This concept ties heavily into post #7 Diversity and post #19 Travelling, but is important that you fully understand how white people view authenticity and experience.
In most situations, white people are very comforted by seeing their own kind. However, when they are eating at a new ethnic restaurant or traveling to a foreign nation, nothing spoils their fun more than seeing another white person.
Many white people will look into the window of an ethnic restaurant to see if there are other white people in there. It is determined to be an acceptable restaurant if the white people in there are accompanied by ethnic friends. But if there is a table occupied entirely by white people, it is deemed unacceptable.
The arrival of the “other white people” to either restaurants or vacation spots instantly means that lines will grow, authenticity will be lost, and the euphoria of being a cultural pioneer will be over.
Being aware of this can be extremely valuable in your efforts to gain the trust of white friends and co-workers. If you bring a white person to an ethnic restaurant and another white person (or group of white people) shows up, you can lose all respect and trust that you have worked so hard to acquire. Do your best to find a table with a divider, or ask the waiter to put future white people out of sight.
Note: This does not apply to night clubs.
Stuff White People Like 
the note about night clubs is very true. i’ll be damned if you’ll catch a white person at a black night spot. also, they won’t go to black restaurants, but asian ones are always a mark of culture and discernment, and usually are more vegetarian or vegan friendly.
lmfaooooo.
this is the best thing to ever happen to me.
i love to see white people complaining in the comments of this blog, just as they accude blacks of complaining. especially when this blog’s author is white as well.
ps: everything on here is so true
To be fair to white people, I do judge new ethnic eateries by how many people of the said ethnicity eat there. It is simply from personal experience. I have definitely been to West African restaurants with all-white clientele and not recognised any of the foods being advertised as West African. So perhaps it is an authenticity thing.Oh wait….. white people are into the street cred they get from ‘authentic’ cuisine
“they won’t go to black restaurants”
I don’t know about that. Soul food is catching on. And unless you’re referring specifically to African-American, Ethiopian food is HUGE.
“To be fair to white people, I do judge new ethnic eateries by how many people of the said ethnicity eat there.”
I judge it by how tastey the food is. Call me an idiot (go ahead, lots of people do, I am used to it!) BUT, I would rather have tastey Americanized rather than authentic crap.
Then again, as you say:
“Oh wait….. white people are into the street cred they get from ‘authentic’ cuisine”
African-American restaurants tend to serve lots of meat, which usually makes it difficult for white people. For example, I live in a mostly black town, and the (white) alternative weekly here (which white people all read) had a feature article last week on how there’s not enough vegetarian options here (and sometimes they say something is vegetarian, but they use meat broth in it… ugh!) Ethiopian food is in, but that’s because there’s lots of stuff with lentils in it, and they think that eating with your hands is fun and a novel experience.
Another thing white people consider very important: good service! they love to be served in zany, creative ways, and they love to make unnecessary and annoying demands on their servers!
@stina
“lmfaooooo. this is the best thing to ever happen to me.”
Wow, you need to get out more. Seriously.
I have to agree with you on the white sensitivity stuff. This is a black-latino-muslim-whatever-other minority culture thing nobody should be copying.
Leave that to the pros.
I think this is also related to white people’s desire to know about cool things before other white people know about them. This is why white people like independent music, vintage shops and DIY.
This blog reeks of
“Asian American (I am almost 99% it is Korean-American) Guy who realizes that the Fixed Action Patters of Upper Middle Class, Urban, Liberal White People” is the standard target and pinncale lifestyle to which almost all wealthy and educated people in America strive….and is a bit peeved at it so decides to poke fun of it in a light, but still somewhat derisive manner”
http://www.thefighting44s.com
Note: trimmed for repost and being long
ha ha. This blog is amazing! I have to hand to you for the use of classic white folks stock photography. ha ha. The divorce shot is outstanding.
And great post on white people in ethnic restaurants. ha ha. They peek in to see if there are other white people. ha ha ha.
Keep ’em coming. I will read this every day.
t #9 –
are you serious?
or is that an elaborate copy-paste?
Anonymous – are you going to repost that combox comment for every single damn post here?
This white man from the post-ethnic flyover states laughs his ass off here… The “White people” being mercilessly skewered are all the ones I knew in California and most of the ones I knew in NYC.
Us Ohio hayseeds are curling our toes… the $9 sandwiches, the arts degrees, the Priusses, the love of all things obscure and ethnic for ethnic sake, the love of religion that your parents didn’t share… Every damn thing he (or she?) writes is something I could have written about my time in California.
Even if the writer is were Angry Asian Male, I can roll with all of it.
morga – it is ellaborate copy-paste-repeat. Actually, not that ellaborate at all. Keep it saved in a Word file, you can come back daily and repaste it as much!
Boring.
I get your drift on “ethnic restaurants” (FWIW, the very use of the term “ethnic” for “non-white” is a very white person thing). But in terms of vacation spots, I find white people generally want to go to an exotic place that not too many people in *their* peer group know of, but generally follow safe white-person pathways to getting to such a place, whether adventure travel agencies or boutique hotel websites, that pretty much guarantee they will end up with other white people for company (an upgraded, yuppie version of those youth hostels in Europe). But if there are actual Local People vacationing at the same places, they will stare and fall all over themselves to talk to them and later drop in “this guy I know in India/Uruguay/Madagascar says…” even if sometimes the only local folks they met were service staff who were paid to be nice to them.
The problem is the exoticizing that white folks do with “ethnic” restaurants. What you’re talking about is being the FIRST (of white people) to discover -like Columbus- a new world, or in this case, new food. White folks, according to this article, are using the opportunity to “show off” how cultured they are to other white folks, thereby loosing credibility if they are not the first of white folks to be the one who discover the exotic restaurants that you so speak of. If other white folks are there then it becomes “tainted.” With all due respect, restaurants with foods from around the world are tainted the moment white folks step in in the first place, so the idea of secluding the white folks in a corner where no one else can see them is a great idea to me. Great blog! I love it when white folks are honest!
I don’t know about this one. Where I live the only ethnic person around is the one who owns the restaurant so if I were to be the only white person in there, I would be the ONLY person in there.
Interesting. I don’t know if I fully believe it all but it’s a though. I’ll let it marinate.
“thought”
Comment number 9 is amazing because well the sheer effort it must take to write such a lenghty comment hypothesizing about the supposed race of said blogger is staggering…quite refreshing actually..so much so that i would like u to start ur own blog…maybe we can guess the race of the authors of most of the other blogs in the world tough i m a bit concerned since it will prob be a dead giveaway that 90% of them are white…oh and the white people at black clubs thing is so tru..reminds me of knocked up…”That’s crazy, I’m only allowed to let in five percent black people. He said that, that means if there’s 25 people here I get to let in one and a quarter black people. So I gotta hope there’s a midget in the crowd.”
@ “anonymous”, you’re giving anonymous a bad wrap.
The guy in the picture is one of the writers of this blog. He appears to be more of the Jewish-hipster variety of white people…and I’m sure someone will comment that Jews aren’t white people. If Natalie Portman is considered white (she’s an Israeli-American and Jewish), then this guy should be too.
Again, this blog should be called stuff yuppies like or stuff white yuppies like. I can find pleanty of mid-america white folk that don’t like any of this stuff. Just like here in L.A., there are pleanty of cats of all races that roll just like this. They are educated yuppie types that have cash to do stuff like this.
Roll down third street in between Robertson and Fairfax in Los Angeles, and you’ll see tons of people like this. And no doubt there will be some token white girl outside of one of the trendy cafe’s slanging pomeranians for $500 a pop.
anonymous #9 to exact.
“they won’t go to black restaurants”
B.S.!!! Prowling the most obscure Afro-Haitian restaurants in the blackest neighborhoods of New Orleans is the über-chic lunchtime treat where I used to work. Some of the neighborhoods are so dreaded that our black co-workers wouldn’t accompany us (even though we were never the victims of crime). And this site’s correct, the sight of another white face would totally spoil the event.
Thanks for the wall of text #9.
I feel pretty bad for everyone that lives in a place so full of people that they have to struggle so absolutely rigorously to be different, white or not.
ps I LOVE THIS BLOG
Here’s one: making a blog about what white people like.
Anyone who thinks this blog is racist or unfair is an idiot. “Whiteness” is something that transcends the color of one’s skin. I’m sure everyone knows plenty of non-white people who act very “white,” as well as plenty of white people who act very “non-white.” It doesn’t make this website any less hilarious or awesome.
Right on Trp. This dude is definitely Jewish (there’s a Jewish star on his shirt in one of the pics), and Jewish people are definitely white.
I’m one of them.
Holla!
I disagree completely. I like some company, thank-you very much.
~Ag!~
an addition to my note above:
Not all of them are educated. Many of them are trust fund faux artists/actor/musicians that live on their parents dime. They work jobs that most people wouldn’t be able to pay rent with, yet they drive the streotypical Audi A4, BMW 3-Series, or Range Rover Sport.
My favorite thing to hear from friends like this is when they talk about buying their first place. Dude, you have a job that pays $20K a year. You’re not buying your first place. YOUR PARENTS ARE!
But yet these are the same kids that have to go therapy and talk about how tough their childhood was and how much they hate their parents. Gotta love it!
All thats not true about white people. There not going to be dissapointed with seeing another white person; nothings wrong with that.
praxenakis,
you’re wrong about white people being demanding in restaurants. Okay, maybe not wrong, but black people are way more demanding: Gotta have a straw, gotta have sweet n low, gotta have more AC, gotta have a clean cup. . . etc etc. On top of that, they don’t tip for shit. This is a well known stereotype among restaurant workers.
Noseeum
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at how much guilt there is in simply being born a poor white child. Society has reinforced blaming that group for all the world’s ills. Somehow I don’t think it would be any better with China or an African country being the world’s superpower. Just look at what’s being done in those places. The vast majority wouldn’t even have the freedom or luxury of writing such a blog.
This blog implies that if you’re white, you should take a giant step backwards to 1956. I remember when white people threw their empty cans, bottles, lit cigarettes and any other trash out the car window without any qualms. Where having a bigger car was considered having a better car. When calling someone a Chinaman, Jap or worse was normal conversation. This blog suggests that we are somehow being phony by not returning to our Neanderthal roots.
I think that part of the disconnect with some people is caused by the guilt that has driven most white people into changing our behaviors somewhat for the better. In this way maybe we have left some members of minority groups back in 1956 mode. It’s impossible to generalize to that degree, because I do believe that people are people. We all have the same needs, and have far more similarities than differences due to ethnicity. I know there are many who now want to reassert the differences in an effort to find their own cultural identity. That can be ok if it’s done in a way that doesn’t put down other ethnic groups in the process. To do that is only to return to racism and to 1956 mentality. No, it was not more real, more honest, less phony or better back then.
I guess the blog is entertaining on some level with all the thousands of hits it’s gotten. I do think it’s tapping into the guilt many white people feel for simply being white. Many here think we should just tolerate racism as long as it is against white people. I find this attitude very condecending toward all minority groups. It says that we whites still control everything and you minorities are still victims that have to live with all of our idiosyncricies. That’s exactly what people believed in 1956. The promotion of this victim mentality is also exactly what allows any one group to exert control over any other. In that sense it has struck a nerve of some sort.
This blog is funny on the surface (very much so) but beneath the humor is the truth of privilege and status, which not only effects people of color but poor white folks.
It’s genius in its simplicity.
And the comments are out of this world.
White people like:
-Dave Chappelle
-Spicy food
-Big butts
-Eastern religious practices (but remember, only bits and pieces that fit easily into their lifestyle like Buddhist chanting, but not the poverty & suffering aspects)
-Planning elaborate dinner parties
-Adopting babies from other countries
Hey does this happen to people of all races? Happens to me, my partner and many of my friends too. It’s just pretty awkward when it happens. Say when we went to Sicily and saw another pack of our people – I’m Oriental 🙂 – we immediately go mute, despite the fact that we were talking and laughing so loudly, the Pope could hear us! Why does that happen? Is it because we’re in a foreign place and we dont expect others of our kind to be there and when there is, your expectations have let you down and you get a bit of time-jerk?
your blog is absolutely hilarious. i’m embarrased in the funniest way possible. so glad i found it!
Oh MAN! White people are soooooo ridiculous!
Darned, your onto me! I get offended when I’m at the ethnic restaurant with my ethnic in-laws and more whitey walk into the restaurant. It is not acceptable if whitey is there at all, even if just tagging along with their brown/black/yellowcohorts. It just kills my “cred.” I want the “scene” to myself, now go away whitey!
i’m white, and i don’t think of this as being racist, i think of it as more being satire, i think it’s hilarious. keep up the quality work.
I think this blog could just as easily be titled “stuff hipsters like.”
In Phoenix, there is a chicken and waffles dive here that is amazing. I know-chicken and waffles? I had the same reaction.
I was surprised to see the lunch crowd was about 65% white.
A Caucasian Invsion in a place that serves “Red kool Aid’ and Sweet Southern Tea in a jar for a glass!
It was actually rather beautiful…
Your observations are not only getting more accurate, they’re starting to get scary.
This post took me back to Osaka and how upset I was when I spotted two white people waiting for the train with me. I’m pretty sure I glared at them and tried to do my best Harrison Ford impression: “Get off my train.”
Why are people getting so bent out of shape about this blog? This shit is hilarious and if you cant find any humor in the way most of us white people live then I dont know what to tell you. This isnt to say every other ethnicity doesnt have its stereotypes, but this is one is for white people!
Keep up the good work!
Make one about the niggers next.
#9 Anonymous (formly Tom Sawyer), as lots of people mention already, the main writer (clander) of this blog is the white guy in the recycle picture of the Recycle post. Just go to their flickr site and you’ll see the people behind this blog are as white as you are. Stop embarrassing yourself with your repetitive c&p “Asian American (I am almost 99% it is Korean-American” crap. You’re only exposeing yourself as someone who has grudges against Asian American. It’s really not that hard to find the ethnicity of the bloggers (which is white), the links to the pictures are right there on the right side.
Great entry btw. It also applies to “Japan” and “sushi” too. Esp. for the many white people who teach English (or JET program) in Japan, they always want to the only gaijin in the country. It made them feel special. And then there’s also the competitiveness between them as “who knows Japan more”
Funniest blog on the Internet.
White people love blogs about themselves.
Oh, and white people love it when Black comedians make fun of white people by imitating them. Or have you already covered that?
OH MY GOD. i live in south korea, and i was literally having this conversation an hour ago. IT IS SO TRUE!! when you live abroad, other foreigners in general (white or not) dislike being seen/recognized/acknowledged in any way by other foreigners. it somehow ruins the moment. its unexplainable, horrible, and im utterly guilty of contributing.
#39… vanityblabla,
That’s because the people in and around Phoenix are nothing, and I mean nothing, but suburban sheep nowadays. No other place I’ve ever been in America is anywhere near as bad as Phoenix. It literally doesn’t have a hearbeat. It’s a sterile petri dish, stable enough to support life, but lacking soul and flavor. Just my opinion, naturally. Your local chicken and waffle joint probably took off because someone heard that it was big in “the ATL.” Phoenix’s issue probably won’t ever change either, and that’s a bummer.
As for this blog, I dig it. Satire and fun. There’s no way people should be getting all bent out of shape about it. Besides what do I have to worry about? I’m white!
Funny..I like being the only black person around. 🙂
totally on board with #14 . European Americans, (the appropriate label for what is often referred to as “White” in the US) are an ethnic group of their own.
Some of my European American friends can’t stand the smell of Korean Kimchi, or fried fish Asian or specifically oriental style. What is smelly to one person (eg. a certain ethnic dish) might smell wonderful to another. In other words, to be liked by the majority of European American (the more accurate label) folk, other ethnic groups have to adopt white cultural preferences for smells, appearance in public, etc. In a sense, they (non-European Americans) are expected to compromise their identity if they want to blend in with the American populace.
But I think its wrong to think of this as a unique phenomena. This kind of prejudicial treatment is normal in a setting where the majority of public influence, finances, and media are in the control of one particular ethnic group. This is not to blame Europeans or European Americans, I’m just saying that it’s inevitable with that level of influence in a specific region.
What frustrates me is how often European Americans mistake “Asian” to mean “Oriental” when Even Russians, Arabs, Indians, Persians, Turks and others are all Asians as well. But perhaps this is due to the larger oriental population that came to the Americas early on.
Why doesn’t anyone talk about the author of the blog and if he/she is male/female, white/black? I guess there may be a few contributors, but I’m thinking there’s one main person who is behind it all who is a white female. Am I only thinking that because of the African village photo? I dunno. ps, White people love African villages.
I ate a Gyro once, but it was all Greek to me.
I distinctly remember being the only White person walking around in the back streets of Hong Kong a long time ago when I went to visit my girlfriend.
It was such an empowering feeling, and so authentic.
Didn’t like those duck heads facing me in the restaurants, though.
I am whiter than white: Scots-Irish Canadian.
And I think this blog is hiliarious. Dear God, its funny. And so true.
I was getting my lunch at a high-end sandwich place just now and burst out laughing at all the white folks (see Expensive Sandwichs entry). So I went down the street and found a little Indian place and ate there; first checking to make sure it was “authenic” by the absence of white folks. And I get back to my desk to this.
Bang on, sir. Bang on.
I think this site should be called ‘stuff self-hating white liberals like.’
Fer Christ’s sake. No one’s saying that white people should stop doing any of these things(recycling, eating food from other cultures, etc), just that WP(including myself) don’t deserve any gold stars for uniqueness in doing them.
Back to ethnic restaurants. Now that Oaxacan cuisine is trendy, “Mexican” restaurants are replacing jack or cheddar cheese(both impossible to find in Mexico except at the Wal-Marts next to expat colonies) with a “mole negro” on some of their Americanized Mexican dishes. One time I swear the mole negro was Hershey’s chocolate sauce, peanut butter, and Tabasco.
Does this site apply only to white Americans; or are white Candians and whit Europeans included?
A more applicable title would be: Stuff Jews Like
I am LOVING this blog. This entry killed me!
It’s totally true though. There’s a sushi place in town that a few of my friends like to go to but none of the customers are Japanese- how can the food be good??
This is so funny.
I love white people!! 🙂
The fun ones (like the author) can be so much fun!
🙂
again, text hits the mark but damn it, that picture of that dood in the 49’ers shirt at dim sum, er – PRICELESS. laughing and laughing again.
[…] There’s been a minor buzz in some segments of the tubes regarding a blog called Stuff White People Like. The blog is a list — up to #71 as of this writing — of things that white people like and others, we are led to understand, do not. Sushi and bicycles, for instance. Or being the only white person around. […]
When you editorialize about the merits of the observation at tremendous length, or editorialize about the other editorializers, you’re pretty much living up to the spirit of what this blog seems to be making fun of. Cluelessly.
you should add “this stupid blog.” to the list of things white people like.
