. It is generally acceptable for a white person to learn a few terms in a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese). They can then use these phrases to order certain ‘more authentic’ dishes in restaurants.
White people can also take passing interest in film, politics, music or art from these countries. When they actually meet someone from that country, or at least who has parents from that country they cannot wait to engage you in all the details that they have learned.
“Have you heard the new Andy Lau CD? It’s awesome!”
It is imperative that you recognize how special and unique this white person is for knowing about your culture. Acceptable responses include “Wow, I’ve never seen a white person order chicken feet,” or “How did you find about that film? I didn’t think they had dubbed it yet.”
These responses will fill white people with that self satisfaction they need. Also, they consider a reminder that they are not racist, which also makes them feel terrific.
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Thank you for using me in this way. I appreciate being your token white girl.
AWESOME!
I love the way some of us have to constantly self-hypnotize themselves into thinking they aren’t racist.
There are two types of people in the world; racists and liars.
There are two types of WHITE people in the world: racists and liars.
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this is the best blog ever.
Duh, is anyone supposed to be proud of both good and bad parts of their culture?
“White people are pretty conflicted about their culture. On one hand, they are proud of the art, literature, and film produced by white culture. But at the same time, they are very ashamed of all the bad things in white culture.”
I know what thing about chu’ white devils, yall stole me from my country, AFRICA!
This is most obnoxious part about being white. But its important to understand that this “expertise” is based on white peoples own self-hatred.
White people are so ignorant of history they actually believe that they’re the only people in history ever to have “oppressed” other people. They are also totally convinced that no people have ever “oppressed” white people.
The invasions and untold slaughters into Europe by the Mongols, Moors, Arabs, Turks, Huns, and other assorted Asian or North African peoples is one big blank of history. Even more comical is the idea that places like “the New World” were like great big Grateful Dead concerts before Europeans arrived. Never mind the Aztecs wiping out the Incas or sacrificing over 20,000 babies so the sun would rise in the morning, white people don’t want to hear it.
Don’t tell a white person that the Arab slave trade consumed 10 times more black Africans compared to their own slave trade as the white will explain that the Arabs treated their slaves much better. And NEVER bring up the fact to a white person that the Muslims also enslaved an untold number of white slaves out of Europe during the “Dark Ages.”
This is a form of White supremacism that is very misunderstood. Its basically telling the world “well, we expect you to slaughter, invade, colonize people but we’re white, so its very bad if we do it and not so much if you do.” Its basically telling the world that their a bunch of animals, who of course act like animals but only whites should be held accountable because they’re white (Read: Human).
The reason whites become “experts” in other cultures is to suppress the hate they feel towards their own feelings of superiority. It sounds confusing but its kind of like letting your little niece win in checkers to make her feel good and afterwords feeling bad about it. A white person must never show any positive feelings towards anything accomplished by a white person but must always point out that when a non-white accomplishes something that they were the “first” fill-in-the-blank to do so. At the same time, if a white person accomplishes something its for “humanity” or for “mankind.” To you non-whites reading this, I know this must sound confusing as hell but we’re a very strange people.
Don’t forget “being an expert on your religion”. I especially love it when someone who takes a ten-week history course on something other than European history brings it up in almost every applicable conversation.
My favorite meal is fried chicken and watermelon. I would much rather have this than the best tenderloin.
White guilt, FTL.
“I know what thing about chu’ white devils, yall stole me from my country, AFRICA!”
Propper use of an apostrophe when ebonicizing a post is generally a dead ‘white person’ giveaway.
The new Andy Lau CD ‘is’ awesome. . . .
This is the best blog ever!
White people are the ones who vigoursly romanticize selling out their own heritage. No other group does this with as much guiltless passion as white people. Think about it. DANCES WITH WOLVES? FAREWELL TO THE KING (no one saw that movie). Imagine a story about about a African man who goes off and lives with the Amish and turns his back on his roots. Unthinkable! But to white people…rejecting their heritage is cool!
You know what’s awesome, when they want to say your name properly. No matter how many times you tell them they can’t make that noise and you don’t care if they miss the silent “h”, they gotta do it right because their ancestors fucked up something in your country.
It doesn’t make you a better person to learn how to same my name with the right accent. It doesn’t make you a bad one to say it like you have a western accent, relax.
Aswhiteasitgets: why would that be confusing to non-whites? its all part of whiteness… we’re now starting to study you like you have been all of us.
Gaurav:
“There are two types of WHITE people in the world: racists and liars.”
Yellow people are about as racist as whites, and unlike in the white countries, there aren’t many minority groups in their countries to tell them they shouldn’t be that way.
Look at China, Korea, and Japan. Koreans allow natives of English-speaking countries to come to Korea and teach English. You should note, however, that they don’t allow South Africans, Jamaicans, Zimbabweans, etc. Hmmm….
White people are terrified of confrontation, especially with an ethnic person. Especially when race is brought up
Never mind the Aztecs wiping out the Incas
The Aztecs and Inca never fought. They were too far away (Aztecs were in Mexico and Inca in Peru).
I’m pretty sure Portuguese people are white by almost every definition.
@Kel: Ssshh, don’t share white-masked-as-black decoding key.
I remember paying for one of those bullshit DNA Genographic tests. Turns out my culture consists of many different types of white people. I want my money back.
Seriously, “Aztecs wiping out the Incas?”
Being a fucking idiot pretty much disqualifies your opinion, honky.
No way Johnathan! Portuguese people aren’t white. Didn’t you see Mystic Pizza?
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don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
“The Aztecs and Inca never fought. They were too far away (Aztecs were in Mexico and Inca in Peru).
Thank you sir, I meant the Mixtec’s (Spanish conquered the Incas).
Dammit, I hate being white.
P.S. This blog is brilliant.
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After making the above mistake, it bothered me so much I went and talked to a MesoAmerican anthropologist at my school about the Aztecs. It turns out that children were only about 20% of sacrifices made by the Aztecs.
For the reconsecration of the great pyramid of Tenochtitlan, there was an estimated 84,000 sacrifices over four days.
Also, the sacrifices were not for the sun to shine, they were for rain. It was also pointed out that Mixtecs weren’t totally wiped out by the Aztecs.
But here’s the best part!!!!!
After the MesoAmerican anthropologist told me this, she then went on to say “but this was nothing compared to the death the Spanish inflicted on them.”
I couldn’t contain my laughter at that point, as she confirmed my point. To white people, the only bad killing is done by white people. If non-white people kill in large numbers, this is to be expected because their non-humans. However, white people can never be forgiven for killing since we’re human.
This is why we should never fear making mistakes. As mistakes can lead to a greater understanding later. Had I never made the mistake in the first place, I would have never visited the anthropologist. And if I never visited her, I wouldn’t have been able to confirm the above idea.
ONLY WHITE PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS!!!! The ultimate form of White Supremacy.
“Dammit, I hate being white.” (-Jason)
Hey blog owner, you need to add this one to the list. Only white people hate their own race. Other races, actually celebrate their races, but white people actually hate their race so much, they take on the persona’s of the worst elements of other races(See Wiggers).
I’m white and I don’t know much about other cultures. Let’s hang.
the thing i don’t like about being white is i can’t wear bright colors and grow dreadlocks without looking like an alien.
other than that, i’m dutch, and proud of it!
You can do anything you like Alex.
Did I forget to sign that?
Love,
Black People
Why do we have call blacks African American but no one would ever consider calling whites europen americans? Most blacks have been in this contenent longer then most whites. And if a white even stands up for himself after being discriminated against he or she is deemed the racist. White people have to fight for everything we’ve ever had and you non whites can’t accept that, you think we just handed to us. It’s all bullshit I’m proud to be of Europen blood and if anyone has a problem with that go f*#ck yourself!
cheers bro, I’m glad their are still some smart people left. Another thing people don’t realize is that it was the arabs who started the slave trade, white just bought them. And look at the situation in Africa now the white are being opressed by the blacks. You’re right is all bullshit but don’t worry whites will always be ok, because we can adapt to any and all situations and climates so you other races better learn to live with it, peace.
You are still aware that besides some isolated incidents the (unofficial in most cases) racial system put in place in Africa (especially South Africa), Brazil, and France still places Blacks and other non-whites at a lower rung on the social ladder than those of ‘white’ skin complexion or ‘European blood.’
And really what have you had to ‘fight for’, was it the general trend for most of the world’s society to automatically place you at a higher level in the social caste system worldwide? Perhaps it’s how most of the wealth in the world is in the hands of a only a few-predominantly white- men? Could it also be how subconsciously in most ‘1rst world societies’ whiteness is deemed with goodness whereas blackness or ‘non-whiteness’ is deemed to be inferior (see the numerous tests done on this.)
Still, we should note that overcompensating this by ‘reverse’ racism is not the way to get a solution to racial tensions.
Also English is not my first language. So please excuse the above post if it is hard to understand.
This is true in asia whites are treated with respect aswell, it’s only in norh america where whites are being punished for what their ancestors did. And for the most part its white people who are doing it. The visible minorities are just enjoying the benefits, can’t really blame them we’re doing it to ourselves, hopefully we’ll wake up soon before it’s too late.
yeah, running the country is a huge punishment. only white people complain that they’re being persecuted for no reason. nevermind the lack of evidence of persecution(unlike for example the juducial system, which is totally set up so minorities fill up the prisons). honestly, racism within non white culture is solved in a very simple manner: just fuck up whoever insulted you.
Pra,
“You are still aware that besides some isolated incidents the (unofficial in most cases) racial system put in place in Africa (especially South Africa), Brazil, and France still places Blacks and other non-whites at a lower rung on the social ladder than those of ‘white’ skin complexion or ‘European blood.’”
You must not have studied much history. When human groups interact or share a peice of territory or compete for resources, the result is always more or less predictably the same. It has nothing to do with the specifics of white people. The specificity with which you call attention to these examples illustrates that you have this blind spot, whereas ever since we have records human groups have been doing this to one another.
“…unlike for example the juducial system, which is totally set up so minorities fill up the prisons…”
Yeah, okay, I know that there are studies e.g. crack vs. coccaine and the death penatly showing a bias, so this is legit. Still, I get annoyed with the victimization. Guess what? Minorities sell and use more Schedule 2 and 3 drugs than white people. But I guess we should excuse it because–poor them–they got caught? Let’s reverse the racism and throw more white people in jail for drug use–it is their fault, after all, that you had to resort to selling meth instead of getting a job, right?
I disagree with #20. I don’t feel ashamed at all of what my ancestors did, or what any other white person’s ancestors did. So they conquered your people, destroyed your culture, and raped the land of its resources. Tough shit.
If #42 was intended to be tongue and cheek it’s funny, if not then God help us all.
I guess it was.
HEY silideo you sound like another pussy with a gun!
So let me get this straight, do us white people just have things easy because why we make up most of the worlds population no, we’re bigger physically then all other races don’t think so, we’re smarter, can’t even say that most asians are brilliant I’m not sure about the other races, so what is it, does god just prefer us I doubt it. What do you folks think. By the way I personally don’t think whites have it better maybe just in ceratin areas of the world were evryone else is lead to believe their hard done by, here’s a suggestion move, it’s how white people ended up in America in the first place. They didn’t like the way they were being treated in the their homeland so they left. Didn’t bitch didn’t right songs or rap about it they left and persued a better life. I know you new immigrants did the same so that must mean this place is better then whatever you ran away from so stop putting down white folks. And African Americans who claim they’re discriminated againt and shit, no white man or woman is ever can stop you from going some place else, I hear Kenya is nice.
I agree with this post. any white person who knows anything about anything from a culture that is not caucasio-american is a lame poseur. If white folks want to become experts on a culture they should just read up about Apple computers and Peanuts cartoons and other things that are made for whites by whites.
I love this. I am pretty white, culturally (marathon running while listening to David Sedaris…), but my mom is Central American and I have been bullied by WHITE people for not really being Hispanic because I don’t do the things they learned about on their mission trips to save the people I am claiming to be “my people.” I got some scholarships from Latin-American groups and my white friends got so pissed at me because in their minds being Latino means you have to have smudges of dirt on your face, a worn plastic rosery in your hand, and no ability to pronounce a J sound. Its so fucked up, but …really bold of them.
Thank you for this blog! It is equal parts funny, sarcastic and TRUE! I have alot of white friends who are cool primarily for the fact that they recognize and embrace the things that make them white instead of hating themselves for it. I haven’t read the whole blog but you must include the way white people really make a point of calling any Black person, no matter where they were born, “African-American” instead of Black. All the white people I know who have lightened up (no pun intended) used to do this around me, until I made it a point to call them Irish- American, Armenian- American, etc.
Oh god, amazing!
I can honestly say that I fail to suffer from white guilt. I think it’s mostly because both sides of my family (the gypsy/black side and the polish/irish side) got to the USA party a good thirty years after slavery was abolished. That being said, I know I didn’t do anything. The only African-American History class I ever took was because I dropped some speech class and needed to replace it with something else.
And sure, I was the only white person there, but we were all there to bullshit everything. I didn’t feel guilty, even when we were talking about the parts when my ancestors would have been chilling. Human nature is kind of all about stabbing, enslaving, blowing up or otherwise harming people different from them. Whites are far from the only people who do this.
““I know what thing about chu’ white devils, yall stole me from my country, AFRICA!”
Propper<——wrong use of an apostrophe when ebonicizing a post is generally a dead ‘white person’ giveaway.”
Don’t be a spelling douche, and if you must, then use “proper” spelling.
Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai…
David Anders as Samurai Kane in Heroes…
Michael Angarano as some White teen in Chinese mythology (The Forbidden Kingdom)…
Does this racist Hollywood revisionism ever end???
to whoever thought that “Portuguese people are white” is a solid rebuttal of this post – Brazil
My family immigrated from Iraq, and I am fair skinned with brown hair and hazel eyes. Call me whatever you want, but if I ever get this “you’re a privileged white boy” or “your family owned slaves” shit I will reeducate you – the easy way or the hard way.
Whomever made this entry is some ignorant non-white American; it’s not just white people who cop Middle Eastern shit, that’s for sure. Every time I meet an American or European with the name Elijah, or an African or Bangladeshi with the name Ali, I just laugh. You people are pathetic.
People from Brazil are Brazilian. The majority of them are from mixed Portuguese and native American descent. People from Portugal are pretty white. Maybe a shade darker then most other Europeans.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I know I’m privileged. I know that makes my opinion on a lot of matters related to culture less important, respectively.
But learning about other people is never wrong.
I try not to be self important about it, and I’m sure I fail miserably sometimes, or all the time, depending on the audience.
But still, I’m not going to apologize for being interested in someone other than me.
WHO MADE THIS BLOG?! YOU ARE A GENIUS!
Just reading these defensive comments makes me tear with joy. You have nailed all of the most annoying attributes of guilty white culture. Americans and especially the white ones, parade around the world with their philanthropic hats on and their blinders drawn. It’s hilarious and condescending at once. Kudos…
haha true
It must be said, i think this post applies almost exclusively to white Americans.
Being British – this has been something i have noted of Americans. In Britain i think it’s less self loathing, more of a melancholy feeling – given our past, the nature of nation now and our language.
Dont mistake me for being a patriot (thats something very American aswell), but i would argue that the UK has a very interesting cultural landscape – and not a whole lot to be ashamed of to be honest. (Though we are sometimes infuriated by our own past).
Clearly, i don’t speak for the nation as a whole – but thats always been one of the differences i saw between the two nations. Heart the US btw 🙂
Cheers.
Re: #55 – interesting point about the race people perceive when they look at you vs. what your ethnicity is.
That said, people from “Africa” or Bangladesh might be named Ali because…guess what? They might *just* be Muslim. And doesn’t Ali, like, have something to do with Islam? And not just Arabs, Arab-Islam, Iraq, or the Middle East?
haha..yes, this is true. when I was in 7th grade, I went on a school field trip to an african museum. It was ran by White people and one of the guides there asked me what was my African ancestry. How the hell would I know?? Then she looked at me and decided what part of Africa I may have came from. She felt she was an expert because her “husband was blacK”.
Portugal is in the west coast of europe and portuguese people are white. You should do some search first.
The Portuguese are white you fucktard.
Portuguese are white, seein ghtat I have some Portuguese blood myself. Anyways, Chinese sounds terrible. Vietnamese sounds better but still awful. I happen to one of those halfies whose father didn’t teach the language. White people are usually misinformed as all hell about other cultures. Nothing beats being asked questions that even my father doesn’t know. Oh, and they need to stop looking at these cultures like they are godly since most non-Western cultures accept forms of “barbarism” that the same hypocrites trying to preach diversity try to bar from the world.
One time I was talking to this guy from India at an underground arty place while we were waiting for a presentation on the Iraq War to start. He was telling me about his writings and the conflicts he’s had living in the U.S. and his traditional Indian upbringing. The conversation was getting really interesting and meaty when this hipster white chick totally interrupts to tell him “how much she loves India!” and then spent the next 20 minutes describing her love of all things Indian, totally random, inane stuff. I was really angry but perhaps he was used to it cause he just sat there listening to her go on and on about his culture.
-a Chicana
“You must not have studied much history. When human groups interact or share a peice of territory or compete for resources, the result is always more or less predictably the same. It has nothing to do with the specifics of white people. The specificity with which you call attention to these examples illustrates that you have this blind spot, whereas ever since we have records human groups have been doing this to one another.
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Of course they have. It is such condescension that I’ve come to expect on such debates…casually dusting the issue under the rug seems to always be the case-especially when confronted with the woefully ugly reality of colonialism. You cannot sidestep the fact that through colonialism people of color were undoubtedly treated as minorities in their own countries; minorities in the terms as second class citizens when they clearly outnumbered their white masters.
I am not denying that human nature causes many to display supercilious attitudes towards a minority group, but this point is totally irrelevant to the issue. It overlooks the pangs of colonialism…but let me ask you, why are the poorer nations that were subject to colonialism amongst the poorest in the world today? Why are people on non-white color amongst the poorest in the world today? Why is it that subconciously white is always denoted as ‘good’ whereas black or non-whiteness is deemed as bad? It’s deeply ingrained in us through this horrible time period. And the fact that you would choose to ignore this in your little indignant outcry is foolish and pitiable.
so do white people really feel guilty or even understand their culture did nothing but rob from people of other cultures?? It seems that was the only way they knew how to be superior but stealing and killing. im Asian and i have looked into the history of this country ( America ) and the white culture seems so mean and evil, yet they always cry for power and respect and want to be superior, and have there nose in the air about everything thats not white?? they just don’t seem humble, or understand the concept of humility. They should for im afraid in my culture the worst is yet to come for their race if they don’t practice true values…only evil can come from evil..we pray for the American white culture – we really do. God bless those who are not white in America, the best is yet to come for you – and the world is already seeing this…
Asian
About as White as it gets…what kind of bizarre alternate universe are you living in? You pose to be so elevated in your thinking that you “give” people of color agency in brutality against one another, yet you sound no different than other ignorant whites who minimize white oppression by saying “we’re all racist.” Only whites talk about “giving” people of color agency in their oppression which simultaneously reduces white involvement in it and gives them the warm feeling that comes with patronizing another race by trumping them up. And with that they say things like “there are two sides to apartheid” “Africans sold Africans into slavery too” “even some Native Americans killed other Native Americans,” etc. This excuses whites of their involvement in the oppression of people of color. It’s pretty transparent however and easily refutable with FACTS:
Fact 1: The exact number of blacks who were killed in the Atlantic Slave Trade is not precise and ranges from 3-10 million lives…so when you say “10 times as many blacks were killed in the Arab slave trade” which figure are you referring to? 30 million or 100 million?…because I completely doubt either. You would have either bested every slave scholar in the world by knowing more than them tor you just pulled some stat out of your ass thinking we would blindly accept your slightly elevated “we’re all racist” theorizing.
Fact 2: Europeans introduced chattel slavery, the system of slavery used in the Atlantic Slave Trade, to the world. First the Greeks, later the Europeans involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Meaning, despite whatever slavery in which other ethnic groups were involved, it was European slavery that categorized other human beings as sub-human property without any contractual rights.
Fact 3: I would like to know which whites feel that asserting facts about European colonialism is somehow an expression of White supremacy? I wonder if it’s only you and a small percentage of whites who take this asinine perception of European history.
Fact 4: Again this blog refers to do-good liberal whites, not whites in general (meaning most). What most whites gave us about blackness and other ethnicities has come in the form of scientific racism and media stereotyping. It’s generally people of color who talk about the accomplishments of people of color, not whites.
Fact 5: Did you not attend public school? The vast majority of what is in high school textbooks focuses on the accomplishments of whites, and they not only show their pride in their white history by engulfing themselves in their history, but they stuff it down the throats of black, yellow, and brown children!
Fact 5: Your reverse psychology BS has failed miserably. Study up a little more and then you might convince a few people to agree with your backwards logic. Scurry along with your postmodernist, humanist, “we’re all really African” color-blind friends.
I love how white people make me feel at home in my own country.
Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine it to be the same feeling they get when Jack Johnson has a new album out =)
“So let me get this straight, do us white people just have things easy because why we make up most of the worlds population no, we’re bigger physically then all other races don’t think so, we’re smarter, can’t even say that most asians are brilliant I’m not sure about the other races, so what is it, does god just prefer us I doubt it. What do you folks think?”
Firstly, whites don’t have it easy everywhere. That’s a big myth. Just look at the Southern United States (and rural America in general), and former Eastern Bloc countries. Anglo English and Jewish (I consider many to be white, especially European ones) seem to be the richest white groups, across the world and especially in the States.
Are whites bigger? Well, yes, except for some Africans, they tend to be the tallest, and only Japanese Sumos and Polynesians tend to outweigh us. I don’t know what it has to do with prosperity, but hey — you asked.
Smarter? Average, not really (northeast Asians, south Asians and Middle-Easterners have similar IQ averages), but whites do have a high “genius” factor. Newton, Franklin, Edison, Einstein, and all the inventors can’t be overlooked. These don’t make the whole white race smarter, but having them around tends to make for more technologically advanced societies. All a group really needs is a larger top end of the bell curve. Since the numbers of geniuses needed are so small, any slight difference in genetics makes a huge difference in tech. advancement.
Actually harsher environments are better for advancement, as they give a group more motivation to make their living environment confortable.
Another key factor is difference in languages. Indo-European languages are pretty similar across the board, and heaviliy using old Latin and Greek in scientific language helps the group optimize its numbers and thrive.
And since you mentioned it, yes I do believe in some form of providence (I’m religious), but I think the European race is quickly losing favor in this age. The West is on it’s way down if something isn’t done to reverse the trend. East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East is on the rise in world. They may take western countries’ place in a few decades.
BTW, I do study other cultures besides white, but most of all I love the culture of my ancestors. American about 300 years back, and then back to Europe in Sweden, Scotland, Germany, and other countries. There really isn’t a “European culture”, just there like there isn’t a “African”, “Native American”, “Asian” or “Polynesian” culture. Heck, America itself has at least 10 distinguisable cultural regions.
They are related cultures, yes, but they have plenty of individual characteristics that make them unique.
Also, I don’t buy into white guilt. Anyone that says we have a “heartless”, or “cruel” culture would do well to look at the imperfections and downright flaws in their own cultures. Stuff like human sacrifice, slavery (whites didn’t invent it, sorry), wars, violent dictators, and other great stuff. Yeah whites have had the same stuff pop up from time to time. No one group is perfect. I’ll take white culture because it is what produced me. I’m not proud of everything, but it’s not like I’m going to bail and pretend to “join” an equally flawded cultural system.
Flawed, not Flawded
“I have mixed feelings about this one. I know I’m privileged. I know that makes my opinion on a lot of matters related to culture less important, respectively.
But learning about other people is never wrong.
I try not to be self important about it, and I’m sure I fail miserably sometimes, or all the time, depending on the audience.
But still, I’m not going to apologize for being interested in someone other than me.”
I agree with this post. Of course there is a part of the white population that takes undeserved pride in their scant knowledge of other cultures/people/religions/whatever. This is totally obnoxious, but I’m not going to say I haven’t done it. But isn’t that better than just associating with people who think and act exactly like you?
On a strictly person-to-person level, if I meet a random foreigner who brings up Justin Timberlake or Celine Dion or whatever to show that (s)he is familiar with my culture, I can react with scorn and say “Oh, you’re just trying to prove how cool you are, loser,” or I can take it as a sincere attempt to be friendly and find common ground. This goes for anyone, anywhere: some white people are trying to make up for white guilt, some white people are looking for common ground because it makes good small talk conversation, and some white people just genuinely like Andy Lau.
*shrug* It’s not that complicated.
I am white & proud and I am not ashamed of historical activities such as Jim Crow laws, the KKK, colonialism or slavery. In fact I believe African Americans owe use white people a debt overall because while impoverished compared to white people, they are far better off than their left behind African cousins by and large.
But black people repay white people with disproportionate crime rates, STD infection rates, and overall consumption of public resources (instead of contribution).
White people don’t have it easy, but they do have it pretentious =)
Heres one, white people like…Creating and developing a productive civilisation and society that tries to better the standard of living amongst its participants. Bag it out all you like, but white people have been pretty farking good at developing their culture (and yes this goes beyond america!)….rome wasnt built in a day, but it sure is a lot fucking better then downtown lagos, Nigeria.
Maybe the authors of some of these blogs might want to go and work in some areas of India, the Middle East, China, Africa and Sth America to get a good appreciation of how productive non-white people can be. They could discover the wonders of the ‘cast’ systems in India, or the use of ‘labour’ in Saudi (not to mention gender equality) by the arabs, or perhaps they might want to view how wonderfully the native inhabitants of Nigeria deal with corruption and disease…Perhaps you could even visit central Australia and see how tribal law is initiated. im sure we all agree that as white culture is soooo fucked up that it would be crazy to stay inside of the very walls of this society and reap its benefits – why would you not want to move back to Africa, China, India or wherever the fuck white culture doesnt exist….
Or you could just write a blog
Non-whites are just as racist as whites. This blog is a prime example of that.
White people’s biggest problem is that far too often, we are lions lead by donkeys.
I wouldnt have wanted to be on the ship coming from africa to britain, but neither would I have wanted to have been forced onto the train in WW1 – taking me to a battle that i knew i could not escape, and would not survive.
Everything said here is complete BS. This issue cannot ever be resolved. The people who dont want to change their minds are the ones generalizing about one another’s culture. This is especially true for no.68, what a complete nut.
The sooner that people realise that all races are equal, but all cultures are NOT equal – the better.
Actually, White people HAVE no culture whatsoever. Culture-wise, they haven’t brought anything to the table.
When a white person makes some sort of new “cultural innovation,” it’s just recycled from what another race left alone, or didn’t go “mainstream.”
Look at music. White people love Rock and country. Country was made off the sweat of Blues. Rock and roll was originated by Blacks in the 40’s and 50’s. Don’t believe me? Go to wikipedia and look up Rock and roll.
The only thing “cultural” about all whites in the world is their destructive tendencies. From stories stemming from “the bible” (white man’s stolen religion) to the Crusades, the Inquisitions, Slavery, the British occupation in Africa, Hitler (let’s not forget, if Hitler was an immigrant, he’d be seen as a white person), whites have been trying to basically own the world, or sculpt the world into something that they can control.
CONTROL! That’s what white people can say is their culture! Trying to control everything that the eye can see! White people LOVE control! Feeling Superior to everything and everyone!
You all see it from this blog! Almost every entry into this blog has been about how “White people like to be in win-win situations,” “…like to feel better than…”
Fingers getting tired, and I’ve gotta get a cup of coffee to start my day.
Some pretty cool white guys wrote the constitution, which enables you to have this conversation. And yeah, no one had seen anything like it before.
The insidious thing about films like Dances With Wolves and Farewell to the King, is that the seem to be about white people who turn their backs on their culture…but they are actually about white people marginallizing others and telling “their” story through the eyes of a white person…something I call the Tarzan Factor…In the process oversimplifying, over romanticizing and ultimately misunderstanding others.
80 – you have no idea what you are talking about. If you think rock and roll and country is ‘core’ white culture, you sir are gravely mistaken.
I can see how you might be disillusioned with American white culture – as generic as much of it seems – but you are in dire need of broadening your scope in any case.
[…] White people like many things. One of the main things they like is to be confronted with their “whiteness”. They want to atone for the sin of being white. Note that “being white” does not include shopping at Wal-Mart or following evangelicalism. “Being white” means acting in the manner of those white people who have power and interest in exploring their role in society. All of their attempts to better themselves or society though are in order to feel moral superiority or “less white”. White people who care about the pain of animals choose not to eat them, but ultimately this is so they can feel as though they are helping the environment AND it gives them a sweet way to feel superior to others. White people who are excited by learning about other cultures do it in order that you know how special and unique they are. […]
“White people who care about the pain of animals choose not to eat them, but ultimately this is so they can feel as though they are helping the environment AND it gives them a sweet way to feel superior to others. White people who are excited by learning about other cultures do it in order that you know how special and unique they are.”
This might be true for some white people. It might also be true that some white people care about the pain of animals and don’t want to eat them. They ultimately just don’t want to hurt animals and don’t give a damn about anyone else’s superiority complexes.
Not all white people haven’t bought into the “everything I do is to feel superior to others” motivation that seems to be popular here.
Three suggestions for “Captain Cook”
1. Learn the rules of your own language (i.e. capitalization, punctuation, etc.) before you rant on the internet about how fantastic your race is. You’re an embarrassment for many reasons, one of which is your poor grammar.
2. Follow your own advice and live in some of the areas you recommend to others. Perhaps that will cure you of your cultural ignorance.
3. Relax and learn how to understand comedy.
I LOVE that picture. Even after my four years at BU, this is a sight that I NEVER got used to seeing.
I posted this under another entry, but you have to acknowledge the PUTUMAYO music collection.
It takes recording artists from around the world and packages them onto CD’s exclusively (apparently) for us whites. You can check them out at a listening booth in any–you guessed it–WHOLE FOODS.
i wonder why no one has pointed this out yet:
this entire blog is “knowing about white culture” in an ironic anthropological sense.
so “white people are funny cause they say things about other cultures” is a little circular, eh?
i am a white dude and it just hits me when i see the phrase “being an expert on YOUR culture” that this poster is actually talking about my culture.
that said, this blog is a very funny look at the idiosyncrasies that make up white culture. it parodies the white liberal very well.
so all this really means is that theres a little white person in all of us (well of course me, but you too) and that its probably OK to know stuff about other cultures as long as youre not a dick about it.
isnt it also kind of funny that liberals of all stripes seem to constantly apologize for right wing theocrats because theyre in “another culture”? does it rub you the wrong way when i say iran isnt free cause they jail and exile intellectuals?
Re. 47/Damian; “…do us white people just have things easy…”
A book that everyone on the planet should read is _Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Society_ by Jared Diamond. It answers your question and explains how it was due to accidents of geography, and not racial superiority, that resulted in western europe developing technology first. It’s extremely good but it didn’t address the phenomenon of how a single idea can transform a society. For example, the spread of Christianity & the Protestant Reformation with it’s emphasis on mass-literacy and the novel idea (at the time) that we’re all equal (before God and by extension the law).
If you like that one you’d also like _The Wealth and Poverty of Nations_ by David S. Landes.
I’m white and I don’t think that I feel any “white guilt” or self-loathing. As other people here have pointed out every group has screwed over some other group at some time or another in it’s history. My group has screwed over some other groups but we also invented damn near everything worth having (and liberated half the planet and apologized to the various groups that we screwed over).
I mean, I’m grateful to the chinese for inventing pasta, paper, porcelain and the compass but if you like air-conditioning, electricity, plumbing; democracy and the rule-of-law; the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, the industrial revolution; radio, television, movies and the internet…etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. (another 1,000 etceteras)…frozen pizza…then find a white male and give him a big hug.
I struggle with the question “Am I prejudiced?” Prior to going into the Army at the age of 17 in 1976 I had scarcely encountered any minorites. In the Army I encountered, and went to war with, the _finest_ men that our nation is capable of producing–black, white and brown. (I also encountered a great many sociopathic degenerates–black, white and brown).
And my mother very dileberately didn’t try to instill in me any prejudices that she had. (And she would admit that she has some). Arguably every opinion that I have about other races & ethnicities isn’t based on pre-judging, they’re based on 32 years of fairly objective observation.
I don’t think that I’m racist or prejudiced–I just call’em like I see’em. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
“only white people complain that they’re being persecuted for no reason. ”
Well, them and American Evangelical Christians.
I love this blog — especially “Bikes”– I too have a fantasy of living in a small French village, riding a bike, buying bread, cheese and wine and putting it in my bike-basket, and cooking dinner for my friends.
I think that this conversation is fascinating, because I sometimes feel awkward when discussing others’ cultures with them. Interestingly, no one has every discussed “my” culture with me — most of the immigrants with whom I interact in public assume certain things about me because I’m American and rarely discuss it. Most are delighted when I ask questions about their culture.
I also think this conversation is fascinating because the categories we use — “white,” “black,” “culture,”– are relatively recent categories in the history of human thought. (Thanks, Carolus Linneus) Is racism different from the more traditional xenophobia? Is it more destructive to hate and fear other people because of the color of their skin than to hate and fear them because they come from the country that has a traditional, age-old rivalry with your country? I’m not sure. I think it makes as much sense to hate and fear people because their skin is “black” as to feel proud of their accomplishments because their skin is “white.”
Would “geographically advantaged” be a better category to describe a group of people? Seems silly to me, but it might make more sense, cf. Jared Diamond. Am I “geographically advantaged” because I was born in America in the 20th century?
Ooh, touché on this one. Sad… I’m gonna be spending the rest of today trying to make myself feel better about this post.
I just hope my Korean and Indian (-American) coworkers aren’t feeling a lot of contempt when they say I know more about their culture than they do. 😦
This blog isn’t about WHITE people per se, this blog is about RICH liberal AMERICAN pseudo-intellectual people. These are the white people you meet at Universities. In America. By which I mean that the majority of rich liberal arts students at expensive colleges in the US are white.
Coincidentally.
Ahem.
I believe that the term you’re looking for is “les bourgeois.”
Man… you have no idea how REAL this shit it.
I remember this one white female co-worker. She was an expert on EVERY damn culture.
African American? Check.
Native American? Check.
Serbian? Check.
Indian? Check.
So on and so forth.
So, we had a Native American co-worker who was annoyed by her know-it-all-ness. He started in on a story and she jumped in to let everyone know that she knew all about this-that-and-the-third.
He stopped speaking. Gave her a solid gaze and asked, “Do you mind if I play the expert this time?”
Ouch!
Portuguese are white.
That nation fits in the Southern European category of white people which encompasses Italians, French, Spanish, Belgians and Romanians.
The Portugese were not regarded as “white” in the US until they petitioned the US government in the 80s.