Don’t forget cheap cabdriver food joints. I know I’m at my whitest when I try to order my pakistani food in pidgin-Hindi, then make smalltalk about the Pakistan elections with the guy running the place while the microwave heats up my food. And sometimes, to really shine, I’ll make a comment on a Bollywood CD on display, or talk about the cabdrivers’ strike! But when a bunch of other white officeworkers come into the place, I get all steamed up and want to leave. Instead I up the ante by filling my bowl with garlic pickle or some other counter condiment — that usually shows em!
fuckin’ brilliant
72- manic-obssesive publicity for their own shit in randomly futile comments…
http://WWW.MOTORATASDEMARTE.BLOGSPOT.COM
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.
His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.
The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.
He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.
The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.
The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.
His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.
He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.
Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”
He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.
He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.
Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.
He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.
There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.
He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.
This is truly the greatest use of blog space I’ve seen in some time.
This blog annoyed me at first – then I realised why – who cares to be (accurately or inaccurately) generalised about, and lumped with everyone else who shares a contingent skin colour. Now who else can we think about who gets treated with way? In my native culture (see spelling for a clue) this indicates ‘irony’ and is highly prized, at least by the heducated. By the way, what on earth is ‘slanging pomeranians’, apart from beating up on poor cutsie little toy doggiewoggies, that is? Some sort of sexual deviation?
Not really, white people usually prefer eating in restaurants where they are the majority or they feel nervous.
I guess this is a blog about liberal white yuppies.
Chicken and waffles is black Yankee food. Maybe in the ATL now, but Atlanta isn’t southern anymore anyway.
White folks don’t go to black restaraunts or eat black food? “Shheeeeeeeeiiittttt!” I’ll push one of my dark bruthahs out of the way to get some collards, fatback, hoppin’ john, fried chicken, ribs, fried okra, etc.
Re: 53 Whitey O’Blanc McWhite
“I am whiter than white: Scots-Irish Canadian.”
Seriously? Your assistance to in settling/stealing Ireland affords honorary white status at best, Scottie. The items of this blog’s focus can be adopted by any race but only emerge from WASP leisure culture. Conquering Ireland was something Cromwell liked but unoriginally adopted by the Scots -the scots were no more likely to originally like it than Chinese are to leisurely popularize Restoration Hardware. In the future, please refer yourself as “whiter than Italian” and poke fun at whitey from outside their camp.
[…] call it “me and many, many people I know.” For instance, the top entry right now (#71: Being the only white person around)…I swear to God I’ve been in that exact Dim Sum place. It’s in Artesia or […]
Um, I’m still having problems wrapping my head around the fact that some people take issue with this completely brilliant blog. I beleive the English refer to this sort of humor as “taking the p*ss” out of something. It’s called a sense of humor people, give it a whirl.
As a scorchingly White Person from New England, who went to boarding school, and then on to an Ivy League university – all on scholarship, thank you very much – I read this blog and scream with laughter. Scream. And yes, my pointing out my “realness” by being a scholarship kid is Totally White. It’s just true. And there is absolutely no foul in pointing out the behavior of an entire group of people who wander through life assuming that They Know Best. The photo on the “About Me” page is genius and I actually had to do a doubletake because for a second I thought it was a girl I went to college with who, naturally, went into nursing in third world countries. Because the critical shortage of nurses in the states just isn’t that pressing, apparently.
Of course, it’s undeniable that this blog specifically targets White Culture of certain economic and geographic categories. Does every White Person go to expensive sandwich shops? No. Does almost every white person in NYC, LA and other large cities go to expensive sandwich shops? You betcha. And if they are at work at their media/publishing/interweeb job, they will order by fax and send a courier to pick it up.
slanging=selling something in the illegal economy. usually drugs or bootleg items, but i can see a paperless pomeranian fetching a fair price in WeHo or Santa Monica.
you forget white people like dropping in a prized “slang” term every now and then.
knowwhatimean son?
I’ve enjoyed reading this blog, along with the myriad of comments. I wish I had a dollar for every “I’m white and I disagree…” post.
I’m not white by birth, but according to your list, I pretty much am by practice!
When I want authentic ethnic food, I go to McDonald’s. I’m usually the only white guy in there.
BWAHAHAHA! Great blog!!!
It’s also very white to pretend to be liberal and anti-racist but to be so racially exclusive that you consider even people within your own race with darker features “ethnic” and not real whites. You don’t see American blacks calling Ethiopians non-blacks or ethnics due to their lighter features.
Count another Ivy Leaguer laughing his white, culturally-sensitive ass off
I just found this blog today. So funny. Pretty accurate.
However, I will submit that a lot of white people will go to a black restaurant, and not just soul food. Maybe it’s because I’m from southern VA and NC, but white and black food is the same there and everyone goes to the same restaurants, and there aren’t really any ethnic cuisine choices close by most of the time. Maybe some weird Chinese, but that’s about it.
My god this site has some sort of Ivy Detector!
I’m disappointed to see that this great blog has generated so many comments from mental defectives, but I guess its title is just too provocative, even if the blog’s content isn’t.
You’d have to be hopelessly dull-witted to think, as some here apparently do, that this blog is some anti-white “reverse racist” screed.
You’d also have to be pretty slow to repeatedly state the obvious proposition that this blog is NOT about “stuff” that ALL “white people like.”
Just relax and enjoy this blog for what, for the most part, it is: a white, urban, educated, rather worldly dude cleverly and gently poking fun at himself and, occasionally, at those only slightly different from him. Ten minutes of reading this blog makes it plain that he’s limiting the term “white people” to those within his own local environment, or those environments like it. (As the blog author states, “white people” like irony….)
What is this, the ’60s?? Who even utters the word “Oriental” anymore?? Rugs are not people.
everythingimnot.wordpress.com
the picture attached to this is amazing.
This one is just wrong. White people HATE being the only white person around. White people buy food at the same supermarkets & restaurants, shop at the same stores, live in the same neighborhoods….
White people feel really, really uncomfortable when they’re the only white person around.
Sometimes this blog is spot on, but this one is way, way off.
I’m reminded of a phrase coined by expats living in China: The Laowai (foreigner) Death Stare
I’m sure all of you have encountered it before, the hostile glare from the foreigner who seems to be saying to you silently:
“Hey! What are you doin’ here?
This is MY China!
I’m the only foreigner in China.
I’m also the only foreigner who can speak Chinese.
So get the hell outta here.”
These people somehow seem to think that the mere presence of another foreigner is somehow ruining their “China experience” – that when they get back home and are telling all their friends their “I was in the most amazing remote little corner of China hanging with the peasants” story, there will be a pang of guilt in the back of their mind that there was actually other foreigners there too.
Have you guys checked out blackpeopleloveus.com?
Uhm. White people love Kayaks!
Yes they do!
What kind of white person is these information directed at? There are the following different kinds of white races: pale, whitish-brownish, white, cream and red-whitish. If you do not believe then take a microscope and look into your and your friend’s skin. If you can’t compare it then you are daft.
This wesite is a concern of racism. Should be removed at once.
White People (except for the rare ultra down ones like me) do not go to black restaurants – remember how shocked Bill O’Reilly was when he ended up at Slyvia’s in Harlem?
I am the exception; he is the rule. The White Rule.
White people are intellectually curious. It is we, not Asians and Africans, who find out about other cultures, translate their classics, learn their languages, etc. Can you imagine Michelle Obama, with her mile-long list of grievances, reading about Finland, Argentina, or some famous composer or author? Give me a break.
I’m sure her bookshelf is law books, self-help books, a few business books, and then yard after yard of black history, black empowerment, etc. etc. Maybe a Howard Zinn book makes an appearance here or there, with the chapters on slavery dog-eared. But people like her, and she went to Harvard Law, are the intellectual elite of the black community and they can’t see beyond themselves.
I remember something similar with Asians and Latinos in college, all taking their respective history requirements about Asians and Latinos. Of course, I knew white people obsessed with Asia and Latin America, but never the opposite. Nope, bright minorities were either vapid and interested in making a few bucks with their University of Chicago degree, or they were self-obsessed, but they were never ever curious about anyone else.
How boring and parochial! But this trait–intellectual curiosity–is what makes white civilization so awesome. It is why we, and not the Indians, discovered North and South America. It’s why we, and not Africans, invented the atomic bomb. It’s why we continue to have the best universities, in spite of the suicidal impact of political correctness.
your white arn’t you, so is everyone reading this, even the people claiming to be black…..lol
yeeeaaaaaah booyyyeeeee!
“Fer Christ’s sake. No one’s saying that white people should stop doing any of these things(recycling, eating food from other cultures, etc), just that WP(including myself) don’t deserve any gold stars for uniqueness in doing them.”
“Just relax and enjoy this blog for what, for the most part, it is: a white, urban, educated, rather worldly dude cleverly and gently poking fun at himself and, occasionally, at those only slightly different from him. Ten minutes of reading this blog makes it plain that he’s limiting the term “white people” to those within his own local environment, or those environments like it. (As the blog author states, “white people” like irony….)”
This is the best comment to cut and paste to those who scream “This blog is anti-white!”
I’m… I’m lost at the naivety of this post. Perhaps if you knew some white people that actually had lives, you wouldn’t think this. Maybe if you knew any people at all.
I’m getting this pervasive feeling that you’re some sort of equivalent to a quiet, middle-aged, smarmy office worker that’s so very sheltered from the world.
rosco’s chicken & waffles!
Hmmm. I disagree. If at least one other white person isn’t there to see how cool you are, what’s the point?
I discovered this website yesterday. I am not sure what is funnier, the articles, or the indignant white posts.
Also, as a white person, I must ask: are we really that lame? And if so, can I just start telling people I’m black?
#86 (“hanging with the peasants in China”).
Very funny, completely true, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. What’s wrong with preferring a reasonably “authentic” experience when traveling to something that caters to tourists?
I suggest you read “The Loss of the Creature”, by Walker Percy.
I’m getting the feeling that it’s written by a white guy, or bunch of white guys, trolling for comments.
This is true. I loved being the only white people in Cuba and in China. I was all “this is such a lark- to be the MINORITY!” This blog is funny, and people should be able to laugh more at themselves, for God’s sake.
You have left an important post out though: EATING DISORDERS. Those are controversial, but they really are kind of a rite of passage for so many white girls (and now more boys too). Sad.
Goat here folks.
Naturally, your man was upset when he arrived at this farm:
The place lost all of its charm.
Fortunately, I was able to score a bottle of Night Train to chew on. When I woke up, those fools were gone!
It’s Goat Time!
Another good one. White people love ‘authenticity’ as much as they love irony. That mix explains a lot of their confusion I think. You could probably get a dozen posts on that paradox alone.
And another ten on their love of paradox!
As a 100% certified white guy, I can tell you that everything in this blog is completely true. Other things we white people like are The History Channel, Myth Busters, and not getting satire.
Don’t forget to include White peoples’ love of Sweden as a topic. They see them as superior culturally, physically, politically and philosophically.
Check out this comment from an obscure messageboard for hipsters:
“Anyway, I think our society totally has a warped view on regular, straightforward sexual interaction. After living in Sweden, it’s not that they are openly sexual – they are very much the opposite – there are no strip clubs or there is little porn because they are unneccessary because they have a healthy attitude toward sex and relationships. Men and women date, have sex if they want to, and very few people see the need to get married, so there is no hangups about sex or having children outside of marriage. If you live together for six months, you are as good as married according to Swedish law. People don’t “play the field” or date more than one person at the same time, as a rule. If you go out on a date and you like the person, you go on another, and another, and you are “dating”. People aren’t obsessed with “trading up” as they are in North America. If you have a baby and you are not married, it is no even thought about twice. They have PARENT leave for both parents, not the gender biased “maternity” leave. Men contribute equally to child rearing – it is not seen as women’s work, and the guy doesn’t get a fucking award for taking care of his kid as they should, which they act like here (dude changed a diaper! hr’s a saint!). If you hit your kid, the cops will take you to jail – full stop. No one even raises their voice to a child. I attribute this to a very organic equality between men and women that is manifested in both sexual and civic standards. They don’t talk about it or show it off, they DO IT.”
as a white person i’ll tell you what i hate a whole hell of a lot: niggers.
Clander obviously went for a Blog that would rack up the hits.
Serendipity is a fabulous thing.
Inadvertently, what this Blog is is everything a Neo-Con means when he talks about Liberals.
“I do judge new ethnic eateries by how many people of the said ethnicity eat there”
So does that mean that Del Taco is good Mexican food because Mexicans eat there?
OK, I’m still going to maintain that the whole idea that this site is racist is not only categorically wrong, but boring. Really, really boring.
Anyone remember Lenny Bruce? Anyone? Hello?
Also, to get all post-modern theoretical on yer ass: No regime of oppression, including racist, hegemonic institutions – and I’m including the very idea of “race” as one of those institutions – can go unquestioned or unexamined if any dismantling of said institutions and regimes are to happen effectively.
We are in a cultural deadlock right now, across the board, when it comes to this issue. The continuous screaming about how this site is “racist” only proves the point that we are missing – we may look a certain way, but behaviors and “values” can be dictated/informed by individual experience within one’s culture, be it the dominant one or one that falls into the category of “sub-culture.” The latter category is constantly in flux considering the dominant culture (at least in the US) systematically appropriates sub-cultures. A pessimist would look at this appropriation as a tool of control of these sub-cultures, an optimist would see this as rich white kids from Connecticut “learning about other cultures” by listening to Reggae, Hip Hop, and possibly the Gipsy Kings. The last one is so troubling on so many levels that it cannot be discussed. Please see all entries on this blog about “ethnic food”, Japan and such to see the illustration of this point that the creators of this blog are so elegantly hammering home.
This appropriation process is ongoing and ceaseless. The ability for these sub-cultures to even be appropriated by White People only points to them being not-so-very-diiferent from the dominant/White culture. Appropriation doesn’t work if the values of the appropriated are in complete, diametric and total opposition to the appropriator.
The short version of all of that is: It’s not so much race as it’s about culture, kids. And this blog is completely concerned with culture. And if you think there isn’t a “white culture” I’m not really sure what to say to that. Claiming that there isn’t a White Culture is a dumb as saying there isn’t an African-American one, an Asian-American one (and all of the implied subsets of that one), an Italian-American one, an Irish-American one, the plethora of Latino cultures, etc.
The important thing to remember is that we live in the country where, for the most part, we now have more in common than we don’t. Isn’t that nice? I think it’s nice. If you can’t pick up on the tone of this blog, I’m going to put my own feeling about it out there: It’s FUNNY. And yes, “ethnic” white cultures like Italian-American and Irish-American ones are certainly different than the yuppie-tastic one being so deliciously skewered on this website. Or they can be. It really just depends on where you are coming from, for all that phrase implies. I mean, how many God-awful personal ads do you have to read where the White Person looking for a meaningful (and presumably tortured) romance describes a favorite activity as “reading the NY Times in bed on Sunday morning” to get the joke???
Seriously, go listen to some old Lenny Bruce routines. They are completely shocking, even now, 40-50 years down the line. The fact that we haven’t gotten any further along in the way we think about these issues in all this time is sort of lame. I for one, find the sort of tongue-in-cheek almost National Geographic tone of the articles side-splitting. Mostly because this site doesn’t read like a blog as much as a hilarious catalog and analysis of my own life, and the lives of many people around me.
This si the best thing ever, I’m white, how could you be upset by any of this? it’s so true and hilarious.
seriously, if you are getting upset about this maybe you should try just calming down about life, you’ll probably enjoy it more.
haha I saw the mythbusters comment. Awesome. White people also love trying to save Africa as long as that area of Africa is in the news for X allotted amount of time.
Hey you know what’s more boring than reading this blog?
Reading Tony M’s post!!!
Hooray blogs!!!
Alright, alright I was a little windy, but I’m sticking by what I said.
# 57
I agree with you all the way… it is so
To all the people saying things such as “this blog should be called ‘stuff white liberal yuppies like,'” I’d just like to say that is the brilliant, subtle, part of the satire. (the subtle part is why you don’t get it) Modern American (read: white) culture tends to treat each ethnicity as a block of people, instead of a range of individuals, each ethnicity except whites that is. As described in this blog, whites spend most of their time seeking individualism, yet when they talk to a black person they talk about hip-hop (usually Mos Def), or talk to a Japanese person they ask about sushi, ect…
/end rant
this blog is perhaps the truest thing i’ve ever read.
suggestions for future post:
in-action movies (read: no actual plot) such as the squid and the whale, me and you and everyone we know, and waking life
alt-country music artist such as gillian welch, neko case, and calexico.
Uh, fool. BZZT! Thanks for playing.
The reason why (certain) white people distrust ethnic restaurants with too many white people in it is because it’s a sign that the food is too “watered down” and bland so as not to scare less adventurous white people.
If you see a Chinese restaurant with lots of white people in it, it probably serves lo mein, fried rice and kung pao chicken.
If you see a Chinese restaurant with no white people in it, it probably serves chicken feet, snails and thousand year old eggs.
This blog reeks of
“Asian American (I am almost 99% it is Korean-American) Guy who realizes that the Fixed Action Patters of Upper Middle Class, Urban, Liberal White People” is the standard target and pinncale lifestyle to which almost all wealthy and educated people in America strive….and is a bit peeved at it so decides to poke fun of it in a light, but still somewhat derisive manner”
http://www.thefighting44s.com
Note: trimmed for repost and being long
you are wrong. inspired by pw ranting. carried out by pw and fp geniuses. you will never be right nor understand this world…
Wow, this’d be funny if it weren’t so damned true.
Reminded me of when I lived in Tokyo, and explains – in an f’ed up manner – why most the other Americans I saw there were so rude. You’d think someone living abroad would be happy to meet a fellow expat, but noooo… If I so much as smiled and said ‘hi’ to a white American in Tokyo, most of them looked at me like I’d just run over their dog, pissed in their Cheerios, AND called their mother a whore.
I never understood it, myself. I guess, in some way, I still don’t.
[…] #71 Being the only white person around [image]This concept ties heavily into post #7 Diversity and post #19 Travelling, but is important that you fully […] […]
I judge authenticity of an ethic restaurant based on their staff. -Not every server has to be from said race but you are more likely to get better authenticity if it is a smaller family owned operation.
@#32: “This blog suggests that we are somehow being phony by not returning to our Neanderthal roots.”
I think you make excellent points, Noseeum. If the alternative to phoniness is authentic racism, then phoniness is better. But I disagree that this is about being ashamed of being white, its more about being proud that you aren’t like clueless white people, and then trying to do things like going to “authentic” ethnic restaurants to distance yourself from them. In a sense, they are trying to gain authenticity by rejecting “whiteness”, but in reality, rejecting whiteness is itself a white behavior. You might think that you are “real” by expressing solidarity with minorities, but it comes off as condescending because a white person *chooses* to ghetto-ize themselves, where a minority has that status chosen for them. The fact that you have that choice means you are in a position of power to begin with, and could escape if you wanted to.