Historically-speaking, the term “mulatto” refers to the offspring from a Portugese and a Spaniard. It was believed that the Portugese were an inferior race and that the offspring would be sterile like a mule, hence the term mulatto (mule-ish).
The term was transplanted to the US and, as true as any other Americanism, was redefined and divorced from its original meaning.
LAMO!!! Even though this is a joke, the author is on point!!! Just Awesome
“People from Brazil are Brazilian. The majority of them are from mixed Portuguese and native American descent.”
Please, please do some research before even thinking of writing such a ridiculous factoid!!
Brazilians descend mainly from:
– White Portuguese ( yes, they are white)
– Black Africans (many nations, though the slave trade)
– Recent ( late 19th, early 20th. century) waves of immigrants from:
Italy
Japan
Germany
Lebanon
etc.
A small percentage of brazilians descends from native populations.
We also speak portuguese.
As far as I know, the term mulatto means different things in different cultures. I am not familiar with the definition stated in the previous post.
excuse me, does every post have to be some kind of seminar on the history of the world here?
p.s. i am white and am a chicano studies major…this post hits hilariously where it hurts….annnnnnd scene.
I hate it when white people think that just because I’m Korean, I speak other asian languages.
So, because I’m Injun, I don’t make rugs, or jewlery. I do know medicine men, but no I don’t have them saved in my cell phone. My name is hard to pronounce, and no you can’t name your grandchildren with my name. And no I don’t dance for rain, or know any songs to heal your herpes outbreak. But thanks for asking. Oh, and no I don’t get thousands of dollars for just breathing.
This blog is screamingly funny. My Latino half (Venezuelan father) is laughing its a** off, and so is my white half (Scots-Irish mother), albeit more self-consciously. This reminds me that the comment I used to hear most often when mentioning my Venezuelan background was, “Oh, Venezuelan women must be some of the most beautiful around, because your country always does so well in beauty contests.” (Yes, it’s a positive stereotype, so I guess I shouldn’t gripe, but the truth is that Venezuela, like Texas and a couple other US states, is obsessed with beauty contests and knows how to game the system.)
Another one I love is that a lot of white people who dislike the autocratic, press-muzzling, civil-liberties-destroying, you’re-with-me-or-you’re-against-me George Bush seem to revere the autocratic, press-muzzling, civil-liberties-destroying, you’re-with-me-or-you’re-against-me Hugo Chávez. Go figure. This phenomenon might somehow tie in with post #62, “Knowing what’s best for poor people.”
(Full disclosure: I’m an Obama guy, I’ve never voted for Bush and wouldn’t do so even if my life depended on it.)
If everyone was as honest “in person” as they aparently enjoy to be in this posting, there would be no need for this blog. It is fascinating to me that people can post such racially disturbing CRAP (ie #75 and #77), but in all of my years of being a Black-Latino in this country, not ONCE has anyone expressed anything remotely as candid as some of these posts. The mask of anonymity seems to do wonders for some…
I am a black male.
I grew up around and know a lot of different types of white people.
This blog is silly in the sense of it only captures a small slice of well educated uppermiddle class white people.
This blog reminds me of the “Smug” episode of South Park.
When people were smelling their own farts and enjoying it.
(look it up on utube)
All white people aren’t like this…
Just the ones who live in my gentrified neighborhood after they priced out the Dominicans and blue collar white folks.
http://whiteprivilege.com/definition/
I am well educated and well compensated for it.
But, I not white. Although most of my friends are.
I sometimes get discriminated against from time to time but, I learned in college that you can’t share that with white people because they are incapable of understanding.
It’s a sub-conscience function of white privilege.
As a social experiment i’ve taken a few of some really good white friends to all minority functions. They couldn’t wait to leave. Of course they were being nice about it.
My point was….Welcome to my world…in the workplace…when we go the the places you like to frequent 90% of the time.
#77 has some HUGE Balls…
Maybe he should take a history lesson on the greatness and advances of non-white cultures which were borrowed, stolen, or plagiarized by the Greeks and then handed down to the Romans
Ever heard of the Egytian Mystery Schools?
What about Colonialism or Neo-colonialism>
See, When the suck the resources out of one place and hand it over to another …the place you sucked it out of usually ends up being fucked up.
Read John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman…
Read anything written by Chomsky
Read Howard Zinn
These are your own white scholars telling you about the history you want to disregard as you hail your own greatness.
I think the author should have taken into account that every single culture has participated in slavery, and most of them have had worse laws than the Jim Crow laws mentioned.
Interesting fact- black people in Africa took white people (slavs, hence the germanic word “slave”) as slaves far before the American thing happened. He also forgets to mention that a good deal of white people didn’t agree with slavery.
Sucks, but all cultures do it/have done it. In all reality, American slavery was less rough than slavery in other cultures.
White American culture is, in reality, just a mixture of all the different European groups that immigrated here and has evolved (or devolved, depending on what aspect we’re looking at) into a separate thing. Whoever says we don’t have a culture obviously doesn’t know the meaning of culture. Even a mixture of other cultures is a culture.
Absolutely right.
this is an AWESOME web site
and I know what I am talking about as a half Puerto Rican half european american (HA! Spanish) lady living in Brooklyn which White People LOOOOOOOVE
[…] #20 Being an expert on YOUR culture […]
brilliant!
This article could’ve also included most of the white people who get involved in PeaceCorps and international volunteer programs for a year or two as well. These experiences give so many a way to stock-up their cultural capital with arrogant and paternalistic stories and comments about life in the Third World or a former Soviet satellite that make their class privilege (derived, at least partially, through skin privilege) seem benign and even a positive thing. Really, could you please expand your ‘study abroad’ and ‘expert on your culture’ sections to include ‘I did a stint in PeaceCorps’ or ‘When I lived in this country…’ stories?
White people just PRETEND to be into other cultures so we can make all of you mongrels out there feel good about not being white.
[…] #20 Being an expert on YOUR culture […]
Chomsky and Zinn are both hacks who have made fortunes out of capitalizing on white guilt.
That being said, this site is hilarious.
Major pet peeve with this entry. I’ve encountered many white people who swear that they know more about any given culture just based on the reasoning that they vacationed in a foreign country, watched a few foreign films or just live in a soon to be gentrified neighborhood. They’ll claim to be experts on food quality and authenticity. Also, why do white people think it’s so cool to be able to tolerate so much heat in food? They all want to eat Thai food, and when visiting Thai restaurants, they’ll order their food “Thai hot”. When they don’t like a particular restaurant, they’ll claim that they would have preferred the food to be spicier. This cracks me up all the time. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they were deprived as kids by eating only meatloaf, pork chops and applesauce, Stove Stop Stuffing, Kraft grilled cheese sandwiches and the like.
White people also love to get Chinese or Japanese kanji as tattoos especially if they are unable to speak or read either language. But they are quick to point out that the symbol permanently etched into their skin means “love” or “strength” or “dragon” when it could just as easily say “stupid white person” and they would never know.
There is nothing more racist than white people talking about white culture in a favorable light among white people. White culture or “whiteness” is to be defined by angry Marxist diversity people who hate white people.
I’ve been reading this blog but have not been able to recover from Aztec domination of the Incas. Since when did the Mexicans take over South America? Are they stealing jobs from hard-working Incas also? Anyone, white or not, who thinks “supremacism” is a word should not be allowed to use a keyboard.
and then there’s all the white people who read 1 or 2 books about native americans and then try to tell me about my culture and when i say something tell me i’m wrong cause they read it in a book. -_-
In response to many comments above add this one to things whites love: “whites love to use big words and fancy prose to make themselves appear brilliant.” (or should i say smarter than non-whites)
This is just a small minority of white americans. Europeans didnt have KKK and Jim Crow. For one thing it is believed we are all related. A second thing is that slavery is ubiquitous. White people have been slaves and still are. So basically you mean immediate ancestry and American whites.
You hang out with some idiotic white people
I bet #35 and #36 are the by the same person. Dear European American, maybe you should learn how to spell your “continent” of origin, among other things.
Also, you might want to watch yourself because white people generally don’t like it when other white people can’t spell, or read, or just overall sound like dimwits. Usually they resort to calling said people “white trash” or “trailer trash” and as a non-white, it makes me feel uncomfortable… as much as I want to join in the name-calling (because it’s cool and fun to demean others less educated than one is), it makes me feel uncomfortable, as I don’t know if as a non-white I am allowed to engage in this sort of behavior. This is analogous to white people who really want to use the n-word but are worried the n-s may be offended.
So in other words, white people are ashamed of everything that proves the white race is the master race. That is a fair observation.
This list should be renamed to,”How the Jews fucked up the white race.”
[…] ever been on TV!” (#38). Also, for a real jab at both my life and this entry, please see #20. Because i am into #14 Having Black Friends, I felt slightly uncomfortable in my stomach this […]
Truth is truth.
Sanctimony is for angry people.
Move on…
Love everything and everybody…it is all there is.
also, white people love finding any speck of color in their family’s history and proudly exclaiming in dinner conversation “oh, well I am part cherokee/black/hispanic etc- even if they do not speak the language or when citing ‘hispanic’ they are actually referring to european spain. it makes them feel one step further away from the KKK and racist white people.
[…] #20 Being an expert on YOUR culture (those two are for Jason) […]
Oh, I get it. This is supposed to be funny and edgy!
haha, asshole.
Not this White guy.
I find it hilarious and sad when I encounter someone (usually a liberal white girl) who doesn’t appreciate their European heritage.
We’ve given the world SO MUCH, its an EMBARRASSMENT of riches.
The inventions, the technology, the scientific advancements, the art, literature, etc etc etc…..
We are a very creative people. The most creative the world has seen, and ever will see.
I’m mildly interested in some east Asian cultures because I view them as having admirable qualities. Other than that, not really interested….
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
LOL, it took a lot longer for this post to turn hostile because I have noticed white people have patience when there is humor to be derived from a situation. You know, I find this blog damn funny because there is no race i Have yet to not get along with and crack the fuck up with over anything whatsoever (nothing is off limits bt me and my homies), I love Black jokes bc im mostly black, i love red headed irish boys because they can really really take a joke, I love Asian girls bc they laugh a LOONG time when something is funny and I love when people are proud to be what ever they fuckin are. Assimilation is futile and entirely no fun. When I heard about this site a couple days ago, i was like whoa…Cuz me and my mom agree white people look really good with Dreads, and the best reggae ive ever heard has been engineered bya white dood and black hair is my favorite thing to play with…I love my Asian homies too…dance their ASSES OFF! thats all….stay off the hostile tip and keep it funky.
on February 25, 2008 at 11:27 am #75 Bob
“I am white & proud and I am not ashamed of historical activities such as Jim Crow laws, the KKK, colonialism or slavery. In fact I believe African Americans owe use white people a debt overall because while impoverished compared to white people, they are far better off than their left behind African cousins by and large.
But black people repay white people with disproportionate crime rates, STD infection rates, and overall consumption of public resources (instead of contribution).”
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My 2 cents:
I’m surprised that Stuff White People Like #20 – “knowing everyone else’s culture” has caused such anger by readers. Apparently, this is a sensitive point for white people.
Do they get mad when people tell them that they don’t know everything about everything?
For example, I wonder how “Bob” (quoted above) knows that being african-american in the US has been a blessing. Has he been to Africa? Does he know how life is affected when ancestors were slaves?
I’m not saying he’s wrong, I’m just saying that I’m black and I don’t know if Africa would have been worse for me. I lived thru Jim Crow, but I’m not sure if I’d thank anyone for giving me that opportunity. It wasn’t fun.
You know? You’re right – white people do know everything about other cultures.
Comment #8 is the best comment on why white self-hatred is actually another form of racism (this also applies to how whites treat the poor — obviously the poor need “our” help).
And I’m glad people like Elaine are on here.
Great site, again.
Oh, and fact check from post 69:
“Fact 2: Europeans introduced chattel slavery, the system of slavery used in the Atlantic Slave Trade, to the world. First the Greeks, later the Europeans involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Meaning, despite whatever slavery in which other ethnic groups were involved, it was European slavery that categorized other human beings as sub-human property without any contractual rights.”
Last time I checked (a few days ago), the Israelites actually treated their slaves as “poperty” without any contractual rights. As in Exodus 21:20 “If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave IS HIS PROPERTY.”
For those of you who decide to argue against another post with “facts” — back up your “facts” with the source.
this blog is genius, actually and it is the best blog ever.
it’ll prolly remain so as well.
It’s funny, because it’s true.
Apparently if we are enthusiastic about your culture, we are big phonies. If we think race isn’t an issue, then we are ignorant.
The only ignorant person here is you.
hahaha, you are so chinese! or white guy that love asian women/culture
I’m half Portuguese, and I grew up in Southeastern New England where there are a lot of people of Portuguese descent. Portuguese identify as white Europeans.
Skin shades can vary, but I know some Italians that are darker skinned than some Portuguese. If someone has a Portuguese last name, but they’re on the darker side I tend to assume they’re Brazillian or Cape Verdean.
I’m a pale girl, so I pass as non-Portuguese to most people, yet if I tell a liberal or leftie white male that I’m half Portuguese, I somehow gain exotic cred and seem more like date material because there’s nothing a white, male leftie likes more as a fashion accessory than a “person of color” girlfriend.
“and the treatment of native americans.”
“It is generally acceptable for a white person to learn a few terms in a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese)”
There should be a site “Stuff Americans Like”; number #3: pretending Americans are the only white people in the world.
OMG… This is so true!!
Looks like the posts veered off into a discussion on history and politics. Well, getting back to the original blog posting, I do seem to find a trend in many white American trying desperately hard to assimilate themselves into other cultures. Where as you don’t see too many other cultures doing that. I’m not going to get into the reasons why, the statistics, etc. All I’m saying is that despite the overall attitude that “white” is not a culture or that America has not been around long enough to warrant a celebration of its culture, I, even as an Chinese immigrant, find many wonderful and uniquely American things that I enjoy.
If white people are not like this, though I am not saying all are Why are you all so mad. I read things like I dont have white guilt, okay, and then bringing up slavery from other nations, okay, again if it aint true why are you all so worked up over it? It’s a damn joke! I hate when people say, oh well so and so had slaves first, and, your point is. It seems like almost trying to justify that whites had slaves. In America there was slavery for hundreds of years, white people treated anyone not white horrible, even some of their own such as the irish, so hey, if that’s the history and those are the facts, then they are. If white people didn’t feel any guilt, then they wouldn’t bring up stuff about other nations and slaves. Yeah other nations had slaves too, slavery is nothing new. What is your point, we should blame others instead of you, but hey if you can’t take the heat, then you can’t take it I guess.
This one is all backwards, for me.
KNOW THY ENEMY.
White people like me learn about other cultures because it is better to know about the people they hate.
I hate niggers (especially salami’s – err Somali’s), chugs (“Native Americans”) and Chinkers (Chinese, especially the ones with the fat pig noses). Japanese people are fine. They do not count as chinks or dinkers and they’re smart and I like them.
I know all about bombaclots, gettin’ hooked up with da weed from my bredren, ping chong pow chings and all that other foreign nigger and dinker bullshit.
I’m white and I’m proud of racist white culture. I hate this sissy, nigger loving, afraid to be white – gotta make it up to niggers by listening to rap and being educated on why everything is society’s fault – new white culture that’s taking over. White people should stop acting like such pansies with their gender studies for alternatively sexed people and their affirmative blacktion letting dumbass nuggers into school just because their crack addict mothers gave them brain damage.
“Japanese people are fine. They do not count as chinks or dinkers and they’re smart and I like them.”
…. haw haw haw!!
got a thing for the nips, eh White Guy?
this is so true. How many times has a white person come up to me, telling me about MY culture. And when you proceed to put said white persons in their place, they continue to fight, even though it is obvious that YOU know more about the culture than they ever could.
SPOT ON!
I dont think this blog is for you, or more so this post. This post is not aimed at racsist pigs like your self.
Stormfront is that way ummkay——->.
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It is generally acceptable for a white person to learn a few terms in a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese).
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Portuguese people (i.e people from Portugal) are certainly white but portuguese people make up a small minority of the worlds portuguese speaking population. People from Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Angola, Mozambique, and Brazil also speak portuguese as a first language and people from these nations are for the most part not white. Brazil alone has approxinamtely 15 times the pop of Portugal (150 million v.s. 10 million). With the exception of those who have immigrated to Brazil in the last 50 years or so, most Brazillians are not purely white (or black or aboriginal),
The poster is correct that portuguese is a language spoken primaraly by non-whites even though it originated in Europe.
I hope this clarifies things for everyone
What exactly is white culture? Many americans feel that they have no culture because we are simply a melting pot. That is why many of us take an interest in other cultures. Has nothing to do with white guilt. I’m not saying white guilt doesn’t exist, it’s just not applicable to this scenario. Good effort though. Not really.
White culture is about being arrogant and knowing that we are part of the superior race. That’s how whites can arrogantly tell you about your own culture.
i love the andy lau reference. genius.
Don’t forget that white people also love to embrace a non-white culture, i.e. Native American, Latin American, African, etc., and the white people who want to sound especially educated will embrace a specific country or tribe. Not only does this make them look worldly and educated, but also makes them believe that they are not racist.
Sometimes I don’t think people understand what “racism” means. Racism literally means “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race (M-W.com).” Think about that for a little while.
Also: Did you know that Persians are considered to be aryans? Persians and Germans are the only true aryans, according to my Persian friend’s German friend.
Finally: Are Semites considered to be white or non-white? All I’m saying is that I’m of Arab/Mizrahi (Palestinian Jewish – I bet you didn’t know they made them in that flavor) descent, and here in the States I’m just another white girl. On the other hand, my Egyptian-American friend, also of Arab descent, is considered to be non-white here in the United States. So I’m functionally white, my Egyptian friend is non-white, and we’re both Semites, so what does that make my Jewish friend of Eastern European descent? She’s technically a Semite too…but definitely white.
One more thing: I want to know what Black people think when “antiracist” white people infiltrate Black student union meetings on campus. Does it piss them off? It would piss me off…I’d be like, “You have a billion student meetings that cater specifically to you as a white person. Why do you have to appropriate mine?”
As a white person, I often feel void of any culture. This is not to say that white culture doesn’t exist because certainly there are cultural traits, practices and beliefs that are specific to whites. Nonetheless, I feel I have few cultural practices and distinct cultural traits in comparison to my nonwhite friends. In response to the initial article, I think that there are advantages and disadvantages with “becoming marginally acquainted with foreign cultures.” I am a strong advocate for learning about other cultures so to broaden one’s own worldview. However, I think that an attempt to do so can be abused. A common example is white people who listen to rap / hip-hop music who then claim that they are not racist because they are comfortable with music that is commonly associated with blacks, or they may use their taste in music to justify their belief that they understand the black struggle. In all likelihood, these people are unaware of the history and the progression of rap / hip-hop music, nor of its importance and relevance in black history. This is comparable to the “Well I know a black person, so I can’t be racist” argument. I think it is overwhelmingly easy to use others’ cultures to self-reason or justify one’s innate beliefs.
Again, I am not arguing that it is wrong to acquaint oneself with other cultures. On the contrary, I think it important especially in countries as diverse as America. At the same time, I do think that this process can prove to be patronizing at times. There are many times when I have walked into a Mexican restaurant only to overhear a white person slaughter the Spanish language in an attempt to sound “more authentic.” Certainly, this up to personal interpretation, but I do not perceive this to be valid attempt at understanding and accepting other cultures. If I were the waiter or waitress at the Mexican restaurant, assuming I am of Mexican descent, I would likely perceive a customer’s botched attempt toward authentic conversation as an insult. It is no surprise that we are all different, and perhaps this difference should merely be embraced. I think it’s important to find the delicate balance between embracing these differences, understanding other cultures and accepting them without doing so in a demeaning manor.
“In response to many comments above add this one to things whites love: “whites love to use big words and fancy prose to make themselves appear brilliant.” (or should i say smarter than non-whites)”
No. White people use those words, properly. Black people use them improperly while trying to sound smart.
If you don’t understand the words, don’t get mad, get a dictionary.
I’m just calling it like I see it. I’ve been around blacks who became very angry because I didn’t stoop to their…shall we say, poor way of speaking. I’ve also seen “smart” blacks destroy words that they don’t really understand.
bla bla bla, whites are dumb too.
“In response to the initial article, I think that there are advantages and disadvantages with “becoming marginally acquainted with foreign cultures.” ”
no, don’t bother. it’ll just make you seem like a dick. which will happen no matter what you do. so…
be a dick. why not? that’s what they expect of you. right?
we expect them to steal, rape and rob, and smell bad, and that they do. with aplomb.
so… why fight it?
Actually, White people HAVE no culture whatsoever. Culture-wise, they haven’t brought anything to the table.
Look at music.
Beethoven.
Ravel.
Hank Williams.
well, this site is funny, and people get annoyingly serious and stupid at the same time leaving those comments.
Mark, not true! Kenyans love American country music!
I heard it on NPR! LOL!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9450072
what is american culture? white americans have no culture. white americans only dilute and destroy the “real” cultures of other ppl. whites are a plague to humanity and have been throughout history. they have contributed nothing but slavery and the outright destruction of other peoples. america is in essence the end of culture…
Anonymous if you hate America and white americans so much you are free to to get the f*ck out and go get yourself some culture somewhere else. Nobody will stop you I promise.
#37 Pra
you are genius!
i really like this post because it will make white people think about the ways in which they interact with non-whites. it’s not that appreciating someone else’s culture is bad, but just because you put on a sari, eat balut, and know 3 mandarin words doesn’t mean that you know anything about a culture and it really doesn’t get you closer to understanding a culture by doing these things…it probably just makes you feel good that you’re not the “rude white person” who is oblivious to other cultures. acting non-white is only driven by white guilt. post-colonial theory and critical whiteness studies are awesome.
The only people who suffer from white guilt are MORONS who listen to NPR all day and jerk off to John Stewart.
I could go as far as to say the white culture is the best in the history of mankind…. And it is…. White people are the best. EVER IN HISTORY. All the other races just hate us because they are jealous. Think about it, almost every invention that propelled us into modern society was created by white people. Airplanes, cars, computers, The MAGNA CARTA.
YES!!!!!! White peopole know everything! Just ask them.
White culture? Yer using it, dude. Generativity and anonymous benefit is how whites represent.
Without Europeans you’d be stuck in the bronze age or worse. Gotta wonder why the oldest continent and alleged cradle of humanity (‘sposedly) continues to be the most ignorant, primitive, short-attention-span-theater and hazardous place in all the the world and the emmigrants (voluntary or otherwise) perpetuate this limbic lifestyle wherever they congregate across the globe.
White culture? Electicity, hospitals, agriculture, travel, education, science, ethics, law, charity. One has to wonder why all the world wants to live where white culture has hit its zenith, and ponder the result of the resultant dilution and resultant fall into intentional ignorance and the racism of comfortable racism against accomplishment and shared progress. Culture is how a society survives, not the eccentric antics of a few exhibitionistic estheets. Culture can be order and efficiency, or chaos and anarchy. One doesnt need any standardized evil caucation tests to know which group pulls itself and others from the slime and which ones dont, chosing rather to murder and eat those who can’t run away fast enough.
Too true. I’m a native American. After my uncle had spent a little time during a pow-wow talking with a white lady who was a friend of some family friends, he came back and said to us, “Man, she is more Indian than I am…” LOL. There’s nothing wrong with being white. It’s just another color; people are generally more comfortable around you when you’re comfortable with yourself.
Has anyone else noticed that Serena Williams looks like the predator in the movie Predator? Or is that just me?
Silly, chicken feet aren’t for eating! You burn them with goats hair to make it rain!
I do not think so 167. You say that white people invented almost everything. Oh, no. I think you need to do some research first.
http://www.swagga.com/inventors.htm
You can also go to google and type in black inventors, or asian inventors, anything you like. Whites invented things to propell us into modern society. Please, think again. Now as for being jealous, I don’t think so, though I do believe there are alot that are jealous, but there are more that are not jealous. Hm. I wonder where all the technology is coming from. Dare I say, from non white countries. (gasp)
What we need to do is move away from rhetoric and look at racism systematically. When people talk about identity, they don’t care about how their culture can grow. That is too abstract and broad. When they clamour for a “voice”, they are just representing basic human impulses: to advance the security of their tribe, thereby advancing their own security.
The solution is in recognizing tribal realities and giving it the respect it deserves.
this so true, i am african and everyday i meet white people who speak more swahili than i do. they “whitepeople” tend to know more about my culture than me. hey guy thanks for giving some the reality check.
This is absolutely true. I have an inexplicable interest in Romanian music/politics right now. I bumped into a romanian girl outside a club in DC and could not fathom my good luck. I just wanted to spout everything I knew to appear more cultured and interesting, especially in front of my white friend who did not know anything about Romanian.
me-“Oh youre from Romania, I love Romanian music!”
girl-“oh What kind?”
me-“Manele (this is gyspy pop)
girl-“uh huh”
me-“yeah, it reminds me a lot of the serbian and croatian music I heard when I was living there. ”
I’m being serious, I was able to drop the multiple white-people culture bombs.
unfortunately i think this Irritating issue is more complicated then “white guilt”, but i still agree that white people do this allot. its fucking pathetic. Thats why i have made a point to make my white people cultural obsession be with Vikings and Norse Mythology. Odin Rules!!!!
Unfortunately its more complicated a problem then just ‘white guilt’. American culture (to which plenty of non-white people are also subject) is pity much shallow and pedantic (ironically i stold this construction from the family guy, but that doesn’t mean i don’t understand the words i just said).
so we look for others that seem more internally coherent.
The pathetic thing is that white people tend to look out rather then In.
Thats why i suggest any white people would be better off redirecting their energies away from other cultures and back to Norse Mythology. Odin Rules!!!!
This is one of the few things on the list I do not agree on (great blog by the way).
Although it is true that whites have tended to be more INTERESTED in other cultures (and made them the subject of study, which is perhaps the origin of this particular attribute), I have found WAY MORE non-white people think they are experts on so-called “white culture”, as if all whites were exactly alike and all arrived here from England on the Mayflower.
I’ve known blacks, asians, latinos, and others, who seem to think they have a great understanding of whites simply because they went to school with us, or saw some “Friends” episode. They think all whites are English (even though most of us are NOT “Anglo” as Latinos always call us) and they think all whites have no culture or come from the same, rich upbringing.
Being from the South, I’ve cracked up at blacks who assure me that grits, chicken, black-eyed peas and ice tea are “soul food” (instead of them being the food my ancestors ate and thus is the reason so many blacks, particularly from the South, eat).
We can’t dance (some of the best ballroom dancers, including Salsa(!) are white), or sing, or aren’t musical (Beatles to Stones) or athletic (MMA/UFC) or whatever…based on some concept of some stereotype of some bohemian white kid from the Hamptons or San Francisco.
And the funniest thing about minorities generalizing and being ‘experts’ on whites, is how they are so certain, and I really don’t know, because they’ve lived in this “white” country and they know better ! LOL
Ya, I don’t agree with this one either. Whites tend to be more interested in other cultures than non-Whites are, around the world. But it seems like everytime I turn around, someone who is Black or Hispanic is telling me about how White people are, what we think, what we do, what we want to do, our inner thoughts, etc…
I think minorities (as defined by in this country) tend to feel entitled to comment on Whites and “White culture” (as you see on this site) more than Whites do, on other cultures. It is considered more acceptable. I am not saying we should be exempt from it, but it is pretty funny.
What’s funny is when I have a friend who is whatever (Black, Hispanic) and they tell me about my upbringing, as if they would know, and are POSITIVE I was raised well-to-do.
Good list. Funny stuff.
“Duh, is anyone supposed to be proud of both good and bad parts of their culture?”
The point is that the bad parts of the culture are typically ignored. So, being proud of the bad part only means recognizing – admitting – that it exists(ed).
This blog is ugly. The title of this blog is ugly. This list does NOT describe stuff white people like. This is so CBC, so narrow, so..well racist, but not towards this blog’s star subject of course. I do know exactly who this blog describes though, just a very small spoiled section of said race..
(cont.)..if this blog’s author had made it point to point out out that these tendencies often belong to a very small spoiled section of said race..it would be funny and authentic.
(cont.)..moreover if this blog’s author had made it a huge point to point out that he in fact belongs to a very small spoiled section of said race..it would be even more authentic.
I’m out.
It’s funny reading the posts from the inbred rednecks as well as the retarded ima perpetual victim non-whites. Every race, religion, and ethnic group has abused and oppressed other people when they had the chance. Things are getting a little better. Just look at what the Japanese were doing to the Chinese, Filipinos, and Koreans during WWII. Look at the Africans selling their own race into slavery. Look at the Muslims invading and spreading into Asia, North Africa and Europe as recently as 500 years ago. then you have the inbred, retarded whites who think that they are superior because Newton or Socrates happened to be white even though their genes are far, far removed.
Well speaking on behalf of a NON inbred redneck as well as a NON-retarded (I’m a) perpetual victim non-white.
Oppression and racism are for one thing not one in the same. It’s the over-generalization of this blog that makes it dumb and gives it a racist undertone, and just makes it not as funny as I wanted it to be.
This time, I’m really out. Bye.
i am black and would like to tell people what “whitepeople” are considered to be. when we say white people we normally refer to American whites. Most people we call whitepeople, whitegirl, or white boy are mostly midclass subarban to upperclass white people who think they are supreme because of their heritage. These people tend to know it all even though some of us are richer and smarter than them.
Yet another Asian with a chip on the shoulder, angry because the awesome culture they *chose* to live in wasn’t created by them, so they separate themselves from it. But yet again the point has been missed entirely. And yeah, *some* white people DO know as much about your culture as you do, by the way. And a few of them probably know MORE than you do. Be flattered because they were interested and get over it. “How dare you be interested in my secret asian culture!” lol.
And, unlike blacks who didn’t have a choice in coming here and DO deserve to have a chip on their shoulder, you don’t. The boat your parents were on didn’t steer itself over here, and it wasn’t allowed to land by accident, but by the welcoming and good graces of — who? Yeah thats right, white people. So don’t whine, it’s bad form and doesn’t earn any respect.
White culture = everything. Seriously. Look around. Everything you smell, touch, feel, see – all invented by White males. Sometimes a thing is too big to see.
BTW, it wasn’t Whites who brought the bought slaves from Africa, it was jews! They owned the slave ships. Zinn and Chomsky are both jews, and, no, jews are not white, they are anti-White.
the Portuguese (those from Portugal, not the Brasilians who speak the language) are white, genius.
also, CULTURE != RACE.
jesus christ some of you need to pull the Anthropology 101 stick out of your ass and do some actual research.
oh, and I am not white, either
thanks,
Jew McSquawblack.
What about competitive preschools that cost more than college?
If we don’t care about other cultures, then we’re criticized for being ignorant & insular. If we DO care about other cultures, we’re ridiculed anyway.
Whites are criticized for just about everything we do. Here’s the rich part, tho: Take a glance around you. Almost all of the technology you use today was developed by whites. (electric lights, automobiles, indoor plumbing, airplanes, heating/air conditioning, telephones, computers, not to mention vaccines, medicines, agricultural development… damn near all of the modern world, really)
So, go ahead & trash us. Without us, a big chunk of the people alive today would never have been born. We expect no gratitude from you; that’s just our culture.
comment #7:
Africa is not a country. This is important to know. Clearly you arent from there if you dont know this.
And white people didnt steal you, they took you ancestors in exchange for goods given to african tribal leaders, who are responsible for stealing human beings from their enemies.
You can take it from me. I am white. And I am an expert!
White people culture? More of a subculture really.
Um, Africa is not a country.
So, isn’t this whole website about a non-white supposedly being an expert on white culture? I’m confused.
OK HOLD THE PHONE. Jews are the anti-white hmmm?
Back it up, Adolf.
I’m not considered white, because my mother is Middle Eastern (Israeli) and my father is South American (Argentinian), but some of my fellow Jewish friends are the whitest kids I know. My neighbor is Swedish and also happens to be Jewish. I don’t think you can get any whiter than the Swedes.
Shalom.
ALSO.
Maybe white people knowing more about your culture is a signal that you should become more intuned with it yourself. I met a German student the other day that speaks better Spanish than I do.
Who cares if someone is interested in your culture, white or not? Consider it flattering. My G-d, if they weren’t then you would probebly think “white people don’t care about _______ people.” Whatever. Get over it. Don’t be a jerk.
The fact is, 200, 300, 1000 years ago, the ancestors of most Americans – Irish, Jewish, Black, German, Italian, Mexican, even English – were desparately poor, probably oppressed, and their life wasn’t very dear to anyone who held power in a meaningful way. This is true whether they were scraped up a living as peasants in Europe, artisans in the Middle East, or fishermen in Africa. This is also true of 99.9999% of all the people who have ever lived. Even non-landowning White Protestant English Males had to fight their way up from indentured servitude; it’s not salient to the current discussion.
Most of us aren’t too bad off if we can take the time to read this stuff and think of a response. If that applies to you, just be grateful your ancestors dealt with the worst of it, whatever it was.
Meanwhile, loosen up and laugh a little and if you think it’s in poor taste, say so politely and move on.
Yes, along with “over the top” slang and sentence structures that sound like they’ve come straight out of Gone with the Wind. But, poor thing, he or she probably though that the comment would fool someone and was clever. How very sad.
Brilliant.
Lol. It’s funny when people talk about “their country” Africa.
OK, this blog is in very poor taste, and no, I’m not going to be polite about it. The proof is that it has attracted so many bigoted morons from every race and ethnicity. Since when is it cool to be racist? Or uncool to be interested in other cultures?
Why do so many of you feel the need to look down on human beings who differ from you in their skin color or culture – or even their personal interests and lifestyle? Do you really believe the flimsy rationales you use to justify hating millions of people you don’t even know?
Or are you turning your anger outward so you don’t have to face the ugliness inside yourselves?
hey are very ashamed of all the bad things in white culture: the KKK, colonialism, slavery, Jim Crow laws, feudalism, and the treatment of native americans.
Slavery and feudalism is not just in “white culture”, many cultures have had slaves and feudalism in some form or another.
Slavery and feudalism are things that are bad in ALL cultures not just white culture.
Guilt has nothing to do with it. White people are simply more open-minded than, say your average chauvinistic Asian person who thinks their culture, be it Chinese, Japanese or Korean, is the best in the world.
D for the post.
Spanish people are not white. Just ask them.
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All I know is that my Irish ancestors came over as slaves. And last time I checked, that’s pretty white. I love how blacks think they have the corner on slavery, suffering and all things terrible in life.
heh, as an immigrant half breed non-white…
it’s about time that becky, lance, ginger, buffy, neil and bob (pun intended) were encapsulated so accurately here within this blog 🙂
i’ve just added this blog to my blogroll simply on the truth and merit of this particular blog…
oh, and regarding all those whitey’s and their editorials on racism…
everyone is a racist… in some dynamic or another, either silently in their own mind, or openly… say like… um… oh wait! every american.. 😛
This is so true! Every time I walk past a white homeless person they shout out “Ni Hao!” and hold out their hats. I don’t expect a quarter for knowing how to say “Hello”
I think the point here is that during the early post-colonial period, there was a strong pan-africanist movement to unite all African “states” into a unified whole. This whole could be identified as a “country.” One reason for this is to resist colonial European demarcation and division of the landmass into “states,” which is a European concept that emerged in the last few centuries. People are trying to work outside the European hegemony, and you are only perpetuating it with your ill-informed comment.
Lol. It’s funny when people talk about shit they don’t know about. Fucker.
Too bad other races don’t have an option in selling out their own heritage, either they do or they are useless to white society.
Where are you getting this from? This is a very particular (if it is actually true, which I doubt) example that does not at all compare to real examples of racism–such as slavery, the extermination of Indians, Jews, etc.
Individual racism does not equal systematic, institutionalized racism.
Very interesting points, but..what do you think our history teaches us? White accomplishments…taught usually by white teachers…our white founding fathers….whites took over the west…manifest destiny…how about cars? planes? i think white people are proud of these accomplishments and recognize it…especially in history classes…don’t you think?…so although i think you make some valid points i don’t completely agree with your last point…but it is definitely applicable in many instances..just some food for thought.
Y’know, there’s a reason the word “liars” is in there
XD
White people who come to Ireland having already learnt Irish: hugely irritating.
Thankfully they all still think that having a sport called ‘hurling’ is ‘hilarious’.
I assumed he was referring to non-fully white Portuguese speaking Brazilians, or maybe some of native Angolans that still speak Portuguese from colonial times…
Or maybe you’re just right, if he referred to Portuguese people from Portugal, that European country trapped between he Atlantic ocean and Spain…. they’re as white as they come.
http://www.swagga.com/inventors.htm
Please get off your high horse. A lot of inventions were made by African-American’s who got no credit for their work. You give me a list of the things that white people made, and I’ll give you a list of the things blacks and other minorities made. So go ahead and trash the minorities because without us you all really wouldn’t be alive today. And I aint worried whites are a minority in the world. One day you guys will be fading away just like sadly the native americans are fading because of whites did to them. Karma is a bitch and it works in mysterious ways. Don’t get mad at us for your ancestors stupidity. If the post isn’t true, why do you care so much?
I pooped my pants
FUCK ALL THE CRACKAS IN tha WORLD! Pasty white ass mayo lightly sprinkled saltines!
obviously you haven’t been around minorities much…that one black/asian/hispanic/ friend you had in college doesn’t count as expertise on different cultures.
not all minorities celebrate their cultures. a lot of them do hate themselves. they hate themselves because they don’t fit in or they’re always reduced to being the expert on their culture whenever they’re in a group of white people.
some will do just about anything to abandon their heritage short of bleaching their skin. blacks tell each other that they’re “not black enough” all the time. some find it hard to maneuver in this world because you have to walk a fine line between asserting your blackness and fitting into white america.
and for future reference, please don’t make sweeping generalizations about my race. spend some quality time with black people before you start making blatantly ignorant statements and casually try to pass them off as facts.
Well, yeah, they are. It’s still their culture.
You absolutely are allowed to distinguish whiteness by levels of trash, I give full permission. I think I am allowed because I am from NH which is the 2nd (?) or 3rd whitest state in the US. All you see there is oceans of whiteness and the only distinguisher is the SES status. Flip thru my year book and be astounded byu the sheer amount of blondes.
Point is that this site is satire, and it’s satire about white people, a very specific chunk of white people. That needs to be remembered.
So go ahead make fun of our yuppies, our hipsters, our meatheads, our punk rockers, the goths, the red necks, the born agains, the trophy wives, the neo cons (shudder). Go nuts, but just remember that in response to some of the above comments saying white people have ‘no culture’ that is total BS. See above variations.
Attention Non white and white people alike,
Please Ignore craxy racist troll ranting above. I love this site but god damn to I hate seeing all these douchey comments. I know I am supposed to ignore them, but this is supposed to be a fun site darn it.
The problem with the name of this blog is that it is misleadingly and invites all the crazies who see and say:
“Wonderful an internet group of my assbackward similiarly minded peers, where we can get together type racial slurs and snort our meth right off the mousepad, right before I go molest my daughter, and then participate in that lynching I had scheduled”
The sad part about that is most of the white readers on this blog actually hate ‘those kind of white people’ far more than any non whites.
**So please non white people don’t think we all feel this way.
This is a funny satire and this post made me laugh in particular.
I am also a fan of stuffasianpeoplelike.wordpress.com being an Asian myself.
One thing I would like to add on about the original post is that only whites can be praised for being an expert in someone else’s culture.
I am a first generation non-white migrant who has successfully managed to integrate into North American Society. At least I think so. Well, anyway at least some people would think so too in that many assume I was born here. Ok, so maybe I wasn’t that old when I moved – far easier for me to assimilate than my parents.
Still, the point stands – it took some effort to fully integrate and embrace being a Canadian whilst still maintaining my Asian roots. Also, by comparison – and I’m tooting my horn here – the diction, speech, and speaking habits of other migrants who are of the same age as I am, and moved here at the same time I did, are different. Their accents, far thicker. Their grasp of the common vernacular, incomplete. Or maybe on the flipside, they’re completely whitewashed and have no recollection of their childhood – or at least they claim not to even though they may have moved here later in their childhood than I did.
In short: It takes me a great deal of effort maintaining two cultures. Being true to my roots, yet loyal to my adopted country takes real work, and sometimes even a bit of contradiction.
Still, sometimes I think it’s all pointless.
That I can shift from straight, classical Tagalog (with a regional lilt) to Canadian English without much effort is not as big a deal as some white guy who quotes Japanese phrases he picked up from jerking off to anime porn.
He has a multi cultural worldview. I’m just another migrant from Asia.
i love it when i write a comment that shows that everyone is a racist, and then a plethora of comments appear to validate and prove my accuracy 🙂
being white is so watered down in the sense of cultural and historical referential dynamics, both on a socio-economic, and historionics interpretative level that it still amazes me that americans are so caught up in the aspects of racism. Especially when they are the only nation yet left that legally condones and legislates hatred as a human right.
It is best to look at the history of nations and their inceptions before making generic commentaries about hispanics, blacks, asians or any other visibly non-white racial stereotype. Since in fact, most of those stereotypes have been forced and created by the “white” aspect of colonization and the inevitable fear driven management of minorities – in the continental United States – as to be almost negligible as stereotypical indicators.
Lets take a look at the simplistic realities.
Most of the original settlers were tossed out of europe. As in they weren’t even wanted within their originating countries, with the options of the noose or the “new world” which of course, was not an option. I mean really… if you’re offered death or a slow boat out of here cuz you are crowding our prisons, what would you pick?
North American history – especially american history – has been so convoluted and falsely represented – that it amazes me that america can be patriotic in any dynamic.
The creation of the nation wasn’t because a few farmers beat a trained and battle hardened England, but because England was just finishing up 18 years of war and debt, and were currently in conflict with France, under the republic created by Napoleon and quite simply said, ‘screw it, we aren’t that interested in the criminals we tossed over to the new world anyway, so since they are in arrears of what they owe us and it costs us too much to maintain em, fine, cut them loose.”
Which is what really happened. That was proven in 1812 when the egotistical little farmers south of the border tried to “invade” the british colonies, now known as Canada. Since Canada paid it’s taxes and wasn’t in arrears, the americans could not beat the hardened british soldiers stationed there, and furthermore, those british marched to the US capital and burned down the white house… or don’t you know that the white house is only white because the americans painted it white to cover the burn markings?
So, if that basic reality of history has been so re-written and is currently taught today in the continental United States, why would it be any different toward the Mexican-American ‘conflict’ or the vietnam ‘conflict’ or the Korean ‘conflict’ and why is it that since the USA hasn’t won a war without the help of allied forces – and any war that they have lost on their own – is called a conflict, would any american be in a position to be racist?
Racism among north americans is based within one and only one fundamental of ethnic reality: The lack of foundation of heritage or “roots” as it can be known.
The USA – the average USA citizen – is without that fundamental hereditary platform so as to define their identity. And it is further propogated by the constant rewriting of their own history.
Racism is a fundamental result of that lack of foundation.
Which is why it is so commonplace within the continental United States and Canada.
nuff said 🙂
Yes,
The white oppression has been untaught to present generations..especially in American Public Schools….but one question….
Who designs the textbooks, owns the publishing companies, creates the cirriculm ….etc?
Its seems that white would rather keep these unpleasant details off the main records, I guess in a away it will make them seem vulnerable. Growing up and learning about European History there were very few names mention that did not haveQueen or King attatched….oh yeah and don’t forget the Roman numerals.. 🙂
hahahaha this is so so so true. i know too many of those people in this picture!!!
The number of Aztec sacrifices recorded by Spanish priests have been pretty much disproved by archaelogist. There is no fossil record upholding the idea that Aztecs were performing human sacrifices at this astronomical rate. It is commonly believed that the rumors of huge numbers of human sacrifices were propogated by the Aztecs in a PR campaign intent on creating fear in the colonized communities around them.
While I have to agree with you that white culture has taken on a huge amount of guilt over their historical sins, perhaps it reflects more on other cultures that they do not look on their considerable historical sins and seek to repent through contempory action.
Not to over think it or anything 😉
you both are morons and obviously white.
The fact that White’s have managed to successfully subjugate all other races proves their superiority.
Q/E/D
Which is why I always retreat to a bologna sandwich and my VCR to watch reruns of “30 Something.”
this guys for real
Umm…..Last I heard people living on the Iberian Peninsula are white (Portugal included)….unless ur maybe referring to referring to Afro-Brazilians…..
Ever notice how in those movies, the white person is the hero?
It takes a little insight to understand how this blog and your post are not equal. If you want to be simplistic, and remove all history and context, then they still would not be the same because violence and drug use simply do not compare with drinking coffee and liking San Francisco. But that is one thing white people like to do. Ignore history and context and pretend all things are equal.
You sound like an angry white man
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Meh. I’m part Asian, part white, but I still act like this. And I have a specific culture to know about to boot! It’s kind of pathetic to look down on people who do this, because everyone does it. I’ve seen tons of Chinese people who seem to know more about Japanese stuff than I do. But that’s just a generalization, and generalizations are bad and racist…
hhhhmmm how exactly do you consider Portuguese a non-white language? Portugal is in Europe and its native citizens are WHITE so how would a white person speaking Portuguese classify them as trying to be an expert on somebody else’s culture? If we’re going to be specific about it then Brazilians of non-white ancestory are actually speaking a WHITE mans language so by your logic are trying to become experts on white culture!!! The same goes with Spanish as it originated in Spain which is again a country in Europe with white inhabitants so all Latinos who are of non-white ancestory are again actually speaking a white mans language!!
I DON’T APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY.
My grandma (full blooded Mexican) HATED Peurto Ricans. She used to say that she had never met one she liked.
I always thought that was so funny because she faced lots of racism growing up in the 30s and 40s!
So not just white people are ironic!
I think it is so strange how white people are all lumped together like we all grow up with the same experience or even culture. I am a WASPY girl from Connecticut and my husband is an Irish Catholic from New Orleans… and when our parents interact it is a complete culture shock, we might as well be from two different races, or cultures anyway
i don’t know about the other cultures, but japan is notorious for its xenophobia. and i have to disagree with the assertion that japanese racism is not systematic.
from the bbc
“An independent investigator for the UN says racism in Japan is deep and profound, and the government does not recognise the depth of the problem.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4671687.stm
i did them. they are. have you been to spain? i was told on multiple occasions (by Spaniards) to watch out for thieving gypsies and “dark people.” also, Cortez was blond haired and blue-eyed.
I think that you have put alot of thought into your justification of white people’s oppression of non white people. So your basic argument is that in the “Dark Ages” and in other ancient cultures oppression existed so that white people should be exempt from criticism of these acts. All of your examples are of ancient cultures, not the “far advanced” culture that the white people have claimed to be. I have never heard such a conveluded explaination, really. Please carefully think this shit though!! I am sure that you know that there are a great number of white researchers that have studied the ways in which white people try to come up with ways of always blaiming the others for their own lack of understanding about themselves and their acts. Please for the love of God, create white cultural classes so that you may all become more comfortable with examining yourselves. You have to stop hiding behind your fear of the truth and what you might discover. It is not going to be pretty and you may feel bad but this is the process of discovery.
There’s a reason it’s called “Wite-Out”. It’s devoid of anything, and implies a clean slate, or a correction. What happens when something is empty? Something has to fill that void.
Yeah I’m talkin out my ass somewhat, but after reading this site for about two hours, I realize almost everyone else is talkin out of their asses as well.
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I doubt that white people truly hate being white, they just like to say they do because saying “I love being privileged” would make them sound like a racist. The biggest fear of closet racists is inadvertantly outing themselves. White self hate is a game, just like wearing “ethnic” clothes and living in “diverse” neighborhoods. Its great fun as long as they are on top. White people will jump right back to loving white when they think their privilege is threatened.
annoyed minority, did you even pay attention to anything About As White As It Gets said? He is NOT saying white people should be exempt from their misdeeds.
He is just saying that the claim that white people’s misdeeds are greater than all other peoples’ misdeeds is a subtle form of white supremacy, one in which the whites committed the greater evil because they are a higher form of being and thus responsible to a greater law.
In order for one to really get rid of racist assumptions, one must compare all races and their deeds on an equal footing. That footing may be hard to come by, since in different eras, different methods of efficient evil and cruelty were available, but the assumption that one culture should be judged less than another because of the color of their skin, well that’s… you know.
White people should NOT be exempt from their cruelty, neither should Arabs, neither should Aztecs. Do you disagree with this?
I am a racist
Wrong. Africa is not a country nor is it united. Go there. Hug a Hutu, kiss a tutsi and Shush urself. Kaitnxbai
You’re a towel
White people in America just act racist now, in other countries it’s an art.
For real…i’d never been harrassed by so many racists in my life, as when lived in Madrid, lol and i’m not white, so i don’t normally like to mention this fact!
bear,you are a retard..first of all not every white guy likes country and rock.country music by the way came from traditional scotch/irish music and instruments mixed with local stories and fables of the mountain people who descended from the scotch/irish who moved to those mountains because of famine and oppression in their own countries.the only thing they were trying to control was the hunger in their childrens bellies..you should wikipeda dumbass unfounded statements.
Tell that to a black person celebrating Kwansa.
Please leave white people alone. Don’t talk to us and we won’t talk to you.
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So if I’m white and my family comes from the former soviet union, does that mean I have to apologize for anything?
True. I hate being the only white at a large social gathering (feel paranoid that people are looking at me etc) , but i expect my husband to be the only brown guy for at least half the places I want to go. He handles it OK but I should appreciate him more and respect him more for this, it is a total double standard.
I’ve seen whiter.
This happend to me the first time I went to a wedding in this country. People at my table and passers by must have repeated (unsuccessfully)my name 150 times at least.
Once in a while someone shouted out “I said it!” and pronounced every letter seperatly.
Now I just say: “You can call me Tammy”.
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Indians, despite being quite conflicted about their colonial experience, nonetheless love being expert on British culture. Nobody can call themselves properly educated in India if they are not familiar with Victorian British literature, especially Charles Dickens.
The Japanese love being familiar with current Western culture. The novels of Haruki Murakami are a case in point: you can scarcely turn a page without coming across a reference to Western pop music or movies.
Knowing about other cultures is not a white specialism. All over the world, knowing about other cultures (or certain other cultures, at least) is a sign of sophistication, education, and high social class.
The blog author has confused a social class marker as a marker of ethnicity.
This is a typically American thing to do.
Genius factor? Booolshit!
But otherwise your post is very interesting.
Dude you have a limiter on your brain. What of gun powder & kama sutra?
“Knowing about other cultures is not a white specialism. All over the world, knowing about other cultures (or certain other cultures, at least) is a sign of sophistication, education, and high social class.”
Good point!
However, have you noticed that when other nations adopt the cultural tendencies and cultural trends of the ‘west’ they are seen as sellouts? Sure, within their culture, it may be the cool thing to do, but when ‘Westerners’ see this, I have often heard disappointment more than anything else.
“Oh, I was disappointed that they were watching American TV shows…” “Oh I was sad to see McDonald’s in (insert some Southeast Asian City’s main trendy spot)” “I was disappointed to see cellphones in such high use – it seems to me as though they’re just trying to be like us” …nevermind that the landline of said country is so shot, cellphones are where it’s at….
Just like what I was trying to say in my first reply to this entry, someone from the ‘West’ copies the ‘East’, it’s this amazing enlightened, multi-cultural, open minded worldview.
Someone from the ‘East’ copies the ‘West’ and it’s nothing special.
How many types of non-white are there? I’d be lying if I said I could tell.
Which would mean that there is only one type of person in the world: racists…..and that some of them are liars does not make them a new group, but rather a sub-group of the first one.
Angolans DO still speak Portuguese…it’s the official language. Also Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome, Cape Verde….I dont know about Goa, India though.
Just being a smart ass here. 🙂
Re: Brazilians, I think the concept of “white” is vague because some people would not consider Brazilians white since they’re part of South America, but many people in Brazil have German, Italian, Portuguese blood. For me, Gisele Bundchen qualifies as white.
Accept he covered that point. When a white person accomplishes something, it’s not an accomplishment for whites, it’s an accomplishment for humanity.
In contrast to say, when a black person accomplishes something, it’s an accomplishment for the black community.
Whenever i visit my neighbor from the Philipines, i am constantly harassed about being the expert of American culture (no matter what the color or background of the American in question). It is also constant, as if I know why my fellow Americans act a certain way. So, maybe this is a common thing that people would expect you to know something about the culture you have lived in your whole life? Dunno, just a thought.
And you’re…white.
Wow it must REALLY suck to be white.
Oh, and that “you other races better learn to live with it” statement was SUPER intimidating [not really].
Love,
Some random black/asian/latin/middle eastern person
Um, no. It’ people like you who are responsible for the reason most (I’m talking a vast majority of) people loathe white people and why whites are so paranoid about being white.
So I guess that means you live is a country full of racist liars and yet I don’t see you packing you bags and buying a oneway ticket out of the country. I guess that would make you the THIRD kind of person…full of shit.
How about this for an expert opinion:Dr Albert Schweitzer, who spent most of his life in Africa, “uplifting” Negroes, received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1952. He held several doctorate degrees. Shortly before his death, he said:
“I have given my life to alleviate the sufferings of Africa. There is something that all white men that have lived here must learn and know; that these individuals are a sub-race; they have neither the intellectual, mental or emotional abilities to equate or share in any of the functions of our civilization. I have given my life to try and bring them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status; white, the superior, and they the inferior, for whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equal, they will either destroy him or devour him, and they will destroy all his work; and so for any existing relationship or for any benefit to this people let white men from anywhere in the world who would come to help Africa remember that you must continually retain the status; you the master, and they inferior, like children that you would help or teach. Never fraternize with them as equals, never accept them as your social equals; or they will devour you; they will destroy you.” Fucker.
I don’t believe it. Someone who actually knows what he’s talking about. You should see the look on my face. Kudo ‘As White As It gets’.
Not all white people are terrified of confrontation with an “ethnic” person,regardless of the topic. Sme of us simply prefer to sidestep the stupidity that arises when SOME ethnic people are confronted with the issue of race. I personally don’t care if you’re black, white,red, yellow or purple! If you treat me with respect, I’ll return the same-but if you choose to blame me and MY ancestors for the fact that YOUR ancestors were SOLD into slavery by their OWN COUNTRYMEN a confrontation will occur!
You say that as if you’re not sitting here mentally chugging stereotypes about whitey.
Every person identifies with people of their own colour and region first.
THE BIGGEST RACIST AGAINS BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE BLACK PEOPLE THEMSELVES. USING THE B EXCUSE IN MY OLD JOB MEAN USING THE BLACK EXCUSE. SUCH AS: THAT HAPPENED TO ME CUZ I’M BLACK. I THINK THAT HAPPENED TO YOU CUZ YOU STUPID. IF A WHITE PERSON ACOMPLISHED SOMETHING ON OR BEFORE A BLACK PERSON THEY ARE RACIST, BUT IF A BLACK PERSON ACOMPLISHED SOMETHING ON OR BEFORE A WHITE PERSON THEY WANT TO BE WHITE. STOP WORRING ABOUT THE PAST. WHO CARES ABOUT THE SLAVERY THAT HAPPENED 100s OF YEARS AGO IT IS PART OF HISTORY AND IT SHOULD STAY AS IS. IF YOU SO HUNG ON IT THEN PACK UP YOUR SHIT AND GO BACK TO AFRICA. WHERE YOU CAN BE RAPED, USE AND ABUSE BY THE BLACK MEN THERE. TREATED AS A THIRD CLASS CITIZEN, BE UNCIVILICED, WALK AROUND BARE FOOTED AND PREGNANG, GO HUNT FOR YOUR DAILY FOOD, NO SCHOOL, NO HOSPITALS, HIGH RATE IN DESEASES, PLAGUES AND AIDS, NO ELECTRICITY OR WATER, BATHE ONCE A MONTH, NO FASHION. WE SHOULD TREAT EACH OTHERS LIKE HUMANS. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT WONDER, YES I’M BLACK, LATINO AND I’M ALSO GAY. SO I HAVE THREE MINORITIES IN ME. I EXPERIENCED ALL KINDS OF RACISM AND NEGATIVITY FROM PEOPLE, BUT MOST OF IT HAS BEEN FROM BLACK POEPLE LIKE ME. LET PEOPLE BE WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE AND LETS WORRY ABOUT OUR FUTURE AS A NATION. GET UP AND VOTE. GET A JOB IF YOU DON’T ALREADY HAVE ONE, AN MOST IMPORTANT BE SOMEBODY, EDUCATE YOURSELF AND MAKE A DIFERENCE
OK, well I guess that’s why they would rather live in a white neighborhood than with other Hispanics and especially not with blacks!
“…Why are people on non-white color amongst the poorest in the world today?….”
Because they don’t invent, create anything from scratch and they don’t know how to govern themselves. Black leaders in Africa are the most oppressive humans to ever be in power in the history of mankind. Open your eyes to reality.
“…Why is it that subconciously white is always denoted as ‘good’ whereas black or non-whiteness is deemed as bad?…”
For the same reason blacks would follow white people to Antarctica, blacks don’t invent or create anything of value. They are not entrepreneurial, they are more vicious, more prone to crime, on and on… Open your eyes. Africans are inferior to white. It doesn’t mean that blacks should be oppressed, it doesn’t make slavery ‘right’. But how long will brainwashed white people ignore the absolute truth right in front of their eyes?
“… It’s deeply ingrained in us through this horrible time period. And the fact that you would choose to ignore this in your little indignant outcry is foolish and pitiable..”
Ingrained? It’s obvious. Blacks should be in Africa, then they wouldn’t be “oppressed”. But will they leave? NO, because they and every other dark skinned person on the planet KNOWS in their heart being close to whites means better standard of living.
“…The exact number of blacks who were killed in the Atlantic Slave Trade is not precise and ranges from 3-10 million lives…”
Who cares what you doubt and any guess would be just that, a guess. Arab slave trade and inter-tribal slavery among blacks was just as significant in numbers as European slave trade.
“..Europeans introduced chattel slavery, the system of slavery used in the Atlantic Slave Trade, to the world. ..”
Blame white innovation, creativity and entreprenurialism for finding a more advantageous way to move slaves. If blacks had the technology and the guns they would have dome that to whites but they didn’t. Again this doesn’t condone slavery, but you’re simply choosing to demand more from whites. I guess that’s your own white-guilt demon.
“…What most whites gave us about blackness and other ethnicities has come in the form of scientific racism and media stereotyping. It’s generally people of color who talk about the accomplishments of people of color, not whites..”
Using the term “people of color” is a dead give-a-way for your politics. And the only reason people of color would even know about black “accomplishments” (i’m laughing here) is because self deprecating white idiots push the nonsense into their heads.
“…Did you not attend public school? The vast majority of what is in high school textbooks focuses on the accomplishments of whites…”
Look around, everything is invented by whites or Asians. There is nothing significant invented from scratch by a black.
If I was black every single moment of my day would be spent KNOWING every single thing I use in life and every single convenience I have is because of whites and Asians. Who needs textbooks to tell them whites and Asians invent everything of significance? Do blacks need to be told that a black person “invented” trafiic signal when in actuality they only came up with the idea of using colors to communicate to drivers. Without electricity, motor mechanism, metallurgy, etc. there would be no traffic light for the black to have the idea in the first place.
I am a mixture of so many cultures it ain’t funny. But we all are created by the same GOD. And God is no respecter of persons. He says to love Him and love eachother.
Jesus is coming back soon. Please ask Him to save your soul and lets work on the inside of us more than the outside.
After all, all our blood is red!
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I’m definitely not like this….and I’m as white as they come. Not all white people are like this…. the majority… probably. But seriously…this is kind of insulting to me as an individual.
And P.S
Mary…shut the hell up.
Since when are Portugese not white ?
There is no god. If you believe there is, you will believe anything.
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
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So true. I think I pooped my pants too.
Race equals racism.
Race equals racism. No two ways around it. But! Is it a bad thing by itself? Only if people use it to take unjust advantage of others.
this isn’t white people, this is americans. stupid americans.
AMERICA # 1
Now don’t forget to wipe.
On the topic at hand:
Portuguese? Huh? Just because they’re a shade darker than Italians and Romanians doesn’t make them… non-white. 😐
Ha ha ha! That’s excellent. I’m not native American myself but I wish I were so I could tell people “no, you can’t name your grandchildren ‘Leanne”‘.
This blog is hilarious!
“It is generally acceptable for a white person to learn a few terms in a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese).”
Chinese, Tagalog, fine. But, Portuguese? Portuguese are WHITE people, just as everybody from Western Europe.
Oh people, why is everyone up in arms about this blog and taking this shit (admittedly, some really good shit) so seriously. For every post I’ve read, yes I’ve read them all, I can name countless people from across the spectrum of races who fit the bill, but it’s just funny to say it’s only white people.
Just enjoy the damn thing and move on with your life.
it was and still is wrong even if you yourself had nothing to do with it
Correction: Some white people are terrified of confrontation, especially with an ethnic person, in a business setting for fear of lawsuits and/or losing their job. Especially when race is brought up.
sex
This is really, really interesting.
Gisele Bundchen is as white as she is Brazilian, as Naomi Campbell is as black as she is British.
Agreed,
but when “African’s sold their own race to slavery” it was more so a particular tribe selling another tribe’s to slavery, it wasn’t looked at as “race”.
Don’t generalize. All human beings have been enslaved, regardless of color, race, creed, religion, etc. Not all slave masters were of a different background than their slaves, either.
But because black African slave trade is the most recent (and also most notorious of slavery in world history next to Egypt and the Hebrews …maybe thats supposed to be ironic, Egypt is in Africa, remember?) in America, it is still fresh in people’s minds alike.
If someone wants to believe in a higher being, let them. Just as long as they are not a radical/extremist religious person who has lost sight of what their religion is really about.
Caucasions, a moment of silence please for Harvey Korman and his humor.
I am white.
And I don’t care about other peoples culture. But I do respect them.
one word ABILIFY
love, the DOC
do you have a job? you should get one. Im on Vacation. What’s your excuse for posting at 4pm. Im telling you guy, you exhibit classic symtoms of Bi-polarity or even a pesonality disorder.
love, the Doc
PS Abilify
ha! you quoted the BBC. One more thing white people love, watching the BBC because they are so objective and don’t filter the news like the American media does… and blah blah blah.
this is in every single post isn’t it? how long did it take you to poop your pants this many times?
“There are two types of people in the world; racists and liars.”
-Speak for yourself. Who are you to say how someone, other than yourself, thinks/acts.
No, I understand exactly what you’re saying.
The truly bizarre part of my experience with this is that I consider some of these whites to be my friends.
I could never put it into words because as someone who reads the history books without white glasses, I can’t comprehend how they can ignore facts.
I could upload facpalm.jpg for a thousand years and it still wouldn’t be enough.
ONce again this web site should be accompanied by one called stuffamericansdontknow.com
or
arrogantamericans.com
or
geoentricamericans.com
What is even funnier is when someone who has ‘been to your country’ corrects you on the pronouciation of your language….. (This happened to a friend of mine at an academic conference where people should be ‘aware’ and ‘enlightened’) Erg!
Nail, head…hammer!
that is part of why china especially, and these countries are eventually going to take over the west – they are loyal to their own while whites are anything BUT. Do you think the Chinese are sitting around thinking…”damn, we aren’t diverse enough? Let’s millions of dollars on sending people to ‘diversity training’ and recruiting non-chinese”
hmmm…a “mesoamerican” anthropologist – that is like asking a car salesman if you need to buy a new care,
or better yet a zionist how many Jews were killed by the nazis
i am Greek, and most Greeks are really fucking proud of being Greek!
actually, there are NO student meetings that cater specifically to whites unlike every other race? What did you get this idea from?
spot on
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I LOVE YOUR BLOG. It is the story of my life.
I am white person, and I love everything on your list. I am a sweater-wearing, prius-driving, mac-owning, easily offended white person who often threatens to move to canada.
HA. Because i bet you and your british nation Know all eh?
seriously…if you know everything, than shouldn’t you have known that you guys suck massive load at everything you attempt? SURE you guys figured out out to save gasoline and somehow figured out how to save the environment. well, a fucking monkey can do that. (you know what a monkey is right? other than the common brit, a monkey is a wild creature that is more often than not connected to the banana as a symbol of its heritage) learning how to ride a bike isnt very tough, or walking, yeah…walking is good to…people have been doing that for years.
http://www.nobodylikesbrits.com sounds about right. since you know everything, GO AHEAD and invent yourself a new way of scripting websites while your at it. i mean what…its simple to brits….isnt it? if we can do it…you guys can to right?
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LMAO … thats Laugh My Ass Off form the white Peopl who dont know what that means.
FYI
I’m a black women who has offten threatend to move to New Zealand. It’s not a joke! LOL
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Portugese is white! at least according to the US census –
I’m Portuguese
and it’s white not Hispanic.
oh yea-
i love- when white ppl try to correct me on the pronounciation of my native foods. lol it’s hilarious. whites trying to culture themselves is just another way for them to try and feel more intelligent than evryone else which is cool with me. just don’t take african american studies and try to go around calling ppl your nigga. 😉 lol seriously don’t. i’ll jump yo ass.
OOOHHHH
after condescending white guilt, my other big annoyance are the British/Europeans who are smug about Americans, their shortcomings and patriotism.
1) I am married to UK born, canadian raised, US resident
and my inlaws are SO full of crap when they talk about racism is this country…
a place known for its rampant classism
2) As for us taking the N. American continent from Indigenous people—the English have had their finger in shit all over the world..India, Africa, the Carribean
3) What cultures are most 1, 2, 3rd generation Americans descended from ? EUROPEAN ones
4) When people think something is less cheasy because its European or British—they crank out tons of commercial crap just like us
5) Europeans who are aghast because most white Americans don’t speak several languages–we only border one country that speaks another language (yea, yea Quebec, whatever) so don’t act like you know languages our of pure inquisitiveness and intelligence…if you live a train ride away from a place that speaks another language , of course you are more likely to need to learn to speak it
6) Ragging on americans for having big houses: you would have big houses if there was room. So you just act like you have small flats because you are virtuous and thrifty. Whatever.
and then one last brain fart
I am getting over my white guilt about slavery. Slavery is wrong and its not unique to U.S. history. Still going on in Africa, by Africans. Who do you think captured the slaves brought to the U.S? AFRICANS. Howz about we free some slaves RIGHT NOW?
I think being whites okay..I get sunburned easily and I can’t pull off wearing different wigs as easily as some of my African American coworkers. But I was born white, can’t do much about it.
Somehow, saying “proud white girl” isn’t going to fly , though?
obama for president
Things black people like
10. Family Reunions- Man is it just me or do black people love a freaking family reunion!!!!! Shirts with the tree and all 500 names….3 last names of the family…..wow
9. The Electric slide- Something about this dance ( for those who dont kno, its like line dancing, with a little more funk)…somehow whenever me and my family get together somebody starts doing that shit!!!!!
8.The “Candy Lady” This is a older women in the neighborhood who sells candy and snacks out of her house, cool cups (cups of super sweet Kool-aid frozen. Giant pickles, hood candies ( boston baked beans, lemon heads, mambas, ect. If you didnt have enough money the candy lady would let you slide. The candy lady is mostly found in the hood. if your a black person who doesnt live in the hood….. you kno someone who does.
7. Jet magazine- So small, and yet its filled with so much info!!!! Beauty of the week, photo of the week, News, Politics, music charts, fashion….I know you kno somebody who has a Jet magazine collection from ‘91….Whats funny is you can sit and read all those bitchez in a hour.
6.Black movies- School days, Boyz in the hood, menace to society, love and basketball, love jones, soul food, Baby boy, brown sugar, best man, brothers, the wood, Friday….only the first one…i dont know what the hell is up with the rest but anyways…..these movies just make you feel like bonding with other blacks….most people kno all the words example” Craig,how come every time im in the kitchen, you’re in the kitchen?….Eating all the got damn food!” -Friday. “RRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKYYYYY”- Boys in the hood. and “Swallow but never chew”- The wood
5.Hair- Perms, afros, Jheri curls, Curly weaves, Straight Weaves fades, bobs, ceasers, dreads, braids. Micros, cornrowns, gumby. Beauty supply, salons and barbers, doesnt matter if your from the hood or the burbs….you gotta have those edges straight!!!!!lol
4. Grandma-Now i know everybody loves Grandma, but black people will KILL somebody over grandma… In most cases they would do so for their grandma before they would for their mother …and you know how many fights you have seen over the “your mama” statements….you wanna make a black person mad …”your grandmama” would really hit the spot. She can cook, she always has your back….she’ll pick your side over her own child….even the biggest thug will take their hat off in the house if grandma asks.
3. Bill Clinton…….I dont know any black people that just hate Bill Clinton. Not one….Thats all I can say.
2. Soul Food, yeah yeah i know how bad it is for you , but i have to have my fried turkey, chicken. Ham, pork chops greens , mac and cheese, cabbage, sweet potato, cornbread, 7 up cake and big ass lass of Kool- aid or that stuff with sprite and rainbow shirbert icecream and friut…i know you have had it, but what is it called…..hhhhmmmmm?????? Just have to eat it at least 3 times a year…. Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas…..Sorry
1. Other Black People- I know this one may be a little hard for people to beleive considering that black on black crime is out of control, but i must say,Black people can grow up in their neighborhood and kno everyone in a 3 block span….you get so close to your neighbors they know your in trouble before you do!!!!!! Like your mom told my mom if you didnt get a A on your report card she was going to beat your ass!!!!! I never understood how a serial killer could live in the neighborhood and white people are like “I had no Idea!” In the hood you know everybody….the crack head, the good kids, the thugs, dope boys…..everybody….Black people lead a civil rights movement for eachother!!!!!!!!! Man i love my people. And i know that if you asked most black people if they would want to be white they would say “Hell No” If you asked them if they wanted to be treated white, now thats a whole different story…..Its something about growing up black in america that is undiscribable. I wouldnt change it for the world.