This is all an authentic part of white culture, especially the anxiety about being inauthentic. The problem with adopting a “more authentic” ethnic culture is that you aren’t really doing that. Cultures aren’t static things that sit around, unchanging for centuries, they are constantly on the move and shifting around in response to the current situation, economic factors, neighboring cultures and countries, and any number of other variables. That’s why two people from the same culture will never agree on what exactly is “authentic” and what is “inauthentic” — the boundaries are fluid and always in motion.
If you imagine culture as bunch of neat little boxes, each holding a particular set of distinctive objects that you can pick up and learn about, that just doesn’t exist. There is no single culture that can be cleanly separated from neighboring cultures, or made independent of the time, the politics and the overall context in which you the observer look at it. So the quest for the “true” culture is always going to fail, and the reasons are partly psychological — in looking at a culture, you see what you want to see, and the people who you come into contact with try to show you what you want to see to impress you with their awesome culture. The same thing goes for popular ideas like “protecting minority culture”, “defending our national culture”, “white people are corrupting our culture”, etc.
There is something dishonest about this unique part of white culture. In reality, it’s about status and communicating status to other white people. In other words, its an excuse to be an asshole without anyone noticing.
White people also love being asked their opinion of ethnic food:
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/report/txt/2008-02/01/content_98363.htm
From an email regarding this link:
This article features Faith and me eating soup dumplings. We were approached by Chinese Journalists (in Chinatown, mind you) and asked about American perceptions of Chinese food. You know me, and you likely know Faith, so its not surprising that we went into all of this talk about globalization and racism and Said’s Orientalism, and the economics of translation and this and that and this and that and we’re all over the place and we finally get through devouring these dumplings and they put the cameras away and boom! My mall-Chinese-food-eatery inspired Sesame Chicken, which might as well come out on a plate decorated with the likeness of a 1930’s era Charlie Chan, is plumped in front of me by our waiter. Out came the cameras again and the stupid Americans were captured eating their stupid food. The reporters were quite lovely, and we told them over and over again how we want to come out with friends and work our way through more traditional dishes. Good grief!
This Blog does have a Liberal bias.
It could just as easily lampoon Conservative whackjobs.
For example, Blaming the Victims (as SWPL)
#67 ZEKE.
here’s a quote from ZEKE:
“Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.”
Definitely works as a White People thing but isn’t as funny as Clander’s stuff. I think Liberals enjoy be made fun of.
This site it so offensive and racist. Leave white people alone… LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!
C.Lander is doing an awesome job holding a mirror up to “white people” and forcing them to look at themselves from the perspective of “science.” Now, imagine how the Native Americans felt when anthropologists were studying and writing about them. It’s about time someone is “studying” and dissecting the people who are used to being the researchers and not the group being studied.
More please. Don’t stop.
Tony M.
I welcome you to quote post modern theory all you want. Want to throw a certain school of post modern of post structuralist theory at me? Want to go back to the Frankfurt School? How about Marx? Who else do you want to quote to scare people away from arguing with you?
This site is funny because news sources that are largely white FUBU entities have long lumped elements of black culture into hard-hitting stories about what black people like.
See: Being an Expert in YOUR Culture
Race is a construct/mechanism of othering, long and largely perpetuated by “white” people,” who are “white” largely because they are “not black.”
Further, as my friend Annie said, this is largely about White (capital W) culture, not white culture. To this point, its a case study of white kids bound for prestigious New England colleges and of the adults who graduated from them. These are also the people who would read and find these blogs funny, as they’ve likely been exposed to a cultural studies class or two. As my friend Michael remarked:
“Self-flagellating blogs better be on that list.”
This blog is largely about WASPs, representing White people. Its similar to how the White person’s “black friend” is, somewhere in this person’s mind, representative of the entire culture. The naivety is part of the joke, friend.
No? No? Jokes? Foucault maybe? Deleuze? Anyone?
I just read #67 and I’m wondering where the heck I put my copy of “Atlas Shrugged”…
dude. if suburban, non-hipster crackers (i.e. 99.3% of all white people) were anything like what y’all write about, um, well, the title of your blog wouldn’t be so bad.
but it’s like so bad. like MTV (music television) bad. or like if they showed presidential debates on ESPN.
so really, how about hipsters-suck.com? or the_real_silverlake.com or the_real_williamsburg.com. yeah, i know, those are reeeally lame. but in their accuracy: infinitely better.
(i’m so glad i’m so hip and know everything).
let me know if you need anything else you friggin lame-os.
p.s. – and while you’re writing minimally profound things at your poorly named blog and raking in millions of hits, write something about how white people know the secret proper-garb of echo park. it’s friggin ridiculous. and another thing, talk about how hot white girls know how to properly avoid eye contact, almost as good as latinas (but with them it’s even the non-hot ones), despite the vastly different reasons (white pretentiousness vs. latin ‘pride’), and remark on the evolutionary advantages in practice of social incest to only acknowledge members of the in-group, which is why the break-ups are so drastic.
Alex:
I’m trying to figure out – are you agreeing with me? For realz.
Great website.
I’d have to disagree. I(being white and married to a Chinese lady) usually look into restaurants to see if there are “ethnics” of that culture in the restaurant, but I don’t think most whites do. FOR EXAMPLE:
There is this pink dim sum restaurant on Geary in the Richmond in San Francisco that has lines of white people outside, very few Chinese inside that are not working there.
OH! And over by North Beach a block away from the Hilton (forgot the street) there is a Chinese restaurant with lines of white folk outside with few Chinese that don’t work there.
I fortunately have been blessed with a wife that has taught me well. I was once a white person scared of Indian food, Thai, Vietnamese food, etc. etc. But now I consider myself half Chinese.
YES.
So to sum up, white middle aged folk, especially conservatives look for those of their kind lined up outside.
Tony –
No.
I realize that when I wrote “white FUBU entities,” I meant to write “white FUBU media entities.”
In short:
I think that you’re quoting a vast, vast school of theory in order to deter debate. This site is funny because it understands how white media lumps black people and it turns it around in a self-flagellating way. It is a reification (a post modern term) in the vein of NSK, a post modern, Eastern European art collective that exposes the terrors of fascism by reclaiming the fashions totalitarians and religions reclaimed from art — they poke fun by taking the system more seriously than it takes itself, as Dusan Bjelic, a former (post modern) professor of mine might have suggested.
See also:
The Onion
Borat
The Colbert Report
“White Culture.” What a ridiculous generalization. As though being white is some homogenous cultural definition. About as blind as assuming Koreans and Japanese are the same. The whole premise of this blog seems to be a bizarre sense of racial guilt.
I do love a reification.
Mostly, I’m referencing Lenny Bruce. And I thought I was talking about White with a capital “W” culture.
And would’t a White FUBU media entity be a white media entity that appropriated FUBU? Just sayin’.
And if my tone comes across as deterring debate, I don’t mean to. I still think that debate is tons of fun.
🙂
Now… are emoticons “white?”
OMG you nailed me.
I agree with Dave. I like to see other white people eating at a new ethinic restaurant. It makes me feel safer.
More specifically I should say that I like to see people I can identify with eating there. I don’t care what color they are. I love black people who are nice, clean, friendly, and responsible. I generally avoid dirty and obnoxious people who are white. The race card is WAY OVER-PLAYED in this country. I think a lot of it comes from “White Liberal Guilt” and an obsession with mulit-culturalism.
Barack Obama’s success comes partly form this same white liberal guilt concept. The man says almost nothing of substance, but gets his crowds on their feet clapping. I think that many white democrats want to vote for him “so they can prove they are not racist” and show how “mulit-cultural” and “sophisticated” they are. What a crock! For more on Obama’s candidacy, check out “The Daily Snack” blog here on WordPress.
Race is way too broad a brush to paint people with. Family traditions, community, religion, personal values, personal tastes, and societal sub-group identifications influence behaviors much more than race. Kind of funny blog though.
I like that this blog has inspired some whites to write master’s thesis-length diatribes in the comments section. And I like that the blogger isn’t responding to any of it. HAH!!!
Exactly the mentality I had in Japan, stay away from the white people, get a better experience. Well said.
[…] Read it. In most situations, white people are very comforted by seeing their own kind. However, when they are eating at a new ethnic restaurant or traveling to a foreign nation, nothing spoils their fun more than seeing another white person. […]
I love black people who are nice, clean, friendly, and responsible.
Pfft. I only like black people who know where they belong. On the street corner.
…or is that mexicans now?
I generally avoid dirty and obnoxious people who are white.
Racist.
I’ll be what ever color I need to be if it gets me laid, to heck with the food.
I certainly hope the creators of this blog are going to do an entry on “Theory.”
This blog makes me laugh, in part because almost every post reminds me of an annoyingly pretentious woman I used to be friends with when I lived on the East Coast. Although, she is actually Asian and I am the white person. I guess it’s a Yuppie thing, not just a white thing. I’d add that white people (and other yuppies) not only love what they perceive to be “authentic” ethnic restaurants, but they think that chain restaurants are the root of all evil!
yo, mr. roach (#92)…thing is, anyone educated in the US sort of grew up learning “white” history. europe, 1300s? check. africa, once the world center of learning? huh?
plus, silly, of course you invented the atomic bomb; that’s another thing white people like– blowing stuff up.
i KID.
I think many people are taking this blog very literally, whereas the author clearly has a much more sarcastic view of things. Of course EVERY white person does not do each of these things. In fact, maybe less than half of “white people” (whatever that means) do these things. Like MAL, I have been around quite a few yuppies in my day, and I’m laughing my ass off at many of the posts on this blog — particularly the intellectual snobs who hate TV, the people who are obsessed with their organic food macrobiotic diets, and the ones who treat their dogs like kids. Of course not every white person is like that, though. It’s a joke! Lighten up, people! There are a lot worse things in the world to worry about than a blog that pokes fun at yuppies!
If I’m not mistaken, that’s the Silver Dragon Dim Sum Restaurant in the picture, a Calgary, Alberta classic. That place is soooooooooo not authentic enough, for reals.
is it just me or do almost all of these posts make it look like the bloggers’ perception of people is based entirely on the williamsburg hipster brand of white people?
Yer sucha yuts. Seriously. If you go to a Chinese restaurant and no Chinese people eat there. I figure, the food must not be very good if the Chinese don’t go eat there themselves.
A good way of determining the authenticity of an Italian restaurant is to see if the Italians eat there, because trust me, they won’t if it’s just another Greek owned pizzaria with pasta on the menu.
That’s not white, that’s called having culture 😛 Get some.
Um, you don’t have to write super long posts on this blog just because it gets a lot of hits. Instead, you can try to write something interesting on your own blogs so that people can visit them rather than criticizing someone else’s idea. For those who say this is racist….it’s the INTERNET!
All kinds of offensive content can be found on the internet. If you don’t like something, you stop visiting the site!
#72 Mentioning BLACK PEOPLE (see comments above)
#73 Teach For America
#74 Being a Missionary/ Volunteering
#75 Time Out
#76 Being offended
#77 Dieting/ Eating Disorders
#78 Spreading Democracy/ Other Ideology
#79 Asian Culture in general
#80 BLOGS
Chris Rock said there are niggers and black people.
Well, now there’s white people and the other white people.
This blog references white people (liberal educated urban ironic authenticity-seeking hipsters) whereas #67 Zeke summed up white people nicely (Angry White Man) and #129 Tony M alluded to Atlas Shrugged: classic redneck architect verus new-age modern architect.
This blog is racist, in a sense, but stereotypes are funny and mostly true. It would, however, be the end of the world and be much less popular to have a blog like this about black people, with topics like “Eating Fried Chicken” “Going to Jail” “Buying Ever Bigger Rims” “Pretending Not to Care About School” etc.
Stuff White People Like: Being Alone in The Woods; The Forest.
Also, 99% of White American Women are Batshit Insane.
Guaranteed.
That is the funniest thing that I have ever heard! I agree that 99% of White American Women are batshit insane…..I am a white American woman and am, in fact, batshit insane.
http://www.mamamatters.wordpress.com
shut up race traitor nigger lovers go back to spain
I agree, white people DO enjoy ethnic restaurants but not for P.C. Points or any kind of social justification. I think that most white people are stuck in an antiquated notion of minority servitude that is perpetuated in many ethnic restaurants.
Many white people subconsciously derive pleasure from seeing a ethnic minority busily “hop-to” and take orders like a good “darky”.
The only place where this still happens in America is in the food service industry where promptness, courtesy and slave-like doting are commonplace. AND I disagree with the previous post that says white people avoid black establishments.
but that should be the subject of another day’s post…………….
#155 :
shut up logic traitor go crawl back into your dad’s fat cunt
@ matty 3
yup. that, or they like the food
Hilarious post. And so true…. ha.
what you forgot is america. And ya’ll sound like a bunch of black lovers who need to really look at life and wants and wishes. I never had them either my friend….whitie
I still love this website. I especially enjoy reading the comments. I am happy to see that more and more people seem to be ‘getting it’, instead of getting all butt hurt over it.
This website is bringing a lot of crazies, with nothing but time on their hands, out of their hiding places. Either that or ONE crazy guy (“Tom Sawyer”) is posting stupid crap under many different names.
you fooled yourself fool. Tom Sawyer is a classic all should read, fool. And if you are dark jump up and say something. I talk truth and wisdom.
And stay out of MY JAPAN!!!
Do whities need to take this page?
DANN GOT A CALL AND NOW I MOST VISIT PISS POOR JAPAN
MY FOE THAT IS HOW IT IS DONE
CAN YOU TOUCH ME?
NIGGER?
Obama? LMAO
WAITING
and ya’ll are very slow
You should clarify that you are talking about AMERICAN whites.
All is true unless you move to a country where there isn’t many white people all and are sick of looking at brownies.
I am Asian, and I approve this blog.
This website is hilarious. Have you guys done skydiving yet?
LOL!
It does matter a little, with more white customers, sometimes the menu does change to better suit the taste of those who would go to France and eat McDonalds…but it’s usually an additional separate menu, the English-only menu.
Hint; China’s Chinese name is “Middle Country”, or “Central Country”, it’s like an Asian version of United Kingdom, but way bigger; there are over 56 nationalities and each province has its own cuisine. If you want to start trying authentic Chinese food, go to the eateries that are regional taste specific. …and maybe skim through the appropriate culture cuisine books at the library.
…and I can’t remember the name of the rule, but group A can satirize group A without being -ist.
Being Uncle Ruckus is definitely a bad thing, but self-parody is different from self-hatred, it’s a sense of humour, though it could also be criticism as what plagues a community…not what IS.
Boondocks have plenty of jokes about black people. …and we Asians have been laughing at ourselves for decades. One hilarious example would be from this ‘BBC’ (British Born Chinese) site;
Hundreds of Ways To Tell If You Are Chinese
by Anthony Poh
http://66.111.36.90/pages/joke4.html
…hilarious because it’s true; “14. You leave the plastic on your lampshade for 10 years or more.”, when my brother read the list, and he was like, “wut, really?”, and then he turned to look at the lamp, and the very AGED plastic is still there…
There are so many things wrong with this blog I don’t know where to begin… so I won’t.. but I will probably get flamed for it anyway…still had to speak my piece…way too much energy spent on hating here. Its more strange than amusing.
I’m done.
I completely agree, but there is however the situation where one is living for some time in a country when rare is the time you DO see a white person. When you actually do see a white person, your heart jumps and you actually hear yourself say, “oh look, there’s a whitie!” It’s happened many times for me and I end up feeling guilty for wanting to see more whitie people and wonder why I cannot just find complete joy and content in my current surroundings for the time I am here. I love the local friends I have made here, but instantly connect to other white people.
I’m onto you. This is plagiarism!
Records show that Langston Hughes was very careful about the restaurants he took white people to.
#49 Serena, I completely agree with you.
I love being the only African American in the crowd, the theatre, the train, THE PLANE! I could go on but I have to get back to work!
Ciao!
My heart skips when I see my distant cousins and aunts and uncles because they look like so much like my father who passed away… is that wrong? I think its natural and understandable…
I also think nearly everyone will go too far for a joke. It’s funny for a while but then starts to make you wonder what is really going on in the person’s mind.
Amen to getting peeved at other white people in your own little corner of the world…I fully appreciated (and loved) the irony of this feeling even as it was welling up inside me in rural China.
Just found this blog – dude… cliche’ was never so funny.
Yep, he got me! I /HATE/ seeing white people when I’m traveling to experience a new edgy culture. I just knew that Belize was going to become Disney World the first time I went nearly 10 years ago… which was my last – too many white people.
And, seeing them in an exotic restaurant really kills it for me. He’s right, and it’s so silly and shallow. But, it’s true. I actually go to an out of the way Asian grocery store in Bham that a Russian friend brought me to because there’s absolutely no white people there, ever – but for us. That’s how I know that funky fish smelling seaweed salad is legit.
Having just gotten back from Hong Kong and Macau 7 hours ago, i can truely relate to this post. As the token tall (6’4) blonde white guy, i loved being “special” and any other person who wasn’t asian was a potential threat to my status. The usual first discussion when sitting down in a restaraunt was to screen the room for potential “attention competition”.
Guess it makes sense though. Didn’t pay $1500 to blend in. If i wanted to be around a bunch of tall white people, i would go vacation in Columbus, Ohio.
ok, the other ones i read (only about 10, not the whole thing), didn’t seem to really be about white people specifically but *this* one….totally!!!!!!!! this holds true even overseas. in an asian country i stayed in, white ppl on the street almost tripped over themselves trying to ignore eachother!! it was hilarious…i even caught myself doing it!
A woman from Seattle was here for a very short time and refused to become friends and hang with anyone that wasn’t a local. So I TOTALLY get what you mean!!! So funny!!
I think it’s important to add that white people not only like being the only white person around but that they LOVE being the only person in any group to have actually travelled to Asia.
XD i love white people. And I love this blog.
aaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaaaa, one of my criteria for a Mexican place in Los Angeles is that I’m the only white person there. Then again, for deliciousness for the price, it hasn’t failed me yet.