I’ve been embarrassed by other whites who think they know more about other cultures than they really do.
One American Vajrayana Buddhist centre was holding a Puja offering ceremony for Losar (Tibetan New Year). An elderly Nepali woman attended the ceremony. She did not speak English, so of course all my fellow crackers, one by one, lined up and said, “Tashi Delek” (Tibetan greeting) to her, believing her to be Tibetan. This woman was not Tibetan, nor did she speak Tibetan. She didn’t even look Tibetan- Tibetans, though relatively dark, are clearly East Asian, and this woman was obviously South Asian. And of course they were grossly mispronouncing it. I was tempted to do a few extra prostrations just so I could slam my forehead into the ground.
Sooooo true. There is actually a specific club of white people who know more about Japanese culture than you. And then there’s another one with white people who know more about martial arts than you. And they get very upset when some other white person doesn’t know enough.
Is there a category for “Zen” or “Buddhist-flavored stuff” or “Feng Shui” and “Stuff that has to do with the Tao” and “Asian stuff”?
Um, the only folks I hear using the term nigga – are blacks. So no need to jumy yo ass or my ass – if there is any ass to be jumped it would be the black folks…Oh, Portugese is a white language duh???? Portugal is in Europe. Oh, and other things white people like, respect, education, walking at a decent pace, inventing things that black folks love to use, good food – cusine came from Europe – not Africa, nice neighborhoods, good beer – Colt 45 my ass.
This one is right. I fancy that I know more about Jazz than most people. It’s important to build one’s perspective by learning about other cultures…wait a minute! I’m American! Jazz isn’t a foreign culture! Guess I’m not a gifted white person after all.
I can’t believe nobody has flagged the fact that an advanced-level white person would never settle for a dubbed version of a foreign film. Subtitles are the choice for preserving the cultural flavour.
Some white people are just be genuinely interested in other cultures because they are different and interesting. Obviously if you take anything too far and aren’t tactful, you’re going to look like an ass. But what’s wrong with being inquisitive? Would you rather us be ignorant of other cultures like the stereotypical white American?
The demographic that this blog is speaking about is a very specific demographic of white people. YUPPIES. Nothing new here. We’re just talking about the latest generation of them. What percentage of white people fall into this category I do not know. But it’s probably the minority of Americans.
I think too much emphasis is put on ‘culture’ to where it is a handicap to progess and free mind.
People make it more important than human life and put it above happiness. They make traditions over-serious to where they no longer serve any practical function and become an unneeded burden.
Today ‘Culture’ is used as a psychological weapon to hurt people.
I see people give up a much greater thing (Their Objectivity) just to try to dress like some jungle savage or dali lama.
They surrender their individual autonomy & their potentual so they can be a slave to ‘Culture’.
I have seen ‘Culture’ rob enough people of their entire lives That I can only regard it as a theif.
In my climate, My air conditoner & ice water does more for me than ‘Culture’ ever could do.
& I would much rather look at things that transcend culture (women, mountains, stars at night, etc..) than some stinking tribal war mask anyway.
-P.S, learning how to be respectful in chinese before you travel to china is COMMON SENSE -not guilt. It prevents things like Getting in trouble in a foriegn country and getting yourself killed.
I think people over-emphasize the modest importance of ‘culture’ making it a handicap to progress and free mind.
They make ‘Culture’ more important than human life and place it above happiness to were it becomes a burden.
I see people give up a much greater thing (their happiness & control of their own life) to run around dressed like some jungle native or dali lama.
Today, ‘Culture’ is a psychological weapon used to hurt people. It is the new racism -a mental prison…
It is sad seeing it being forced on children in schools. The days of objective education devoted only to the skills that really are vital (without robbing a child of their self esteem and future in the process) are gone.
In my climate, my air conditioner and ice maker do more for me than ‘Culture’ ever did.
Besides,There are things that transcend culture that I would rather look at (mountains, a night sky, the opposite sex, etc..) than some stinkin savage war mask or shaolin sword anyway.
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One good example of ‘Culture’ was when The Beatles traveled to India to try Hindu meditation. Instead of getting higher powers of consciousness, the Majarishi Guru tried to score on paul mcartney’s girlfriend. -The Beatles lost the incense & eastern garb real quick after that!
I hear the Guru had to use a car and air conditioner too just like we do…
You only have one life. I just can’t see wasting an entire lifespan being a slave to ‘Culture’.
Awesome! Hilarious.
portuguese primary spoken by non-whites?
you’re either nuts or a caucasian guy ashamed of white culture
one word: brazil
A little about my culture
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!!
First off Bill let’s make some things clear.
Portugese, while certainly is of European origin has changed slightly in Brazil and other Portugese speaking cultures. The native people of that land have of course greatly influenced the language and culture. Have you ever seen someone from Brazil, or Mozambique? They don’t look white to me in the least. They’ve taken the Portugese language and culture to make a hyrbrid of native and European culture.
White people are people so honestly saying there are thing “we” like to do is no less racist than saying that Blacks just plain luv da fried chickins. There is a white culture in the U.S. which I presume is the focus of this site. Some whites are part of that white culture but I think most people (indeed that includes most middle class and above minorities) in the U.S. have a general American culture.
I find it odd that for someone who claims our race “invented” cuisine to misspell it. Cuisine the word is certainly of European ancestry but anyone with a culinary degree know that cuisine applies to the ingredients and cooking methods assigned to a certain culture.
Oh and Colt .45 was and is brewed by us white people.
Uh, what?
I hope you know Portuguese is spoken by people in Portugal, who are primarily white
Brazilians can be white. Most do have Portuguese blood, and in the south they are huge Italian and German populations. I would definitely classify Gisele as white.
Even if Brazil wasn’t white at all tho, Portuguese is a European (and therefore white) language.
yes, I am going to call you out on every one of these posts. We both clearly have a LOT of time on our hands.
I am going to start a blog about what black people like. It’s going to start with fried chicken, watching ‘Roots’, being obese, living in inner cities, singing enthusiastically in church, being paranoid about ‘white peoples’ attempts to hold them down, smoking crack, blaming ‘the system,’ comedy shows that make fun of what ‘white people’ are like, McDonalds, Michael Jordan, appropriating racist language for use amongst themselves, etc. etc.
That’s hilarious. Can’t wait! Maybe the two blogs can collaborate on a movie franchise. You already have titles for the first two…
Stupid Americans….
And the sequel could be on what lame Europeans like…soccer, being effete, US military protection, criticizing the US military, protesting, reducing the workweek, xenophobia, soccer, coffee, small cars, etc., etc.
Yeah, Portuguese is originally spoken in Portugal, whose population are mostly white; in Brazil people are mostly white (more than 50% are so), though it’s true there’s also African countries where the language is spoken. With so many languages to choose from why pick one to which the post doesn’t apply.
Anyway, this blog did help me realize in how many ways I am this white but here in Portugal it’s quite common to have more two last names, and it’s a cultural thing, I mean, there’s probably a lot of countries where that’s the most common way to name a child.
WHITE MAN
Your day’s never over,
Your work’s never through!
Though you’ve tamed most of the heathen and the barbarians too!
‘Massa, thanks for ‘lectricity and the (Ah So!) internet too!
WHITEMAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!
They tried to say that ‘you can’t jump’.
But, you made it to the moon without having to dunk.
You might not have much rhythm,
But you can (steal) carry a good tune,
WHITEMAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!
You made it through civil rights and women’s lib too,
You’ve been through a lot, good buddy, no wonder you can sing the blues!
If the world’d open their eyes, they’d see that in the past you’re not really stuck,
Even though you still fly a rebel flag, at least it’s on a Japanese pickup truck!
Black may be beautiful, and tan may be grand,
But white’s still the color of the BIG BOSS MAN!
’Ask not’ (J.F.K.) whether it’s true,
WHITEMAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!
The world doesn’t understand your level of stress,
Every minute’s a Malox moment, but that’s the price of success!
You watch your laptop for the first sign of loss,
Well, it’s time you paid the cost to be the boss!
Don’t drop the ball now and lose the home court advantage,
Or we’ll all have to say the pledge of allegiance in Spanish!(‘Press Uno for English’)
Only you can straighten out the world’s condition,
‘Cause you were properly conceived in the missionary position!
Stand up like a white man and do your white duty,
Or we’ll all be blown to hell by sheik your booty!
ASK NOT whether, Hillary or Obama can rule,
WHITE MAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!
Sincerely,
Uncle Sambone
(The love-child of Uncle Sam & one
Of his female slaves)
In memory of Col. Paul Tibbets, Pilot of the Enola Gay, and all the faithful sidekicks of
‘Bwana’ …..(next page)
Jimmy Olson (Superman)
Lightning (Amos & Andy)
Poncho (Cisco Kid)
Tonto (Lone Ranger)
Robin (Batman)
Pepina (The Real McCoys)
Cheetah (Tarzan)
Trigger (Roy Rangers)
Birmingham (Charlie Chan…A whiteman in disguise)
Mingo (Daniel Boone)
Kato (The Green Horne)
Rin-Tin-Tin (If Custer had had him, he might have won!)
Rochester (Jack Benny)
Timmy (Lassie, was a ‘white’ dog!)
Uncle Ben/Aunt Jemima (Betty Crocker)
Chester & Festus (Mat Dillion, a protégé’ of John Wayne, who didn’t need a sidekick!)
Barnie Fife (Andy Griffin)
‘Condor’leeza Rice (W.)
Thanks for saying that.. I don’t think White people understand Cultural Appropriation isn’t so fun when you are being the culture that’s being appropriated..especially when it’s only because your culture is in vogue for the moment
How can any person be expert on something that doesn’t exist? There is no such thing as white culture, just like there is no such thing as black culture. There is no 1 culture on any continent in the world.
On second thought…the only experts on what doesn’t exist, black and white culture, are some really political blacks who made all that crap up in the first place to attempt the make themselves stand out, and to try and make whites feel guilty about something that happened 600 yrs ago.
I could not care less about slaves in Southern USA 600 yrs ago. Go cry to the black Africans that sold the blacks they captured from small communities and sold to the Egyptians, later to the Spanish and Italian explorers, later to the British, and finally to the Americans (Southern). None of which are any relation to me or my caucasian ancestry. North American blacks need to stop whining, get off the free meal train, and the author of the book needs to get his story straight.
Tamara
Are you serious? This is just insanely racist ti white people. Its people you who stop the rest of us black people from getting anywhere decent. What if a white person said ‘things black peopel do’
“Batter the english language using dat, dis etc”
“all listen to rap music and think new rap music is actually any good”
“carry a gun”
“will most likely rob someone”
“In there free time steal car radio’s”
“Wear huge puffa jackets and insanely baggy clothing to conceal guns and make them look big”
“Say nigg** to each other and in there music but complain when white people copy it or use it”
The guy that writes this is white!
Well he is jewish, and that’s not white, not even caucasian.
See #101
what black people don’t do this stuff? all that i’ve met do
It has to be a fact that the most crushing day in a black male’s life is the day he realizes he can be neither a rapper or basketball/football player
why did you spend so much time on this piece o’ turd “poem” thingy — it blows clits bud
Dear asshole,
“It is generally acceptable for a white person to learn a few terms in a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese).”
So, you’re saying that portuguese are non-white? Funny, since portuguese ARE european caucasian… Americans should NOT consider themselves white/caucasian, because they’re all mixed! But you all love to categorize people, right? There’s “white/caucasian” people everywhere around the fucking damn globe! USA is not the only fucking place where white people can be spotted!
Asshole!
A bunch o morons here… OMG! What makes americans think they are the only no-europeans white people in the world? There are white brazilians, you know? Not all brazilians are black or have olive skin… Just like here in the US! And bralians are not hispanos either! They don’t speak spanish. Learn the facts before posting stupig things!
Seriously…why are all of these comments so hostile? First of all everything that is written is true and second, why did you go to a web site called “stuff white people like” and think that you were going to find some deep pc blog? This is hilarious! Just laugh and enjoy life and move on! Life is too short 🙂
Hey Jason,
People from brazil are from mixed european background. A LOT of WHITE europeans escaping hunger and misery in europe immigrated to Brazil. Plus, there are people from european/native indians mix but they are not majority. As a matter of fact, they are minority, along with blacks and european/blacks mix and black/native indians mix. I suppose you are a damn good brazilianist, to be 100% sure of what you just told us, heh?
Cesar:
Aboriginal people are from Australia and New Zealand… And if you check the Census (Brazilian Federal Govt. sponsored) you will verify that the majority of the population still is categorized as white (european descendants).
Shut the fuck up, trailer trash cunt!
Tamara,
You need to pick up a history book from your local library before you start the whole black-people-sold-each-other-into-slavery-before-we-did argument. The last time I checked, it was YOUR ancestors who dragged 12 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to be treated like animals. I don’t remember black Africans doing that.
Looks like somebody pissed in someone’s Cheerios this morning.
this is very funny
so true! I’m not black but agree that we shouldn’t pick on only whites.
Much like whites on here, I think some blacks may take themselves too seriously and deem that as racist
it is tough when someone of another race states whats wrong with your race. Its much funnier when someone from the same race does it because it comes off as less offensive…why is this?
“a language spoken primary by non-whites”
Ever heard of a little place called Brazil?
Or is it the difference between the words “primarily” and “exclusively” that eludes you?
LOL, ever heard of Portugal?
You Americans need to relax 😀
Visit australia and see how so called ‘rasicm’ is really done. We all make fun of each other, we accept the differences through homour and move on… jeez louise, get the pole out of your arses people.
I agree! It’s sad that my fellow Americans get so uptight about the possibility of slightly offending someone.
Wow – this is my new favorite site. I’m white and American and to my fellow countrymen – lighten up! Ever hear of satire?
slight;y random, but i would love to see a white person try jamaican chicken foot soup and really love it. although, i am half jamaican, the soup never appealed to me due to that it’s CHICKEN FEET. they should also try shokku nagetto aka shark nuggets. btw, if i had known it was shark, i wouldnt have eaten it. (my friends and i were trying to figure out the katakana, but its one of those words you usually dont come across unless you’re in japan.)
Yes, Being a Puerto Rican I love the White Culture.
Regards,
Frank
Why do white people always use an unrealistic “color” when they try to explain how they’re not racist?
Hmm, interesting concept…
The alternative point of view would be NOT to give a shit about other cultures and NOT to learn anything from them. Just stick to your own little hood.
On the other hand, the funny thing is that I’ve met many white people with a particular interest in YOUR culture. Some were experts in Tanzania, some in Czech Republic, some in South East Asia. However, their eyes would glaze once you start talking to them about another place they’re not experts in: try talking to an Asia expert about Albania or to a Poland expert about Africa. No interest whatsoever. It does appear as if one has to choose your favorite specialty to be able to take photos wearing native clothes. Just one is enough.
Well, Portuguese isn’t only spoken by actual Portuguese people. Macau (In China), Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Sao Tome & Principe, & Brazil (Half the population are considered non-white), etc.
Secondly, not ALL Americans are mixed. I’m multiracial, but MOST people in the United States are just white.
Jews can be white. Ashkenazi Jews are Jews with European heritage.
Actually, the population of Brazil that consists of mostly white people is not more than 50%, it’s right under 50%.
97% of Argentinians are of European ancestry and Israel is full of Ashkenazi Jews that came from Europe, so being Israeli doesn’t mean you aren’t white.
The most racist white people I know
have no interest in any culture beyond
that of their own (usually small) home town.
“Have you heard the new Andy Lau CD? It’s awesome!”
😀 that’s hilarious
Hahaha! Tagalog. My native tongue. Thanks for the mention.
Its the exotic enough factor. Pick up enough culture to accessorize with the outfit their wearing, but not enough to have to deal with the nitty gritty of anything so complicated as different world views, values or languages… Guaranteed if you meet someone who likes “non-white people” in a sexual way, get rid of them by actually suggesting that their white culture is equal to your non-white culture; do not suggest it is inferior as this triggers the colonial guilt complex, and they love that.
Having gone to India on a “guided tour” (independent travel in 3rd world country ..yech..) did allow me for a brief time to walk through downtown Oakville,ON in a Kurta to get a French Roast Grande (while walking my Dachshund) and at same time expouse my thoughts on Kashmir to Karim, our doorman…..I should add that my opinions on Kashmir came from ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
Touche
You are correct because the African slave owners didn’t need the other African slaves to go anywhere because they were already in Africa. Face it Slavery has been practiced by pretty much EVERY single culture on every part of the globe. So if we are going to get in an argument about the evils of our ancestors none of our hands will be clean. Or we could look at this like rational people and take responsibility for our own actions.
Andy Lau!! haha~
I’ve lost count over the number of times a white person has told me that they are probably “more Indian than me”; after having spent precisely two weeks in Goa.
Fuck you whitey.
i find it so annoying when a white person tells me that they have found the “most ethnic chinese restaurant”…how the hell do you know what makes it ethnic?
*thai and indian are also very popular
The video to go with the above picture:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HsY5PML9q-8&feature=related
All of a sudden after playing GTA: Vice City, watching Scarface, and going to a beach in Miami…mr. “gringo” is an expert on cuba, cigars, and the women.
You know what gets me…when I tell white folks I’m Filipino, but once they find out I was born in the US it looses authenticity to them. It’s no longer exciting.
Get over it. Just because you lost your sense of culture by being born white American doesn’t mean I lost mine. I’m still brown, still Filipino.
Culture, what culture? White Americans don’t really have any culture that I can find. That’s why other cultures are so interesting. I trace my roots back to Germany, Sweden, and Holland to have some sort of cultural identity.
Keep up the great work, this site is hilarious and pisses off more people that I ever could myself.
Again, you are wrong…
Art & Literature??? nope, no way.
Slavery? No, I had nothing to do with it. I’ve never owned, traded, or whipped any slaves.
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY!
-Thomas (an IPodless white guy who never had any slaves)
While Stuff White People Like contributes on a massive scale to our invisibilization (really, it’s like the hipster flipside of Sarah Palin), I’m introducing a new blog called Bitter White Folks for Obama to explode this zero-sum game. My family were part of the 41 million who migrated from the Appalachian/Southern region to the Midwestern states in the postwar period: precisely the demographic from which support for Obama (and progressive politics as such) is supposed to be non-existent. But it was the economic policies of Reagan and the Clinton and Bush dynasties that produced such atrocities as the 2,200 square miles of strip-mining in Appalachia that have put thousands out of work, reduced the average income to the level of Mexico and forced migration to the North in search of jobs. So I actually completely agree with Obama’s sentiment: of course Appalachian and Midwestern communities are “bitter” – and it cannot be denied that more than a few have been mislead into believing that these elites somehow hear their voices. With the increasingly patronizing tone of the Republicans however (which Stuff White People Like only solidifies), many are rapidly becoming unconvinced – at least Obama speaks about the situation as it really is: as he put it in that same speech, “you can go into the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you’ll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I’d be very strong and people will just be skeptical”. For more, check out my blog at http://bitterwhitefolksforobama.blogspot.com
Thomas…stop taking it all so personally.
Great example of white people enjoying being offended (#101 on the list) and their like of Obama (#8).
If you take this site that seriously you should just end your despair tonight.
I owned slaves, those were the days… “git in thur an make me smbiskits!” ahh.. the sound of a whip snapping in the humid southern air… those certainly were the days
Oh my goodness…so true! I am from Kenya and I just love when people sit me down to tell me about my country and culture…I am always like wow! Thanks…
LOL this is the funniest thing ever but its true at the same time ppl always think they know somebody esle’s history I’m like I hope you’re not basing this from internet searches and high school education
SO TRUE; either they know everything about your culture or they love talking about your culture so much that it makes you feel guilty for knowing enough information to keep their interest! I’m from Kurdistan and a lot of people are like where’s that?? And suddenly they know more about my country and culture than I do! : ) Some white girl in my country has even read the English version of the Quran and I haven’t even read it!!!!!!!!!! It’s crazy but true.
I’m a white girl that grew up in the Philippines. so when i talk to Filipinos about their culture it’s more for a sense of nostalgia. but I have met a lot of white people who act this way. and its freaking hilarious!
Ditto !!!
SPOT ON !!!
Well I’m white girl born in America and I don’t obsess over everyone else’s culture. Wanna know why? No other culture tries to learn about my heritage. So why should I learn about yours? This website is all in good fun, I’m aware of this. However, what if someone were to make a website called Stuff Black People Like… Or Stuff Mexican People Like… I’m betting you it would be called a “racist attack” and then Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will, yet again, jump into the spot light and preach their bullshit to the world. Everyone who watches it will get a little bit dumber and a few more innocent minds will be sucked into their wacky theories on the “white devil”… So on and so fourth…
Honey, the entire American school system is structured to teach us about your “culture”.
There is a website called stuffblackpeoplelike.com genius. Maybe you should spend a minute or two learning about other peoples cultures.
I like Fiona Sit.
Hahahaha!!! That’s me! This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a loooonng time 😀
But at the same time, they are very ashamed of all the bad things in white culture: the KKK, colonialism, slavery, Jim Crow laws, feudalism, and the treatment of native americans.
I am not ashamed of any of the above mentioned. White People Rock!!
HAAAAAA! Your all gentiles and equally pathetic!! HAAAAA!
I almost forgot people like you still actually exist.! HAAAAA!
Lol, unless you’re (that’s with an apostrophe) an orthadox Jew you probably haven’t even picked up the Hebrew Bible since your Bar Mitzvah class when you were a wee lad. Also try looking up the word “facetious” in the dictionary.
HAAAAAAAAAA!! Your a bigger idiot than I thought. Many American Jews are familiar with both forms of Judaism you moron. HAAAAAAAAAA! And by the way your the one talking about HA HA I’m not ashamed of those KKK idiots and Jim Crow laws that stopped people from drinking from a bubbler based on color. “Colored fountain, White fountain, HAAAAAAAAAA! I’ve
never heard shit that stupid and ridiculous in all my life and I’m
the one who needs to look up facetious HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
haaaaaaaaaa OHHH MAN YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HILARIOUS
THIS IS ,
Actually there are 5 forms practiced in North America today. Also, be really sure to concentrate on that facetious word when you look it up.. … … HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!1!
i’m sure you’re happy about the genocide of palestine
and the wall thats bigger than the berlin wall erected through the middle of gaza
nobody obsesses over your “culture” or your “heritage”
because all there is to “obsess” about is “all the bad things in white culture: the KKK, colonialism, slavery, Jim Crow laws, feudalism, and the treatment of native americans.” im not a racist, or a anti-white person, but its people like you who disgust me with your absolutely self-absorbed bullshit. by the way, do you even know your own heritage? because all white people did come from different nations and cultures at one point, now theyre all just bunched into one big super mega race who exploits and puts down others….hate to get all serious and whatnot on this fun-natured site, but every now & then ppl need to be told
and by the way, there IS a such thing called “stuff black people like”, and no sign of Al Sharpton
“wacky theories”?? theyre called facts. as in, historical events that have taken place to people firsthand…not saying i agree with anything n everything they say, but try and understand where their “wacky theories” originate.
While the articles are funny, some of the comments are brutal. But I noticed people countering each other thusly:
“I hate it when white people can’t say my name right.”
“When white people try to say my name, they just look stupid and I tell them to use an easier nickname.”
So which is it? Try to say a name, or don’t? Learn about a culture or not? Once you get outside of the US, it helps to know about the culture you’re diving into. Also, what’s wrong with learning for learning’s sake?
It just seems like knowing nothing about your culture will get me ridiculed, and taking an interest in your culture will get me ridiculed. What’s the right answer?
I am a white Buddhist American who is often conflicted as to what my culture is. It is pretty clear what my religion is, but here in America it is hard to “talk” about your culture, because I really don’t have a set of customs that are different from the customs in my religion. Therefore it is quite common to see me dress in salwar’s, sarees and traditional robes for religious events and events of my Hindu peers. I look awkward if I don’t. I’m the only white person in my temple and I dress according to what I deem is appropriate for the setting. A lot of my friends are Hindu so if they invite me to a religions function, I believe it is completely inappropriate to wear a pant suit or a revealing dress especially when I am in India. Plus Salwars are so much prettier and more comfortable than American dresses. Heck, maybe I was born into the wrong race? But so be it, it’s fun and i’m proud of who I am! I wouldn’t say I’m an expert on any one culture but my own , although I am going to school for Asian studies, history and early childhood education, hah weird mix much? I guess that is another thing white people love, majoring in strange things.
I was talking about the two main forms not the ones practiced on a small scale you incompetent moron. But I admit I should have been clearer knowing I was dealing with retards.
That’s simply not true, my heart goes out to them.
LOL I know what facetious means. You should know when someone is humoring you. Any way this is my last post so I can
debate other morons who are pathetically ignorant to Jewish culture and world issues. But nice talking with you Kimber. Really.
Fight on my Jewish Brother!!1!
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I believe many people are not in full understanding of the differences between CULTURE and SUB-CULTURE.
We are all born into a CULTURE that in most cases (should be) nurtured, grown, and explained to us by our family… Like I was born into an Irish – Roman Catholic, Democratic family with a set of rules, regulations, and believe…
As I grew up and made friends I (like us all) picked up on their differences (their Cultural ways) but being strong and loyal to my Cultural ways I continued to be ME, but of course I did pick up the best ways of my friends (their cultural ways) to make it my way… thus creating my Subculture.
Today I am a proud “Whiteman” with my white cultural ways and rely on my Subcultural ways to understand and mix with many nationalities world wide. My subcultural way in which I live has me being a Irish, Bretheran religion, Republican who is married to a Thai-American (over 19 years) Godfather to a “Chamarro-Korean-American” that attends an International College of every race and Culture you could imagine (that are actively practicing their cultural ways).
I still voice my American Pride, I still stand behind my country (right or wrong, good times and bad)… Just as I did in Saipan. I was a proud Supporter and Voter to former Governor Babauta! Which gives me rights to voice my oppinion as see fit (never needed to however).
Here in Thailand I know, see, and interact with the people as well… been related (through marriage) to this country 19 years. I never felt the need to become Buddhist (the temples are cool looking no doubt).
We are all pretty much the same Saipan at a much smaller scale and of course you cannot hide on an island and of course you will get caught eventually… Thailand and America is so much bigger therefore it takes a bit longer to see the problems and what nots…
Buddhist people are just as bad a Christian people… they are live her like me – learn the language – listen and watch! They hide it better than most…
I traveled and lived throughout the world – moreso as an American soldier…
Subculture is a beautiful thing that we creat to satisfy our needs, wants, and desires in life… it never changed the fact that I was born American into an Irish, Roman Catholic, Democratic family. I am a proud American – temporarily (by choice) living in Thailand.
its funny that portuguese people are white…
I did this way too much, pretending to be Native American, even though i never met my Indian ancestor. i constantly found ways to market myself as a non-white, non-american, but after a while it seemed pointless. sure i might have ancestors that are Cherokee, Scottish, Slovenian, and what not, but that doesn’t make me one of them. you need culture, not genes.
you are not responsible even if your family did own slaves. who cares? really. listen to Minor Threat’s “Guilty of Being White” it sums it up. my mother’s side own slaves. but does that affect how i treat black people or anyone else? No. what’s done is done. I am not responsible for something that happened a hundred years ago.
You had to go and put SFC (Ret)?
I…Hate…You.
Um, you’ve never been to Portugal then?
I made the mistake of attempting to explain to a White Person how my culture views women… who then proceeded to tell me that I WAS WRONG, and went on to tell me that I was not an expert. Oh really? Because what would I possibly know about my own childhood? Or my own culture?
But the greater question is this… was this a moment of failure for the White Person, or a moment of triumph?
You know whats kinda funny and obvious. You think “Portuguese people” come from Portugal and Brazil just because they speak Portuguese (Which are also very different from each-other) You probably dont even know where both countries are…..and this is coming from a BRAZILIAN.
And you dont know 50% of people in Brasil are white. which OBVIOUSLY leaves space for OTHER people who are not white (Mixed, Black, Japanese-Brasilians (yes, that exists))
Wow…
If you have to ask …
well that’s the eternal question, isn’t it?
I don’t really care about the Negroes too much. I do feel some sort of sadness for the Native Americans though. That was some seriously sick shit they pulled on em. Regardless who you are you can’t deny that fact.
Scarlofs, your picture should be the definition of the following words in the Webster’s Dictionary: ignorant, uneducated, bigot. You must have gotten a really bad ass kicking by some ‘negroes’ to be so bigoted.
As for your comments on Native Americans, it is so kind of you to show pity for them. People that think just like you put the Native American into the position you feel ‘sadness’ for; but this irony is lost to your narrow mind….
well DUH!!!….what did you expect Sawedhlinn?…don’t you know that white people know you better than you know yourself? They tell me all the time that they are not prejudice, yet when they get comfortable around you, they talk about non-whites like dogs…but they will say to you that….’you are not like those other non-whites’…..
Prejudice is a figment of all non-white people imagination….and your culture??….it is obvious that if your culture was not studied by a white man (who put all of his information in a book), then you don’t know as much as the white man about your own culture…..
You see, non-white knowledge has to be justified and acknowledged by white scholarship before it can be accepted…even if you lived what they ‘observed’…….There was a book written in the early 60s entitled, ‘Black Like Me’ about a white man who decided to go down south impersonating a black person (brown skin cream, bush, etc)….He experienced white racism in its rawest form, and after one week he could not take it anymore….he went back north and wrote this best seller….Now the funny thing about this is that it took a white man to impersonate a black man in order for white people at that time to be interested in racism……
oh well…..such is life as a non-white in america…….get used to it….
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Don’t think that other races don’t do the same thing (and are less aware of it.) I live/work in SE Asia (yay rack up some white person points!!) and hear ridiculous and patently untrue claims made about various aspects of life and in America, Australia and other “white” countries quite regularly (usually to do with debauchery and sexual mores).
Surprisingly in my experience most people tend to have less extravagant ideas on what white people in places like France and Germany which as everyone knows are far more debauched than any whitebread Anglo offshoot nation.
Do people not know that Japanese-Brazilians exist? Weird. I thought it was common knowledge.
Visit Trinidad and Tobago…..there are Chinese-Indians (offspring of one parent from China and other parent from India)….also, there are cross marriages between various religions (christian-muslim-hindu-etc)….
Trinidad is one of the most unique countries i’ve ever visited in the world….
You know what they say, “You don’t have to have had a severe ass kicking by Negroes to be bigoted against Negroes” roflmao!!11!11!1!!11!!111
//loves Negroes
The majour population of Portugal – Europe are WHITE.
In brazil there are whites to, but they are a minority.
This is so fucking true. I’m Asian and I live with a white person who’s always telling me how my culture and religion actually is like, and who MY ancestors and heritage are. HELLO, I don’t need YOU to tell me about my culture and religion, and I know my own heritage and ancestors thank you very much.
Makes me think of a guy in my high school. “Hey, I’m 1/16 Cherokee!” “[Guy’s name],” I said, “You are white as hell, ok?”
Seriously, he looked like a tall, thinner hobbit. And he was hella white, too. Not in a bad way, as readers of this blog might think, but still.
Nothing wrong with being proud of White European culture….great music, art, literature and advances in technology came from Europe.
All the sports that blacks like and play on the professional level were invented by whites in America.
You, as well as many (for want to say most) other commentors I’ve read on this blog, seem to have completely missed the point.
Ugh.
“white people” are a myth
pretty sure that portuguese people are white…
Can’t agree more
You just forgot to say that usually that Andy Lau CD was never heard in his/her country of origen… “Being an expert in your culture” is usually a faux pas.
but that’s what makes the site so much fun. only the superior-level white people have the mastery of white-irony (where you pretend to criticise white people to negotiate your own guilt and confusion about your own identity)
the one’s that miss it are hilarious, but not the main game. I love the one’s who get it most like me. (check my fixed-gear bike, organic vegetable coop, obama-supporting, hip-hop ‘digging’, italian speaking, gradschool attending, white arse if you want to know…)
good work to all concerned.
The fella who put this thing together is, of course, the whitest of the white, because he turns this white-irony into cash-money (buy the book fuckers), and ‘street cred’.
ultimate.
i am pretty sure they speak portuguese in brasil and macau.
Maybe would be better to say:
“All the sports that blacks like and play on the professional level were invented by whites”.
The most popular game in the world, soccer, was invented by whites in England.
Than we made it better, down here in Brasil.
In Portuguese… ;-))
yes, they do speak portuguese there, because it was brought from portugal, which is in europe, where people are white. very similar to the people from england, who are white, and brought english to places like jamaica, where not everyone is white. (sarcasm intended). by the way i know 3 people from brazil and they are all white, im not sure why the author thinks only or mostly nonwhite people speak portuguese
…most speakers of Portuguese aren’t white. Countries that speak Portuguese: Angola, Mozambique, Cabo Verde (all in Africa), East Timor (southeast Asian island), Brasil (which is where I live, and where the majority of the population is mixed), Goa (not a country, but part of India where they speak Port.), and Portugal, which is only a small percentage. All of this is indeed sarcasm…but learn some geography.
“White” people just love knowing stuff. The more they know the smarter they feel. They also want to know what others don’t which has led too many items on this list. Indie, vintage, and obscure appear again and again in these posts. So this leads them to learn about foreign cultures and spew all the facts they know to their friends and anyone who even has a slight resemblance to the a person from said culture.
I looove this one!!!!!! I’m Korean and I’ve had a white guy say to me: “You don’t know REAL Korean food because you haven’t been to the K-town restaurants in LA.”
…
Eating with chopsticks is another way to convey uber sophistication.
Of course you know who is the most racist of all? the black man. black people hate each other! We have committed more atrocities against are own race than any other with genocides in Africa and our contribution to the slave trade! so why is it a surprise when people go oh look that black person is racist, of course we hate white assholes that try to bring us down. You were responsible for the fall of the black empires Mali, Ghana and Songhai empires. Africa used to be a wealth of knowledge(sankore university in Timbuktu, also Timbuktu was one of the richest trade posts in all the world during the medieval times). white people also tried to write us out of the civilisation history of the world, the Kush empire rule Egypt during the 25th dynasty and rebuilt the empire over a near century. Why do we not hear that Semitic language was created by Ethiopians? because white assholes try to make out that sub Saharan Africans are dumb, uncivilized and have not contributed anything to the world.
So fuck you white assholes that plundered Africa!
That $h!ts hard! Hand me a fork please!