This is so true…I was recently in the Philippines and the most annoying thing happened one morning when I found the Hotel lobby crawling with other white people! I was completely depressed they were ruining the whole country for me…
wow, that is too funny. but what if one white person decides to take his white friends to that restaurant? is he spoiling the experience for other white people there?
okay, here’s the thing about your website. It’s mostly true, except, most white people are not anything like this. You should change the name to “White Hipsters ages 25-37 Living in Williamsburg, The Mission, Davis Square, and Wicker Park.”
this site is for, about, and by annoying hipsters.
don’t forget The Pearl District and Nob Hill in PDX
Isn’t that kind of the “punchline” of the joke though? These are stereotypes based on things that you often hear or have been conditioned to think in connection with white people, whether you are aware of it or not. Just like 40’s, basketball and inner city crime are stereotypes of black folks and math and karate are with Asians etc. Even if most people in a certain group don’t fit with a corresponding stereotype, a big enough chunk of people who do (especially when considerably fewer members of other groups seem to) will lead to that thing being commonly associated with the group that “loves it”
Would you rather have your culture stereotyped as hipsters or as thugs?
damn. talk about a paradox…
by the way that last comment was in response to leena’s post above
I like being the stereotype of the American whitie, when abroad, who is found more desirable among all other countries. We are nicer and more polite to the brownies/darkies, which are hated in every country except America. Let me clarify by stating that when I use the terms brownie/darkie, I’m referring to Asian Indians and all blacks. I’ve yet to meet a taxi driver who likes a brownie/darkie, and I’ve been to many places in Europe and just about all through Asia; so I know what I’m talking about. Americans don’t hate brownies/darkies; other countries do. The Japanese are not huge fans of Americans and think that they are the superior race, but they are dying to join the very elite American Club. Go figure.
I like how white people always shrug off offensive jokes towards other races and say “it’s a joke, get over it”. Now they’re on the receiving end. Some of the reactions are priceless 🙂
I could have written about a lot of these topics, but would have called these habits “American” rather than “white”. European whites are a whole new ball game.
Your blog looks like a fresh rain in the world of porno stuff and endless financial activity:)
Good job.
I’ve subscribed myself to your post-rss:)
My brother and I had the eeriest experience: Last Thanksgiving, w were driving along I-5 down to our parents’ place in LA; the whole way down, we were holding out for the next In-N-Out to get lunch. We kept missing them and right before the 152, we saw a mini-complex of fast food chains. After getting the 99 cent nuggets at Wendy’s, my brother declares, “You know, I’ve never had Panda Express, and I’ve always wanted to try.”
Of course, we had to go to Panda Express, which we’ve long regarded as another genre of food, or food-related product. Though the place was pretty much empty except for one other table, as soon as my brother and I sat down to investigate and ingest our mushy chow mein and orange chicken, people–white families, Latino families, all sorts of non-Asian folks–flock into the Panda Express and order up a storm. Coincidence, or not? It was as if they had camped outside, peeking in to see what the credibly Asian people thought of the food. My brother and I look at each other: “Did we just unintentionally endorse Panda Express?” We pretty much booked it after that.
I was thinking about moving to Kyoto, but there are too many white people living there. I will stay here in Tsu where I can be “the white guy”.
I’m no politician, and I’m not into politically correct, egg-shell walking and bubble wrapping blogs or denying someone’s freedom of speech, but isn’t using someone’s skin colour (that’s how us jolly Brits spell it) as the focus of a blog a little unhelpful and probably making the whole race/stereotype issue the whole of the world just a little worse?
Surely this is about class, or humanities selfishness or the fact that all humans are full or badness? Surely the whole looking for your own kind before entering a restaurant so you don’t ruin your “ethnic experience” is something everyone does? If you went to England for authentic fish and chips, would you want a place full of native speaking Ethiopians, or a Chinese restaurant with only white Harvard graduates in it? If we’re going down the stereotype road, isn’t it worth saying that British people would try and avoid any restaurant with Americans in it (black, white, asian or whatever) because they’re loud? Or Americans would try and avoid any British dentist because we all have bad teeth? Seriously, skin colour is so 1905.
Freedom of speech sucks….I think some things are better left unsaid…is there a Muslim stereotype version of this blog….that’d probably help society too. (that’s what we call sarcasm in Britain).
Georgia on my Mind
I grew up in a very segregated South, The institutions were quite prejudiced, yet on a personal level it was all different.
When I was a little boy we had a maid named Georgia. It seemed all the adults were prejudiced ’cause she was black, but she told funny stories and made the best chicken around. ( I noticed they never turned down her chicken either.)
I remember when Georgia died my mom took a plate of chicken out to the house and cried just like everybody else. She wasn’t faking it either; she loved Georgia as much as I did. And yet Georgia couldn’t sit at the same table in a resturant or even drink water out of the same fountain. Even as a kid it made no sense to me.
I grew up and became a country doc. One of my patients was a black man who lived to 102. When he died I went to the funeral. I was the only white guy there. It was my first visceral reaction in my life to being a minority. I felt alone.
A nurse I knew from the hospital saw me and came up to make me feel welcome. I’ll never forget her reaction. “Dr. Bibey, what in the world are you doing here, child?” Of course, I knew the family, but she intoduced me to a bunch of folks I didn’t know and made me feel right at home.
Lately I’ve had Georgia on my mind. I sure hope we made her feel that way, and if we didn’t, when I get to heaven I’m gonna look her up and apologize. I’m sure that is where that sweet woman lives these days.
Dr. Tom Bibey
drtombibey.wordpress.com
Simon…what a typically British name
jk!
pinches gabachos y su culera cultura LOL
You realize that this could be made into a great little book. Get the right photos and an artist, you will sell! The 200+ comments in the combox is something I can only dream about in my blog… and you are doing it by post #71
There’s a book about this stuff already, David Brooks’ Bobos in Paradise, but this blog is much snarkier and funnier.
I thought Martin Luther King Jr. Already said everyone should be equall which we are doing; but here it seems like were the bad guys.
201. Simon,
I hope this is a typically stereotyped British view, because I can then concur fully!
I do not look at color of people’s skin since it is no longer 1950, and I think that the premise of the whole thing is stupid. However, this is one funny blog, I enjoy reading it because it is SO NOT true (in most cases)
Apparently white people like to admit that a lot of what they embrace is shallow & superficial.
(BTW the British version of ‘White People’ is not white people it is ‘Fossil’.)
The concept of wanting to be the only white in a restaurant or vacation spot is totally foreign to me.
Sounds like a form of mass psychosis.
How does one cultivate such an attitude?
It seems to imply they don’t do things for the sake of personal satisfaction. As though the smallest parts of their lives must advance or enhance their status within the group.
In their own minds if no where else.
White people are whack.
White and Black people are whack. That’s Life
thankyou thankyou thankyou
I like this site you have going, I dig it…
Having lived in Korea for over a year and having traveled much of Asia, I think that this article is pure bunk. I think it drives the idea that we are all separatists and/or that there is shame in our differences (including being American). These are all easy statements to make if you have never immersed yourself completely in a different culture, especially a mono-culture such as the Chinese, Japanese and/or Korean. Any amount of time spent in these nations will send you routinely searching for another westerner to share a lunch with…and it will probably be at a McDonalds. The fact of the matter is…stepping out of your shoes for a bit of dim sum…is a lot different than walking in someone else’s sandals.
you’re right fish foul, white people are wack.
especially coming from a white person such as myself,
who definitely had a chuckle while reading this blog. the only way to further advance a culture or society is to look at itself and examine the things we do wrong, even to have a laugh at if if appropriate and learn from mistakes. so kudos to the author of this blog, now if we can see a stuffblackpeoplelike blog, hah, im sure that will go over just as well right? Especially with the wildly out of conrol black on black crime and OVERLY sensitive nature of blacks in america, I’m sure it would go over just as well.
I swear every person’s whack in there own way white AND black
It is so equality- styled to have a blog to make fun of white people! There are still probably a lot more white-power and hate sites out there though, so readers should make more like this to even it out!
Do it!
RE: Frosty
Blacks can’t ever be whack vis a vis white culture.
The overlying structure of American traditional values is Anglo-centric. Any violation of said values by a white is, by definition, whack.
Conversely, any Black, being, by definition, Afro-centric oriented, cannot possibly be whack when in violation of white Anglo-centric norms. He is merely ‘Keepin’ it real’.
“they won’t go to black restaurants”
I have to disagree with that comment as well. I love what most people call “soul food”. To me it’s just “that stuff I ate when I lived down South”.
But the article is right, for me at least, as I try to look for something different and there better be people of that ethnicity making my food or else it doesn’t seem right. And finding out other white people like the same spot you do…. daaaaaaaamn!
Too late fellow (white) humans – asians already had this stuff figured out. Only in our case, we have to work extra hard to compensate for our sheer numbers and resulting ethnic ubiquity. We accommodate this by having a glass shield around us that blocks out other asians….
If you still don’t get the point of this website, you need to leave.
Has anyone mentioned The Wire yet???
White people are THE ONLY PEOPLE who are proud of themselves for watching The Wire and then blogging about what it says about the state of the American city. They quote the slang as if they’ve been speaking it too all their lives. Something like:
“My favorite line from this episode of The Wire is when Snoop says, ‘In Baltimore, we aim to hit a nigga, ya heard?'”
White people also love The Wire because it gives them a chance to feel pity in their hearts for the poor black people who just can’t make it out of the Inner City! So tragic! Like Charles Dickens! Of course, these same white people will never live in Baltimore in their lives, except if they go to Johns Hopkins.
As a non-white person, I have to say that this is one of the funniest blogs I’ve ever visited. Some people have such a hard time laughing about race. Good job.
That’s pretty freakin’ hilarious!!
And I totally agree with you on the idea of being a cultural pioneer.
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This is an insightful post that reaffirms much of my observations on the White man. I already added you to my blogroll so keep up the good work!
Right on, brother, right on.
This white chick loves hearing how we are viewed…whether the viewer is white, black, green, or blue.
white people like being in on the joke.
white people don’t like being laughed at, but don’t mind being laughed with.
I think it’s great that someone’s getting to the heart of the matter and looking at the connections among skin color (aka race), class, and culture.
A couple of months back, I wrote a post about foodies and tried to make the point that they are affluent consumers who are so comfortable with their lives that they can afford to treat food and eating as hobbies, not as necessities. Therefore, they seek out the unusual and exotic partly to prove their adventurousness and open-mindedness.
Having read this post, it have to add my impression that part of some people’s desire for the exotic and unusual stems from the need to prove that they are not in fact rich—and thus different from the majority—but the opposite, that they are just regular, everyday folks.
Here’s a link to the post: http://mightyminnow.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/dawn-of-the-foodies-americas-most-obnoxious-clique/
Finally, on the question of race, it seems that White guilt does cause some White people to want to prove that they are not racist. And some of these folks will miss no opportunity to refer to their friends of color, as in “My Indian friend says . . ..” or “I was talking to this Ugandan guy the other day . . ..”
Anyway, I think this blog’s authors deserve credit for addressing a sensitive issue like race, and for doing so with wit and humor.
You need to add “Espresso” Which combines the snobbery of coffee to the love of expensive kitchen gadgets. a credulous white guy can spend upwards of $2000 on a gadget that makes 2 ounces of coffee at a time.
I love how WP picks up posts about white people if they are written by whites. If a person of color has a critique you’ll have to know where to go and find it for it will never reach the frontpages of WP, which of course, is run by whites. This isn’t to say that whites can’t make these types of calls, it is just in my firsthand observation, they do not.
White rules. If you are a person of color (especially if you’re black) you can’t be trusted to make rational observations and critiques. So a white voice on the same topic and with the same position is credible where a black voice is not. Anyone honest knows this is 100% true.
White people LOVE laughing at themselves!
What sucks is that this is post #71 and people still don’t get it The world this blogger is trying to build.
It’s like watching a movie.
Don’t take it so literal.
Just take it in.
He or she lives in the same world as you and I, so enough with all the speeches about racism.
Marc G – I don’t think whites are writing this blog. Also, you might rationally consider that more than 200 people commenting on a single post could effect it appearing on the front page. Sorry to be so direct.
Ha! Stupid White people. I hate them. They suck
228 marcg,
Are you suggesting that you can only laugh at a race/religion/nationality if you are not of that race/religion/nationality? You can’t be serious.
Name me a comedian that can make fun of black people (without being deemed a racist) He/She is usually black. Hispanics? Usually a hispanic person. Asians? Usually Asian. Who better than to mock white people than…..white people?
if a person of color is writing this blog, it’s going to come across (after a while) as an inferiority complex mixed with a sharp wit – i would maintain that any person of color who knows this world this well has spent so much time in it that it reeks of envy (as well as legitimate fatigue). if a white person is writing it, while it may suggest a good deal of class envy, at its worst it’s self mocking and ironic, without being over the top.
i agree with an earlier poster: i’m thrilled the blog author has not responded (publicly) to any of the posts in the thread.
Damn, here I grew up thinking I was white, but it turns out I wasn’t rich enough to have a skin color. When the Ruskies invent a time machine, I will go back to 1990 and tell my parents to get jobs so I can reclaim my heritage. And anyway, what’s it like to eat in restaurants?
Loved this! the whole”Do your best to find a table with a divider, or ask the waiter to put future white people out of sight” line was great. I mean plz- if more than just those white tourist are dining then OMG this must be a tourist attraction vs a local/ethnic diner… lol, they are a funni breed, thanks for bringin in some light! =]
Hello. I’ve seen you on the wordpress dashboard a lot and finally curiosity over the blog title got the best of me. I’ll return later. You talk about issues that I’ve never pondered in all of my 43 years.
timbob
White people LOVE to look homeless!
This blog gets me thinking…probably a white thing…overanalyzing…I need to lighten up! Love the recycling post
Susan
http://www.organicsyes.wordpress.com
white people can do all sorts of awesome stuff blacks cant. Like keep their mouths shut and be still longer than 2 seconds. Its really facinating.
ZOMG THIS BLOG IS BRILLIANT!!!! please, please, please do a post on white people and san francisco!
When I was in Post grad school my white friends whould get mad when the handful of black students would get together between classes and chat? (We would say they think more than 2 is a riot) She would say imature things like,you like them more than me? Hello we are in our twenties..
She would never go to black night clubs with me(my experience was they were MUCH NICER than the places I would go with her). All my black friends experience similar things while there.
We kinda just knew they were not going to move to far out of their zone limit. I knew they were at there limit whem the OJ verdict came down and the “N” word started flying in front of me with no appology. It made me somewhat sad but not surprised. They were not friends just school mates in the end.
I think we just have to try to fit in more if we are around you alot for work school etc.and flex more for your comfort. Most of us accept this as a norm. Part of the “white is right” package of bull…
I was the first black woman many of those white boys ever knew and that was anther cultural experience(they had pretty black girl fanstasies)
White people like to CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES. Especially WHITE POLITICIANS like John McCain. Check out pics of Vicki Iseman and a link to her official bio:
http://beertap.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/john-mccain-caught-cheating-on-his-wife/
By the way, I LOVE this blog!!! I’ve linked to it and emailed it to everyone I know.
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242 trackmom,
It’s funny. I had the exact same experience with my black friends – even down to the guys having white girl fantasies.
As a white guy I enjoyed reading your list of things we like, and agreed with almost all of it. However, this list does not include a very obvious grouping of stuff we find hilarious, known as The 3 M’s of White Humor: Mullets, Moustaches, and Midgets. Please add to the list ASAP.
White people are such dorks. The world would be a better place without them. They need to go.
Do you ever notice how they sit up so straight and proper in the car when they’re driving? How gay is that? They need to loosen up and lay down low when they’re driving like us bruthas and sistas. Maybe they need to be shot at more often. That’s not a bad idea, is it?
Also, look at the ugly rims on their cars. They have no style, whatsoever. What good is an $80,000 Mercedes without a stylin set of rims to round it out? It’s like eating Collards without the ham. No taste.
And how come you don’t catch (pun intended) them at Long John Silvers? Don’t they like mass produced, low quality fried fish? Apparently not. They’re too good for that sort of thing. It might clog their delicate blue-blooded arteries.
Finally, why do they wait so long to have kids, and when they do have them, they only have their replacement rate with the exception of Mormons (those folks can fuck)? Don’t they realize that a woman is ready to breed when she hits puberty. Screw birth control. It’s just another way for whitey to reduce our numbers, and I can’t stand condoms, they desensitize me and ruin the moment. They should learn to knock their woman up early and they should be proud to sire 30 kids in their lifetime. What a boring bunch they are.
Like I said, the world would be a better place without them.
247 Chlamor’s Long Lost Brutha,
I’m trying to figure out which is worse – not putting rims on a new Benz – or – putting rims on a ’97 Geo Prism. lol!
I never knew you could pimp out a Hyundai! lol!
It is very hard for me to believe that white ppl want to be the only white person around. I do not see this on a regular basis. It would seem that Blacks, Latinos, maybe even Asians do no mind being the only person of their group around white people.
just a few ideas for new posts:
“Blogs”
“Blogs about White People”
“Knowing more about people on the internet”
“Being Correct”
“Cold Weather”
My ex used to love this one Mexican restaurant because “that is where all the Mexicans eat” so I guess if that is where they eat it must be good, right?
I can’t stop reading your blog, but I need to just to make a post. This is some of the funniest shit I have ever read. Speaking of shit and thinking of white people: my grandma (God rest her soul) comes to mind. She trained me well (most particularly in the whitest way to be an alcoholic) about a lot of white shit. Like how and why one should never say shit. In her household it was a bowel movement (BM was also acceptable and, err, slightly ironic). No doodie, no poo, no logs, no crap. In her sweet white mind there were two places where one could safely use an expletive, while wearing the veil of anonymity that an AA meeting could provide or safely behind the walls of an extremely exclusive and safely secluded country club, I mean rehab.
I am a new and avid fan of your blog!
You seem to be an expert and I have a question. On a scale of 1 to 10, how white is “shake and bake”? It keeps me awake often at night. Is it white at all, or just white trash?
I have two words for all of you:
Anthony Bourdain
LOL! I love this blog! The funniest shit I’ve read in weeks! I am a new fan!!!
Good blog! This is f*cking hysterical. It reminds me of:
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
And the people in their comment thread have absolutely no sense of humor, either.
#254 GLORIA!!!!
HAAAA HAAA HAAA!!!! Terrific!
The comments on these posts are the most funny thing about it to me. Yes, condescending to other cultures, unnecessary expenses and indie music are not universal to white people ANY MORE than rap music, illegitimate children and welfare are to black people or a poor grasp of english and kung fu is to east asian people.
The offended people commenting don’t know what to think when the shoe is on the other foot since it’s been on the first foot for so long they’ve stopped feeling it.
Everyone check out post number 206 in these comments.
that person is dead on. All the material for this blog was basically lifted from “Bobos in Paradise” by David Brooks
http://www.amazon.com/Bobos-Paradise-Upper-Class-There/dp/0684853787
this blog is hilarious!! looks like someone ripped you off:
http://www.stuffjewishpeoplelike.com
lol!
i can tell you it’s true!!!
not only any white around…any spaniard!!
i ve been living in southafrica for 6 weeks and i havent still met any spanish person … and i think its great! my english its getting better day by day!
alberto
this blog is obviously written by a white person. white people love blogs.
heyyy. that should be #72 on the list of stuff white people like!