Actually, I hate about 90% of cultures on the planet. As long as someone is good and white washed, I like you no matter what race you are.
Actually, the Aztecs invented the use of rubber balls for games and european modified them into games like basket ball; native americans played lacrosse, etc. It’s great how after whites invented the rules for the games, non-whites proceeded to dominate them. Baseball has been very good to me, indeed.
Not all Portuguese people are white…look up what language people from Angola or Mozambique speak… In Brazil and Portugal there are white & black people just LIKE the USA.
You are absolutely WRONG! This comes to show how effen ignorant white people are. My people (native people from the “Americas”) have been doing EVERYTHING before white people’s primitive butts’ stepped foot in this land, including bathing.
Read this following book:
American Indian Contributions To The World.
Haha… I’ve had similar experiences. I’m Filipino and I speak Tagalog fluently. Some guy tried to tell me that I said a Tagalog phrase incorrectly because he learned something else in a book. He REALLY believed that he was right. What do I know- I’ve just been speaking the language my entire life.
I just don’t get people like that.
Actually what I love is when I see white people using chopsticks on dishes, asian dishes, that don’t call for chopstick usage! Thai people don’t use chopsticks practically at all. I’ve seen white people eat Japanese curry with chopsticks! WTF! Even Japanese know that 2 sticks can’t pick up a liquid!
surely not all portuguese people are brazilian or angolan so i guess the guy has a point portuguese people are white where as angolans and brazilians ect arent portuguese they just speak it…. just like white and black americans speaking english but they’ll be damned if they call themselves british
an english man invented baseball… doesnt matter what colour he was he was just english
fuck you. primitive? you retard.
They aren’t a minority, they are more than 50%, check your facts out: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
Oh, and in African countries where Portuguese is spoken, Portuguese is an official language, but they speak local dialects that are incomprehensible to both Brazilian and Portuguese people (most of them existed before Portuguese even arrived there).
ALL sports that use a ball (or a ball-like object, such as a puck) were “invented” by NATIVE AMERICANS!!
lacrosse: not from the french. they like to claim it, but really they picked it up in the great lakes region from the native americans there.
hockey: actually, a TRADITIONAL sport amongst southwestern native women. (obviously not ice hockey, but still a sport that looks an awful lot like hockey).
soccer/football: the kicking of the ball? age-old sport across the americas.
etc, etc.!! these sports eventually spread across to european settlers and then back to europe and then around the world.
and, while we’re on the topic, you know what else came from NATIVE AMERICA?
-potatoes (never used in ireland until the euros came to the americas!!)
-tomatoes (never used in italian pasta until the euros came to the americas!! hmm, much like pasta before marco polo went to china…)
-corn
-the list goes on and on, people! please learn your history from sources beyond your lame high school history teachers and history 101 from college.
try reading “Native Roots!”
thanks
Boy, was the #50 on the list right. Us white people sure love irony. Like say, when a black person writes a list about white people and “their” culture with one of the points being that white people like being an expert on YOUR culture. Isn’t it ironic? Yes I really do think….
….to go just a bit further, Lacrosse is/was an Iroquoian sport, which was observed by French Jesuit Missionaries in the 1600s.
The game was also played in winter, however the nets were removed from the Lacrosse sticks and the “business end” was placed downward on the ice (ever try running and catching a ball on snow covered ice?).
A physically demanding and high contact effort, when the Jesuits first witnessed the game, they noted that the players would often shout, “A:ki” (pronounced Ah-Geee…thats a hard “G” sound) which was the Mohawk form of the explative,”Ouch” when colliding with each other.
Later, when relaying the experience, these French missionaries would refer to the game as, “Haa-Gee”, (the French have a tendancy to insert a soft “h” sound at the head of words begining with vowels) which would become, “Hockey” in its Anglicized form.
There you go, Lacrosse is the father of hockey…and theres news you can use.
Today, Mohawk people still use the exclamation, “A:ki” and the French are still adding that “h” sound to the front of English words that start with a vowel.
Basketball, invented by a white Canadian teacher.
Soooo yeah.
um, but he’s not black.. he’s white.
Interesting, never heard all that. Don’t have a reason to not believe it’s true, but is everything “invented” by indigenous people or the Chinese? I’m always hearing about stuff other cultures contributed to the world, but we never really hear what Norse, Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Roman, etc cultures have contributed. Surely they didn’t wander the earth naked learning crafts from other people. I just want to know. So I can be one of those “smart white people.” 😉
Soviet Razor:
You’re correct that the white man, Canadian James Naismith, could be considered the inventor of Modern Basketball. However, a strikingly similar game in which players tried to put a rubber ball through a stone hoop at the end of the court (sound familiar?) was played by the Aztecs. Yes, ancient Native Americans. Their version of the game was much more brutal and didn’t have the strict rules governing contact with other players of Modern Basketball. It was a brutal, high contact sort of kill-the-carrier type of game, yet still essentially basketball. It was called ollamalitzli.
Look it and all the other ball-centered games that Natives of the Americas invented up. Thanks!
Oh here’s more stuff white people like, “Admitting that other cultures invented stuff waaaay before they did.” LOL
subjugate? oh wow. sure. keep telling yourself that if it helps build you some self-esteem. so pathetic.
sorry, I have to go watch the President Obama inauguration re-runs now. byeee!!
Portuegese is a white language, sillies. Just shows how far white people are willing to go to be exotic – Southern Europe.
yea but its mostly spoken nowadays by Brazilians which hardly count as white
This is a very funny blog, however, I daresay that the comments would have been entirely different had a black person created this list.
A lot of you guys that are over here chuckling and knee-slapping at this stuff would’ve been foaming at the mouth and ready for bloody war.
Well as long as we are generalizing about “white people” I think we should spend a few minutes thinking about our actions. Lets start out by saying all white people are not the same just like all African American people are not the same. I’m tired of white people being the target for generalized jokes. If a white person wrote an article that talked about what black people do it would not be acceptable. Why does there have to be a double standard. White people can’t get away with it and African American people can. That is the known fact of society today but, just because African Americans can get away with it doesn’t mean they should do it. This is America in 2009 and we have an African American president. I don’t know if you realize this, but white people are the majority in America. This means that a large number of white people elected Barack Obama because of what he stands for. This means that white people don’t think all black people are the same. Whites believe that blacks can be individuals and can even lead the country. I guess what I am trying to say and I will generalize so that everyone that has read and commented on this blog will understand. BLACK PEOPLE ARE DOING WHAT WHITE PEOPLE DID TO THEM IN THE PAST. Would it get under your skin if I said all black people love gangster rap, watermelon, and chicken feet in a blog. Ya, people would be pissed. So don’t generalize about white people in the same way. Thank you
Who said I was only talking to white people?
I have eaten Cow Foot Stew in an small village in a certain Caribbean country. Jah mon.
I guess a 50% white population and home to supermodel Gisele Bundchen, a “model of white perfection” hardly counts. Drew my friend you are an idiot!
white people = cool
Over the past year people have discovered that how much money is in their pockets is much more important than being afraid of Muslims. And so if that means electing a black president, or even a purple polka dotted president, then not only have we conquered racism in the name of freedom, but we’ve elected someone who isn’t Bush.
I wonder, do you know the writer of this blog is white?
I do think that depends on the person. At least I hope it would. Then again you never know.
Yes, and Native Americans claim to be great horsemen; but that was only after Columbus re-introduced the horse to North America to replace all the ones the Native Americans had eaten.
Did you feel like an idiot when you found out that the author of this blog is white?
That’s what happens when people talk crap before they know the facts.
Chill man, it is all just for fun.
I hate when white people try and take an interest in MY culture when they don’t even know where it is!!!!!
“Where are you from?”
“Bulgaria.”
“Oh, where is that?”
“In Europe”
“Ooo, like France?”
My country is NOWHERE near France, much less like them.
I then have to tell them where it’s next to and then they still don’t know where it is!!! Look at a map once in a while people!!!!!!!
I dont care if a white guy wrote this or not. Someone of a different culture or nationality would have a pretty good idea of what white people like since they probably reminded on a daily occurance that they are not or they are something different than the norm! Or they are called acting white! That’s a big one since we have a black pres. I really don’t care I thought that was a great way to mock you!
White people don’t have a culture, they’re white. I’m a asian raising white kids. There’s a flip. That could be on the list to adopting foreign babies! They ask what they are and i say your white. Your simple and uncomplicated and are whatever you want to be. It won’t matter they will just be mocked if they want to take on the beliefs of another culture.
I love this list and the silly people that take it serious!
White people love to pass judgment on what they know is right and good after all they founded this great country that gives us the freedom to do such hilarious things as this! yeah.
point and laugh at the organic section and the lady in her workout outfit, scarf, highlights and peacoat with her key fob and $500 bag!
Davetta
If you are pointing out the basic humor truth that it is funny if you poke fun at the group you are IN and is not funny if you poke fun at a group you are NOT in, then you are right. But that’s not news.
Iran pronounced(ee-ran) ohh where is that? The middle east ass hole where? Next to Iraq ohhh (I. Ran) and the other side is from Wisconsin “is that in Europe”?
yeah that not necessarily white people, but stupid people…lol i hear comments like this all the time and i can’t even believe it sometimes..
maybe you should include, “confuse the word there with their” in blog responses
wait, that’s pretty white, huh… BUSTED
Okay so the fact that “white” people had a culture with clothing, sports, music, entertainment, religion etc etc etc, all their own and fashioned ships that enabled trade and eventually travel across the seas is lost to you?!?! Give me a break! Your people had no idea what the fuck was across the ocean before those people even made to this land!!! If you claim that even a majority of concepts and items were created by native people then you’ve got a terrible case of megalomania. So I repeat: “YOUR CULTURE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE WORLDS TECHNOLOGY.” Oh and if you really want to get technical, the first known civilization is located in a little patch of dirt between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers known presently as Iraq. That is where all of us come from.
Umm….THe majority of brazil is not white most brazilians are brown or black. How about going there instead of using wikipedia
so true. and white people also like to think or at least brag about appreciating your own culture more than you do. over here, in Peru (that’s in south america, white people), it’s hilarious to look at gringos buying all sorts of crap at very high prices just because they “look” typical and ethnic. like this american tourist that bought a “ritual inca marijuana pipe, blessed by shamans and blessed with the spirit of the lion”. of course, it was all bullshit, but the american guy must have felt on top of his whiteness with his pipe.
Dear white guy,
Portuguese just happens to be the language spoken in Brazil, where over half of the population is either black, native, latin, or something in between. Besides, look at portuguese people; they have more in common with latin americans than with your ignorant caucasian ass.
dude, that’s what black comedians like chris rock do all the time
quit complaining
what about the fact that everyone else in the world tries to get down with white culture??
Ever been to Brazil, they love all things american.
What about Asians, who assimilate to the point of silly?
The “white culture” u talking about was probably evented by the non-whites in the US lol. Honestly though not to be disrespectful, but when I think of America I cant think of anything thats american culture. Everything is the culture of another country. CUlture is something that everyone in the country share. Food, traditions, blah blah.
Yes the guy who does this blog is white. I read an article and saw his photo on cnn. Now we know. I think its just for fun.
Maybe because we can’t afford to take a year off?
Rap, jazz… American culture. Dick Cheney shooting a colleague in the face while hunting… American culture.
Port-Au-Prince?
True. I had a class with a white girl who acted “black” and our teacher was black and because she didn’t have the typical “black” accent. She spoke proper English, and dressed very conservative, this girl wants to call her a sell out?? Why is she a sell out?? I don’t act like that either! Just what excatly do you think of us??
cost of 12 ga. Mossberg = 429.95
cost of 1 box of birdshot = 14.95
having the guy you shot in the face apologize to you for getting in your way = priceless.
Brasilian is not a race of people. We have all races in Brasil just like in America. I’m white from Brasil.
You obviously never been there either…If you have, you never went to Santa Catarina, Porto Alegre,or any where in the South. We have places that speak German before they learn Portuguese. Ignorante!
Learn how to spell, and I promise to Stopusingwikipedia.
So based on your definition – everyone in Spain eats paella and has tapas every night and I guess all French people eat baguettes and cheese and celebrate Christmas? What about the Jewish, Muslim and Asian populations in those countries…are they not a part of the culture? Don’t they enhance the culture by just being who they are? _ I am not singling out any country as better or having more culture. We have not been a nation for thousands of years, but that doesn’t diminish our culture – all of them combined.
Culture: (5 a: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations
Here are a few positive pieces of Americana for you to mull over : New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Iowa, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Hawaii, Alaska, Rock and Roll, country music, rap, rhythm and blues, blues, go-go, rock-a-billy, latch key kids, tail-gaiting before/during/after football games, FOOTBALL (not soccer or rugby), drive thru’s, Philadelphia Cheese steaks, Southern Fried Chicken (or Steak ;o) ), birth of flight, jazzercise, Lake Tahoe, Grand Canyon, Appalachian Mountains, Great Lakes, The Mississippi River, Colorado Rockies, New England accents, Southern lilts with Ma’am and thank you sprinkled throughout, The Midwestern corn-fed R and a nasal twang, West Coast easy and inviting speech, love of baseball and the desired destination for so many who desire more for their families and more opportunity.
People from all over the globe are very anxious to become citizens and or residents of this country with limited culture. Why is that?
Culture: (5 a: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group ; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life} shared by people in a place or time c: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization d: the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic…
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture
This is simple, white people hve made their culture so transparent that other ethnicities can easily become and american, dutch etc… so to try to look a little less stupid for their complete lack of mystery they want to understand(whilst never succeeding) other cultures. it’s a reaction to criosity and jealousy. besides what is white culture? burgers, nfl, beer…
i think that no white person is an expert on any other culture, if anything they get everything wrong….the title should be interest outside of white culture…an honestly seeing white women in traditional indian clothes is sickening!
you forgot NASCAR
You referance white Americas apparent lack of geographic proficiency.. What do you base your claim on?? I’ve heard stereotypes about whites that are accurate, but oddly I’ve never heard that one. There seems to be one of two possibilities, either I’m under a misaprehension, or you’re a complete Stroke who has a resentment towards white people but cant think of a decent objection to them..
You say “on top of his whiteness” because he bought a shity souvenir?? Again you’re proving to be a rather ignorant Latino, which I’m not all that surpised to discover.
We go to other countries to have experiences, to learn about other cultures. We by souvenirs for two reasons 1) As nothing more than a trivial “symbol” to remind us of our trip( you think we believe your primitive myths?? ha! 2) To support the economy of the country we are visiting. Most white Americans have engrained in our minds, a compassion for countries less prosporous than our own. Be thankfull that we travel.. There are many Latin countries who’s economy really chiefly on Western (White) Tourists. Educate yourself:)
Why are you always saying what white people like, and trying to represent how non whites feel about that? You don’t speak for white people, and you certainly don’t speak for non whites, since you aren’t one. Stop pretending to be black or whatever you imagine you are. Speak for yourself, stop trying to represent.
Well said! I agree with you. Look at what the blacks are doing to the whites of South Africa>
Not Aryan,
He’s writing about white people in larger cities. NASCAR would be in a redneck book.
i think this argument is fair. white people always think they can just spew a few facts and impress non white people, when really they’re getting laughed at. i completely agree white people make their culture transparent and it’s because of this that many regard whites as open books. think of all those minorities who’ve beenin america or europe who know euopean language and customs without even trying that hard. whites are like the ball that rolls down the street an needs someone to pick it up, they have no way of being knowedgeable on outside sensations because they are no programmed to understand.
OMG , that’s so trew! hahaha
>>>they are very ashamed of all the bad things in white culture: the KKK, colonialism, slavery, Jim Crow laws, feudalism, and the treatment of native americans.
he forgot NASCAR
“you think we believe your primitive myths??”
You mean the virgin birth? I think so.
Well played.
Someone’s got their panties in a bunch. It’s a joke. Why are you getting so mad.
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spent all ur money on fried chicken??
haha, shut up you dick. Portuguese came from Portugal, so it is a white language. Have the inferior races added anything worthwhile to this White European language? No more than American coons have to English, unless you count “Yo” and “a’iiiiiight”.
Santosh. This site is meant to be fun(and really is, I have recommended it to all i know), but since you feel the urge to comment on white culture, I’ll fill you in a bit. We come from all different areas of the world. My families migrated from Ireland(think St. Patrick’s Day) and Italy(The country shaped like a boot). I hope your still with me.(If not proceed to the oven, place temp at 450 and stick your head in it). White is our skin color. Not our culture. It seems that we have all been grouped together into this blob that people love to hate. I’m not rich, I don’t walk like I have a pole up my rear, and I don’t speak like I’m being graded on vocabulary. The reason we seem so transparent is that we have birthed a new culture, along with African Americans(weird how I’m scared to say black for fear of being labeled a racist.) Latin-Americans, Asian Americans and so on. It’s called an American Culture. We love our sports(baseball, football, etc..) because we grew up playing them everyday. That’s hardly restricted to “white” people though. Turn on an NBA game and count the countries represented on the court.(I’m assuming you can count past 10 here). Americans also invented such small advances in technology such as the automobile, box telephone, polio vaccine, the light bulb, the computer, a million uses for peanuts, the artificial heart,etc…….. We have an undying affection for movies that has spread all over the globe from India to Latin America. Your welcome. So next time you would like to speak on “white culture” realize that there is no such thing and that your just ignorant to the fact. We have an American Culture that has spurred some of the greatest(and worst achievements). I think that your little rant on people with white skin is true, but your tone is racist.(what is white culture? burgers, nfl, beer…) Although you may not have known this racism can be applied to all races. So, relax, turn on the game, have a beer, and enjoy the American culture constantly improving from combining of all of the great cultures in the world.
Hey Nick. I was reading until you got to black or African American. Honestly a lot of us prefer Black. I speak for myself though so nobody start attacking me. But, most Black people in America don’t really go by African American. Africans don’t even like us. So I say Im black. So you can say black. :0)
OMG! A lot of these comments (about the blog) are so racist and judgemental, its sickening. All of these SWPL blogs aren’t meant to be taken offensively. Its all in fun. Ease up and grow up!!! If you’re white and none of that stuff pertained to you, then sit back and enjoy the humor, or shut up and keep it moving. No one wants to hear your whining. I mean, are we in preschool or what? He’s not saying that ALL white people are like the white people that he’s writing about in the blogs. But the majority that he’s (me too) come across and dealt with are like this. It is what it is. Get over it. You’re not going to like everything that everyone has to say. Its HIS opinion and he’s entitled to it. All your whining and making racist remarks to one another, isn’t going to change the blog. If anything, its just going to give him another blog to write. Hahaha!
I say this. Everybody wants to know what its like to be another nationality. If you don’t agree, fine. But Im black and Im interested in knowing what its like to be Puerto Rican or something. I think their beautiful people and love how they take pride in their coulture but Im still proud of mine. I don’t think there is anything wrong with being an expert at another coulture. This blog is true though and funny. Take a joke folks.
Smelling Indian Women is sickening.
Read “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” by Max Weber.
A group of mostly white people at the beginning of our nations history developed a work ethic and drive that laid the foundation of capitalism in the modern world.
I think that is substantially important.
Bitches.
It is generally acceptable for a white person to learn a few terms in a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese).
Portuguese , non whites ??????
You would’nt be amerrucannnnzzz Whitout Vasco De Gama !
Christian lander the bitche !!
Why are you offended by his or her comment? I guess you’re one of those white people that like to wear Indian clothing? That is the only reason why I think you’d try to retaliate w. a comment like that?
You wish you had rich culture and heritage.
people are really going off on tangents in this post. This entry is about how some white people like to be apart of other people’s cultures [which is fine to a certain extent], but not only do they study it but they think they fully understand and try to school people who are actually from the culture about their very own culture.
Now obviously as we know not every white person is guilty of doing this, but I have encountered it on numerous occasions, especially when my family and I decide to go to an Indian restaurant for some Indian food instead of cooking it at home, give ourselves a break from the kitchen. I always over hear some white people schooling their friends at the on all the foods and how it’s cooked and blah blah blah. Majority of the time they are wrong, not only that they end up eating w/ a fork and knife. Seriously? Eating Indian food w/ a fork and knife is ridiculous, there is a sink in the bathroom, wash your hands and eat w/ your hands people…no one will look at you funny at an indian restaurant if you eat w/ your hands I can assure you that. This also reminds me when I was invited to dinner by my friends family to an indian restaurant and the mom was acting like she was telling me things I didn’t know already. “hey this is how they make na’an and this is how they make roti…do you know about blah blah blah”..ugh I just wanted to throw up listening to her ramble on and on about shit I knew about before the age of 5.
I don’t mind when people educate themselves about other cultures through actually talking to people of the culture…but…nothing i hate more than hearing someone say:
“I read in a book” or “in class my prof. said…” or trying to explain things to people of that culture who obviously already know everything about their own culture.
by the way before this gets misunderstood..which tends to happen quickly here…i am not referring to ALL white people…just some I have personally encountered.
Or how about white people that automatically assume this is what you are. I can’t tell you how many times I go to a club or whatever that is majority white and some white girls alway feel the need to push up on me and my girls and get us to teach them how to dance lol! Bitch back off! Or, “Is that your hair? Can I touch it?” Or “Whats up girlfriend! What it be like!” Why the hell are you speaking to me like I have no intelligence?? And no I don’t wear weave. Never have! LOL! And I remember when I was a kid when baby got back came out, white girls would always ask me if they got a butt for a white girl. I don’t know!! White beauty is much different then black beauty and everything else! But no honey your a typical white girl. Suffering from the assatall desease. No ass at all! lol! No offense to other people but this is true.
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I’m Nigerian and I always encounter this. When white people hear my name this is the order which they act
1) Oh that’s such a beautiful name. I’m a guy pls don’t call my name beautiful.
2) Where are you from? Which I answer Nigeria
3) That’s so nice. Have you ever been to Lagos. Yes bitch I was born there
4) Do you ever see any lions and zebras. This is the dumbest thing ever. Only time I’ve ever seen such animals is at the zoo – In SAN FRANCISCO.
5) Some white ppl are so dumb they’ll argue with me. “But I saw on the discovery channel this show with lions in Africa.” Do you ever seen ppl living next to lions bitch.
6) White ppl need to stop trying to educate ppl on their cultures. Don’t argue, you know you love to do it just to make yourselves feel as if you know the world. A great majority of Americans will never travel out of the States. A lot of that ppl in that majority will never leave their own state within their lifetime.
I thought I was the only Nigerian that got that. The only thing I can say is that ignorance speaks volumes about the person.
I know how that feels. I was called a sell out by a white person for the very same reason. I have even had white people look at me in shock to find out that I was Puerto Rican because A) I didn’t act very “Puerto Rican,” whatever that means and B) I don’t look very “Puerto Rican,” which I found ironic because I look closer to the original inhabitants. My least favorite request was “Say something spanish.” Which annoyed me to no end, because it made me feel as if I was a cheap parlor trick, trotted out for their amusement. Thank God that as I got older that question seems to be less and less common.
this is so true! I hate it when white people try to tell how to speak Spanish like a text book. I am an educated Spanish speaker who can speak gramatically correct and from the street. Don’t need some white dork trying to tell about my language and my people. And they are so arrogant about it on top of it. Tofu vegitarian burritos on spinich tortillas and no rice….come on! Go find your own culture.
lockednaiji, fucking hilarious, well done. and your name is beautiful.
as a white yankee living abroad, is it ok for me to indulge in the culture but not be a smartass prick knowitall?
LOL! And I was just watching mtv the other day about Perto Ricans in New York. They call themselves Nuyericans. Interesting but you know how white people are. Once they see that, then they thing everybody is that way. And I hate it when white people always associate anything negative with being ghetto. Unless you are from the ghetto, don’t talk about what is ghetto please. Everytime I have a problem with something and white people are around, someone has to tell me not to get ghetto. I don’t care how loud I get or how much attitude I have. Just because Im black and mad about something doesn’t mean Im being ghetto!
Funny how so many “Non Whites” can make fun of white people but the minute a white person makes any comment about blacks, hispanics, asians, etc. they are labeled as racists…….
Ironic that you have not realized that white people been making negative comments and fun about non-whites for centuries but we have not heard any white people complain until now.
beeotch.
you’ll know that you are officially not white in america when that one white person slip up and start their sentence with:
“you people….(feel free to finish the sentence)…”
umm…. you ARE aware that Portuguese is the common langauge in Brazil right? last time I checked, most Brazillians are not white, although a large number do have some withe heritage.
in the modern world we live in “race” is generally a myth, when people are tested for their global genetic history very few people, (less than 6%), are purely the “race” they claim. The extreme majority of people have mixed ethnic genetics, in essence, very few people are actually purely white, black, asian, indian, etc. (and yes this actually does apply to all “races” in all parts of the world, even the areas that “white” people never invaded, just remember ‘white’ people weren’t the only one’s invading, migrating, or travelling to other parts of the world throughout history)
and you believe ANYTHING the CIA tells you?
“funny, you don’t SOUND like any of the people in Cool Runnings” – which ever white person is around
You people need to relax 😛
Ok, how is asking where you are from and asking if you have seen those animals telling you about your culture. Those are QUESTIONS hence, not informing you.
When you lived in Nigeria, did you know about the native species in each part of the United States?
I doubt it. I have been out of the county many times and when I have been abroad people have asked me questions that are just as absurd, but I understand that there is no reason they would know that because they have never lived where I live.
Ps. How dare they say your name is beautiful!!!
“Its HIS opinion and he’s entitled to it.”
Doesn’t that hold true for the people you are telling to “stop whining”. Oh wait, I forgot that opinions are only ok for one side!
You are being hypocritical. You are in one post bashing people for trying to learn about other cultures AND for being ignorant of them.
WELL, if you don’t want white people to learn about other cultures, and you don’t want them to be ignorant of other cultures, what do you propose they do?
OHMYGOD you’re so right about this.
And this NEVER EVER happens in America. I have never seen a foreign person buying some ridiculous thing in New York because it’s tipical american stuff.
Oh, wait, yes I have.
Maybe you should know what you’re talking about a little bit before you start bashing left and right.
I totally agree with you, dude. Don’t you just hate it when someone tells you things are a certain way for specific groups of people, then affirm it with stalwart dedication?
Like how all whiteys are clearly a certain way, and all enjoy a specific class of things. Almost as if they’re trying to educate you on how you are, or how you are meant to be.
hahaha. I like that!
My God, this is getting funnier and funnier. What the hell is your problem with languages, people? Portuguese, non-whites?!?!??!
Ever heard of a country named PORTUGAL? Weirdly, it has a very similar name to the name of the language? WOW! A country that is in EUROPE? OMG! Brazil, a country with 51% of whites?
Again:
Stuff People That Write These Posts Like:
#1 Being uncultured about the rest of the world
“It is what it is. Get over it. ”
I will when you get over the fact that all black people love basketball, watermelon, and doing jail time; and all Mexicans love tacos, sleeping, and carpentry.
We white people really are dumb. We should never have converted to christianity.That is where our problems began. We lost our REAL culture over a thousand years ago, just to follow a foreign religion that teaches us weakness.We could have conquered the whole world, instead we chose to try and help everybody else, but ourselves, just so their countries could shit all over us. What foolishness. I wish I had a time machine…
Actually, I was even wrong, it’s 53.7% white people in Brazil!
Need a proof? There it goes, a CIA report (I thought you would only believe your OWN American data, so…)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
Knock yourselfs out reading it 😛
There is much ‘good’ in Asian culture; much ‘evil’ as well. Asian-Americans pointing the finger at white folk is the same as Euro-Americans pointing the finger at, say, Myanmar. This finger-pointing is 100% All American, be you Euro-American, Asian-American, whatever … enough with the finger-pointing already. Our planet’s globalizing, hopefully American culture will mature with this …. ’nuff said.
Good lord, as I re-read your post ‘Asian’, you sound no different than the ‘evil whites’ you’re talking about …
And I really don’t know if those ‘evil whites’ exist….? Except inside your stereotyping-brain? Grow up Asian…
Poor little Indian … too bad he was a writer instead of a talker.
hey man!
you forgot Angola, Mozambique, Cape verde, East timor, Macau…and lots of other non-white countries where they speak poruguese!
Spanish was invented in Europe, I would know I’m spanish/cuban and fully white so tame it, and respect other people sir.
now… if you swap that with “have you heard the latest capone and noriega cd”, then that also is a besmirchment to the white folks, because then they are robbing someone else’s culture. How dare they listen to that! That’s MY races rap group!
No one is saying that it’s probably all white people that made any of these rappers famous or rich. White 16 year old girls, acting gangsta, or krunk… in their cabriolets. I personally can quote every song on “it takes a nation of millions to hold us back” from P.E. remember… i’m white.
I did giggle a little at the one black guy at the judas priest concert i attended. i also applauded that he wasn’t afraid to admit he liked them. it’s hard for anyone to admit that they like or ever liked Judas Priest.
I hereby mandate that all hip hop fashion and culture to be absorbed and appropriated by the populace of the world.
Oh, whoops… that already happened.
Selfism NOW.
I completely agree! American culture only knows how to think in stereotypes. America is so segregated the only way americans know anything about other cultures is through stupid sources like tv or something, instead of actually getting to know people and their culture. It’s very offensive for someone who to be pretentious enough to say they know more about your culture than you and to correct you on it. No one should try to tell you who you are or put your in a stupid box.
I like this comment. Thanks
You can say Black people. Dont be scared if someone gets offended either – they call White people White people and Asian Asian.. Its unfair to do otherwise –
Say Black..
Love Black
BELIEVE BLACK!!!
BEEE….. okay I’m done
🙂
I love the end of this comment too!! Hehehe
Be a smart white person and tell people what you learned but be a WISE white person and ASK them if what you heard makes sense – once your finished speaking. <- I say that cause you wouldnt be “white” if you actually asked in advance and THEN spoke…. After all – we all must live up to our stereotypes…
Nah – ah – Mean Son!
Word!
Ah the refreshing smell of open racial dialogue. People make generalities across the board about their own races and others (last time I checked, this blog was run by White people). It gets really offensive though, because it seems like White people want to own everything, or at least co-op it. Remember when Jennifer Lopez first blew up, and people (the White ones, anyway) were acting like she was the first person with a healthy butt and hips that was ever born? They were AMAZED. She was the ‘safest’ choice, I guess. Of color, but not THAT color, you know?
Yeah, Brazilians might have a white looking color, but they can never pass especially once they declare their nationality. They are hit. Then they have to know everything mistic from Bahia, to the girl of Ipanima. Ciao!!
first rule of not pissing people off: not telling them how to run their lives. go fuck yourself, burrito man.
I’m always wanting to tell people to stay away from my genetics and thinking they know about the who and what I am. Especially for those of us who are multiracial, it’s way too easy for others to assume we culturally a fit into one box, when we have many.
Like this post here http://muttslikeme.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/228/
who’s to say you can get in our business?! Best to clean up your own back yard before digging around in someone else’s.
Chinese isn’t a spoken language…it’s a writing system and a family of different languages.
Saying you speak Chinese is like saying you speak “European”
ie. Andy Lau doesn’t speak Chinese, he speaks Cantonese.
or Mandarin.
WTF is ‘fully white’???
If you’re Cuban, you ain’t fully nothing but MIXED (no such thing as a fully white person in Cuba). Stop kidding yourself.
wow, that was racist.
It’s not a double standard; African-Americans have been targeted for centuries.
LOL!
White culture is just burgers, NFL, and beer?
Aren’t you forgetting about:
o the Republic
o Capitalism
o Individualism
o Humanism
And that’s just off the top of my head.
I don’t claim to be an expert on any culture but my own, but please, realize that there’s far more to white culture than a few hobbies that some white people happen to enjoy.
You wish we didn’t win, but we did.
Before our culture was corrupted by Christianity, our way was that one could do whatever she wanted as long as she could do it herself and could kill whoever tried to stop her.
Obviously, Christianity didn’t change that, but we try to pretend that’s not how it is nowadays.
So have your rich culture and heritage, but I do say, it doesn’t seem to have done you much good.
🙂
white culture your an idiot. Irish=white Polish=white. completely different cultures.
Also, white people like saying stuff like, “…makes me ashamed to be white.” And “there is no such thing as race,” which is a statement made almost exclusively by white people. For example, Obama’s “there’s no BLACK America…there’s no WHITE America…there is only the United States OF America”–that was intended solely to appeal to white people. Most black people know it’s bullshit.
Sorry but i don’t think anyone would classify Armenians as white people.
Actually most brazilians are mixed race. Many so called whites in Brazil have at least one non white in their background. Even Giselle isn’t pure white.
Alex, Proud of being Greek? What have greeks done for the world lately? NADA. Europeans don’t even consider Greeks full Europeans since Greeks have been mixing their race with Ottomans, middle easterners of all types and Black Ethiopians for generations. Today’s greeks have nothing to do with the ancient WHITE greeks. Sorry but that is the truth.
Um Marcelo..this is a blatant lie. No one speaks german before they speak portuguese in brazil. And yes even the german descendend brazilians have some negro blood.
So I guess Tom Hanks, Meredith Vieira, Steve Perry, Joe Perry,
aren’t part of American white culture? They’re all of Portuguese background.
Why use Portuguese as an example of a non white language. and put down spanish speakers as second class? French is spoken primarily by non whites as is Spanish and Portuguese but all three are WHITE languages. You’re an asshole C Lander.
Don’t you think that some people say it because they are idealists who desire for there to be no divisions and no discrimination?
My grandfather used to say such things when he was alive, granted he was Onondaga, if only to shut people up who said ‘he’s a credit to his race’, etc.
Soon English will be a primarily non white language as well if it isn’t already.
My culture is “American Culture” i.e. Individualism cum Social Darwinism, which I generally regret. I look at my fellow Americans, and I hate them, until I learn otherwise (some mitigating personal trait).
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All legitimate questions. Would be like asking me if I’ve ever seen a bear or cougar. While I don’t live next to bears or cougars I have seen them in the wild, BITCH. An ignorant question might go something like “Are you pretty good at chucking spears?” or “Were you the hunter or the bitch of your tribe?” Oh and don’t get offended…that’s something reserved for WHITE PEOPLE.
This is a very funny, and amusing blog!
Thank you all for participating.
@”Anglo-Saxon”
I’m guessing by your name and speech that you regard yourself as a Folkist Asatruar? If that is the case, I will let you know now that no Folkist, no racist, is a true Asatruar.
By blathering about your groundless beliefs, you do all of Asatru a grand disservice. Not once in any ancient heathen text are other non-white races condemned, and there is genetic grounding for any meaningful difference between the races either.
In truth, race is simply a social construct, made up by rich Europeans around the 16th century so that they could convince poor Europeans that they had more in common with rich Europeans than with poor Africans/Asians/Americans.
Unfortunately, the gambit worked, and we have to deal with the shit from it to this day.