Pretty funny stuff. Being white myself, is it acceptable to laugh at this blog? Lighten up, people.
Oh Noes!!!! Anonymous hasn’t posted yet, so here it is!
stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
We are all racist!
I have to laugh.
Almost every post on this blog points out that white people are superior in so many ways.
I’m not says that, the blog is.
Clearly, satire makes fun of things by exaggerating them, and what do we have if we take out the exaggeration? Well, it seems that white people are much more concerned and sensitive than other people who obliviously go through life like the oblivious animals they are. White people get hurt by relationships because they feel love clearly, unlike black people who “hit it” and abandon children. White people are concerned about the “Earth” because they can see into the future and plan, again in contrast to so many black people and other primitive types.
All that sounds harsh right, but recall why Dave Chappelle got out of comedy. He stated that he was poking fun at black people a lot, but really what he was saying was true, and people were laughing AT black people instead of with them. Your blog is doing the opposite of that and is actually pointing out superiority.
I’d reconsider.
You know, I used to think white people had a better sense of humor about themselves than black people. Now I just realize that they’ve just never had anything make fun of them with the same dry and astute wit they value so much. Once something came along that made fun of them but actually was smart and went for the jugular rather than that lame “Black people drive like this but white people drive like THIS” humor that standup comics use, they show they’re as sensitive as everyone else.
Couldn’t you make a nice, neat list of all the posts? That way I would only need to scan through
it to be able to discuss it with my ‘friends’ on what seems like a knowledgeable level while only
really having a very superficial level of information. It would leave me with more time to scour
Craigslist for bric-a-brac and future single-speed projects.
i cannot stand white people. they carry a privileged oblivious sense or righteousness everywhere they go, whatever they do, they have the knowledge and justification. I HATE WHITE PEOPLE. i hope black people takeover america. id rather live in a warzone than a bubble
I hate the way white people talk. I can’t understand a word they say and I have to consistently ask them to repeat themselves.
Also, how come white guys never grab their dicks in public? What are they afraid of, or ashamed of? Grab the dick, motherfuckers. What a bunch of pussies…scared to grab the dick in public. They need to yank their pants down below their hips and show some ass crack and jack their knob like a Bonobo Chimp in front of everyone. That’s some cool shit there, and they need to get cool, and quick. It don’t count of you only do it in the shower. You have to show everybody that you know how to grab the dick. People aren’t just going to take your word for it. Grab the dick you dorks and step into the 21st century. Grab the dick in public and yank the muthafuckin pants down you crackers.
White people love:
-claiming reverse racism.
Because the discrimination they’ve faced on an individual level that one time is TOTALLY the same as the centuries-long discrimination that minorities face on an institutional level.
Great post, this is fab!
I MUST link you!
Things white people love: Writing snarky blogs that insult white people! Self loathing is so awesome and shows our depth!
worst. blog. ever.
“Things white people love: Writing snarky blogs that insult white people! Self loathing is so awesome and shows our depth!”
Exactly.
That’s because we white people realize how much blacks hate us. Blacks are violent, hate filled people and we need to not be around them for our own safety – that’s only natural. Phht.
Wanna be the only white person around? This is how to do it:
http://stuffblackpeoplefeel.wordpress.com/
Touche!
Oh, Those Kooky white people. Next thing you Know, they’ll think they can play hockey, run for High Office, and Make fun of themselves in self-absorbed blogs!
GO WHITEY! GO WHITEY! SHAKE DAT BOOTY!!!
White people! Still here! Still Happy to meet you!
You know, in the end it all comes down to how you want to live your life. Is life a curse, or a blessing?
To clarify,
Is Your Life a “curse”?
Or, is Your Life a “blessing”?
What does race or sex have to do with this?
You know what I hate? I hate the way black people consider anybody who is not black, as white. I am brown, therefore, neither black nor white…thank god.
I’ve just read every post in the blog. I laughed at the first dozen, then started getting embarassed (especially about the Netflix post). By the end I was just depressed. I live in Washington DC, and I guarantee you that there are not 100 people (white or otherwise) in this city who know who or what the hell are Proust, Miyazaki, Nanking, Henry James, Jean Paul Sartre, and the French New Wave. Let’s face it, Americans hate people they perceive as intellectuals. People who go see Samuel Beckett plays aren’t sitting near the top of the social pecking order. More likely they are lonely and defensive, apologizing to co-workers and family for having interests that other people find demeaning. Where are these white people of which you speak? I have no idea, but I guarantee that they don’t live in America.
So, not only am I a self-agrandizing, loner, elitist – now I’m also a racist. At least I know.
White people love the word “authentic”. They love it so much that they’ve devalued its meaning. They probably appreciate the authentic humor/commentary of this site…unless its revealed the author is white. Then it will cease to be authentic. And they will snub it!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This post is so true. My dad says all the time, “You know it’s a good Chinese restaurant if there are Chinese there.” or whatever restaurant it is.
Thank you for talking about these things. Helps us move past them.
I love white people. They vote, make quiche, listen to 80s music, use their blinkers, never call police “crackers”, recycle, finish their cocktails, and call their mothers on Mother’s Day.
Oh yeah, they actually spend money, too.
there are not 100 people (white or otherwise) in this city who know who or what the hell are Proust, Miyazaki, Nanking, Henry James, Jean Paul Sartre, and the French New Wave.
Eric, you just aren’t turning over the right stones. I bet I could find some dead-end streets in Montgomery County with 100 people like that!
Stuff White People Like:
Putting rare stickers on their car that they think only they have or only other white people have. For example, the sticker that reads: Keep Tahoe Blue.
When too many white people (local or poser tourists) also started putting these stickers on their cars, the whiteys had to up the ‘progressive’ anti and show that they truly embraced another culture and started putting ‘Mantenga Tahoe Azul’ on their cars.
Then other whiteys caught on to it so they had to up the ante even more so they came out with Ruski! ‘Coxpahи Тахо чистbIM’
What’s next crazy whiteys?
Funny, but I hang around with multicultured people. It is a matter of taste and taking a chance on something completely different. For to sample life, one must explore the depth of the unknown, be willing to taste and enjoy the indifference of life.
This blog makes me laugh, and also hate myself.
Keep up the amazing work!
This is great. The comments by the people that don’t get it are almost as funny as the perceptive satire.
WHY HAVE YOU NOT MADE A POST ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE LOVING TO LYNCH NIGGERS?! ARE YOU NIGGER LOVERS HIDING THE TRUTH!?!?
This blog needs to be named “Stuff white, upper class, very liberal yuppies like”.
Hahaha omg soooo true. How many times have I heard, “Well, tons of Japanese people are eating there, so it MUST be good sushi!”
Awesome blog!
Where’s Kevin Riley O’Keeffe?
Nice work you got ppl talking about race kudos. Shh I dont think they know they are yet so Ill be quiet now.
Is it just me, or are many of these generalizations completely off the mark?
I mean, I know very few white people who are obsessed with organic food, driving a Prius, hanging out in bicycle shops and so on and so forth.
to quote 295: “This blog needs to be named “Stuff white, upper class, very liberal yuppies like”.”
^^^ good suggestion, then the blog would actually be appropriate
I don’t qualify for this one. I pretty much prefer to be around those of European descent. My close friends and family are all white. I also prefer to live in a community that’s pretty much all white. I do have non-white colleagues, I just prefer my personal life to be surrounded by whiteness. An East Asian living on the block ain’t so bad (Japanese, Koren, Chinese).
lol…..well, don’t you people like The Office and American Idol and such?
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Can someone tell me who are Christian & Jess, the couple with the flickr account linked to on the right side of the page?
(their pictures serve to illustrate ‘white’ mores, like the pic on this page)
I ‘m an ” Island darkie” and I absolutely love this blog !!!
lmao
This blog is great. The person that posted all the links about stuffblackpeoplelike and stuffmexicanpeoplelike is missing the point as far as I can tell. Never has this blog posted “Racism” or “Lynching” as stuffwhitepeoplelike, although there is plenty of historic evidence. Instead, it chastizes a bunch of middle-class, guilt-ridden goofballs. It leaves working folks, with all their contradictions, alone. I think that is brilliant.
So if one were to do a similar blog for, say, black folks, then it wouldn’t say shit like “eating watermelon” or whatever. It would say, “Researching Genealogy” or “Michael Eric Dyson” or something. That separates out the boogie NAACP crowd from the Robert F. Williams and Malcolm X crowd, which is a distinction that is these days more and more urgent.
Anyway, love the blog, keep up the great work, and I am still waiting for the entries on “Moleskines” and “Contrived Discussions about Race.”
Here’s another favourite pasttime of white ‘people’: smug left wing white males paying out on white women. Notice there’s no entries on this blog specifically criticising white men?
You folks really don’t get it. The presumption of this site is that these pompous, educated, self-righteous white art students rule the country and need to be taken down a notch. When the truth in the US is that educated people who do things like read novels not written for 12 year olds, recycle and go to plays are despised everywhere outside of little urban islands concentrated around the edges of the country.
It makes me sick to think so many people are getting a kick out of being called racist for reading a book, when the truth is that you don’t read nearly as many books as you’d like people believe. This blog isn’t irritating because it’s true, it’s irritating because so many of you think this blog is talking about you. Take my word for it – it’s not – it’s talking about the person you wish you were.
You may be saying “aren’t me and all my friends funny for reading Proust” when what you’re really thinking is “thank God, now I don’t have to read f**king Proust.” – assuming, of course, you know who he is.
(If you think I’m full of shit, then quick, and without checking Wikipedia, name 2 things he wrote.)
Yeah, this is the best use of blog space ever!
But when are you putting up a new post. How about this–White people love-
– Fencing analogies and references, especially the words parry/touche
– renting a cabin for a weekend vacation
– energy drinks
– singing along to Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer when it comes on at a bar
– increasing their fiber intake
– Supermarket delivery service: PeaPod
— Playing Guitar Hero
— Gluten free products
“the note about night clubs is very true. i’ll be damned if you’ll catch a white person at a black night spot.”
Presumably because most White people have this peculiar tendency to avoid being brutally murdered. Although in fairness, a lot of White people would almost rather die than admit that’s the reason they wouldn’t choose to visit “a Black night spot.”
“Another thing white people consider very important: good service! they love to be served in zany, creative ways, and they love to make unnecessary and annoying demands on their servers!”
Perhaps, but the day a Black party of four adults under the age of 50 dines politiely and quietly at a restaurant, and then leaves a full 15% tip, the freakin’ Ku Klux Klan will hold a nation-wide series of “Up With Black Folk!” parades down the principal boulevards of every major American metropolis.
Hilarious blog!
Comment thread not so hilarious!
“Anyone who thinks this blog is racist or unfair is an idiot. “Whiteness” is something that transcends the color of one’s skin. I’m sure everyone knows plenty of non-white people who act very “white,” as well as plenty of white people who act very ‘non-white.'”
Back in the 1970s, I used to have a cat that became fully assimilated into the canine culture of first my dog, and later the other neighborhood dogs, to such an extent I suspect he thought he was a dog (oddly, he was even named “Spot,” a total dog’s name), and the local dogs sure seemed to treat him like they accepted him as a dog.
Never-the-less, he was a cat.
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“Funny..I like being the only black person around.”
Who can blame you?
“Who even utters the word “Oriental” anymore??”
Pretty much any White person over 30 who didn’t go to college, in case your question wasn’t rhetorical. The term “Oriental” is basically a synonym for “Asian,” so I’m a little unclear as to why its considered “offensive.”
As to the identity of this blogger… Jess has pictures on Flikr and they are labled “pancake jess.” There is a blog with that name and on there she announces her new Flikr page.
http://pancakeday.blogspot.com/2006/07/pancake-jess.html
Not Asian. Although this could be her Canadian Husband and he might be Asian.
That being said… funny site.
al sends
“As described in this blog, whites spend most of their time seeking individualism, yet when they talk to a black person they talk about hip-hop (usually Mos Def), or talk to a Japanese person they ask about sushi, ect…”
Really? I didn’t realize I tailored my conversation topics to the race of the person to whom I am speaking (or that any other White people I know do so as well). I just talk about whatever I’m interested in, and expect them to do the same; if there’s no significant overlap, I usually don’t choose to repeat the experience too many times (which is one reason most of my friends are White). Why the Hell would I want to talk to a Black person about (c)rap “music,” or a Japanese guy about sushi? I don’t know shit about those topics, primarily because I’m not interested in them.
I must not be white cuz i bean to balck clubs alone and im white.
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Some of this is pretty funny. But it’s going to suck itself in a black hole of irony at some point. I suggest that the milestone #100 thing should be “BLOGS”, that should do it.
snowboy says:
Stuff White People Like: Being Alone in The Woods; The Forest.
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Oh my. I have to cosign on this one. I’ve often wondered why white people are infatuated with wandering off by themselves in the middle of nowhere.
It’s beyond me no matter how hard I try to grasp for reason.
I was the only white guy, on an all black football team. And, obviously, I was the kicker…
White people love cookbooks, especially Silver Palate and Joy of Cooking.
“It is a reification (a post modern term) in the vein of NSK, a post modern, Eastern European art collective that exposes the terrors of fascism by reclaiming the fashions totalitarians and religions reclaimed from art — they poke fun by taking the system more seriously than it takes itself, as Dusan Bjelic, a former (post modern) professor of mine might have suggested.”
Hey, what do you know! I think I may have found another “Laibach” fan right here on “Stuff White People Like.”
Note: Laibach is part of the NSK collective this poster referenced above. Please see my post under the Indie music topic, in the unlikely event you desire further clarification.
“and #129 Tony M alluded to Atlas Shrugged: classic redneck architect verus new-age modern architect.”
No, that was The Fountainhead, by the same author (Ayn Rand). Of course, if you insist on reading an Ayn Rand novel, The Fountainhead is clearly the best one. Atlas Shrugged is pretty much for radical libertarian types only, whereas The Fountainhead can appeal to pretty much anyone who prefers freedom to tyranny and mindless social conformity.
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“Who even utters the word “Oriental” anymore??”
Pretty much any White person over 30 who didn’t go to college, in case your question wasn’t rhetorical. The term “Oriental” is basically a synonym for “Asian,” so I’m a little unclear as to why its considered “offensive.”
To use the word “oriental” as a noun is considered (on varying levels) offensive. That being said though, I don’t particularly find the term offensive, but rather obsolete. It’s very ethnocentric label and perpetuates the “exoticism” of Asians.
The Orient actually refers to Asia (or perhaps more precisely, the Asiatic portion of Eurasia), while the Occident refers to Europe. Eurasia’s indigenous population consists of Orientals in the eastern and central regions, and Occidentals in the west; each is exotic to the other.
I’m not sure what’s so offensive about noting the exoticism of various Asiatic cultures; I happen to like Hindu religious art, but its still very foreign for someone who grew up in an Irish-American, Roman Catholic perspective. And East Asian culture is so foreign to me, I have absolutely no idea what any of it means. It just seems very alien, to such an extent that I have a quite difficult time being able to make any honest claim as to whether I like it or not. Its too far removed from my experience to be able to have any intelligent opinion about it. I think many fellow White people face the same dilemma, but are too shallow and conceited (or perhaps are simply unaware of their own lack of comprehension) to admit there is anything they do not understand, and so they instead pretend they grok the East Asian thing in order to project the image of their being culturally sophisticated, when in reality, just admitting they do not understand East Asian culture would actually be more sophisticated, albeit in a manner that is too subtle for them to embrace.* That’s a difficult theory to put to the test, but I strongly suspect it overlaps pretty heavily with the truth.
*To paraphrase Socrates, it is better to know what you do not know, then to go through life blissfully unaware of your own ignorance.
This is totally true and so funny… I am a white person who was in Japan (#58 on your list!) last September and can admit to mild disappointment at how many white people (mostly Australians and Europeans) were there… We didn’t even look at each other in the hostels we were so ashamed!
I think this is the funniest website I have ever read.
White people are pretty much bland and boring. They lack culture so they go look for it other places. Just like they lack melanin. It’s sad yet funny actually.
This is my first visit to your blog -and I must say – I understand why its so popular. You are a sattirical genius – and most importantly – you made me laugh (until I cried ). For the sake of your argument, tell me something – what do you think it would be like if all the ‘others’ left and ‘white people’ had the entire North American continent to themselves?
“Ethiopian food is HUGE”
Ethiopian’s dont have food. Dont you watch tv?
im not white.. the blog is not negative in any way and I find the intricate lives of white people extremely interesting…
hehe
there isn’t a problem for a white person being in an asian food establishment
regardless, interesting blog post . . . very very interesting.
http://kobiata.wordpress.com
Man, yall must be talking about those northern(or wanna be northern) white people. White people in the south are a whole other breed of white people. My grand moms used to cook nothing but soul food. We were raised on that stuff.
OH my goodness I have done this. hah!
I live in California and this blog describes all of the yuppie white I work with…but not necessarily live around. Actually, describes them, too.
Some advice for white people: please don’t try to recruit your one black (or other ethnic) friend to introduce you to some “cool” ethnic spots. We don’t like helping you become the white pioneer amongst your white friends. If you’re gonna do that, start paying us as your Happy Ethnic Tourguide.
i actually disagree with this. i always feel really guilty and self-conscious when i’m the only white person around.
Oh, no, I think this is spot on. If by white, you mean Anglo. I lived in El Paso for many years. And every day I would find myself the only Anglo blue-eyed person in the room. I stood out! I was special! Then I moved to Wisconsin, and I felt like the wallpaper.
How do you tell the Ethiopian Jew? He’s the one with the Rolex around his waist…..
There, more offensive matter to digest, or not.
It’s true. I won’t go into a dim sum restaurant unless there’s a mostly Chinese clientele inside. But then I have to bring a Chinese friend with me who can tell me what’s in the stuff I’m eating. I don’t want to accidentally eat chicken feet. Gross!
I want an authentic ethnic culinary experience, but not actually have to eat any of the gross authentic ethnic culinary crap that real ethnic people seem to enjoy.
It’s a fine line.
Also – there’s a (as in singular) Chinese restaurant in Orillia, Ontario that is staffed entirely by white people. Well! We just turned around and walked right out of that one. Drove down to Barrie instead and ate at a pizza joint that properly staffed with Somalis. There’s a certain expectation, folks.
This is like, so good!
This is seriously my new favorite website…ever! LOL!
” the gross authentic ethnic culinary crap that real ethnic people seem to enjoy. ”
What’s ethnic people, everyone is ethnic people. Want to see some stuff Italians, French and Irish eat?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu
Maggot shit paste, with the maggots in it.
http://www.metafilter.com/69251/The-Soul-of-France
Whole bird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis
and.. HAGGIS! AHHHHHHHH!!!
i’m actually the same way. if i were at a chinese restaurant for example, and most of the people dining there were white/black/hispanic, then i would have the tendency to view the restaurant as “westernized” and not authentic enough, ie, pf chang and the like.