But you, you would do well to learn what heathenism is all about before you go pretending to know what you’re talking about again.
Check this article for a more thorough rebuttal of your beliefs: http://www.uppsalaonline.com/uppsala/racism.htm
Oh, and if I misunderstood and you’re not Asatru but just some crazy white supremacist, you’re still doing the world a disservice, that article will do you some good anyway. Maybe someday you can pull your head out of your own ass.
*Line 7: sorry, meant NO genetic grounding
Brilliant remark!
I realized how white I had gotten when a friend pointed out to me that I got offended over stupid, funny nonsense. I am Mexican…I wonder how that applies to me? LOL
I don’t think most brazilians are white but the majority of Portuguese certainly are.
I’m Portuguese and I’ve never once in my life been mistaken for non white. I Have met a few ethnic Portuguese who are clearly moorish in apperance but they’re the exception not the rule. However I just recently visited Lisbon and Madrid and both cities have taken on major numbers of latino immigrants, brazilians in Portugal and Peruvians and ecuadorians in Spain so who knows maybe in 100 years both Portuguese and Spanish will no longer be so called “white” languages.
I don’t think most people would consider brazilians white even those that appear to be because as they say in brazil most brazilians have a foot in the kitchen ie. have one black slave ancestor in their family.
OH excuuuuuuuuuuse me ….so someone from southern brazil who learned a few words in broken german from some half breed parent is superior to someone who learned brazilian portuguese from the get go. That makes a lot of sense. Brazilians can be the most idiotic people on this earth. i’ve yet to meet one who doesn’t claim to be “italian/german” or Portuguese/Swiss or some other even more stupid combination when they’re clearly part black and or native latino. Just to let you brazilians know, we Americans are all laughing at you. Especially the ones with names like Washington, Wardinton (yes i met one with this name) Wilson, Anderson, etc., all with typical brazilian last names. Ludicrious. A bunch of sorrier wannabes i have never met. Even Puerto Ricans are much prouder of their heritage, not only do they speak proper Spanish but they carry solid Spanish names like Jose, Carlos etc., I’m Italian btw and I HATE when one of these guys goes around lying to people that he’s Italian. I have to keep myself from strangling the pathetic fucker.
no offense but what does this blog have to do with Puerto Ricans? The answer is : NOTHING. So why are you joining the conversation?
I think you just proved the point of this blog post.
holy fuckin shit, this is ridiculously fuckin true. and so is that white people likin non-black black music . holy fuckface this is incredible i’m crying tears of joy ALL MY LIFE WHITE PEOPLE BEEN DOIN DIS SHIT AND NOW I KNO WHY. OMG I LOVE YOU PEOPLE. THANK YOU FOR THIS BLOG. OMG. :’) (tear of joy) <33 hollabillz
um he didn’t say “all portuguese speaking people are non-whites” did he?
he said portuguese is a language spoken primarily by non-whites, which is true because half of the people in south america and millions of people in africa speak portuguese.
The reason for this is pretty obvious. Colonialism and paternalism passed down from generation to generation. Many of European descent do have the tendency to see others as something to be studied.
Congratulations, you get white points!
Wow, that sounds like a really scientific theory.
Hahaha, hilarious. After reading this post last week, the exact thing happened to me that weekend where a girl decided to tell me about her trip to China, terracotta warriors, qing dynasty… and all sortsa interesting things about………. My culture. (I secretly suspect instead of visiting China, she really just saw that last Mummy movie)
I actually heard two white people ask a Chinese guy about Kitaro and “the sleep giant”.
I guess that got their cultures mixed up.
Baby-steps…
sleeping*
Last time I checked Portuguese is a white language – what with Portugal being in Europe and all. I realize you’re probably referring to Brazil but there’s about 300 other languages you could have chosen which don’t originate in Europe. Just sayin’.
Also, your examples of terrible things white people have done is mostly limited to American history. Let’s not forget about the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Holocaust, the Vikings, all the various genocides around the globe and the countless other terrible things. Not that most other cultures haven’t done much of the same, whites just do it on a larger scale.
Since the SKIN TONE of most brazilians became such an issue here, I’ll beep ya FROM INSIDE THE BOX: although official sources state that 50% (or so) brazilians are white, things are not exactly that CLEAR when you see ’em for yourself. THE FOREMENTIONED ‘official sources’ (the almighty brazilian census, more specifically – which is the basis for the informantion regarding ‘brazilian stuff’ on wikipedia and CIA reports :D) are based on self-indentification, which leads to a deceiving trend: in a culture where racism is a lurking shadow that never (or at least ALMOST never) bursts the shell of coexistence – but DOES exist deep in the mind of most people – and interracial relations take 30% of the marritage combinations on the run, A LOT of halfbreeds, brown-skinned and multhiethnic citizens WILL declare themselves as whites.
things seem to be changing, though: the number of blacks and brown self-declared brazilians is rising astonishingly since the eighties (also according to the brazilian census), as education improves and reaches more poor people. It is expected by government specialists that in ten years the number of blacks and browns on the official records will be up to 60%.
in other words: A MATTER OF SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF STEEM, IF YOU ASK ME!
(oh, and if you ask me again, I’m a proud, 7 foot tall AFRICAN-BRAZILIAN 😀 )
This is great.
Every person does not identify with people of their own colour and region first. Unless they are that superficial.
I prefer to associate with those as intelligent and pretty as I am 🙂
Dumb and ugly should go from the womb to the river.
baha it seems some people have completely missed the point. It’s called SATIRE folks, it’s not supposed to be offensive, nor is it supposed to provide people with an outlet to vent against ‘whites’.
This blog deliberately categorises people in a deliberately stereotypical manner! GET OVER IT!
‘white culture’? haha there IS no ‘white’ culture. I would say what this blog is talking about is the culture of AFFLUENCE and most of the affluent in the world also happen to be so-called ‘whites’. That may sound politically incorrect but it’s also a fact (and im talking per capita stuff here btw).
And coming from Australia, you can only imagine how many ‘kangaroo’ remarks I got when I travelled in Europe (and not just from ‘whites’!) but why would i hate people for that? if they haven’t been here then of course they’re going to stereotype, EVERYBODY does to some extent!
So please, stop your racism and your ranting, understand satire and just appreciate this blog as something thats good for a chuckle but not an outlet for racist abuse.
And yes, there are some people who will go to a country for a week or two and suddenly come back ‘experts’ but ffs just have a laugh and roll your eyes instead of hating them.
Oh, and can I offer anyone a ‘Fosters’? Because we don’t actually drink it over here, and the stuff you guys get is brewed in the EU anyway. It’s called ‘Globalisation’.
Ta’ mates!
🙂
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It is also possible a person wants to make conversation so they attempt to discuss an area of common interest or knowledge. A white person can bring up an Andy Lau CD because the conversation has switched to China and that is the only way the white person knows to stay in the conversation. It is also possible that people of color are insecure about this fact and interpret a white persons limited knowledge of their culture as presumptuous and arrogant. The only real solution is open and honest conversation without preconceived bias, something a humor site like this does not support.
half-dutch/puerto-rican because my race will matter to far too many of you
Too right! I can;’t believe how many comments this site gets from people who seem totally incapable of appreciating satire for what is, and so quickly jump to rant and judge – I guess they don’t understand irony either 🙂
Come on people a lot of you seem fairly intelligent (at least compared to people who leave comments on other blogs who can’t even spell their racial slurs correctly)… Just take a step back and try appreciating what is being said and your own reaction – Trust me we can all learn a lot from meditating on our OWN reactions to things, and there is little else out there that is better at helping us do this than SATIRE!
Peace.
mixed-race, why would a person of color be INSECURE about the fact that a white person has limited knowledge of their culture….. and why would a person of color interpret this lack of knowledge as presumptuous and arrogant UNLESS the white person states something that would give the person of color this impression??
Arrogance and presumptions can only be detected if the person STATES arrogant and presumptuous statements. While it is a good thing to have an open and honest conversation on culture, it is not a good thing to listen to white people tell people of color about their non-white culture….
some white people presume that if they read it in a book or studied it in school, then the book and their studies are more authentic than the people who live the subject they studied…this is what we’d call: arrogant and presumptuous.
PS: arrogance and presumption seeped into your statement at the end……the fact is—most of us could care less that you are half dutch/puerto-rican…..as if this matters.
satire |ˈsaˌtīr|
noun
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
It’s too bad that most people on this site mistaken satire as FACT…
fact |fakt|
noun
a thing that is indisputably the case
I have a co-worker bring his daughter to work. He was telling her about diversity, different cultures, etc.
Since I was the only brown person in the office, he asked me what I did with my childhood friends on the weekends in the Philippines. I told him my friends and I used hang out at the mall, have lunch at Pizza Hut, Jollibee or McD’s and watch a movie. The exact samething his daughter does with her friends on the weekends.
I still can’t understand why white people (and some black people) think they are the only ones who had a slave owning past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Slavery
white people should be proud of their culture and all the positive things that came along with it (computers, TV, cars, airplanes, math literature and science, etc…) everyone else is. dont see to many NE asians walking around thinking about how ghengis khan affected europe and the middle east, or blacks thinking about why their ancestors sold them to the whites, or us native peoples thinking about how we killed our own people for the gods.
anyways, really funny site. love it 😀
I would. They are.
White people does NOT have a culture (neither does black people or brown or yellow or any other skin colored people)….
skin color does NOT have any culture attached to it….
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for the most part, it does
Satire yes, but too often painfully unfunny satire. It smugly lampoons what affluent urban white people may seem to like, which most white people are actually not and don’t, and, as a white person, I rather resent being so clumsily lumped into such a narrow stereotypical category. I’m not politically correct and have no objection to a certain amount of whiteface minstrel show shining-on, but satire has to be “truthy” to be funny, and attempts at humor that are mostly mistargeted are merely tiresome. A schtick like “You may be a redneck if…” is, in my opinion, genuinely funny and satirical. It wouldn’t be funny, however, if it were ham-handedly mistargeted as “You may be a white person if…”
Ya. You’re saying that it’s annoying how they brag about knowing everything about Peru, but then suggesting it would annoy you if they can’t figure out what continent it’s on? Which is it? Would you rather have them take interest to and explore Peru, or be completely oblivious to its existence? Does everything annoy you? And where do all these “white people” you are referring to come from? As if there aren’t any white people in South America. I forgot, everybody from the US and Canada is white, and everybody from every other country isn’t.
I get that the gist of this post (and blog) is funny and light-hearted but it’s what shows up in the comments that is really distasteful and stupid.
Are you…serious? You hate when people try to take an interest in your culture? Would you prefer that no foreigner attempts to learn anything about Bulgaria at all? AFAIK, not everyone was born in or near Bulgaria. You should be flattered, not insulted, that somebody wants to find out where you are from and *gasp* is stupid enough to ask you a basic question about it. Is the average non-Bulgarian person supposed to google “Bulgaria” in their spare time so they don’t have to bother offending a real Bulgarian if they ever meet one? By the way your comment isn’t really relevant to the post, given that being Bulgarian, you are most likely white.
Forreal? Like, what if the white chick was marrying an Indian guy and they wanted to have an Indian wedding? Or what if she’s in an Indian dance group? Would you really vomit if she wore an Indian dress? Would you also be sickened by an Indian woman wearing something traditional from another country besides India?
White people = transparent = easy for others to become American? What? White = American?
How can a white person not be an expert on “any other culture”? White isn’t a culture.
no, it does not. There may be a such thing as African American culture, for example, but this is different from Kenyan culture, which is different from Gambian culture, etc. Race does not equal culture.
I said for the most part. how many whites or blacks are part of hmong culture? How many white or asians are part of the african american culture? Each culture is predominantly one race, except for hispanic which can be white, indigenous american, black, or even asian.
To say whites have no culture is ignorant. There are plenty of cultures which are predominantly white, and always have been. These cultures are what I refered to as white culture. European cultures are white cultures.
First, who said white people have no culture? I said there are different “white” cultures.
Second, you’re generalizing. I’m saying there is no such thing as “African” or “Asian” culture. There are different cultures within those races.
“First, who said white people have no culture?”
louiecoolgato said “White people does NOT have a culture”
did you read the whole cionversation?
did you even read what I wrote the last time?
“There are plenty of cultures which are predominantly white, and always have been. These cultures are what I refered to as white culture. European cultures are white cultures.”
“Second, you’re generalizing.”
lol… so what?! this whole site is a generalization, if you are so pc about things like this why are you on a here?
that is your opinion that there is no asian culture, it’s my opinion and the opinion of my family (who are asian) that there is.
how are you combining cultures with american ideal? no way, last i checked the national sport of cambodia isnt nfl. look white europeans have their own culture, and its rooted in inferiority complexes and futility. you all were heathens before you became christ loving loonies. india has done everything but whites ty to devalue our accomplishments with the false aryan invasion theory and other bogus ideas. we are a great race responsible for many things indians are. among them is the language i’m writing and communicating to you in. white people are not internal beings, everything they observe they reflect in actions and thoughts. they are not designed to be internal beings(spiritual beings) because they are nothing more than barbarians. in hinduism/buddhism/sikhism no one other than indians can be part of those religions(if you reall study and ask you’ll find out) and in ancient india non indians were called mlecchas(barbarians) in essence any non indian. my history lesson can go on.
as far as white culture it IS simple. you see anyone can become a part of your culture, look who the leading doctors, it professionals, engineeers making all the money in america and europe are….indians and orientals…..
Ok, apparently you are completely misunderstanding everything I’m saying, so this will be the last time I try this.
I can’t speak for louiecoolgato, but when I say “there is no white culture” I do NOT mean that white people do not have culture, I mean that there are many white CULTURES… just like you said. So whiteness itself is not a culture. I think we might actually agree on this.
Second, when I say “you’re generalizing” I mean like…seriously….really generalizing. Would you say that Indians and Chinese have the same culture? They’re both Asian, so by your logic they both have Asian culture. How about Japanese and Korean? They may both look like what we think of as “Asian” but they have very different histories and cultures.
All I’m saying is that you’re completely conflating race (which we really can’t even define) and culture, which is easy to do. I think you’re taking this a bit too personally. Nobody is saying you don’t have culture… or at least I’m not.
no I’m not. I also don’t care about generalizing white people, they do it to us all the time.
You’re right, they (we) do. I’m trying to avoid that here.
white people kno nothing other than who won the giants patriots game. uneducated iliterate an stupid. that’s why indians are taking all your highest paying positions and you’re sitting at home like sludge. why dont you try simply reading book, or could you just not bear to look, you get no you get no you get no commercials……..
Learn to spell before you rant about ‘iliterate’ (sic).
Putz.
no, i mean we inventd you language so i can spell it however i wish….
you cunt
Who are you saying invented white language and culture?
These things were invented by white people (non-Indian-subcontinent) over many centuries. Today, white people and culture are dying out, but this is strictly an American phenomenon; it does not have to do with the white race generally, which was what it was and is what it is and shall remain so, until it finally dies out.
There are more non-white people in the world than white people. It is inevitable that if any of your white women decide to become ‘non-white curious’ and have a baby, then you can see that there is one more non-white in the world.
White people can only stay all white if they stay and mate in a very small section of the world…..and even that section is being infiltrated by non-white people.
it is what it is.
you sound like some white supremacist
white people willingly invite non white people into europe, america, canada australia etc those are not white lands, those are lands that elonged to native americans and aboriginess nd were stolen from them..
if white women weren’t so devoid of morals maybe your little white populace would stand some chance, but they weren’t meant to be…if the white man is jealous that the non white men are taking all their women then they should just accept it and keep going for oriental girls like they do anyway….
there’s no english language without the persians, who themselves borrowed from sanskrit…so…that’s how that works…
Sounds like your philology needs work. Both English and Persian are descended from proto-Indo-European, by very different routes. Nor did English, a Germanic language, after all, borrow anything from Sanskrit; it was a totally different evolution.
Where do you think Indo-European languages originated from? Sanskrit.
Just one example of and English word that can be traced back to Sanskrit: Ignite – from the Hindu word Agni, for fire.
Andy Lau!? hahahaha
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
Quite so; English is full of words borrowed from Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and every other language, which is one reason why it’s spoken today in every corner of the globe, as the modern world’s most cosmopolitan language. But the point, I believe, was where English originally came from, which was none of the above. Sanskrit and Persian are of the “Satem” or Eastern Indo-European language families; English is from one of the many “Kentum” or Western IE language families, the two branches having diverged and gone their separate ways in very early proto-IE times. Both language families, and their speakers, have made enormous contributions to modern world culture and deserve to be equally respected. As to the shaping of today’s Modern English, the far-and-away most important influence was late Mediaeval French, with Danish as a distant second. I’m a language scholar; just a point of information, no offense meant.
you sound like some white supremacist.
first of all YOU DID NOTHING
INDIANS invented
sanskrit
algebra, trigonometry
the worlds first monotheistic religion
the list goes on and on
you sound like one of those idiots who thinks aryans are real
there are no proto indo europeans, there is NO factual evidence of their existence, basically some white british guy says that the root of these languages MAY have a common ancestor, never providing proof. meanwhile sanskrit is the oldest of these languages. hinduism is the oldest religion and i can go on….
another thing is that there was no aryan invasion into India, considering there is no genetic differences among fellow Indians genetically at all. Also no aracheological evidence, or any factual evidence whatsoever. no mention in the vedas.
how about a topic under stuffwhitepeoplelike: telling lies
let me also add that any real intelligent linguist should know not to mix genetics with linguistics….becaus i speak spanish does this mean i am fom spain? come on…
Not sure where you got the idea that I was mixing genetics and linguistics; obviously anyone who knows the subject at all knows better than that. What does surprise me is that you yourself seem to know the subject a lot better than I would have surmised from your earlier posts. You are the first person I have encountered who knows that much about the field and yet considers it to be lies. It’s rather like meeting a Fundie who actually knows something about Darwinian Evolution and yet still believes in Intelligent Design. Maybe it’s just because these disciplines were invented by Englishmen that you have a problem with this stuff? Ahem; any white guy who ever talked like you do would be called a Racist.
“The Aryan invasion theory, as Schaffer notes, arose from a Eurocentric view that was hostile to an Indic basis for Western civilization or peoples. The discovery of close affinities between the Indo-European languages in the eighteenth century required an explanation. By placing the original Aryans in Europe, who later migrated to India where they got absorbed by the indigenous population, it took away any need to connect the ancient Europeans with India, which was not pleasing to the colonial mindset of the time. The theory eventually developed an antisemetic tone. It was used to trace Western culture not to the Jews and their Biblical accounts but to an proposed European homeland dominated by Nordic peoples. Thus the invasion theory eventually became one of the pillars for Nazi historians.”
you see our history was manipulated to fit into the lie that your ‘aryan’ race came to india and made all our advances….nothing but pure bull….an it’s not like i’m bein ultra nationalist or hindutava even…i’m just stating the facts…
I can’t tell if this is in response to a posting of mine; if so, I would ask where I said anything about an aryan invasion theory, which to the best of my knowledge may not even amount to a theory. All I’ve been talking about is the linguistics, specifically the evolution of the English language, an aspect which for a long time now has been in less and less dispute. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I understand the aryan invasion theory to be an interpretation, based on the Rg Veda, of how the Indo-Europeans ended up in the Indian subcontinent, an interesting topic, but one which I’ve never studied in detail and must confess to be beyond my competence.
i’ve been called many things on this site, but never a white supremacist. This is a first.
I would suggest you read what i wrote and think ‘a non-white’ wrote this, then you will get a new perspective.
it is what it is.
well garman it has a lot to do with linguistics. before i get to that let m disvole on of your other mentionings in your post. there is no mention in the rig veda of aryans or any land outside of india, it has nothing to do with anything and is pure bullshit. you’re wrong about that.
why i bring it up is because it is white people who devised that whole theory to make believe that there were proto indo europeans who were responsible for sanskrit when there was no such thing as proto indo europeans. they lied that there was an invasion to cover the fact that their language entirely came from india essentially. there are no PIE, we indians invented you whole language. we posess the oldest language…
another thing i always found funny was mention of r1a as a PIE marker, when such gene is found at highest levels in india and pakistan. furthermore the gene itself is even found among mongols, who don’t even speak a sanskrit derived language…
i can go on…
Indians don’t possess the oldest language, just the oldest record. I don’t know why you think there were no PIE or that everything came out of India, but certainly I won’t argue that with you, because obviously it wouldn’t do any good. I can’t help wondering, though, why you think as you do. If the Europeans and their languages came out of India, why aren’t Europeans dark like Indians, and why doesn’t the morphology of European languages support an Indian origin for them? We’re talking about science here, not lies that somebody made up for nationalistic purposes but models that anyone can check out, do the science and judge for himself. Certainly you’re welcome to your interpretation of things, but I don’t know where you would ever find the science or the history to support it.
have you heard of this website
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/
i think you’d like it
i didnt say europeans have indian origins, dont misconstrue my words. i meely said we have the oldest languge in this supposed IE tree.
tell me also how as a linguist the migration models support anything but india…r1a has its highest levels in india/pakistan, and is invisible among western europeans. if anything im saying europeas are genetically totally different from us. yet the languge similarities were taken when persians borrowed from sanskrit. the scythians inhabited russia, then the western europeans came and mixed with them, their lang may have influenced the next and so on.
europeans carry r1b which is not even found in india/pakistan, you all probably descend from the basques and spanish fishermen…
My apologies for misconstruing you. Migration models are all necessarily somewhat speculative, and if you want to talk about genetics, I can’t, because that is a field almost entirely beyond my competence. Linguistic models, however, are bound to be highly telltale as to historical vicissitudes, as well as being a subject upon which scientific tools can be, and have been, brought to bear. If Sanskrit were the oldest IE language, you are necessarily saying that it must be the root language of the whole family, from which all the other branches are necessarily derived, a model supported by no science I know of. I once had a debate with an Irishman who seemed to have a similar theory about the Irish language, so I suspect this is a way of thinking best attributed to the vagaries of national pride and human nature. What the science does support is that Sanskrit is a later language derived one way or another from the same PIE root language as all the rest… meaning, inevitably, that all IE language families are about the same age. The fact that languages borrow and swap words around amongst themselves is only to be expected, and it’s too easy to distinguish loan words from inherited words in these or any languages to make it worth trying to construct alternative reality linguistic family trees out of their occurrences. I realize you won’t accept such views, of course; I’m only trying to be clear on where I’m coming in from.
ahh god that site is hilarious, a bunch of deluded white pride retards who think hitler is awesome. they have no factual evidence and their entire ego of being aryan is built on lies. this is what i was talking about with the linguist dude below, that all this nazi aryan crap started with the lies of a master race and it all originated when white people couldn’t accept that their language had non european origins….
if you think there was a language that predated sanskrit you’re wrong. and there was no such thing as PIE…that is genetically evident for sure….
now you can believe th eurocentric mentality that gives your white people their dignity but in reality it’s all bull….
I really don’t know where you are getting all this Eurocentricity mentality stuff. I’m European and proud of it, which is why I have studied the history of my race and its folkways in such detail, but never thought it made me better than anybody else.
Way to be the better person…
Stupid white people generalize, not all of them do. The whole idea of race is stupid and outdated anyways. Let’s get with the fucking times.
Besides, for the most part, there’s more differences within cultures than between cultures.
Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not too PC to enjoy this site, or to realize that generalizations can be useful, if they’re positive and are adapated/expanded as one receives new information.
Try telling a Chinese person (espeically one who was alive during WWII) that their culture is identical to Japan’s. I’m sure they’d have an interesting response.
Sounds like someone’s not secure enough about their own ethnicity.
You seem smart enough not to be like that though. I’m sure you’re intelligent enough to know that generalizations like that hold no truth. Sure there are plenty of stupid. lazy white people. There’s plenty of smart, hard working ones too. Just like in any other cutlure /ethnicity.
You’re obviously not a dumb fuck, why act like one?
Europeans are not a race of people…..but i understand your point of view…
Gee it’s funny that on a terrific satirical and surgically empirical blog, about the neurotic shams and obsessions of white folks meaning largely leftard liberals up to their necks in Marxist sodden PC multiculti envirofreakism, that many comments are by said leftard liberals. Wonderful. It’s all true. Pure gold. Commenter: “It’s like looking in a fucking mirror.” We all have a superficial and phony balony cross to bear. Colonel Robert Neville blogspot com.
Haha white women have no morals?
Some don’t, some do. It varies.
I am uncultured.
The author of this blog is a bit of a DUMBASS! “One way they can make up for it is becoming marginally acquainted with foreign cultures. It is generally acceptable for a white person to learn a few terms in a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or *Portuguese*).” — The *Portuguese* are just one of the many diverse variety of Ethnic White/European Groups such as the Welsh, Dutch, Czech, Danish, Lithuanian, Italian, Albanian, Serbian, Georgian, Slovene, etc. and so forth. Hence, THEY (THE PORTUGUESE) ARE WHITE!!!
Sorry folks, I had to say something about this tiny matter. I can’t stand the ignorance of some people….particularly Americans.
The Portuguese may be considered ‘white’ today, but according to their history, they were not ‘white’ as…”Welsh, Dutch, Czech, Danish, Lithuanian, Italian, Albanian, Serbian, Georgian, Slovene, etc..”
You need to read up when the Iberian peninsula was occupied by the Muslims from 712-1492AD. And just to give you a heads up, these Muslims were NOT white people.
That’s too funny! I find it annoying when people assume Filipinos still live in huts in the Philippines and that there are no modern-day conveniences at all.
eh, you’re kind of a DUMBASS because you can’t read. The name of the entry is “Being an expert on YOUR culture” not “Being an expert on YOUR RACE”
The majority of people who speak Portuguese as a first language are from Brazil NOT Portugal. Hence, you are the dumbass, not the author of this blog.
actually hun, no they’re not, portuguese, italian, spanish they’re a mixed race, caused by the invasions of the moors, if you go to any of these countries, specifically spain you’ll see the moorish archecture everywhere and if you don’t believe me check it out on wikipedia or any other site that tells the history of these countries. They used to be white, but not for a long time.
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 becoming an expert on their own culture.
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.)
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Where did you guys learn all that? It’s kind of ironic, given the title of this blog entry.
You are not an expert on your culture if you do not know the history of your culture.
You’re not familiar with population genetics, or physical anthropology, apparently.
The majority of Portuguese speakers hail from Africa, Brazil (50% black or mulato population), and Macau.
Dumbass.
This is the funniest think I’ve read on this blog : stupid “white men” of america arguing about the “whiteness” of portuguese people…
please, talk about things you know, i.e starbuck or american apparel…
thanks
The whole european population is “mixed” ; so the so-called “white americans” are from a mixed population (excepted maybe some Irish…).
And remember : there are NO different human races (this word can be used for animals, not humans).
I’m French, my parents are Portuguese, and I “don’t used to be white…”
Might I just ask…
What culture?
umm dude sorry but hittite is an IE lang that has an older written record than sanskrit…
also i’m an indian (bengali) who is saying this.
stfu you’re spewing bullshit…
are you even a linguist? i am, w/ a few degrees in sanskrit and indo-european linguistics.
ALL cultures are artificial social inventions. Any culture on earth has swiped ideas from others, have had their own ideas swiped, mutated, amplified, diminished, warped and hopefully … evolved. Whenever someone start pissing and moaning about their supposed “traditional” culture being “lost” I want to ask them, at what time in history then, did their culture become somehow stuck in cement? That said, it is rather disingenuous to complain about white folks knowing little about other cultures, then turning around and complaining when they make an attempt … even if it is merely to get a more “authentic” “ethnic” meal.
well, brucifer, this particular non-white person would prefer it (and does prefer it) when whites don’t even try (because then they descent into stereotypes) and thus don’t know about other cultures, but are also not racist. if making an attempt means making a stupid/annoying/racist/stereotypical attempt (which it most often does, in my experience), then i’d rather you not even try. just be white. and i’ll just be indian. and we can get along. and i don’t have to listen to your stereotyped attempt of knowing my culture.
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So white people want to learn “non-white languages” like Portuguese as you have stated, because they don’t carry the “bad things” the white culture has, yet who the fuck started slavery the Portuguese you dumb knob
White people steal cultures all the time, from converting in Eastern religion to Native American tribal identity cards. What’s next? The next black-American current music fad. Sadly, I don’t know what is the new black-American music fad. What was it again? I realize how much WHITE I AM!+
Mexicans think of taco bell the same way the French dislike McDonalds. Taco bell is fast food, but faux-Mexican cuisine and white people are more comfortable without seeing any Mexican things (except hiring “Mexicans” illegally to work in the back kitchen is OK). However, the old stereotypes of Mexicans in sombreros riding donkeys armed with pistols asking to “breeng mi yeur freetoo cheeps, yoo greengoh” may not be present, but in the minds of white people like the blogger, it’s not authentic but accurate in his mind. +
They are white European/Caucasian but to ignorant white people: sorry we can’t tell you all apart.
My father is from France who grew up near Belgium, two different lands indeed.
Only a complete idiot can’t tell the cultural difference from a Mexican from a Mexican-American, Puerto Rican from a Cuban or Dominican, Central American from South American, or Spanish (from Spain) from a Portuguese or a Galician, Catalan, Aragonese, Leonese and Andalusian. +
Jason, you ever been to Portugal or Brazil? You are of any Portuguese heritage? And how on earth you knew about the African, Chinese or east Indian communities in Portugal may hold Portuguese heritage themselves?
I wanna test you to see you’re a “Portogee” : Where is Nelly Furtado’s parents from? She’s from Victoria, BC, Canada…but where is her “Portuguese” parents came from??? Answer is next. +
How about Stuffwhitepeoplelike: What we believe: the super-German Hypoborean Aryan hetero-men came from a distant planet known as Asgard, then invaded the darkie land of Hindoo-land in 10000000 BC and installed a real civilization after nuking the brown ones out of existence.
Terribly wrong, and no one knows for sure if the “Aryans” of Northern India are of Germanic stock, though records said they had light brown skin, hair and eyes. Their exact land of origin could be Afghanistan, Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan, and tribes migrating not only south but north or west out of the steppes of Central Asia into the eastern end of Europe.
The early but disproven legend of the Aryans are a race of “Germans” or the prototypical white people was made up by a British imperial officer, also an archaeologist. Also to mention the Nazi German anthropological survey into Tibet to study “real Aryans” except to find only Tibetan people. +
Too many white people meet a Hmong , they think “he is a Chinese or a Chinaman”. The Hmong may think “Yankee, round-eye, white-face, hairy barbarian or a colonial Frank”. Both may meet a black person and together they call him (mentally) “Black guy, we hate him, no reason at all.” +
Or a Korean, the kind of thing Margaret Cho jokes about in her comedy routine about her life as an Asian-American (or correctly, Korean-American). She once said a Midwestern TV station wanted her to speak in her native Korean language, but she just said in English “Hello Iowan viewers, you are watching…” the directors said “Huh?” Margaret Cho smiled and said “English is my native language, not Korean”. +
Last post (I gotta stop before I’m banned): Hispanic viewers oughta tell the people over in Telemundo about not all Hispanics eat burritos, play soccer, drink Coronas or tequilas, sing mariachi or conjunto music, not dress up like cowboys or work in the fields, drive beat up white trucks, and not all are illegal aliens when Telemundo news clips spent most of the half-hour program…en espanol, about the poor people we belong to. Legalizacion Por favor? +
I can’t stand it when (white) people say ‘soba noodles’. That is so redundant!
Er… Portuguese? Really? Are you sure? 😛
hittitie doesnt posess many features typical of Ie and in essence is thought of as different. lack of gende division and such. shouldnt you know this? or am i spewing bullshit
The French don’t dislike McDonald’s.
White, defined as: reading about zone VI when exposing for film.
And of course, you’re right. There is no place on earth that people reading zone VI or above haven’t stolen from people reading somewhere under zone VI. They are actually not native to anywhere, and all of them are ignorant and racist.
However, their easily manipulated women can’t keep their hands off of men who expose under zone VI. Because of this, the forgotten zone VI men are forced to vainly chase women who occasionally reflect slightly more yellow light.
Yeah, most people with any sense (anyone who’s not white) know that seeing eye to eye with anyone of a different shade of skin is a vain, impossible goal that ought to be abandoned. Silly Obama, paying lip service to foolish whites people instead of stating this simple truth. Long live uncrossable cultural barriers! May there always be a perfectly defined line between races, as there always has been!
Let me get this straight. It isn’t “Aryan” peoples, but rather Indians who are the absolute be-all, end-all incarnations of humanity.
White-skinned people cannot think about spiritual, sublime things, they can only superficially, externally react to things they encounter. They cannot introspect. Only Indians (and perhaps others from the Asian continent,) who are oftentimes capable of acquiring degrees in Engineering and Medicine, are somehow elevated beyond barbarism.
At last, the true master-race is revealed and should take it’s rightful place!
Jobs & Money = the most important aspects of people.
My point, in case anyone misses the sarcasm and agrees with me, as I have been horrified to notice in a couple of other instances on this site, is that the notion of a master-race is ridiculous, and the implication that skin color or heritage is likely to affect a person’s ability to seek God or the sublime is one of the more racist things I’ve recently heard. While I understand that the the blog itself is all in satirical fun, the untamed wilds of anonymous posting do not seem to restrain themselves to such nobility.
Whites are incapable of inventing sports.
It just occurred to me, thinking further about your post, how wrong you are. First of all, regardless of which “white” culture you’re talking about, there are thousands of examples of great thinkers, writers, musicians, scientists and artists who have helped to shape the modern world.
Here are a few fairly important “white” folks from Europe and America: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Einstein, the Wright Brothers, Edward Muybridge, George Meliés & the Lumiere Brothers (motion pictures), Thomas Edison, Karl Benz (invented the automobile), Mark Twain, François Truffaut, The Beatles, William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Cezanne, Bach, Beethoven, Woody Allen, etc. The list continues. Try reading Proust before maintaining your hypothesis about a supposed lack of introspection.
There is an equally large number of people from “non-white” cultures that have accomplished similarly great things. It’s ridiculous to make generalities about someone’s potential based on where they were born and/or what color they are. Also, while doctors, IT pros and engineers are all very important, those are not the only three occupations worth pursuing, and occupations are only part of what makes up an individual.
Steal cultures huh? Well I have a question for you. What makes you white? I am considered white, however, I am German, Dutch, Irish, Indian, And Polish. So you say that I steal cultures, while I have many cultures making up my pedigree.
Do you have any idea why stereotypes exist? Think of it this way honey, it’s when something is done over and over and over and over again, so it becomes expected, and normal. So I suggest that your cultures stop doing the same shit if you don’t want to be expected to, and imitated as acting in such a fashion.
lol 🙂
I’m in the same boat. I’m also English, Scotish, Irish, German, Dutch, Austrian, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, Swiss, and Canadian if you want to count that too as my Grandpa emigrated from Canada. When you are that mixed; what do you do? If I celebrate any of those cultures people either laugh at me because I’m very little of each or they think I’m stealing their culture.