Go Niners!
a whitey in MIAMI im gonna have to agree! i just luv the latin women SRY!!
Those darn white people! They’re all the same and so easy to pigeonhole! I’m glad we’ve got sites like this to avoid the problem of cultural misunderstandings.
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Asians do pretty stupid things too.
There’s this site that tries to do the same thing. It has a lot about being stupid too.
http://asians.thinkunique.net
LOL at–But if there is a table occupied entirely by white people, it is deemed unacceptable.
this is hilarious.
OMG. I am so glad to see funny ISH like this.
As an asian, I totally use the white% to ethnic% to judge the quality of an ethnic restaurant. if it’s an indian cuisine restaurant and there’s a good amount of middle easterns peppered with a handful of white people then i’m okay. and I am prepared to eat something great.. but if it’s a chinese restaurant that is consisting of 90% white people who are looking to eat during their lunch hour, then that is a NO!! i do however make an exception of P.F. Changs, which is good/filling but not authentic chinese food.
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[…] Jag gick in, blev uttittad av alla på restaurangen, en amerikan och säkert 35 koreaner. Fick ett bord för mig själv – jag var ju själv, dock inte ensam. Jag fick idel leenden från bordsgrannarna medans amerikanen som var ensam vit men hördes mest antagligen blev lite stött över att han inte var ensam vit längre (https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/71-being-the-only-white-person-around/). […]
I knew there was a conservative undercurrent to this blog that bothered me in a way I couldn’t quite articulate: check the post on ‘Asian Girls’, specifically the phrase “should white guy / asian girl marry, they produce hybirds that are aestically pleasing, but are very annoying”. Yeah, way to go hip, ironic, anti-racist white guy blogger!!! You totally convinced me!!!
( https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/11-asian-girls/ )
This is completely facile, folks. I used to live right by the very first stop on a bus route where white people would board a particular bus route, and, believe me, many white people would walk past this stop and go to the second, third, fourth stops — more or less so that they could board with other white people, and avoid the discomfort of being the only white person on the bus. If white people really did like being the only white person around, then I’d see the opposite pattern, right? Years later, in fact, pretty much no white people live beyond that magic dividing line; that’s in keeping with surveys which find that white people like to live in neighborhoods that are 70%+ white.
A large part of white privilege’s power is being able to NOT have to think about race, which is pretty much only possible if you’re always in the majority. White people might like “ethnic adventure” on occasion, but by and large they like their comfort zones.
I agree with #21: “I can find pleanty of mid-america white folk that don’t like any of this stuff.” (Not to mention that said middle America white folk vastly outnumber urban white yuppies or hipsters; white privilege is sadly more intractable than white guilt.) A lot of commenters are acting like this is really deep shit about the Meaning of Race in America; no, it’s completely facile “making fun of yuppies,” which got old back in the 1980s.
I think black people get excited when they see each other, if they dont know each other they would start talking and moaning about how hard done by they are-Fact
Really funny, thanks 🙂
seeing a black family there is even worse. my family lives in germany, and have been to croatia several times. so we go during the summer because its a cool place to go, and we saw so many white american tourists that wouldn’t even acknowledge us. black people like nice vacations too
How racist are you people, treating white people as some differnt kind of human!!!!
Would you like it if i made a “stuff about black & India”website??
NO!!!
you need to get your facts rright coz im white and all of what you said is a load of bollox !!!
It only apply to some racist twats and if your one of them then personaly i dont think you deserve to be alive(y)
Do you actualy understand how racist this is??
Sterotyping white people as to be snobs!!, And making out that all white people hate black people or asian people!!!
When thats not true,
your sick people!!!
get a grip and grow up!
Leanne:
> and all of what you said is a load of bollox !!!
You’re not doing too badly in that post of yours either.
Was that photograph taken in Ton Kiang, on Geary?
well im white and i kinda follow this rule. but doesnt that make sense? if im eating, say, korean food, i like the idea of it being the korean food that koreans are into, not some lame korean food that’s catering to white people. am i wrong?
I love White folks. They don’t act like their in a zoo while in public, they don’t have to make a person a block away listen to their car audio system and hell they can even speak without grabbing their Johnson and most of all speak without every other word being a cuss work and speaking about their mother. White folks don’t wear their pants down at their knees to show the public they do wear “clean” underwear. White people even make their kids behave in department and grocery stores, not let them run around using them as their own personal playgrounds, knocking stuff off shelves, throwing things in the floor, breaking toys while their parents laugh and refuse to pay for anything their kids have broken. White people don’t go to a supermarket and hit the produce section to eat as many grapes as they can before they get to the checkout stand, or cookies and other foods they eat and enjoy while shopping and not paying for them. White people even know how to wear a baseball cap the right way, they don’t look like they just got out of a mental institution with their hats on sideways and walking like they just shit their pants.
White people have more pride than most nationalities, they would rather do an honest days work than collect hand-outs and not sale drugs as their way of making a living.
I love White people who get arrested and don’t blame their arrests on the color of their skin, they blame it on being dumb enough to get caught. White people don’t say there is racial profiling because there is so many Whites in jail and prisons, they know they are there because they broke the law and were convicted. White people can even understand a cop when the cop tells him or her to stop running, or to drop their weapon, or tell them not to resist unlike Rodney King. White people believes he got what he deserved and look at him now, riding a bicycle to get around in after getting all that money he sued for and still acting like a low life breaking the law and being arrested.
I love how “married” White folks plan on how many children they will have by their incomes and to raise them by giving them opportunities they never had, not like Mexican and Blacks who pump out kids just to outnumber the White folks. I like it when White folks pay for their hospital stays, and not use our emergency rooms for their healthcare plan. I love White immigrants who come here and become Americans, not like others who come here legally and illegally mostly from Mexico and try to make America look like Mexico, the country they abandoned like traitors.
If not for White people this country would revert back to the stone ages. Asians also know how to act like human beings and have pride in themselves and how they live, Italians are another and most Europeans. I also like White music that I can unserstand the words, good old White Country and Western music you all.
What a coincidence! I DO THE SAME THING. And I’m not even white! But if a bunch of white people are in an Asian restaurant with no ethnic people at their table, I refuse to go in =D
After marrying an Asian girl to use as “restaurant camo” I have found the best sushi places. Especially when calling for reservations.
EYE’ve eaten at the dim sum place in that picture! their lo mai gai is awesome!
Funny this. . .but every restaurant frequented by primarily white people has bad food.
Even my husband (who is a white person) knows this. When he was driving a truck (tractor-trailer) he wouldn’t bother to stop at any restaurant where only white people stopped to eat.
Go figure—
By the way, I am black. . .
I almost feel as tho Ive found out about a secret society that is so intriguing …it tickles!! HA! I have to let all my (black) friends about this….who knew this existed? white people ….always seem to amaze me!! This is great! :o)
Funny this. . .but every restaurant frequented by primarily white people has bad food. I personally make it a point of NOT going to any restaurant that is frequented primarily by white people.
Even my husband (who is a white person) knows this. When he was driving a truck (tractor-trailer) he wouldn’t bother to stop at any restaurant where only white people stopped to eat.
Go figure—
By the way, I am black. . .
this is truth.
This just in, the writer of the Blog is not a disaffected Asian male but rather a Canadian white boy.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rodriguez25feb25,0,1952462.column
White like us
A blogger explores the attitudes and foibles of a new minority group.
February 25, 2008
Six weeks ago, 29-year-old Culver City Internet copy writer Christian Lander started a blog, stuffwhitepeoplelike. wordpress.com, on a whim, thinking he’d poke fun at himself and fellow white people. Spending roughly two hours a day writing satirical posts about “stuff white people like,” Lander had no idea how much his little inside joke would catch on. In the first week, the site received about 200 hits a day. The next week it jumped to 600, and then 4,000 the next. By last week, he was averaging 300,000 daily hits.
Lander, who arrived in L.A. from Toronto 2 1/2 years ago, came up with the idea for the blog after talking to a Filipino friend about how much they both liked the HBO police drama “The Wire.” For some reason he’s already forgotten, they both wished that more white people watched the show. Which got him thinking: What exactly do white people like?
By “white people,” Lander doesn’t actually mean the more than 221 million Americans who check that box on the decennial census. But that’s part of the fun. Lander is doing to whites what scores of journalists and politicians do to non-white minorities every day, “essentializing” complex identities — that is, stripping away all variety and reducing them to their presumed authentic essences.
One irony-deficient reader complained that the blog was less about white people than it was about yuppies. And without knowing it, she was cutting to the heart of the joke. Lander is gently making fun of the many progressive, educated, upper-middle-class whites who think they are beyond ethnicity or collectively shared tastes, styles or outlook. He’s essentially reminding them that they too are part of a group.
“I’m writing about the white people who think they’re absolutely unique and individual,” Lander told me. “I’m calling them out and poking fun of myself. The things I post are all the things I like too!”
And what are those things? Recycling, expensive sandwiches, standing still at concerts, Toyota Priuses, natural medicine, irony, public radio, breakfast places, vegetarianism, organic foods and being an expert on ethnic cultures are just a few.
Lander thinks that most of his readers are actually members of the elite group he’s lampooning. Some of the comments on the blog suggest that he’s right. “Oh, lord, it only hurts because it’s true! Love the blog,” one reader who calls herself White Lady wrote. But others are more perplexed. Responding to a blog entry claiming that white people like Sarah Silverman, MC wrote, “I’m white and I HATE Sarah Silverman (and would take Monique … ANYDAY, so there.”) Still another offended and anonymous reader listed a lot of racist stereotypes about blacks, Mexicans, Arabs, Jews and Chinese to even the score.
As unusual as Lander’s site is, it is also part of a sociological trend among whites who live in increasingly non-Anglo cities and regions: their transformation into a minority group. Whites used to think of themselves as standard-issue American — they had the luxury of not having to grapple with the significance of their own racial background; they were “us” and everyone else was “ethnic.” Not anymore.
“Demographic shifts have put a new kind of pressure on that category of people who were once just considered the norm,” says Mike Hill, author of “After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority.” “White identity is becoming particularized and minoritized. No longer the normative category, it’s becoming one of many identities.”
This pressure naturally leads to a greater sense of self-consciousness as the new minority begins to negotiate their relationships with members of other minorities (everyone else).
Still, Lander is less concerned with cross-ethnic and racial relations than he is with how whites treat each other. As a onetime graduate student in the Midwest, he got tired of coastal condescension of the fly-over states and the glib assumption that “red staters are evil and stupid.”
“Too many white people don’t like to be reminded that they’re white. They like to think that white people are those evil corporate right-wingers or the uneducated masses who vote the wrong way. But ‘enlightened whites’ are white people too and have just as much of a group mentality as they think the red staters have.”
Still, Lander doesn’t want you to think he’s angry or taking himself too seriously. “First and foremost, it’s satire; it’s funny,” he says. “I’m trying to make people laugh.”
But he’s doing so in a brave new world in which we’re all becoming minorities, and nobody’s really sure who’s going to have the last laugh.
I grew up in london. I was the only white girl in my science class at school, in some of my favorite clubs I am in the minority (being, as i am, white). It’s never been a preference one way or another…tho I recently moved to scotland and I find seeing only identical white scottish people all day rather alarming…
I have to admit that I laughed at all these stereotypes that the author has written about, but this one I have to disagree with.
I’m also still trying to figure out why this one is more offensive to me than the rest.
When I was in grad school in Chicago I was broke and lived in a part of the city where I was one of the few whites. I witnessed a murder, was pickpocketed, burglarized, my cheap ass uncool bike was stolen(my only transportation), prostitutes and dealers approached me constantly. I could go on. It was not fun or interesting; it was depressing and dangerous. I am a native Chicagoan, but at this point, so glad to be in the burbs. Say whatever you want.
Well Alicemary, if you dislike looking at the non-identical native (white) people of Scotland — the people who gave us Hume , Watt, Maxwell etc — why don’t you return to the multicultural paradise of London. In my area, you’d think you were stuck on some third world Island both by the look of the people and the general decrepitness of the place.
On the wanting to be the only white person around whilst traveling point, the inverse is also true. Live abroad and eventually you will see a white person. They will usually either shun you and give you the evil eye if they are also living there, or the will walk up to you and start a conversation, as if you and he both being white is a perfectly legitimate reason to start a conversation, if they are merely traveling there.
Typically, the people who are living in the country shun from conversation, while the people traveling like to engage. I would assume so because each is having a different experience. You live somewhere to live as a different culture, while you travel somewhere on a trip merely to see it and experience it, but not really get anything from it other than some nice snap shots and neat gifts.
Freakin’ hilarious.
Good analysis. Wait, is that a white thing to say? Now I’m second guessing my self and being overly self-conscious. @#$%!
Stop making me laugh! hehe.
I am a white chick who has been to Japan once and agree 100% with the post. I am ALWAYS pissed if I go to a new [insert ethnicity here] place and see white people. It’s been ruined. If I do see any other white people, I try to pwn them by being able to say “thank you” in various languages (4 of them are Asian languages, which always impresses other white people).
My new favorite thing to be aggro about is white people bringing their adopted Korean babies to the only good Korean restaurant, like tasting kimchee will make their babies understand their cultural heritage. Collecting Korean babies is very fashionable among white people right now.
Looks like Heather is a perfect example of the ridiculous hyperbole this blog was (hopefully) supposed to be. Unless you are being sarcastic, in which case I apologize for what follows, but somehow I don’t think you are.
I was unaware that people as shallow as you existed outside of the movies, and yet… here you are.
You get pissed of cause other white people are at a restaurant?
ALLLLL-Rightie.
You say “thank you” in “various languages” to “impress people”
Any 5 year old with an internet connection can learn how to say “thank you” in a god-zillion languages, twit.
You have a “favorite thing to go aggro about”
Yup, you must be 5 afterall
“Collecting Asian babies is very fashionable among white people right now”
What white people? The ones you read about in People magazine? Or in your case Teen Beat?
They should give licenses for people to post – morons need not apply.
Can I just say that everything about this is hilarious, BUT white people are not the worst when it comes to being annoying to wait on. Black people/ African american whatever you prefer are the WORST. They typically don’t tip as well as whites and they will ask for ten things one at a time. Bring white people a dish of lemons for their water and they tend to leave your ass alone. Extra points for bringing extra napkins out without being asked.
I only say this in jest and because a black guy named Ashley (his parents must have hated him) brought it up first. And truly, bring white people a dish of lemons and they love you. What’s up with the lemons, seriously. Are you too cheap to buy lemonade?
this is totally true. ‘cept in my experience i get conditioned to resent other white folks because they more often than not encourage negative stereotypes. i live in china, and i try to hang out with chinese people to better learn the language. if some tourists find their way into the bar, or even worse the girl-groping expats, and i hang my head in shame. if they are well behaved, ive got no problems.
travel alone in ghana, afghanistan and pakistan — THAT made me eager to see another white face from time to time. just to not be the center of attention for at least one other person in the room.
Hahahaha…so true. I was at a dim sum restaurant this weekend with my family (we’re chinese-american) and we had to wait 45 minutes for a table crowded into a small lobby area with 50 other asians…but once a honkie came in they got a seat right away without even getting a number like the rest of us. they got their own waiter, and an escort….White people like going to ethnic restaurants because being white is boring and the preferential treatment makes them feel just a little bit better about having no personality….sorry to my white friends but you know it’s true. plus they like pretending that mashed potatoes and meat loaf is not the only they consume. and they’ll have neat little pictures of chicken’s feets on their cell phone to show their friends next to the water cooler on Monday.
Guilty!
Paul:
Get a grip!!,
What im saying is not aload of “bollox” its how i feel as a white person and im expressing my views across this rasict website okay!
Some people might not find this site offensive but others do okay!,
if a white person made a webiste about how black people liked to be treated a truely doubt you would agree with it.
I found this website verry offensive towards me as it was trying to say all white people are rasict and only feel comfortable around white people when this is not true.
You made white people to be some kind of different human being almost as we dont belong on this plannet
This is a joke that’s got out of controll, and i personaly think you should shut this website down half of the people commenting are people telling you your a rasict Prick
sort your self out!
and grow uppp!!
this isnt about white people its about americans
Can we please talk about Koreans for a second? I am a white man living in NYC and don’t even know any Koreans personally. Is it me or has anyone else noticed in the last year or so there seem to be Koreans Everywhere?
Not a big deal in itself, but a thought struck me when I brosed this blog.
Its not white people who ruin cool things. Its the Koreans.
Think about the last uber cool restaurant, or club you’ve been into: A place where anyone of any origin can come express themselves through fashion or whatever, to be seen, to be alive.
Then, go back again and notice the same place with a group of Korean girls in the corner. They are not bothering anyone, but they are not adding anything either. They just read some Time-Out aritcle about the next cool place.
Which makes it uncool.
There should be a rule: Dont come to a place unless you cant contribute to it.
If you know someone who shows up somewhere and doesnt add any flava to the scene, you can now go up to them and say: “Hey, don’t be Korean. Get up and dance!”
There, i’ve said. it.
Otherwise, Koreans are nice people.
actually, it does apply to nightclubs. I’d much rather be dancing with a room full of black people than whites, and have had way more fun at hip-hop clubs than I ever did at goth clubs.
To #284; you are particially right; a lot of Black people do feel this way but what do you mean you’re “Brown”? I’ve never seen this catagory on any kind of application, ect. Are you Latin, Hispanic or do you have a deep brown tan? No one refers to themselves as ‘Brown’. Black people are really brown, if you get technical about it.
“they won’t go to black restaurants”
White folks LOVE to go to “black restaurants” but only for lunch. The reason is they feel safer in the daylight.
I know that I took a goofy pride in not only being the only white person in a Chinatown hole-in-the-wall restaurant, but I was the ONLY PERSON eating with chop-sticks! The regulars were amused.
@ Shakes Head Sadly: this site is to make fun of people like you.
People who can’t laugh at themselves are lame.
[…] #71 Being the only white person around: “In most situations, white people are very comforted by seeing their own kind. However, when they are eating at a new ethnic restaurant or traveling to a foreign nation, nothing spoils their fun more than seeing another white person.” […]
Heather,
I have no need to laugh at myself – I’m not a fool who tries to impress people by saying “thank you” in a foreign language.
You, on the other hand… are quite funny indeed.
Perhaps you can build you vocabulary enough to say
“Hi, I am the best example of what is worse in white people you will ever find. Please make fun of me, for I dearly deserve it.”
Hell, Ill even give you a link. Wouldn’t want you to hurt yourself.
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/
P.S. I am completely and utterly perfect. Without fault. The gods themselves pale in comparison. Therefore there is no need for me to laugh at myself. Only to sit in judgement and opine at the shortcomings of others through the ambiguity of the internet.
Nice 49ers shirt in the photo!!! (White people love teams like the 49ers)
This blog is hilarious. 🙂
http://crazylifeonline.wordpress.com/
When I lived in Brazil I know I always hated it when I saw an American (normally white) without expecting it. Like it took away from the experience or might jar me back awake.
I’m old enough to remember Eisenhower beating Stevenson… I grew up in a predominantly Hispanic community and I’ve always been more comfortable in neighborhoods of color. I’m not a white-guy wanna’be – but I’ve learned to show respect without fear. I couldn’t care less about the secrete handshake, but I’ve always been “a part of” any community I’ve lived in. I’m comfortable enough in my own skin (white as it may be…) to eat wherever the food tastes the way it should. Here’s a hint – if the only English on the menu is in small print, or handwritten as an afterthought – politely order up a meal and give it a chance. I’m tempted to add, “Get off your lily-white self-absorbed, self-conscious ass and join the real world!” But I wouldn’t want to offend the dominant surrounding culture. Soon enough, all us white folks will be in the minority.
I was in Mali last summer doing an internship with a vaccine development research center. Malians have a term for white folks, infact it was the first word of the local language of Bambara that I learned as it was taught to me by hundreds of little children who exclaimed the word in chorus when their eyes were stabbed by the pale light reflecting off of my skin. “Toubabou, Toubabou!” (pronounce ou as oo) they would chant.
The other white people I saw in Mali looked so damn out of place I could not refrain from chanting Toubabou at them myself. Paul Eckman would have read a mixture of fear, disgust and anger in the faces of my victims.
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I guess I am not white as I hate going into any place and being the only white person around. I feel like I am intruding on another cultures hide-a-way from life.
Funny stuff. I’m white and not offended by this, but there does seem to be a double standard when it comes to “poking fun at other races”. I do get a kick out of being the only white person at a black club and telling my friends stories (especially when I’m drunk and create a scene). I believe ethnic restaurants are more credible when you see people from that particular race eating there. If I don’t see any Mexicans at a Mexican restaurant I worry that its not any good. I’m offended by the stereotypes that all black people like watermelon and fried chicken only because white people like them as well.
Once I saw a white person in Panera.
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It was funny to hear that white people are trying to avoid being seen by themselves or in a culture surrounding. I think it relates to white people on how they desire to know about cool things before other white people get to know about them. That’s probably why white people like independent music. In this case they like to hang out with other cultures and eat their food but to not see as many white people around. The stereotypes were not offensive of course but I bet to other white people is must be. While reading this it made it look many white people dont like entering African American restaurants. It doesn’t make me look at white people differently but it makes me want to giggle about this statement. That is what I think about white people.
Not only does that apply to white but it also somewhat applies to black people also. I’m black, and when I’m the only black person in an upscale restaurant I feel like everyone is staring at me. But the unpleasant thing about that fact is that everyone is staring at me that is not black or of an ethnic background. But then again when I do notice that everyone that is not of an ethnic background is staring at me I realize that I’m NOT the weird one but that they are for staring at me as if they’ve never seen anyone like me before. There the stupid ones for waisting there time staring at something thats been around walkin this earth for hundreds of thousands of years. So that makes me wonder do they stare at every single black person that they see.
This one is me. When I go to a 3rd world country, dressed as a local woman, riding a 2nd or 3rd class bus..it ruins everthing to see another gringo on the bus. The other people, thinking its something we’d like, try to get us to sit together(which is something both of us don’t want) I flash my phony wedding ring at them and say LANGUAGE really loud, as they usually speak english and think its my first language(which it is) now they are confused , maybe try to speak french or spanish…I shrug and they usually stop trying. If you try this don’t pull out a English guide book or you will hurt their feelings. Realize if you do this and suddenly need them for some reason, that you have blown that option.
I go to Japan for work quite a lot, sometimes for 2-3 weeks at a time, and so my Japanese colleagues there have accepted they can leave me to my own devices for getting to and from the airport and to and from work by myself, getting dinner at night, traveling around the country by myself on my weekends, etc.
I’m 32, so most of the fellow white people I run into my age or a little younger are single Brits and Americans (mostly Californians or northeasterners) who just graduated from a snobby little liberal arts college with a sociology degree or some other degree that qualifies them for a job at Starbucks or Barnes and Noble. They are there to be “English Teachers”, but near as I can figure, the guys are there to meet a submissive little Japanese wife. I guess they don’t like women who have an opinion of their own, or in America they failed to find any women with wrists and fingers as thin and delicate as their own. The Americans, especially the Northeasterners and especially the guys, tend to be pompous, haughty, prissy little knee-jerk pc liberal pseudointellects.
When I’m in Japan so long, I tend to feel a little culturally isolated as a gaijin in such a homogeneous culture, so I get the impulse, when I see another American on a train, to make eye contact, smile, give a little wave or “how’s it going”, but I’ve learned to stiffle that impulse, because they seem to be resentful of me even being on the same train as them. I saw one girl get on the train, settle in with her paper, then upon seeing me, before I could even raise my eyebrows in a friendly way, get off and go to the next car.
The Californians tend to be a little friendlier than the northeasterners, as far as I can gather, the Brits tend to be friendlier than that (though many are prone to a Eurotrash arrogance that is worse than the ugly american stereotype, IMO) and the Aussies are downright gregarious compared to everyone else.
Seeing two white “English Teachers” together is rare, and when it happens you know they are new to the country or came over at the same time in the same program.
Of course all that changes when you go to a bar that’s a well-known expat hangout. There is one in Chiba, “Upper Float” (austensibly a mexican restaurant but serves mashed potatoes with every meal). Being a native Texan I was in serious Tex-Mex withdrawal so I decided to give it a try one night. I walked in and the tiny place was packed to the gills with about 200 white guys and 40 Japanese girls. The guys looked at me like I was the ultimate cockblocker even though I’m married and just wanted cheese enchiladas. The Brits were all of the Eurotrash, soccer hooligan variety, so not a friendly face in the house.
Actually, one thing I do like when I’m in mediterranean countries (I’m of french extraction with brown hair & eyes, olive skin) is that I am mistaken for a local by locals. It helps not to wear jeans, t-shirts, and sneakers everywhere – or worse, shorts and a fanny pack.
Even better is when I get approached by American tourists who come up and ask me directions in loud, slow, simple English.
My [chinese] grandmother makes it a point to count all the “foreigners” (white people) in the room whenever I take her out for dim sum. If there are more than five, she deems the restaurant unfit.
And she’s lived in LA for 20 years.
…sorry, wasn’t trying to say london is great and scotland is shit, I live in glasgow and it’s fantastic. I don’t have a preference for being in the minority or the majority was the point…that there are more white people in glasgow was merely an aside. I suppose it was mean of me to say they are all identical. But I look like every other woman in glasgow (roughly). Friends always think they’ve seen me out and it’s turned out to be any old randomer…
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In 2003, there was a tragedy in a club in Chicago called E2 where several non-whites were trapped inside. There was a stampede to exit and 21 people (mostly African American)died.
When the tragedy made the news, I hate to admit it, but a little white part of me thought, “Damn, I should’ve gone there when I had the chance.”
WTF is this about? I HATE being the only white person around! It’s awkward and uncomfortable when you can’t see a friendly, familiar face.
WHITEY:
Maybe, you have a serious problem, dude!
(white people like to say duuuuuuude)
get a sense of humor dude … where’s all that hate comin’ from
(white people like to say …. I dont know … maybe, “comin from” … )
would you be offended if I said “get a sense of humor, you racist cracker” (being white, I like to talk niggah talk)
Ok , now we’re warming up … Oh, I forgot, you are already hot, didn’t you used “that N-Word” in a hateful way on one of your blogs ….
Seriously, do you really hate black people, or is your humor so sublime as to go right over the head of this dude, … duuude! …..
Are we straight, niggah? duuuuede?
Ooooh, so touchy, aren’t we? ….. Didn’t you watch the move desert Heat?, it was Jean-Claude Van Damm’s greatest line! .. “Can’t We All Just Get Along?”
Tell me, you cant be serious, you are pulling my chain, arent you?
Hey, # 246 Trackmom,
You are awesome (white italian american irish guys like to say ‘awesome”) ….. you are right, I like pretty black girls, (correction, women) and white , asian, etc, etc ,
Must be a woman, though, and not jump to conclusions about who I am based on my mutt-ness (The hikerfrank race, there’s only one of us so far, but we’re up and coming!)
Ha ha ha! Guilty as charged.
Went to Ruby Red’s in D.C. in the 70’s with a friend and was ecstatic to realize we were the only white people in the restaurant. Oh, yeah, we were really cool 20-somethings as we sat fumbling with chopsticks we had never used. I had to watch the guys at the next table so I could learn.
It’s not just restaurants. I travel frequently to Tokyo (maybe two or three times a year for a couple of weeks at a time) and whenever I am walking down the street and see a group of white people, I will cross to the other side of the street to get away from them.
Maybe it’s because they’re typically loud, obnoxious, wearing shorts and birkenstocks or carrying huge backpacks (ze Germans!) or taking pictures of everything or whatever. I just don’t want people to think I’m one of them.
And yeah, as for restaurants, if you walk into, say, a sushi bar and the patrons are all white and the staff is Chinese and Mexican, I think you can pretty well guess you’re not really going out for sushi. That’s fine if you like blandified food but the whole purpose of eating the food of another culture is to get a taste of the culture, not just to *feel* like you’re taking a walk on the wild side without having to actually eat the whole raw octopus or the fish sperm. Isn’t it?
Foreign places with high concentration of white people just aren’t really foreign any more. They adapt to the tastes of the white patrons. Thank goodness we’ve got Las Vegas now to keep all those white losers out of Paris, Italy and Egypt. If only they’d build a Japanese themed casino I could go to Tokyo in peace…
[…] Being the only white person around: In most situations, white people are very comforted by seeing their own kind. However, when they are eating at a new ethnic restaurant or traveling to a foreign nation, nothing spoils their fun more than seeing another white person. […]
it’s the same for every race…
i date an asian girl, when we go out to eat with her family i look around for another white dude. if he’s there i try to find him and give him a head nod of respect. but that’s just me
Soul food is not a black thing. It is a poor country thing.
Anybody who knows where your grandparents came from or where there cousins live outside of the city knows what soul food is.
Although black communities clearly own it in the restaurant biz, and damned they’ve got it right!
One of the most disappointing moments of my life was being in a restaurant in Africa, and in came not just another group of white people, but they came from the same darned town in North Carolina I came from. So I couldn’t even say I was there with Africans and a handful of other interesting people from other interesting parts of the U.S.
Mostly true, the rule leaves out rural southern whites, many of whom naturally eat similar foods to urban and rural blacks, and as a convention would never step into an ethnic restaraunt, and prefer restaraunts where only the staff is black.
Was that photo taken in 888 Seafood? I love that Dim Sum place! Because…I’m the only white person around. Oh burn!
#409 Your grandmother is awesome. I wish other non-Whites would avoid us as well.
You can learn alot from someone like that.
#417 Alex:
I think I may have seen you in Tokyo and Paris. The very sight of you bugged the hell out of me. Next time just try not to be around, OK?
(Of course, “you” have don’t have a footprint in life, no sir).
Douche bag.
This post is true for me to a degree. I live in a country (Singapore) where many white people visit, but few whites live here. So when I go home to my neighborhood, I’m almost always the only white person here (it’s very shocking to find other whites in my neighborhood). So all you white people who find your way to my neighborhood … bugger off! 😉
Hence, Dances with Wovles, Harsh Times and The Last Samurai. =P
Oh yeah. And never mind that non-Asians look into an Asian restaurant and go, ooh, it most be authentic! Never mind that it’s a Chinese (uh, Americanized) place and all of those “authentic-” looking people are Vietnamese. You get the street cred all the same.
who’s the moron that thinks “white” is an ethnicity?
I totally agree with this. Then they can proudly say, “I was the only white person there!” (well pin a rose on your nose) and “Now I know what it’s like to be a minority!” (Uh huh, til you walked out the door and could relax once everone looks just like you again.
See Here
TIE – If you grow up in California you are used to being around all kinds of people all the time, so being the “only white person” isnt a big deal
I hate you. this is me.
I asked my mom one time what “kill whitey” meant. she said “they’re not talking about us (jews)”
“I asked my mom one time what “kill whitey” meant. she said “they’re not talking about us (jews)”
@Orlick, wow wanna meet your mom.
When I say kill whitey I mean all of us, I don’t think African Americans and other ethnicities make the distinction between different types of whitey either.
Some people are basically rotten – white men (myself included.)
Anyway
I’m so glad there are pretentious knob jockeys here who feel that way, because I tend to pick where I eat based on good feedback about the food at the establishment not the ratio of white:others. At least I will avoid seeing them about.
and then, after you cats fill up at your “Authentic” Indian, Chinese, Korean, Afghani, Senegalese, Thai, Vietnamese or whatever non-white joint you all eat at, you come back to the office and pull out the mudgun affectionately known as your ass and render useless the toilet stalls – a veritable shit explosion of authenticity.
I love it when you order it in their language and pretend that you’ve got it all figured out.
This is so ture. I’m Asian and my boyfriend is white. When joins my family for any kind of celebration, he always mentions how he was the only white person there and the tallest person there. When we go to visit his family, I never think to mention that I was the only non-white person there.
[…] Being the only white person around. “…when they are eating at a new ethnic restaurant or traveling to a foreign nation, nothing spoils their fun more than seeing another white person.” […]
Kat, I have to question your taste, if you continue to go out with such a jerk. On the bright side, at least he doesn’t point out that you are the shortest when you are at his house. Good luck with that.
White men really enjoy jacking off.
hilarious – and not just restaurants. I’m an (Asian) American living in SE Asia right now, and have noticed the compulsion of many White backpackers to burnish the anecdotes they swap with each other by bragging “we were the only [White] foreigners” (on the bus; in the market; that the villagers had ever seen! (unlikely); at the obscure religious ceremony, etc).
clander is a naked genius.
#71 Golden Unicorn is soooo good!
White people like NPR. What a mirror!
LOL at this post… maybe I should introduce another white person into my group of black friends and watch the token squirm… hehehe
I was having lunch with other white people in a restaurant where there were other white people. I referenced this entry. After some discussion, we realized an additional appeal was that we could badmouth other white people without concern that people were eavesdropping and going to report back to them. The perhaps entirely imaginary language boundary provides a level of comfort beyond just the idea of authenticity.
Haha you can tell who’s white in the comments just by who decides to use the word “Ethnic” for fear of offending someone.
~G
Oh I so do this… I always feel so cool and liberal when I’m the only white guy at a party, movie, club… as if anyone in the room is thinking “Wow, how courageous he came to our nightclub let’s nominate him for a humanitarian award!”
clander……you are an ignorant fool
The obvious: It takes the sperm of a White male, and only a White male, to produce White children and White women.
I don’t understand all these non-White losers that lust after something they could never reproduce.
Half-breeds ALWAYS without exception identify with the lower of their two castes.
Mixing destroys diversity.
I think the best part about this blog is the racial trench war thats waged in this reply section.
Hilarious and oh so true!
i hate black ppl
I hate seeing a lot of white people in ethnic restaurants. I also hate running into Amercian in exotic countries and to a lesser extent any native english speaking Europeans. A French couple here or there, however, is cool. I do go to black places to pick up soul food once in a while. I don’t mind the artciel though because nothing written about a group will be true for all members of the group.
definitely an elitist liberal pretentious white person not white person
some of you people are taking this way too seriously. laugh a little.
It’s funny how this applies to most ethnicities. People just like to eat, love good food, and love having new experiences. All of which are a part of trying new restaurants in off-the-wall or secluded paths that we normally wouldn’t take. It’s our way of finding adventure without really going on an adventure. Foooood mmm. Be it octopus, chicken feet, alligator, eel, chitlins, turtle soup, or just the biggest fattest hamburger in the Western Hemisphere…I’m down…I don’t care who’s there, bring on the grub! haha Food makes me racially colorblind.
I only disagree, because I am that white girl who will walk into any restaurant if the food is good, I don’t care what color the people in the place are. I don’t care what language is spoken or even if I am not welcome. I am also that white girl who will sit at the All ___________ (whatever fill in the blank with Black, Asian, Indian) table just to see uncomfortable I can make everyone!!!!! Ha!
This site should be called “stuff that bleeding heart, liberal, “enlightened”, hippy, spoiled white college kids like”
Is the picture from Peony in the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland Chinatown (or some other giant Bay Area Dim Sum eatery)? You totally nailed it in this one. I’m so white & this is so me. Even better though, is being one of the few/only white people @ a non-white special occasion (like a wedding). Our family (gay male couple with a young son) were guests @ both a 99th Birthday Party and a Chinese wedding banquet @ the aforementioned Peony and both times we were even seated @ a table close to the celebrant table (as opposed to being seated in “Siberia”) — it really doesn’t get any better for white people (although expertly eating chicken feet & fish cheeks with chopsticks when out to lunch with Asian clients/co-workers is a close second). At this point in my life I’ve figured out that my primary concern when picking a place to live on this planet is, “Will there be decent __________ (fill-in-the-blank-Chinese-Japanese-Thai-Vietnamese-Indian) food?”
wow, im white and this read me like a book (another whiteism). Like they study white people or something.
In response to poster number 1…
I love to go to restaurants with only black people. they know what’s good! In prospect park during the summer, the underbelly of the park is usually black people barbequeing – it smells so good, I always wished I was part of their family…
And I want to go to black clubs. I think that would be a good way to learn how to dance and build my confidence. Imagine going there then to a hipster place, my confidence would be flying high, I wouldnt worry about anything. Clean living!
OK, this is true, but there’s a reason for it: White people in general have crappy taste in food. Think about it, who goes to Applebee’s and TGI Friday’s? White people. Especially with ethnic food, white people make bad choices: We’re all General Tso’s and chicken Lo Mein, and no easily identifiable body parts. If you want ethnic food that actually tastes kind of what it tastes like in its native land, you have to find a place white people usually don’t go. But then again, being white, I’m just addicted to the idea of “authenticity”…but is that really such a bad thing?
I love this Blog so much!
I go to black clubs in LA, Paris, Nairobi, Doula, wherever. And it is true that I feel the club is diminished if I see another white person there!
This is the one that made me hit Ctrl-D. I was reading through the other posts (i.e. t-shirts) saying to myself “Yeah, but that is something everyone likes.”
This one reminded me of the time I went to Viet Nam to visit my wife and she asked if I wanted to go to Da Lat. I asked her what was in Da Lat and she said that a lot of foreigners go there. That is when I announced to her that I came to Viet Nam to see Vietnamese and under no circumstances want to see another tourist, European or American.
Would you like if I wrote a page on how What Black people like is fried chicken, and watermelon, and music that is demining to women or there own culture. This page is out of line and uncalled for. People say white people are racist, they should start thinking twice!