The majority of Portuguese speakers or nonwhite or mulatto and from Brazil
*the majority ARE nonwhite* sorry for the typo
I forgot to mention the millions of Portuguese speakers in former Portuguese colonies in Africa (ie Angola)
For one thing: I have multiple ethnic origins/backgrounds, such as French, Flemish-Dutch, English, Scottish, Ulster Scot or Scotch-Irish, German-Bavarian, Cherokee, Osage, Leni Lenape and Shawnee Indian. I could probably have Jewish from what I was told on my French dad’s side and hadn’t found Black American in my mom’s side from my curiousity. What makes a person “white” has more to do with color than the actual ethnocultural identity, a serious problem in America is how “white” are you or how much you have to be considered “white”. Honestly, it never mattered much to me on what color a person is, it’s what inside that counts. +
That’s an accusation by minorities in America to go around saying white people steal cultures. Rock and roll music by Elvis Presley in the 1950’s made not only white Americans nervous at first, but African Americans studied the basis of Elvis’ musicology to find he stole Black music without asking the Black community. He’s also accused of taking bits of so-called ethnic pop music of the 1950s by Jewish, Italian and Chicano (Mexican American) artists, as if he travels into the Lower East Side NY City, West side Philly or South L.A to find what works to sell his “white-washed americanized corporate” music. Blame the evil corporations, not Elvis. +
True, to eat there and come back complaining about how its effect on French cuisine is unflavorful. Jean Marie Le Pen and other French nationalists started the American cultural invasion of France nonsense. They should go back to anti-immigration/xenophobic rhetoric to made monsieur Le Pen an infamous controversial man throughout Europe. +
Stereotypes exist, generally, because they are portrayed in the media and taught at home. Most people gain their knowledge of minority cultures (well, of most things, actually) by watching television and listening to anecdotes from people who don’t know any more about a subject than they do.
Those “information sponges” buy into what they hear and believe it, rather than take the time to really learn the truth about other cultures. It’s easier. It would take time and effort to really educate oneself. It is much easier to spew generalizations as though they were facts.
Jessie B, are your “stereotypes” based on seeing the same actions repeated over and over by people you actually know who belong to a certain culture? Or, are they based on media portrayals and chatter you’ve picked up from others? Do you even really know (and, I mean really know) people of other cultures well enough to understand things about that culture?
No.
Funny, did you just call all “white people” aryan retards? It sounds like someone’s trying to be an expert on someone else’s culture… Actually, it’s no secret that the idea of a “master race” is ridiculous, even among whites.
This is BS. I think the reason that people are able to integrate quickly into other cultures is that they are human, and humans adapt quickly. To say that someone with a different color of skin couldn’t adapt as quickly is erroneous and stupid. It also might be an aspect of certain cultures to be more welcoming of outsiders than other cultures, which doesn’t seem like a negative thing. I mean, people complain (reasonably) about all the horrible, racist things that “white people” have done, so condemning them for being welcoming, too, seems a bit thick.
My grandma commented that a painting I had done reminded her of “one of those negroes.” I wasn’t sure what to say.
You’re a real piece of shit, aren’t you?
I don’t prefer subtitles on films because it preserves cultural flavor, I prefer subtitles on films because oftentimes the voice-actors are bad, and its annoying to watch the lips move out of sync.
Of course. It is the color of your skin, nothing else, that defines you.
Have you tried begging, though?
What about those who are both racists and liars? Where does your proverb leave them?
This really is rubbish. You pretend to speak for all white people, but who actually mean is white Americans.
I bet #129 will be “claiming to be part-Indian” when he goes to the nearest tribal HQ (assuming they got a casino, smoke shop or an illegitimate business operation), said he’s Cherokee from the island of Neverland, and dresses in Afro-centric leotards to identify his garb one of the shamans. The tribe will laugh their butts off and assume he’s a white guy in mid-life crisis searching for his identity. He will give out facts like “Did youy know the Cherokee are more numerous than Jews, Irish and the Chinese”. and “the Navajos live in teepees out in Salamanca or Foxwoods”.+
Let’s see how many Native American tribes are out there? Hhhmmm…Apache, Arapahoe, Blackfoot, Cahuilla, Couer d’Alene, Chemeheuvi, Cheyenne, Comanche, Hopi, Kiowa, Lipan, Lummi, Modoc, Nez Perce, Paiute, Salish, Spokane, Ute, Yuman, Zuni, too many to name here. 564 federally recognized tribes have members in all 50 US states and territories, plus laskan Natives, Canadian Indians (Metis), and Latin American Indians (or mestizos). +
double LOL. My Dad is one of the French people chose to live in America. The thing is McDonald’s was first welcomed in the country in the 1960s or 70s, to only discover our way of eating isn’t like theirs (obviously). 4 small meals per day, one hour eating time and the precise culinary style (slow food) is what the French are known to eat quite well. +
Thanks huggy bear, but look out for a troll with my name will adapt the Free French resistance flag as an avvie/icon or type in Cherokee Indian script, my unique way of spam posting. I voted for Obama like most of the white, black and other racial groups in America…except stormfront members. +
From historical world human migration theories, Southern Indians are descended from seafaring peoples out of the Horn of Africa or southern Arabia (Yemen and Oman) about 50,000 years ago…and the Arabs as we know of are white Caucasian whose skin color, same with the Indians and Pakistanis (plus Bengalis and Sri Lankans), are a result of their hot sunny climate to made dark melanin in the skin.
There are several Australoid tribes found in India, as well the Andaman Islands and throughout the East Indies or S.E. Asia, such as the “Negrito” tribes of the Philippines… and distantly the Ainu, an indigenous people whom don’t appear “Mongoloid” in Japan mostly live in Hokkaido had more similarity with the Australoids, except the people are fair-skinned and shown ethnological traits once thought to be from Caucasians (the white people from Northern or eastern Europe) about 4,000 miles away, but Ainu have intermixed with the Japanese in the last 2 centuries.
The Ainu’s unique genetic structure was found among American Indians of North America, whom descended from Siberian and possibly Turkic-Altaic tribes in Northern or Central Asia, the hyopthetic home range of Indo-European speaking peoples, and who else are listed Caucasian are Arabs or Semitic people (including most Israeli Jews) bear a resemblance to Sub-Saharan Africans with a high likelihood of sharing some ancestral genes for over 50,000 years.
It is thought the oldest peoples in length of inhabitation are found in southern Africa the Nguma or Bushmen, whom have inner eyefolds like the Malagasy tribes of Madagascar, light hair like Australoids and earlier human anthropological theories of the Capoids of southern Africa, might came form the Mediteranean region, where many genome isolates are like the Basques, Sami people, Georgians or the Sumerians are also of Iberian/Mediteranean stock though the Sami of Scandinavia resembled the Inuit, Aleut, Yakut, Mongolian and Tibetan peoples to some experts on human anatomy.
However, the South American Indians like the Fuegians of Patagonia have been compared to Australoids and quite possibly Polynesian peoples of Malayan origin came to South America long ago than first perceived, and we had seen a revival of interest in the European and African origins of many peoples of the pre-Columbian Americas.
And to end the diatribe,The concept of race has been debunked as a result of genetic studies and human migration models to make it confusing indeed, yet it makes all sense now to know our 4 million year old history. +
Mulattos and black people make about 50% of the Brazilian population. There are also other minorities, such as indigenous or Asian people, but they are very few. Approximately 47% of the population is what you could call white. Often they are multi-ethnical, though.
Although there are other small non-European countries or regions, like Macau, that do speak Portuguese, there’s also Portugal, which is also, obviously, the native land of Portuguese, so I don’t think it’s much accurate to say Portuguese is a non-white language.
Just a comment. 🙂
Tee, I do not stereotype anyone. I was just making a point as to why they exist. I have many friends, and I mean friends, that are from all different cultures and religions. I understand different cultures because I am an open minded person. I don’t intentionally learn different cultures, I mean that is not a life goal or anything, but I have many friends from all walks of life and I care for them so I pay attention to the cultural aspects of their life. I never assume anything I have heard in the media to be true. I believe in making my own opinion of people from experiences I shared with them, not what others have experienced.
What pisses me off is all the people who accuse whites of stereotyping cultures, then they stereotype whites on BET and other channels and shows all the time. I understand that stereotypes exist because of reoccurring actions, however, you can’t bitch about stereotypes being applied to your culture and them stereotype a different culture. That is a little hypocritical don’t you think?
I’m sorry but.. erm .. German, Dutch, Irish and Polish … Aren’t they all white??!?!?!!
reminder: Portuguese was originally spoken by people from Portugal.. And they are also .. White.
Waaay to suck the funny out of this site.
Gee in accusation huh, so explain Buddist beads , kabbala, R&B, practically most Hip Hop culture pioneered by blacks ,Japanese and Chinese symbol tattoos, slang, metro-sexual.. Only to name a few … I guess this is all just imagined .
Thats the point
The Kabbala accusation is pretty unfair since white people borrowing from it has been going on since the middle ages and christian kabbala has been around since the rennaissance.
I have 2 daddys and the both rape me in my closet. that why i is a racist asshole yo.
Remembah my name: Micheal D. Also known as ADMikey, also known as Michael.
I’m the asswipe who puts ‘+’ symbols at the end of my comments….my autism makes me do dat shit…
I actually don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about. My autism messes me up like that.+
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
this is hilarious and so true.
Its so funny to see white people come in to the restaurant i waitress at and pretend they know whats good to their white friends and order things they think is authentic, while briefing them on the culture of asians. They talk about how they’ve been ti thailand, or china, or japan, or watever and dont know shit. its so sad.
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!
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Yellow, Black, White, Red, or Brown……
all we men are Baboons
and all you women
Chimpanzeez
This being the case, I say to hell with all mankind and up with ants.
Here, look at this, and learn the proper attitude with which to regard all races:
I daresay that in one fell swoop I have fixed racism.
I daresay…..NOT!
HAHA I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and think it’s DEF just a funny!!
Is there a stuffjewishpeoplelike.com ??
Yes I did!!!!!!!!
You’re just saying that cause you’re white.
im glad they dont do that for my culture. lol thats probably because they would have to do cheap labor.
I did say NOT because I am white.
You people. jeez.
jesus h. christ stfu tiffany the flirt.
haha this is hilarious. You forgot to mention that white people DON’T like it when they realize their lack of knowledge thereof. I had more than dozen personal experiences when conversation would start between me and a white person and they wouldn’t have any idea how to connect with me because they know nothing about my culture. Therefore awkward silence.
Repeat Mongolia is not East Asia, it is Cental Asia and no, we do not eat Mongolian beef there. So, stop trying to act smart by making references to ethnic cuisines.
hahaha, yeah, i don’t think white people would want to pick tomatoes for 16 hours for $4 an hour to show their acceptance of Mexicans in the U.S.A.
Portuguese is the language of Portugal, which is an european country that in the 16th century discovered the american continent ( the south american, Brazil ), and it is a country existing since the 12th century. The south american countries took the portuguese language or spanish when they were colonized. So I don´t think it is very accurate to refer to it as a non-white language – it is not knowing what you are talking about, and thinking white folks are all americans who descend from british folks or so. Obrigada
I lost count of the number of people who, when finding out my ancestry, say they truly feel or they have been told by a psychic/medium that they a) were a native american in a previous life or b) say they would like to ‘come back as’ a native american, because they believe that is their destiny.To shut them up I tell them native americans dont believe in reincarnation.
O___O
It’s true. I never realized it before, but I guess I do have an extreme interest in other cultures.
Of course, I do like to travel…….
Portugese and other Europeans DID NOT “discover” the Americas, the indigenous Americans have ALWAYS been here and have a long history beginning around 40,000 b.c.
“It is generally acceptable for a white person to learn a few terms in a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese)”
Americans always make mistakes when talking about europe. Portuguese is a white language.
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Also you should add that life on many Indian reservations is soooo great, esp. these are wealthy white folk who love to imitate a pre-modern life before the arrival of Europeans. Most likely, a Native American is a member of a Christian church and nearly half of them vote Republican. I do know in Cal. the Cherokees (informally known as “Okies”) are stereotyped as hating black people, immigrants and Jews. But if a white person approaches you and claim to know all this stuff about Indians, such as “they drink alot and smoke peyote, then runs around with a coyote” is definitely racist.
Most of the regional Hispanic culture in Cal. was stolen and morphed into marketable commodities, any rich white guy in the L.A. area live in a spanish-style architectural home on a street named for something in the Spanish language?
How about them Anglos in Mission Viejo? The town north of San Juan Capristrano was built in the 1960s known for a colonial Spanish charm. Then there’s Rancho California in the Inland empire and the Spanish days Fiesta de Santa Barbara. I never knew Anglos in Cal. loved Hispanic culture.
so far, so true. I’m loving your site 🙂
still i must say, being european and white, portuguese is a white language. i know americans use latino’s to speak about portuguese and spanish speaking countries including portugal and spain. In europe, we consider ourselves white.
but still… great site, great writing i haven’t stop laughing yet.
just a small adjustment from a portuguese (white) girl.
‘Black’ is actually less precise, but more accurate. Case in point: I’m Black, but not African American. The folks who produce the SATs think it would take way too long to include a separate bubble for every Black country, and since most of them are in Africa, anyway, well, why not kill forty-seven birds with one stone?
This may be a little off topic but… why isn’t Barnes & Nobles on the list of thing white people like? lol. yeah this is all too true, but then again i must be white too, cause i do the same thing… tbh like most black folks born and raise in the US, idk wth is my genealogical ethnicity. I just know I’m mostly black… i just may have some white in me. thank you cultural discontent and the forced diffusion of many races due to the birth of America!!! 😀
Word usage is very important when making a point…
“The south american countries took the portuguese language or spanish when they were colonized.”
“took” is incorrect “forced upon” sound about right… along with Catholicism…
Kazakh opinion here…
I went to university in United States. At first I couldn’t believe how many people had actually heard of Kazakhstan (I had been imagining Americans are not very knowledgeable about foreign countries.)
….. and then I realised it was all from the movie Borat, and that their idea of it is completely wrong. Very often they were surprised that I am not white…. (apparently, Borat was white, although most of our population is central Asian genetic ancestry and look similar to Mongolian). They were surprised also that we speak Russian more than we speak Kazakh. They were also surprised we do not hate Jewish people, do not all live in little villages, that Almaty and Astana are as modernised as their big cities and – have high-rise buildings and nightclubs and fancy advertising too. Almost no one knew where it actually is and had to ask if it is part of Russia…
But the worst part was when they thought my country is, told me how my country should be, and criticised the customs and politics based on one or two sentences I told them, when they didn’t even know a thing about it five minutes before. Amazing amount of ignorance…
Haha, I am from Kazakhstan, so also central Asia, and they all thought it is part of Russia. But I guess Kazakhs are lucky that our country is not turned into an American restaurant name (I remember seeing Mongolian Barbecue a lot there).
Do you get the question if your country is still part of the Soviet Union? They asked that a lot to me…
I got awkward silence a lot too, except the people who heard about Kazakhstan from the movie Borat and had lots of false assumptions… do not know which one is worse. Why not just ask some question, if they do not know??
Yes, Portuguese is a European language but spoken in several African countries as well as Brazil. Portugal aside, quite a few non-whites speak it. Spanish is also a European language btw…I speak it and I sure as hell am not white.
you’re surprised by white people not know anything about your country?!!
Well try this: White people don’t know anything about the non-whites that live among them HERE in these United States!
Up until November 5th, 2008, the definition of white america had been self centeredness. Period.
if it ain’t white, it is not needed to be known. Borat was before our presidential election. It seems that after the election that whites are more receptive and curious about people who are not like themselves. And it helped that our president looks like only 12% of all of the american population.
I’m white-Malaysian, so I feel like I can fence-sit this issue. Sometimes I meet Pakistanis and go “Hey! Kya hal hei? Acha?” and get scorned looks, and sometimes people come up to me and go “You’re Malaysian? Apa khabar?” and I shoot them some scorned looks myself.
*sigh* What’s a half-white to do? I half-like your list btw, good job.
The northern Europeans don’t consider Portuguese white..they consider them olive skinned Meds..though being one is absolutely not bad at all however, only the Portuguese, Greeks and Spanish, the poorest countries in the “old” EU consider themselves white…unfortunately, the Garlic belt which starts somewhere halfway Belgium is an absolute reality in the EU and the poor southern European countries have always had an inferiority complex – almost all the women on Portuguese and Spanish television will have dyed, blond hair which is 180 degrees in contrast with the reality in their streets where everyone has dark hair with extremely few exceptions. BTW, Portuguese is not a Germanic (white) language, it’s a Latin (southern European, darker skinned Med.) language…
To the “Portuguese white girl”, my grandparents are from Portugal, they don’t consider themselves white at all. In fact they identify more with African Americans and Hispanics. As for Portuguese being a white a white language
I would double check on that…I have a few African friends who speak Portuguese; it’s the native language in Cape Verde. I think we should do a blog entitled “Races That Other Races Try To Claim”
the ugly 12%
Unless you are speaking of the Solutreans from Europe, who did inhabit America that long ago, this is a false statement. The Amerindians originated in Siberia and made their way eventually to America, but that didn’t happen 42kya. That being said, Amerindians are genetically and phenotypically distinct from modern East Asians even though they share ancestors.
And the Europeans did “discover” it in the sense that they made its presence known to the wider world by way of exploration, as there was no global knowledge of geography until their arrival.
jerk.
Well I can agree with you in the first one, must Spanish (like myself) Portuguese and Italians are, cultural speaking, Latins/Iberian/Mediterranean (call it whatever you like) but not white, who ever consider themselves a “white Caucasian” is just a wanker, and believe me they are a lot of those out there. And as for the second one, well once again Portuguese is a Roman language (which I don’t know what colour you want to give it) but surely is not an African language, they speaks it because they were a Portuguese colony, but nothing else. It is like saying “Portuguese is an Asian language because they speak it in Macau (China)”. But yeah I must agree we “Latins” and our Roman language is not white period.
Omg… you’re all white. Even Mediterraneans are considered white. People are surprised when they meet NATURAL blond Greeks and Italians. Yes, they exist. And that olive skin comment is a joke, there are MANY very white Mediterraneans. Take them out of their sunny habitat (or see them in the winter), and you will find that they can be just as white as northern europeans. Why? Because they are white too. Latin languages and Germanic languages —all considered white. Stop avoiding it.
Like your mother?
Because BN is not white enough, independently owned bookstores are whiter.
Ok – sorry to jump in but in the racist little midwestern town in which I was raised no one would consider portuguese ( or Spanish, greeks or Italians ) white. The vicious term that we used for mediterraneans of all sorts was SDD ( short, dark and dirty). White people come from north of Zurich and west of Gdansk.
asswipe
Well they did film the Kazakh scenes in a small Romanian village, so that can’t have helped. Also, Russia and CCCP are still synonymous to most whiteys who can’t wrap their head around a country being formed from independent states who united. (BTW we really like irony too)
hey genius, french is the native language of Guinea, Cote d’voire and other african countries. Are french people not white then because their language is spoken in Africa?
I don’t see why you need to make comments like that… but then again that goes to show you how some americans are like.
trying to say that europeans from anywhere in europe (yes, even portugal, spain, italy, etc.) are not white is like an american claiming to be native american because they are 1/16th cherokee.
all this “we latins are not white, period” crap is just a weak attempt to distance from whitey, and cling to some imagined bond of persecution they can have with other “oppressed” cultures. if you’re european of european stock, you’re white. live with it. i don’t care how curly your hair is, or how well you tan. pull your head out of your stupid pretentious asses, and stop trying to cozy up with minorities, ’cause they’re sure as hell not buying your bullshit. my father is only 3rd generation american, originally hailing from ferentino italy (about 25 miles southeast of rome). they, and most people from there, rightfully consider themselves white as the driven snow.
seriously, go up to a latino from somewhere in the americas, or a black person from anywhere and ask them how they would classify you ethnically. they will look you dead in the face and say “lilly white”. “yeah, but i’m from lisbon!” to which they would respond “lilly. fucking. white.” unless you can honestly say that you’re AT LEAST 50% (i.e. mother or father or damn close) something other than white, you’re white.
I’m black and i would have to agree with what jquincy says. Someone from Spain of saying that they’re not white because they look different from a Briton is like a Vietnamese person saying that they’re not Asian because they look differently from Japanese people. unless one of your parents (or maybe grandparents) is ethnically nonwhite/noneuropean, you’re white. deal with it.
Many whites know about the other dumb ass non-whites in the US, and all the non-whites are crupting the US, like the blacks dating the white girls and saying nigga to each other, but then a white man says it back and then he gets shot.
Asians comming in to the US and over populating our country like there fucking country(s) that they came from…
Ya it many show you how we are, but again it shows how the USA kicks ass….
yea, i definitely agree with your post! DOWN with those damn Asians and Indians!
They’re just all over the place. programming computers, fixing dumb stupid things like radios and x-rays and doing real crappy shit jobs like being a surgeon or a certified medical doctor or members of cancer research teams or head of the US department of energy…
Damn straight!
So this site’s author is an expert on white culture? But the title implies that it’s bad to be an expert on someone else’s culture… Some other things on this list are dead wrong, like Barack Obama. We don’t like him one bit! Some whites say they do, but they don’t and if they do it’s only to pander for somebody of a different race in their vicinity. And marijuana… can’t tell you how many times a black motherfucker asks me if I want weed or “where the weed at?” Where I’m from the whites who do that are called white trash.
I realize that by complaining, I make myself look like a stereotypical white as portrayed on this page, but it’s just ignorant. And I’m not racist but what I said above is true and that’s just how white folks feel.
Most of this list is aimed at whites who are liberals or hippies. And the part about outer sportswear was really funny. And lastly, it’s not whites who like Indie music; assholes do.
Remember self-righteous assholes come in all colors!
Also Mediterraneans are definitely not white, just ask a white person.
General comment on most posts:
Most of you are repeating a loop in reasoning, sending the debate back and forth on unimportant factors.
Instead of using a billion words to express yourself, try and cut it down to a few sentences because:
1. People might actually read your post if it is concise.
2. The more detailed your argument, the more you offer yourself up for 13 year old boys to whine about stupid crap.
3. If you are clever enough, you might deliver several messages with one sentence to the varied range of intellects on the internet (focus on the smart ones if you can).
Lastly, who the fuck cares if Mediterranean people are white or brown or orange? Just fucking ignore it and move on.
Sounds like the “wrong kind” of white person to me. Probably from a “flyover state”.
OK, this is a very interesting example of what is said above, but, to be the exception, I AM going to talk about my own culture and my own country, which I know better than any foreigner, because, basically, I’ve lived here, for….. FOREVER. Being white does not mean being Arian (blonde and easily burnt by the sun), Arians, or germanics, are one kind of white people. Being white means to be CAUCASIAN, and Spanish people are CAUCASIAN, hence, white people. I know we don’t have such bright skin, and I know most of us are brown or black haired, but that doesn’t mean we are white people. American brunettes are considered white right??. Please, before talking about a country, at least visit it once, If you went to Madrid, for example, you would see that we are all white people, and if you saw any of us in Sweden, you would not doubt to say that this person is white. BTW, dirty? really? once again, come visit us and then you tell me if we are dirty. I bet 1000 times that your shitty midwestern village is dirtier than any Spanish location. Ah, I would like to refer to NG’s comment. hmmmm poor countries…. well, last time I checked Spain was, with Italy, the 8th richest country in the world, above some germanic countries. You can go check it out, I’m not lying. It is true that many public figures of Spain (mostly women) dye their hair blonde, but…. I would not say that this means they have an inferiority complex. The rate of boobjobs, nosejobs, lipjobs, etc. is waaaaaay higher in the USA. Does that mean Americans have an inferiority complex for being American? I don’t think so. Again, Spanish people are white, whatever you Americans say. And the language? well, that depends on what do you consider a language’s color, but I’d say the language color is the country where it appeared first color. SO then Spanish is a white language. And so is Portuguese, because, basically, Portuguese and Spanish people have the same race. If you say Portuguese is not a white language, because of Cape Verde, then English is not either, since they speak english in Kenya, India and Pakistan as well, and in the same way you americas do, bacause, don’t forget this, you were a colony as well. The only difference is tat you slaughtered the natives, while other colonies either mixed with them and governed them (like Spaniards) or just governed them (like English people with Kenya, India, etc.
“But that doesn’t mean we are NOT white people” sorry, silly mistake
I really didn’t want to reply to this increasingly silly thread but your said several ridiculous things. And by the way i was not advocating for or agreeing with the opinions of the people that I grew up with – I was just stating a very common opinion.
1. “being white means being Caucasian” – No, People from Northern India, Most Semitic people ( arab and Jew ), Turks and of course Mediterranean people (Spaniards, Sicilians and Greeks) are Caucasian but no one really considers them white.
2. The fact of being from Europe does not make you white. Just as being from Africa does not make Charlize Theron Black.
3. I didn’t comment on who bleaches their hair or has cosmetic surgery – I can’t imagine why it’s relavent.
4. The association with the Spanish language being “not white” may be unfair but it likely comes from the fact that all but 3 Spanish speaking countries are quite poor and underdeveloped. The exceptions, Chile, Spain and Mexico are borderline. Mexico just emerged from 3rd world status, Chile emerged in the 80s and Spain in the 1960s. In addition, Spain looks to be headed back to its 3rd world status again.
5. Although raised in the midwest I now live in interior Mexico ( Culiacan ) and the consensus here is the no Spaniard should claim the high ground about colonialism. The litany of horrors that Mexicans attribute to Spain certainly rivals America’s treatment of its Natives.
So please don’t get your undies in a bunge. Although as a Spaniard probably no American or Northern European considers you white, its not a big deal either way. Not being “white” doesn’t seem to register among the problems my wife takes time to worrry about.
Being white is overrated and overestimated anyways
Yes we do consider them white, we can see they are usually browner than we are and most of the time have browner hair but they are white.
Portuguese is a Romanic language, same for French. They speak French in North Europe too. Go do some research seriously.
And french, romanic language influenced english HEAVILY, so british people are actually mediterean??? (which isn’t even a race just something geographical).
Ofcourse there is no strict line between one race and another,
but mediterean people are seen as white people in general (also by us northern europeans)
See your note about being concise/delivering several messages with one sentence.
How can you speak for all “white” culture? What the hell is “white culture”? I’m what you may call “white” but I dont even speak your langage. I dont even share your culture.
Reading what you typed made me mad at how indifferent a humanbeign can be towards someone else or an othor ethnic group.
Your simply a deadweight for humanity. Keep on living in your little buble.
Portuguese are white. I think we should do a blog entitled “People who have nothing to do but yap about shit they don’t know”
I’m not saying its right or wrong but the rule of thumb is “it’s not racest if your a minority”
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+ If you’re Asian-American, Indian-American, etc. then they will keep on asking until they can associate you with some foreign country.
If you disabuse them by speaking unaccented English, they will be very disappointed and call you a traitor for forgetting the tongue of your ancestors.
But – alternatively – if you do speak a foreign language – they will feel inferior and start calling you a foreigner.
also remember there are nothern europeans with dark hair/olive skin… My grandmother was Norwegian with thick black hair and dark olive skin. I also know another family with dark hair and skin with Norwegian ancestry.
Gwen Stefani is a perfect example of this as she is fluent in Indian, chola, jamaica mon, harajuku lover girls and every other culture under the sun.
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Wow, I’ve never seen so many moronic statements by white folks (oh sorry, I mean latinos). Get a life whettos.
You’re silly. It’s just humour. It’s funny to most people who read it – you’re taking it wayyyy too seriously. I guess you aren’t very bright and you’re clearly NOT the stereotypical white person on this blog. You’re very much the WRONG type of white person. Ew.
I literally never get sick of this web site!
Here’s another good one: http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
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just so you know…. portuguese is spoken primary by WHITE people. Portugal is in Europe, in case you didn’t realize it.
K – sorry no one who speaks Spanish or Portuguese is white in my view.
Actually the highest number of portuguese speaking people is in South America with 190 million people, followed by Africa with 17 million speakers.
This is sooooooooooooo right, my white friend tends to think that he knows more about my culture because of what he reads in books and the media.
It is sooooooooo annoying.
Doesn’t this blog pretend to be an expert on the “white” culture? You are a hypocrite dude
Dude, I know. These kids go around saying HOLA, COME ASTAS?
its like wtf man…wtf.
You know, I respect white people. They gave us the Portuguese and Spanish language, they gave us basketball and soccer (football).
White people I don’t respect is urban-dwelling, left leaning, west coast white liberals.
Idiots like the guy who wrote this who seem to believe that Portuguese is a “non-white lanugage” when Portugal is located in Europe (last i checked). Or that someone can truly learn to “Speak Mexican…”. Don’t lump my language (Tagalog) in with such “Non-white” languages as Spanish and Portuguese. Because really, they are white languages spoken by white people.
actually, another white person who just made the whole purpose of this article come true.
WTF, white people who say they know other peopls languages. Portuguese is from Portugal. Therefore it is a WHITE language. ENGLISH is from ENGLAND. BROWN PEOPLE LIKE ME LEARN ENGLISH. BUT THAT DOES NOT MAKE IT A LANGUAGE OF FILIPINOS.
Let’s turn the tables a little bit. According to the logic here on this site:
=====roxy on January 21, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Actually the highest number of portuguese speaking people is in South America with 190 million people, followed by Africa with 17 million speakers.==========
Ignoring the fact that many Mexicans and Brazilians are of European decent…
So once people of different skin colors start to take over something that was once white…White people disown it? So once black/brown Brazilians and Africans speak Portuguese, it isnt a white language anymore? So Spanish is not white because many Mexicans speak it? am i detecting *GASP* RACISM here!? Uh oh…
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Spain and Portugal are not white countries or cultures, buddy. Ask the majority of Latinos–we do not affiliate ourselves with the white man. The Moors “last I checked” are about as white as brown sugar. Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder because The Phillipines were colonized by said countries. And FYI, a lot of pinoy consider themselves Latinos because of the mixed blood. If we follow your logic, they are not Latino’s but in fact white? No seas mamon.
Last i checked, BUDDY Spain and Portugal are in Europe. Read: WHITE. Last i been to Portugal (Dec 09) and Spain (Non 05) they were definitley WHITE. “Last I Checked” the Moors are Arabs. WHITE. Besides the Moors have not been in Portugal and Spain since the 15th Century. The only thing they left in in Europe was a few last names, the guitar, horses and some old castles. Other than that, Spain and Portugal are WHITE.
Pinoys being Latino? first of all dont call me a Pinoy if your not Filipino. Number 2, If you cant speak Spanish then you aren’t Latino. Only thing Spanish about filipinos are the last names, and food. I deal with many filipino migrant workers, and i notice 1 thing. Filipinos tend to make up names in order to sound Spanish. Randolfio? The only thing mixed into filipino blood is aboriginal and Chinese. Only a few percentage of Filipinos have Spanish in them.
Yeah I’ll ask the majority of Latinos. Latinos do not affiliate themselves with the “white-man”. But Spaniards and Portuguese should, mainly because Latinos are Spanish speaking mixed races from the Americas. Latins are Southern European. Latins are not LATINOS. So while a Mexican and Puerto Rican are Latino…Spaniards and Portuguese are LATIN.
Moors are mixed Arabs. Ever been to Arabia? I have ’02,’04’06… Definitely Caucasian. Know where the Caucaus mountains are? between ASIA and EUROPE, right above the MIDDLE EAST. Definitley White. Besides, only in America do we seem to think White people are the same, and Black people seem to be a culture. Ever been to africa? I have, I LIVE IN AFRICA. Compare a Somali to an Ethiopian. or Nigerian to a Kenyan. Only in america do they think Africa is one culture.
“a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese)” Portuguese? xD that made me laugh… (portuguese and white)
Great blog btw.
How exactly do you determine ‘white?’ If a Northern African is white, then everyone is white. Don’t get too up yourself, pinoy. I’ve been to both Africa and Europe several times, but it doesn’t really matter. I also live in Asia, but that doesn’t make me an expert on Asian cultures. The fact of the matter is, this article applies to you. You’re calling EVERYONE in Europe white (disregarding centuries of mixed blood) when you’re not even European. You seem to entitle yourself with a grand authority on someone elses personal racial affiliation. Ergo, you’re white. Want some mayo on your Webers?
That Andy Lau cd IS awesome!
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I see stuff white people like but what about stuff black people like?
ugh, this is so very relevant. I wish people would stop smugly condescending to me and making me feel like they know my culture way better than I do. I don’t care how many books they’ve read or how many hispanic friends they have. Lording crap like that over me is not going to make ME want to be their friend. Granted, it’s not everybody, but the ones that do drive me absolutely nuts.
If that happened, the website creator would be accused of being racist. It’s okay to laugh at things white people like, though, because we’ll just find it ironic or jump on the bandwagon. Because that’s just what white people do. And we do it very smugly, thank you very much.
How is Portuguese, a language derived from Latin, originating in Europe and with approximately 50 million white speakers a non-white language? Can you say stupid?
lol. No one who speaks spanish or portuguese is white? My friend is full blood German. Pale skin, blonde hair, blue eyes…as Aryan as they come, and is fluent in Spanish. So suddenly, just because someone wants to be slightly less ignorant and learn to communicate with the growing number of non-English speaking Latinos in America by learning their language, they are no longer white?
Arguing about race is a silly debate anyway. According to scientists (the ones who have defined race) there are three main races; caucasoid, negroid, and mongoloid. Natives of Portugal biologically fall under the category of caucasoid, and thus, by definition, are white. Language doesn’t determine race, PHENOTYPES DO!!!!
We are incapable of inventing anything. But that doesn’t matter because we are damn good colonizers.
Why waste our time inventing things, when we can just wait for others to invent it, then conquer their people?
The Greeks created western philosophy. And the germans created Nazism.
Are you serious? Natives never ate horses. Horses didn’t even exist in America until the Spanish colonizers brought them over. And the natives used them for transport, not food.
Busted!
bc 90% of speakers live in Brasil
the swarthy portuguese are not “white”– they are catholic and have black hair, for fucks sakes. they may qualify as 3rd-tier white, just above beige (non-brown) hispanics, but they are not really all-american white, like apple pie & the ivy league, mr. gahr-zee-ah.
Why do people keep comenting on how there isnt a stuff black people like??
if you would just be bothered to check you would see there is!!
Wow, you’ve got a serious stick up your ass huh?
I never said that Portuguese wasn’t a European or white language, I was merely responding to Gabi’s assertion that Portuguese is spoken by primarily white people, which it is not.
======Ray on January 24, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Let’s turn the tables a little bit. According to the logic here on this site:
=====roxy on January 21, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Actually the highest number of portuguese speaking people is in South America with 190 million people, followed by Africa with 17 million speakers.==========
Ignoring the fact that many Mexicans and Brazilians are of European decent…
So once people of different skin colors start to take over something that was once white…White people disown it? So once black/brown Brazilians and Africans speak Portuguese, it isnt a white language anymore? So Spanish is not white because many Mexicans speak it? am i detecting *GASP* RACISM here!? Uh oh…=========
It’s cute that you call racism though, especially when you’re assuming I’m white, which I’m not. It’s also cute when you make assertions like all Mexicans and Brazilians are of some European decent. As one of the Mexicans who isn’t I can say that this is a pretty ridiculous assumption, but hey you’re Filipino so you must be an expert on Mexican and Brazilian culture.
And half of Brazilians are of white European ancestry, but that is besides the point. The ignorance in this post is astounding…
I thought all these replies to the replies of the post were amusing so I made a reply to the reply of the reply to the original post for no other reason.
Uhh… THAT’s the joke. Being foreign makes it non-white enough.
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hahaha… this is sooo true… every department of foregin culture at my school is headed by a white person… i’m like wait…. why do you guys know so much about my culture when you don’t even have a real culture!
looks like this blog pissed some white people off
white people really DO love being offended!
It’s good to learn about other cultures but telling people you know more about there culture than they do is not cool p.s even if you can speak Mandarin fluently and have read a hundred books on chinese culture it does not make you chinese
So we should be grateful that white people care to learn a couple of phrases from other languages other than English and praise them for their efforts?
Where how does that give white people any culture?
Well of course not! You’d be white, just like before you learnt Mandarin!
Brazilian spoken mostly by non-whites? Only if you’re referring to Brazilian-Portuguese and the African version (so, Brazilians and Africans). But believe me, you should highlight that because both versions are too different, and so are the populations. Portuguese are 98% white Europeans, and Brazilians are 80% non-white!
Missing the joke, aren’t we?
For Americans of 2nd+ generation ethnic heritage, to visit the “home country” of ones’ ancestors won’t automatically make you like a citizen of that country. In China, a traveling American of Chinese descent is more likely to be called an “American”, even the person is ethnically Chinese.
This blog should be titled: Stuff retarded people like.
-totally agree with you.
Mishemash. Borat, you my brother. Kazak race is greatest. we dominate like the great leader Stalin. he was brave. he was mighty. He killed all the Poles in Katyn. the nazis cant kill poles. the jews made up stories. The Jew in Palestine made matzo from the Arab child. Kazaki nation unite. Iran want to a-la-a-la ah… have balls to fight the jew. bye now.
I think when it is the “dominant” group (generalization) against “oppressed” group it is racism
then when on the switch it is prejudice–
uh huh you are so intense–it is appreciated
soo the majority of portuguese speakers is non-white….
i love chicken wrap-true authentic chinese dish. Watermelon is the treat ay my family reunion picnic. Must be an Asian (and according to white folks, a black thing too). We love watermelon instead of brownie or cakes…
Samples great foreign movies: the best Chinese (Hong Kong) movie is “Crouching Tiger ….” the best India movies (was) “Bend It Like Beckem” and now “Slumdog Millionare”
Isn’t Portuguese technically already a “White” language?
um no…
In rural California, the city people presumes them country folk are cowpunchers and rednecks, in fact they care more about how farm animals live (OMG! They live in a cage! Call PETA about a case of animal abuse!). Meanwhile, they look at nostalgia about the “Okies” came from Oklahoma lived in poverty or squalor, but they won’t talk about it or admit the second-and-third generation adapted and lived in Cal. their whole lives remained ethnically or culturally identifiable.
You know…..regarding your comment about non-white races i.e. Portuguese….well, I’m Portuguese and I’m white – I’m thinking you must’ve meant Brazilian??
He probably meant that, but no Brazilian person speaks “Brazilian” – they DO speak Portuguese.
once again…i’m sure alot of the people pulling what they read in history books and heard from other ” i know more about YOUR culture” white people, are WHITE and proving this blog to be pretty accurate. LMAO! and yet its kinda sad….
Pretty racist article.
PUUUHLLEEEZZ
this is so true guero. VIVA LA REVOLUCION_MATA GUEROS
I’m not even an expert on MY OWN culture: Ukrainian and German. I guess that makes me ‘the wrong kind of white people’.
Is it not true that wen a white person accomplishes something and state it is an accomplishment for white people, he will be called a racist?
African Americans of today (the generations of today not 100 years ago) benefited out of slavery.
Think about it for a moment. Africa is n third world continent. America is one of the world powers.
Where do you want to live in the first world or the third world? Even if you live in poverty in America you are better of than a black man in Africa. Most African American already made this discission. How do I know this? They are still living in America. They do have the power to move back to Africa, but they rather stay in America and complain about how they where forcefully taken from “The motherland”.
You juts judge me on my skin color. (I white) That makes you a racist. If you deny this you are a liar. And according to your logic you must then be white. If you are not white (Black for example) and still deny this you are just as evil as the white man.
And he is doing a good job? Last I checked his popularity dropped with 30%
I’m against healthcare reform so I must be a racist.
Well is you culture familiar with the concept of hypocrisy? White people like being an expert on your culture? then here you are professing to be an exper on white culture? what a fucking idiot you are there is more than 1 culture within the white race.
Maybe what ever tree dwelling form of monkey you fucking are doesn’t have anything except a culture based on your skin colour.
The world is what it is today through the innovation of whitey, mother fucker, name something a black person invented, and if you find anything other than the super-soaker (and to be fair that guy had to go to nasa before revolutionising the world of small children spraying water on each other) I would be very suprised if you found anything life changing.
Just to follow up on the comment made by Afrikaner the luck of the descendants of slaves is debatable but it has to be pointed out that black people took slaves from rival tribes and even from around the coast of Ireland and England thousands of years before white people did it to them, the difference is that white people did it bigger and better so come off your supposedly oppressed high horse and get over the colour of your skin ya racist fuck (I also realise i included plenty of racism in this so don’t bother to point that out because it was inspired by you making this fucking site)
“…name something a black person invented…”
One name pops to mind immediately: George Washington Carver:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver
See especially the section titled “Reputed inventions”.
Also, you should look up the words “irony” and “satire” while you’re on wikipedia.
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I posted this for no reason, well…there’s a reason and we need more multi-cultural exposure to TV from around the world. This is from the 1970s Chilean television, it shows a dance TV show of a disco-soul-Latin dance song that’s like an exploitation film. The meaning is, someone watches a 1970s-era black/African-American movie full of stereotypical story lines and promoted images of an another race/culture to the minds of some really uneducated white people. Same goes to Japanese or Korean pop videos of “sweet girls” sing or act submissive (feminine) like the days of the geisha!
Ok, let’s see the link shows an image or doesn;t require you to push the screen and taking you to the youtube site. Some sites disable player embedding, which to me is dumb.
you say you an expert of the culture of the video you post. hahahhahahahahh. i read your last replies on page 46. you post the damn link. thats it. takes me there to the site.
Like a marketing executive for Coca-Cola wanted to have a gatorade commercial to sell to Latinos that shows soccer players, but one Latino co-worker advised him that’s abit a stereotype: he stated the favorite sport of Cuba, Puerto Rico and other Caribbean nations is baseball. Now that’s classic example of a white person “knows” Latino culture.
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In Soviet America, the “people” own you, the proles.
From the 82 World Cup coverage, since you know Latin Americans are into soccer…disco after it died off in America…and girls being very sexy (bad video quality).
They are about many years late on technology over there, besides the Argentines aren’t really commies, they seem to love fascism instead. Saludos todos de los Latinamericanos.
ok what ever. nationalized socialized business tv stations. they cant make a cent. your taxes go to run them. lolz.
Is this proof of a third world mentality or what? Chilean TV is an inspiration of the Borat movies’ Kazakh TV footage, like “we have superior potassium than you great glorious nation USA, and the most beach sand on earth, is nice”.
l learn about other cultures from reading books and surfing the net, not on tv. To have friends from other countries, talk about soccer or sports, weather or imports. Not politics or race, and negative stuff like war or torture. This is to avoid offending them. Get back on topic, but I get the point now.
I think this blog post is somewhat ironic (yes I’m white and yes I’m aware that irony is another post on here lol).
But isn’t Christian Lander kind of acting like an expert of white culture (debatable an umbrella term as that may be)? Typical white person, trying to be an expert on MY culture 😉
Most of the blog seems to be more of a mash up commentary of hipsters/typical university students/ north american PC ppl/ middle class ppl than white people per se. Whatever it is, its hilarious =]
I wish I could send this to a certain white girl who’s convinced she belongs to Latin culture. Get this, she rolls her “r”s when she orders anything from a Tex-Mex restaurant, starts speaking Spanish in full speed when there’s a mixed crowd of English and Spanish speakers (knowing full well half the room can’t understand her) and says offensive things like “I take my water like a Mexican, no ice, from the tap.” She even had the audacity to tell someone in Spanish that I could never understand the joke she just told in Spanish yet she doesn’t even know who Selena Quintanilla is. God help me.
We think Colombian girls are HOT, hot, hot. All of ’em must be like Shakira. She shakes her hips, hour-glass bod figure. These hot chicks got money, bought homes in Miami and on spanish TV telenovelas or music vids. See? We claim to know Latinas like we’re scholarly about world cultures.
Also to view the pepsi TV ad portrays Latinos are happy, dancing, loves this rumba jungle music & oversexed. But these are wealthy white Venezuelans, not Mexican, Cuban or Puerto Ricans. You can tell that’s the Plaza de Caracas. Each Latin American country have their likes, faves, special things they themselves only have the other neighbor don’t and Venezuelans are more into beisbol (that’s baseball) than futbol (soccer). Anyone want to drive from Mexicali or Tijuana all the way down to Buenos Aires or Recife, Brazil? Make a stop in each one Latin country and see differences.
I love this entry! It made me laugh a lot! You gringos are very funny sometimes =)
Sure, Colombians are hot, Mexicanas are too, Brazilians are sexy and all Latinas in general. How about the (almost) whitest people of Chile. Chilean supermodels in global photo agencies. Most of them look Anglo-Saxon, Germanic or French to me, but there’s a hint of Indian in their looks.
I find the clip an example of cheap, crappy and flamboyant news shows are in South America. The audio is warped and intro music is like 70s-ish in the year 1990! Omigod. xD
From 1975, this is like Borat-seque with the news footage (check out the girls in bikinis). 😉 B&W, even worse audio and where the hell is Ron Burgundy when you need him?
On page 48 on top, hot chicks & supermodels. Lucky them to be born female in a white castizo family in the third world loaded with US$ cash & bank accounts. Have that Italian or English surname handy, and blonde hair, blue eyes & big boobs. This is like that everywhere in the world. Remember she stay young & size 2 thin, if she can help it…naturally.
Dontcha love politics in South America? Fair and balanced elections, plebiscites are nothing more than reelecting tyrants and frauds. From Uruguay in 1980. SI means NO.
No…really. You have many South American nations go by a myth of German other than Castillian ancestry. One of them are the stories of how the Goths, Galicians and Vandals of Spain remained unmixed and migrated en masse to South America to assist in settlement for the Spanish empire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Palacios
To know about other cultures, one needs to take the time to study them with accurate and non-biased information. SWPL’s entry #58 shows the fascination white people have with Japan and east Asian cultures. The sudden jump in activity on #20 is from white people found a developed country where they least expect it: Chile and Argentina. The problem is, we need to worry about China and India displacing the US’ place a #1 economy in the world soon.
Do not forget China. the new world #1 economy. China is not all fun and quick money. you don’t have the same oportunity the USA has. the playing field is more uneven than in America. China has higher rate of rural poverty.
For the white people can’t get enough of another culture not their own. What made them fascinated with a different race, religion and culture. Are they wanting to join them or patronize them out of a selfish racist manner? You be the judge. Read the link provided to you.
http://ask.metafilter.com/35332/Is-it-PC-to-be-a-fan-of-another-culture
Here read the 10 commandments of traveler to India,
http://www.mysecretplanet.com/10-Commandments-of-India-the-traveler
This is hilarious! So true! I’m Mexican, and I’ve been approached by white people while I’m in the produce section buying fresh chilis. They want to tell me about my culture. It’s very demeaning. I find myself practicing restraint, being gracious, and just smiling . . . which I know is very “white” of me.
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This one is true. Poor ladies and gents… they can’t help but hate themselves and not have any culture of their own, cause they’re (we’re) white. Yup.
Our society and culture is supposedly inclusive and will take in anyone not from this country interested in our way of life. I love to see a wave of white people from Europe really want to be Americans, but out of contempt to look down on our backwards, ubercapitalist, militarist culture. This is the history of our country. White people into non-American culture should have the same option: join our club, but learn the rules and live in our ‘hood. Sure, it is impoverished and oppressive, and note to the white women dressed like Indians in the photo: they must know how little rights they have under an Indian husband.
Oh yeah…guilty…but then we ARE Americans, and that melting-pot mentality is drilled into us from childhood.
american like you are so ignorant in foreigners point of view. portueguese non white? lol that’s good laugh. it’s like saying chinese is non mongolian race.
where did you get that number? 60percent of brazillian is white and rest 45 percent is mixed with white people.
no one who speak english as their first language is white. all americans are african because they speak english.
I hate it hen hite people act like they can just try to make me feel better by being multicultural STAY OUT OF MY CULTURE
wow, you sound very angry. do you really think isolation and ignorance is going to solve anything?
Yeah… We do that a lot.
Dude you are probably White
white liberals and their multiculturlism
Leave us alone, I talk to white people all the time Im not isolationist but Its OUR(latinos) culture not theirs
Lol. Yeah, because white people actually want anything to do with latino culture. Have you been paying any attention to Arizona’s laws?
…i’m confused, aren’t there white Latin people? Latin people are multi-racial, just like Americans.
by portuguese i hope you mean that there are more non whites that speak it due to colonialism, because people who are actually from Portugal are white, but then, you are american so it wouldn’t be weird if you also thought that spanish or italian people are the same as mexicans
they speak portugese in brazil, unless of course you thought “brazilian” was a language!
hahahaha, this sounds like my uncle, the only white guy in a mexican family. he knows things i didnt even know about my people and he can tell me the entire history of the USA. try sitting with someone like that, just nodding your head and acting interested>>>> ME: O.o
The arizona law is to keep illegal spicks fromcoming intoUSA
In all modesty, I’m even broadminded enough to understand something about the culture of Ethnic-Americans like KKKBoss.
The southern states were traditionally more class-conscious than the North. As Americans, we disdain class distinctions whether they be slave-owning planters of the Tidewater Gentry or rustic Indian fighters of the hinterland who protected antebellum culture from these brown-skinned proto-hippies of the forests.
This is annoying unless you are an anthropologist and its your job to study another culture.
@Levantando wey – glad you fixed your “w” key, dude. Embarrassed much?
I LOVE
I love learning about different cultures… my fiance is Puerto Rican and I have enjoyed every bit of learning about his customs and traditions.. When I meet someone who is actually cultured I love to learn.. and usualy people are more than happy to share their culture because they are proud of it…
1) To think that there is no white culture is to fall into the hegemonic structure that assumes white = invisible. White people (including myself) don’t see their culture as a “culture” simply because it is the dominant one. We regard minorities as having a different culture only because they are different from ours.
2) Truthfully, this blog is not about what “white people” like, but really about what “white, upper-middle class, liberal people like” – e.g. the petty bourgeoisie.
This blog is satirical. He’s not serious. He himself is white. Calm down.
Apparently you KNOW how much rights Indian women have under their husband! The typical example of “Save all brown women from the grips of their evil brown men!”—Because they ARE evil, you know…
Puerto Rico belongs to USA…
Actually, there is no appreciable difference in rates of use or selling of controlled substances between whites and people of color. Whites are caught less frequently because people of color are stopped more often and subjected to searches more often than whites under similar circumstances.
The only solution that makes sense is to decriminalize drugs and addiction. This does not equal “legalization.” Under current law, running a stop sign is illegal, but it’s not a crime; you won’t go to prison if convicted. In fact, you can admit guilt, pay a fine, and never see the inside of a courtroom. Later on, the conviction won’t affect your ability to rent an apartment or get a job. We need to do the same with recreational drug use.
“Most are delighted when I ask questions about their culture.”
The crucial words are “ask questions.” I would hazard a guess that “most are delighted” that you don’t present yourself as “an expert on [THEIR] culture,” to paraphrase the title of this post.
“Is racism different from the more traditional xenophobia?”
Yes. The magic ingredient that transforms xenophobia or prejudice into racism is the ability, usually via one’s social location, to impose one’s beliefs about another group onto individuals of that group and/or onto that group as a whole. Racism = Prejudice + Power.
LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ) and must admit, it’s super funny as well HAHAHAHAHA
Portuguese? ….Portuguese people are white.
Portuguese is spoken in a few countries. Brazil is one of them. (Some white people there.) Mozambique is another. (Not a lot of white people there.)
@Sierra – “This is annoying unless you are an anthropologist and its your job to study another culture.”
While a number of anthropologists still choose to study ‘another culture’ – which an anthropologist would probably find a very problematic phrasing anyway, because even less anthropologists try and do whole cultures at all – the trick now is to study your own culture or fractions within it. 🙂
What a smarmy ass I am.
Anyway, I find this amusing – I get surprised that people take this sort of stuff literally…
Clander,
You are the textbook definition of a racist white american. And the sad thing is that you may not even realize it. 99% of all White Americans are racist. You are the perfect example of White Priviledge and institutionalized racism. You’ve probably never heard of it. White people couldn’t see racism if it hit them in the side of the head. So don’t feel guilty or anything. Just keep profiting and writing more racist books for all the racist white americans out there.
The white man’s struggle is a superficial one. He doesn’t need to fight racism or poverty or anything any other minorities in america do. So he just makes lists of things he likes for his own amusement at the expense of other minorities. Your blog is clearly racist. White people can’t see racism because they’ve never experienced it but every other minority in america can see how much of a racist you and everyone who reads it is. You are exposing the true racism in america today.
I think he is trying to be ironic like Stephen Colbert of “The Colbert Report”….
Or at least I hope he is.
No one could be this gullible and believe this nonsense…
Right?
White people are ALL racist even though they pretend not to be. Power to all minorities in America.
If it weren’t for white people where would you be and exactly what would you have?
I am proud of my culture i dont hate no one but i am sick and tired of people downing whites culture how would you lick it if i talked a bout all the bad things you done we are no differtint people are people other races can be raciste to you dont look ate that do you think about it for once man.
I find that when I speak slowly and loudly to someone from a diffent culture they really appreciate the effort.
Wow…..you are in fact retarded. To all non-white people reading this post, I hereby apologize on behalf of all white people everywhere. This individual is an embarrassment and will have his W card revoked effective immediately.
You wouldn’t be able handle the truth I’m sure.
God hates trolls.
Any person who is willing and making comments as long and annoying as these have got to have personal problems
ni hao
Apparently somebody has been smoking a little too much of #33.
So Mr. Fuck,
Does not being Asian or black make me a racist?
Or am I a racist because I am plain fucking ordinary?
Inquiring minds and all that!
White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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This is another thing white people like: Apologizing for all other white people as a method of removing themselves from the group. Americans like this too.
the dumbest comment ive ever heard in my life matthew helm. I didn’t know white people were all grouped together and every time a white person did something bad that all white people around the world were guilty by association. dumb fuck
Great job paying attention.
Theoretical situation: When Bob (theoretical white guy) takes an extra effort to point out that the reason he doesn’t want to hang out with Joe (theoretical black guy) that it is NOT because he is black, and that in fact Bob is not racist at all.
Lets analyze this. Why does Bob feel the need to point that out, when it would not make sense to insinuate, in the first place, that the reason he wont hang out with Joe is because Joe is black? It’s the same reason that some people apologize for something their group did. It’s because they feel guilty for something they didn’t do, which they should not feel guilty for.
Now do you feel silly? Since you’ve gone to the effort to insult me without paying any fucking attention to what I was saying, you, unlike Bob, should feel bad about yourself.
To “I’m White”
Don’t white people group other ethnic groups together?
Case in point:
Bob (let’s call him white) is putting together a basketball team. He has a co-worker named Jamal (let’s call him black) and asks him if he wants to be on the team. Now why would Bob want Jamal on his team? Because of his superb decision-making skills as exemplfied in his work? No….because he’s black.
“White He-Devil” I wouldn’t call you a racist because you are white . No, No, No Sir, You My white friend are a typical, grade “A” , Oridinary, Eggplant-eating, Funny Looking, Probably Funny Talking , AssHole !
Believe or not , I know a White person named “Jamal” ” Well his name is spelled J-a-m-a-l-l .” Lol .
40 acres, a mule, A Wife with a sexy figure, and a phat. Tight, J-lo ass . A Nice set of B-cups, Long natural black hair . ( No weave) An obiendant, orally inclined, Woman with her mind on my business and not on my money . Wait, I already have about 90% of that !
I agree with you .
So racism is a problem with you but sexism is all good. Nice double standard.
“stuff white people like ” . Hmmmmmm, Let’s see . White People Like; Jumping out of airplains, Extreme Sports, Burning shit, Eating Shit, Smelling Shit, Ingesting large amounts of smelly foods, Trying different foods from various other cultures more than once After they spent last nite shitting all that food out ! Jogging in 20 degree cold wearing spandex suits, under a pair shorts and a hoodie , Riding Bicycles along the Freeway/Expressway/Highway/Busy Local Roadways meant for automobiles, And then turning around to look at the sane folk in their cars honking at them to get the hell out the way !!! ! Climbing up stuff, and jumping off of it ! ( No Relation to the Jumping out the Airplain thing) Among Millions of other things/ “Activities” White People Like .
It amazes me how passionate people are with their comments, if only the same people would take that passion and turn it into something productive! O wait, that would make sense…
It’s the X-Games brah!
Portuguese is a non white language? LOL thats new.
Portugal is a predominately white country? I’m confused about the portuguese comment.
according to
http://www.americanchristiansociety.com
Whites are being destroyed by multiculturalism
Portuguese is primarily spoken by non-whites in Brazil. Clear enough for you?
lol.. this is SO true. my friend is white and spent a year teaching in spain.. im half mexican and she seriously thinks she knows everything about all spanish-speaking ethnicities. its so hard not to roll my eyes at her >_<
oh god, you guys are so stupid
the south of brazil is predominantly white. it was colonized by germans and italians mostly. gisele is from the south. not all whites in brazil have non white in their background, because there is europeans who came later to brazil like 1920’s, so their are like 2nd generation. and there is people who are always racist like you guys, so they dont mix on purpose
Hey, a guy who is an expert on a foreign culture. But i am smugly pointing it out in a snarky way, so i suppose that is another white cliche as well.
The US population were brought up to believe only real white people lived in America and everyone else is a WOP or Negro. Not a surprise to find light-skinned people and European white descendants around the world. Canada, western Europe and eastern Europe, south Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Latin America-despite the widespread belief among Anglos of “no white people” live south of the border or Florida straits.
Here are some facts of the white Latino/South Americans:
1. Argentina is settled by a heavier influx of Europeans: namely Italians, followed by Spaniards and Germans, some Frenchmen and Britons, a few Lebanese or Syrian immigration, and Greeks, Montenegrins from former Yugoslavia & some Danes or Swedes.
2. Brazil is a Portuguese speaking country, they have a larger African composition due to the economic need of slavery was wider than elsewhere in south Africa, and over a million Asians of mainly Japanese, then Chinese & increased Korean ancestry.
3. Uruguay is 90% Caucasian alike Argentina and southern half of Brazil. Many Spaniards, even more Italians, some Armenians and Russians, Poles and Irish immigrants, and very small African and Amerindian (all mixed) communities in the rural provinces.
4. Paraguay is 80% mixed Mestizo of European-Amerindian (namely Guarani or Tupi) origins. The white population consists of Mennonites from the Americas speak Low German, & there are Japanese, Australians & Ukrainian settled farm communities.
5. Peru is very Amerindian (Incas or Quechuas) but it is also 15-20% Caucasian, 5-10% African and 3-5% Asian. The coasts & urban areas are largely European descent or mestizos make up the reminder. Same applies for Bolivia being 75% Amerindian.
and 6. Chile is over 50% European & 40-45% of mixed race or mestizo. 5% Amerindian, a higher level than Argentina & Brazil. There are large German Swiss, Scottish, Welsh, Croatian, and Palestinian communities, and the Dutch formed a small colony.
All 5 countries have some Jewish, Basque, Belgian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Czech or Slovak, Serbian, Turkish, Galician, Maltese, Cherokee-American, East Indian or Pakistani, and Lao/Laotian nationals or descendants. Miniscule in percentage but came in varied periods of their histories in the last 200-some years.
Wait, there’s more but I won’t perseverate on this blog.
1. Colombia: 2nd most populous nation in South America after Brazil (3rd in Latin America after Mexico). 20% of the people are white European. Its’ urban areas of Bogota, Medellin, Cali & esp. the Caribbean coast has many ethnic Germans, Italians, French, Italians, & Arab nationalities like Lebanese & Syrian.
2. Venezuela: Considered the most prosperous & modernized of Latin America – not far behind is Mexico & Puerto Rico (USA?). There are large scale communities of Germans, Italians, French, British, Dutch, Jewish & esp. the Portuguese blended in the Spanish or 80% mixed Euro-Amerindian/African cultural profile.
3. Ecuador: Three cultural areas: The Andean highlands are mestizo in character with the most whites (10% of the nation’s population), the East is Jivaro or Shuar Indians in the Amazon, & the tropical West is multicultural, often there are western Europeans, Arabs, east Asians & some African-Ecuadorans.
4. Panama: 60-70% either are Amerindian/mestizo, African & part-black mixed with white European or Amerindian and 10-15% are full-blood Europeans. Panama is home to large Black or Afro-Caribbean, then European Jewish, German, Polish, Russian, Georgian, east Indian, Chinese, & Arab or Turkish communities.
5. Costa Rica: Over half (55-60% white, due to a colony of Spaniards remained a large population in the highlands) & the rest are mestizo in the rural interior. Africans in the Caribbean & Chinese on the Pacific coast. Urban resort towns have many Arabs, Germans, Italians, & recently Swiss & American expats.
6. The Caribbean isles, rest of Central America & West Indies: African (full or part) majorities on the islands & coasts, often of British, French or Dutch cultural origins like Jamaica & Haiti. But not Cuba with 60% white of Spanish & other European origins. There is a majority Amerindian culture on the isthmus of Central America: variously 50-90% mestizo & 1-5% white European.
The nations of Guyana, Suriname & French Guiana are definitely not like most of Latin America, same is true for the Antilles. The majority of inhabitants are either West African or South Asian/East Indian. Few others: Malay, Chinese & Vietnamese. The British once ruled Guyana or Trinidad & Tobago, Holland was in Suriname, and the French overseas departements.
Last one. American expats are increasingly living in Mexico & Puerto Rico, an US territory with federal tax-free incentives.
In contrast to what it is thought: 15-25% of Mexicans and 65-75% of Puerto Ricans are more (or declared themselves only) white than lets’ say Amerindian (Mexico) and/or African (PR).
The 6 or 8 northern states of Mexico facing our border has the highest percentage of “mostly white” European descendants.
thanks for sharing the facts. i knew hispanic people have more italian and greek in them than what some anglos claim they are. mexico, cuba, panama, nicaragua and colombia has lots of italian migration. greeks settled all over the countries. some palestinians made themselves at home in nicaragua, honduras and guatemala. i notice italian and greek people share much in common with spanish peoples. french people are latin too and sometimes they able to relate to cultures of latinos/ hispanics.
spaniards are made of other national peoples. basques in peru, chile, mexico, argentina and colombia. some in venezuela and bolivia. many puerto ricans and cubans have galician ancestors and they went into uruguay and argentina, also have canary islanders went there to buenos aires and montevideo. other spaniards colonize left over land the castilians had not reached.
Suriname is home to a large Indonesian-Javanese population. Their ancestors are brought over from the former colonial Dutch East Indies in the 19th and early 20th century. Dutch land owners recruited enough Indonesians to perform farm labor.
Hispanics+Latinos+Anglos+North+South+Central=American(o)s.
Insufferably proving the point of #20.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to ask someone who, say, is actually hispanic or latino?
As hard as it is to believe, the same diversity in the States is found in Latin America or what you might see in a few more decades.
And Italians and Greeks are insanely recent immigrants to Cuba, like 10-15 years or so. Even at that, they’re more vacationers on extended stay (kind of like the Beckhams in the States) than mixing with everyone else there.
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so are the Lebanese and Syrians in Colombia & venezuela.
The modernization of some Latin American countries came out of immigration waves, but Italian and Greek communities exist in Cuba long before the Spanish-American war.
Someone said there were lots of (weasel word) Palestinians and Croatians in Chile & Argentina. I happen to agree with this statement, but most arrived in South America post-WWII.
Polish Jews moved into the Semana Bay, Dominican Rep. area.
Speaking of Italians, they’re well-renowned in making art, music and media. Even on short TV bumpers on the network RAIUNO accompany commercial breaks or “Pubblicitas.”
Samana bay, not Semana as in “weekend” in Spanish, boy am I typing typos on the blog. xD
Marie, there are Dutch and Belgian students, and Swedish and Danish retirees arriving in Peru, Colombia and Argentina lately.
Joran Van de Sloot is an example, though he shouldn’t be in Peru at the first place. He thinks fleeing Aruba will save him. <_<
The chicken feet made me laugh, that was random as heck! 🙂
Anyways, having an interest in another culture is not bad at all. In fact, it is interesting to know a lot about foreign cultures. I have an insane fascination for foreign countries such as Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, Estonia. There are lots of European states/countries and its fascinating the cultural ethnicity involved. For example, you can see a fascinating cultural ethnicity mixture occurring with a random bloke who looks like a descendant of Asia and the Middle-East. A bloke who has asian features but has blond hair, middle-eastern and blue-eyes.
The thing is that its not only white people, its just about anybody with an interest in how ethnicity has evolved.
The more I read about these lists the more it seems like SOME of this stuff is just what normal people do, not just whites..
A closely related category of somethat that White People like: Indigenous Peoples.
Yes, white people do seem to love us indigenous peoples, us noble savages, who they seem to think have, or dern well oughta have, some kind of mystical connection with the earth, nature, the land, plants, animals, rocks, crystals, whatever. (Meet me at McDonalds and treat me to a cup of coffee and a sausage biscuit with egg, and we can chat about my Ingenious Indigenous Powers until your heart is content.) But I wish white people loved indigenous people a little less, because they have almost loved all of us to death.
uh, you might not want to hear this from me, what with my being a white dude – married to an Asian girl(11) – who actually _is_ doing architecture(34), in China(115) without a TV(28), reads NYTimes(46) and has struggled with bouts of addiction to TED(134) … (to mention only a few) …]
BUT, for the record, chicken feet is totally not random at all. It’s a very real and present danger here in South China. Though _not_ ordering (or eating) them usually indicates that you _are_ white. Guess it’s different if you’re stateside, though, esp. on a date with a #11…
My personal favorite (to joke about / scare visitors with, not to actually eat) are those from the ‘black’ chickens (whom, tho their skin be black, have pure white feathers…talk amongst yourselves)…in soup they look for the world like little dragon claws.
BTW, has anyone else noticed the parallels between Cantonese cuisine and Southern (‘Black’) cooking? Is that just a biogeography thing or is something else going on?
TV ad from South America (Chile? Venezuela? wherever). is guaranteed to be branded racist. by white people.
Another one. It’s South American. from Venezuela? Argentina? I can’t tell them apart. I must be racist. Polar WHITE bears.
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why can’t people just take the blog for what it is (humor)…does everything really need a discussion when it comes to race…hell we’re all a little racist and we all lie…get over it and learn to laugh
Well, just one more reason I don’t like knee grows.
Uppity jerks taking one thing and applying it to a whole group of people.
And they lie, a lot.
Do you know what a little person in the KKK is? “A little racist.”
You know? Portuguese are from Europe so they’re white. Just so you know!
-Portugal
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You forgot to add that because of the expertise all whites possess about everyone else’s culture, we are the only ones qualified to spearhead diversity programs because we wouldn’t want anyone going all Angela Davis on our arses.
but outside of portugal more non-white people speak it, brazil,angola, cape verde etc
that is really the great point. when I read it, I find it will be greathelp.
I heard this statement the other day during an argument: “Oh my God, even my friends from China said that Three Rivers has the most AUTHENTIC Chinese food!” It was so full of whiteness that I almost passed out. Just thought I would share it.
White people don’t have a culture……………
I know, right… 😛
Well, unless you count McDonalds. XD
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Not every white person feels sorry for what has happened to the Native Americans. I still hear some degenerate white people bash them. I’m mostly white but my granny was Cherokee Indian, so I see how it is.
@Jasmine
This entire blog is about contemporary white culture………………
Right? So since you are like 1/16 Cherokee Indian, you understand what it feels like to be Indian. There should be a post on how white people love to claim an ethnicity when it’s to their advantage. And let me guess, was your grandma the Cherokee Princess?
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Creo que o te falta sentido del humor o no te has enterado de que estos artículos no van en serio, son pura comedia.
I have to disagree. It’s just a culture that is full of a lot of bad things. A lot of war, genocide, prejudices, slavery, etc.
As a half-Japanese chick, I find this one to be particularly true (note that Japan is already listed.) I swear, if one more White Person speaks to me about Japan like that will give them more Japanese credibility, I will murder them.
That being said, I’m obsessed with British Culture and follow more British TV shows a normal person should. 😉 Oh, the irony (which is also listed)
Half Japanese Half white chicks are hot. Half Japanese half black chicks are also hot. There’s a pretty good chance your either half white or black, Melissa. Marry me.
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Portuguese people are white…
@ Aurélie- that is true, but the author does not know that. The real title of these things should be “Stuff Americans Like”
Pero no son Los Blancos….son Los Americanos
i have a portuguese friend who insists he is brown because his parents lived in brazil. he is so white.
ive been to equador (it was really cheap that year), and i will say it was great and gave me a new view on “the world” or whatever, but the view= i love equador. tada. also, im rich compared to south americans. but i dont go around bragging. i will be white peoples redemption. ps quiso smelled like smog, busses, and construction. it has made me like all of the above.
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First -There’s no such thing as “white culture”, “white” people can be o oiginate fro a diverse spectrum of diferente culturas and nstionalities. When the autor says “white” cultura i guess he means wasp american culture.
Second, i’m brazilian and there are white people here bit the clear majority of the population here is ethnically mixed and thus not white. For the guy who said where are mostra portuguese and indiana here Góes a tip;: brazil is not México! Se are far more diverse then this as we received people from nearly allover the world. Bit i’m sure 99% of people in usa thinks se are “hispanics” and the author was thinking in the portuguese when deemed portuguese as “non white” language. The portuguese last time i checked wherr still white european.
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