I love how because it’s about white people this blog is HIlarious and successful. Now if this was about any minority group it would be considered racist.
I can see the appeal of this blog, but it’s a complete double standard that this should be acceptable.
Aren’t we all past this point?
Racism will never stop being funny I guess, depending what form is popular.
Used effectively in a recent episode of King of The Hill
why isnt “white peoples use of politically correct racial terms” on here.i swear you little crackers are scared of saying mexicans or blacks while in a crowd of people.you dont fool me i know what you say at home or under your breath and its far worse than the words i just listed above.also “whites are scared of riding the bus” should be up there too,i just saw this white family get on the bus this afternoon and the mother gave all the kids some tissues to wipe down the seat before sitting it was really fucking funny.
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If this blog were about African Americans, Latinos, Arabs or Asians everyone would be screaming racism. Do you know who would scream the loudest? The kind of Whites you describe in your blog.
You obviously only associate with Far Left College Educated Yuppies from the Northeast or Berkley CA. These people aren’t really White. They just happen to have light colored skin like REAL Whites. They are “FAUX” Whites. They do everything in their power to make White people seem evil, stupid, racist and self centered. Hardly an adequate representation of TRUE White America. They do this because they never did fit in with other White people. Most are outcasts of some sort.
Faux White people will vote for Barack Obama, just because he’s black. The have a Masters degree which means they’re not really smart, but they had nothing better to do (because they’re nerds), and their parents could afford to put them through years of college in hopes that the longer they went, the more normal they would be become. Of course, this backfired horrifically. Faux Whites like to work partime at Starbucks and play on their computer all day. They rarely hold down a job for very long unless it’s in the non profit sector.
I am White with a little Native American mixed in. I have never heard of THE WIRE. I don’t subscribe to NETFLIX. I think I have a couple of T-shirts that say Ohio State, or Hawaii on them. By the way, when was the last time you saw an African American with a t-shirt or hat that didn’t have a designer lable on it?
I have no idea what NO LOGO and ADBUSTERS are and don’t care. Soccer? You’ve got to be kidding. Soccer is for kids who couldn’t make the football team! I think the only thing you got right was that White people like TV. Is there something wrong with that? I had no idea that African Americans, Latinos, Arabs and Asians didn’t like television! I’m astounded!
Poor attempt at being funny. I’m afraid the only ones who will think this is funny are those who hate white people. In other words…”Faux” White people and racists.
i eat at pf changs twice a day and ill be damned if i see a white man there. you see when i was a boy my father was blacklisted and almost put in jail. he went to pf changs everyday to work out his problems
Haha! This is so true! I will tell anyone who will listen that I was the only white kid in my all black elementary school…Street cred!
you should add dead prez (even though they don’t like white ppl white folks love to here them rap about killing the white man) and they like dancing to hip hop and posting it on Youtube
Reality TV needs to be on here… although I totally disagree, I know mad amounts of white people that love reality TV, personally I hate it, but its true as a majority we love it.
The person/people who made this website, and the majority of these things white people like are obviously correct. But I think it was all made by a light skinned latin male/female, that could blend into and be excepted as another white in the community… and from that vanage point they have been able to study white people, and be a lil stereotypical with these “likes.” But they only happen to make sense for those white kids/adults who are unathletic, and possibly nerds. So a normal white guy would not participate in half the shit said above. But you have a pretty wide spectrum of knowledge amassed about the white race, use it wisely, or you could just post it on the internet.
What to do when visiting an NPR Geo Quiz location and you run into other white folk who threaten your sense of uniqueness?
a) Pretend you don’t see them
– Grad school classmates do it all the time
b) Say hello in English
– Cuz every white person speaks English
c) Slightly nod your head to recognize their presence without saying anything
– Yep, that’s the ticket
Oh yes… I won’t eat in any French or Italian restaurants if there are white people there.
Haha hillariouse !
Make one about the niggers next.
I think you just did.
Very funny.
Thanks.
True racism is when one race thinks that another is below them.
The tone of this blog is not smug or angry. Obviously the author likes white people and racial jokes like the ones on this blog help release racial tension in a positive way.
I am white and Japanese and make fun everybody.
Who cares who wrote it? The fact is that I am lauging my ass off… I live in Korea, teach English, married a slim Korean woman, have two little hybrids who very cute and annoying, love T-Shirts, and I like to be the only white guy around. Good Job! If you get upset about reading generalizations of white people, don’t read them. I guess it’s only “P.C.” if you are sure of the authors ethnicity right? Long live freedom of speech! Oh, and I do have TV! hahaha Shit is dead on accurate for some though.
This is Hilarious! The photo attached to this article matches how dorky white people are. Why do they think they can be accepted anywhere? When they don’t accept anyone themselves. Eating ethnic food is not accepting, it is an “event” for them. For example, they say, “we’re going mexican tonight! it’s taco night!” or “let’s taste Asia, California rolls tonight kids!!” Come on now.
hahahaha!!! ACE!!!
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No, I live in San Francisco, and I am the only white person around so much of the time, that it is not a big deal. Maybe if you lived in AZ, and you came here, you would be like that. That is just a retarded idea. It means nothing. It’s not like you are going to China, you are just going to some place to eat in the city. I don’t see what differences it makes if everyone in the Chinese place is Chinese or not. Anyone who felt that way, would be so small minded, that they can not be considered “white”, but just stupid, and very small town. Clearly the never went to New York City.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!
I’m skipping most all of the posts. Too many folks can’t take the posts for what its’ worth.
This was hilarious.
Whites usually wont go places where they are the minority. Maybe if its for food but thats it.
This one is just retarded. Being the only White person around is suicidal. That’s like the worst case scenario ever, horror movie even. The more White people around, even the shorts-wearing, flashing blue-tooth head gadget kind of white people beat the alternative hands down. You want dollar stores and check cashing and liquor stores to be on every corner in your community? Complete with parades of “anchor babies”, noise, litter, graffiti, umm, getting shot? Oh , hell no.
White people who think this is “cool” are sick in the head.
I just found this website and frightened my family by laughing so hard … excellent stuff! All painfully true … will definitely add it to my blog.
A semi-white person,
ALC
Aside from restaurants, I don’t think they actually like being the only white person around. What they really like is being able to tell the story afterwards “and I was the only white person in the room”
This is so me! I love being with my mexican friends who tell me I’m not like a typical gringa. Is that Joe’s Shaghai restaurant in the photo! Been there too. It’s so authentic
Also, you should come to liquor stores uptown NYC They have bullet proof teller windows that you slide your money through and then they give you the booze. And also, the one on 145th and amsterdam fills up with about 75 people on a Friday night. But that’ll all change when rich white and black people move into the hood and drive the poor people with their storefront churches right into the streets when they can’t pay the high rents. Too bad. Train keeps rolling. Here is what a NYC street will look like in 5 years: 3 banks, a pet boutique, cell phone store, nail salon, a Subway sandwich shop, dunkin donuts, and ethnic resturant flavor of the month. Oh, does it remind you of your small, overdeveloped commercialized town in mid-america?
White people in Korea will not make eye contact with each other unless they are trapped together in an elevator…
I LIVE IN A VERY BLACK AREA, IF YOU WALK INTO THE WRONG PLACE YOU ARE TOLD IMMEDIATLY BY THE PATRONS WHITES ARE NOT WELCOME. I LIVED IN A VERY WHITE AREA ONCE WHERE THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. THIS PAGE REEKS OF CHANCES FOR DAVID DUKE TYPES TO SOUND OFF.
WHY CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG.
I avoid other white people because white people living overseas have a strong tendency to be embarrassments to the rest of us white people.
Then again, idiocy is more of a universal human trait rather than restricted to one “race” 🙂 Fine specimens from all walks of life.
Love the blog, lots of the posts hit home. Keep it up!
Look here…
This site is mediocre at best. It is mildly entertaining. Half of the items on this list are garbage. The effort and thought put into this list is pretty embarrassing.
if you want some actual funny entertainment/blog/writing/insightful/great stuff
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go for it.
I went to an Ethiopian restaurant once, no wonder those bastards are so skinny.
If you take this to its logical conclusion, white people enjoy eating authentic, but niched, European food; in NYC the next big thing is Belgian food. It’s the best of all worlds, its exotic (because how many Belgians do YOU know), it’s from Europe (thus not much different from Mom’s cooking) and it’s made to compliment beer (name me one quacker that doesn’t like beer and you just found the Daygo in the group). There is also the Greek food, but that can be either a high class or slumming event (most likely slumming, but DAMN I love me some spinach pie).
Haha, this is so true! But then again, preferring to go to an ethnic restaurant that has a lot of customers of that ethnicity is just common sense; it’s bound to be better food.
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Seriously. This is the best one I’ve read so far. My trip to the Great Wall of China was specifically enhanced because I was not surrounded by a bunch of other white people. I was so pleased to look around and see a sea of Asian people. The same goes for my trip down the Li River. And for my visit to Japan.
Of course, the opposite was true when I did my study abroad in Russia. Knowing that there are no native Russian black people, I always wanted to go up and talk to any black people I saw. I was desperate to speak to people in English and figured that there were really good odds that black people spoke English.
I dont like being the only white person around. It increases my chances of being killed by a nigger. I dont like asian chicks they have bodies like 10 year old boys, men with them are closet pedophiles, and I really dont want to be around a buch of greasy wetbacks, because they almost as dangerous as niggers. What a fucking asshole whoever wrote this entire blog is. You must be a jew because real whites dont like any of this shit.
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stuff white people dont like: not knowing black slang terms…if someone asks you if you know what it means you pretty much have to lie and say you do. and you would just look ridiculous to ask..
p.s. i still dont know what crunk means 😦 …..would it be racist to assume its a drug?
This is so true. Especially as a young college student, I thought I was something else to be the only white guy amidst a bunch of Asian and Hispanic friends – it made me feel oh so multicultural. Especially when it came to encountering cute Asian or Hispanic women when I was with these friends – it was an automatic message to them that, yeah, I’d be just as content with them, too.
I went to the $1.50 theater to see the Matrix a few years back. My roommate and I were literally the only white people present for the viewing. The fact that Matrix was showing made the experience even more relevant.
Then I went back to the $1.50 theater to see Saving Private Ryan and really felt it was a unique experience to watch as what were presumably World War II veterans stand up and leave within the first five minutes of the film.
For emphasis …
this blog has led me to conclude that I am white but my parents are not
There’s always one in every crowd.
I really do love being the only white person around. I live in a small town in western Pennsylvania with about a 98 percent white population. Going to Homewood and Wilkinsburg (just outside of Pittsburgh) makes me feel like a real cultural renegade and very much alive.
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To elaborate on the blog post itself, honkies like the IDEA of being the only white person around. Put your average, middle class, liberal whitey that this blog describes to a fucking tee in a room full of black people they don’t know and you’ll see how uncomfortable they can become.
Despite this, they’ll go back to all their whitey friends and tell them how multicultural and cool it was hangin’ with the (insert non-white race here) people was, no matter how akward they were at the time.
I don’t think anyone will read this, but I want to acknowledge I just got served. I have a photo of myself almost exactly like this one: in a small town in China, in a Chinese restaurant, looking over a round table of strange food. And I remember thinking, I’m not only the only white person in this restaurant, I’m probably the only white person in this town! This is so great!”
By the way, if anyone’s reading, I love the blog, though I agree it’s set to a certain class. It’s like Bobos in Paradise, but darker. I mean that as a compliment.
Noseeum has some excellent points. Speaking from my perspective as a 100% white person, at least ethnically, I must say that this blog scored initial points with me on a subconscious belly-laugh level. However, after this period of time during which my buttons were being pressed for me, I stopped to reflect on the nature of this blog’s humor.
The simple fact is, this blog is nothing more than expertly executed, expertly timed racist humor. Expertly executed because the author is a talented, observant comic writer. Expertly timed because it’s been a while since anyone, white or otherwise, has ripped into upper-middle-class white culture with this much depth and determination. It has been done before, but nothing in recent memory is this thorough and unapologetic.
I can’t stress the factor of expert timing and context enough. Jokes about people who eat organic foods, or are vegetarian/vegan, are old news. It is simply not funny anymore, at least not to me. These jokes fall under the umbrella of making of of “hippies,” another vein of jokes has fallen flat over time. Change the word “hippie” to “white person,” though, and you breathe new life into a stale joke. Really, the only difference between the jokes is a racist element. So, again, I’ll admit that I laughed at a lot of jokes on this blog–all that means is that I have the capacity to enjoy racist humor. I think I’ll spend my time remedying this personal flaw instead of supporting this blog and the offshoots that will probably follow.
In summary: laugh if you must, but do not neglect to think about the issues at which you are laughing. If you are laughing because you genuinely find it funny that people care about the environment or the arts, go right ahead (though that might indicate severe problems in its own right.) However, if you are laughing because *white* people do any of these things, you are submitting to much baser elements of your nature. Put your thinking caps on, people. Peace,
Nate
Noseeum has some excellent points. Speaking from my perspective as a 100% white person, at least ethnically, I must say that this blog scored initial points with me on a subconscious belly-laugh level. However, after this period of time during which my buttons were being pressed for me, I stopped to reflect on the nature of this blog’s humor.
The simple fact is, this blog is nothing more than expertly executed, expertly timed racist humor. Expertly executed because the author is a talented, observant comic writer. Expertly timed because it’s been a while since anyone, white or otherwise, has ripped into upper-middle-class white culture with this much depth and determination. It has been done before, but nothing in recent memory is this thorough and unapologetic.
I can’t stress the factor of expert timing and context enough. Jokes about people who eat organic foods, or are vegetarian/vegan, are old news. It is simply not funny anymore, at least not to me. These jokes fall under the umbrella of making of of “hippies,” another vein of jokes has fallen flat over time. Change the word “hippie” to “white person,” though, and you breathe new life into a stale joke. Really, the only difference between the jokes is a racist element. So, again, I’ll admit that I laughed at a lot of jokes on this blog–all that means is that I have the capacity to enjoy racist humor. I think I’ll spend my time remedying this personal flaw instead of supporting this blog and the offshoots that will probably follow.
In summary: laugh if you must, but do not neglect to think about the issues at which you are laughing. If you are laughing because you genuinely find it funny that people care about the environment or the arts, go right ahead (though that might indicate severe problems in its own right.) However, if you are laughing because *white* people do any of these things, you are submitting to much baser elements of your nature. Put your thinking caps on, people. Peace,
Nate
And I thought I WAS white because I hate being the only white person in a resturant and I hate “ethnic” food. Except Italian…I love pizza.
I am not thinking that White people like being the only White person around… ever. I think the exception is restaurants, but that for the most part most White people deplore being the only White person around and would like to avoid that scenario at all costs. I would like to know under what circumstances white people have found themselves the only white person around excluding restaurants of course.
I live in the south. In my county whites are the minority (majority American Indians followed by African Americans) and the most exotic restaurant we have is Italian, so most of this doesn’t apply.
I kinda though this was understood…Whites like to be the only one so long as they are not the only one around Blacks…I think Whites have this innate urge to feel like they “discovered ” something first…I call it Christopher Columbus Syndrome
Now…that is a good point…I do not know if it is on the list but will one of you Whites add “Customer Service”. You guys are big on it regardless of how insincere it is…maybe you think it is sincere????…I need to check into that!.
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When no white peeps are around, I will play Rev Wright CD’s outloud while walking around, and give the “Right On” signal with my free hand, as the other has a steady grip on the boombox.
I guess I am just a typical white person.
That is because most white people cannot dance.
Vegan restaraunts are from hell. I usually order a potato. You just have to boil it… even vegans can manage that!
I’ve been using “Marco Polo complex” but I like “Christopher Columbus syndrome as well. Speaking as a white dude who has lived abroad for most of the past 10 years (In Japan no less!), I have to say that this is my favorite post on the blog – and there are lots of good ones. There is nothing more demoralizing that spending weeks and months searching someplace like Tokyo or Beijing for that one cool club/restaurant/bar that has been untainted by other foreigners, only to go and find some other white guy already sitting there, polluting up the place. It’s like having your tires slashed.
I pooped my pants
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Not true… I went to the restaurant “Farmer Brown” in SF and it was predominantly white, same goes for “Georgia Brown’s” in Washington DC.
An earlier comment about whether or not jews are white is actually quite funny and interesting…
many “ashkenazim” or northern european jews from, russia, poland, germany, ukraine… are very white lookin, while the “sephardim” or “mizrahim” jews from, greece, turkey, algeria, spain, syria,lebanon, egypt, tunesia portugal, the south of france, southern italy and morroco (ok the mediteranean regions) tend to be much darker skinned usually and have a very different culture, cuisine and tradition.
I find it very funny when i go out and see “Shayna Goldberg” or “Hymie Saltzman” devouring a plate or felafels, deliciously eating couscous and slurping back morrocan mint tea “the nana” and acting all “ethnic” and “in touch” with their jewish heritage when obviously they’ve been raised on borscht and and gross gefilte fish.
But that is just a cultural difference of cusines. It’s just cooler these days to be into “hummus” than it is to be into “bagels”. These people often think that they are the Only type of Jew around and I get made fun of because my family is from Marroco and I don’t call my grandmother “bubbie” and eat matzo ball soup (which i find disgusting and bland)
Most Jews in North America are of Northen European descent…and it has been a sly game to get accepted by North American culture. Sure you can say we are rich and own everything and laugh at our self depricating humour ok hahah some of it is pretty funny and I enjoy it….but we had to be MORE like white little WASPS to fit in here….We are never gonna be treated like a “white” person as hard as we work and as much as some of us dye and straighten our wiry jewfro hair and wear polo shirts (PS ralph lauren is really jewish) as we are always gonna be “the Jew”…no matter how much we try and avoid it. I’m sick of being asked what I am doing for christmas and if its ok if they order pepperoni on the pizza…oh you white people are sooooooo sensitive…
Just like u can be the token asian, or token black person….well I am always the token jew amongst my friends and always get asked if I know a good doctor….or where to get a good deal….
So while me might look white and have reluctantly blended in with them on the surface, and some of us are pretty whiney and annoyin….( makes for ood lawyers) I certainly wouldnt consider myself in anyway like the “white people” in these hilarious and entertaining postings.
By the way if you make fun of me in further posts i should find it entertaining…
Christopher Columbus was a Spaniard – not a white dude.
Cristobal Colon was his actual name and it was “white-ified” through history.
But I love the phrase anyway.
-Your Friendly White Know-It-All!
“also, they won’t go to black restaurants,’
🙂
Haven’t spent much time in the American South, have you?
He was a European (born in Genoa). He shopped around and eventually launched his voyage of exploration for the Spanish crown. Even if he had been a Spaniard, he would still have been white.
The Spanish were about as ‘white’ as you could get and were definitely the most brutal and rapacious exploiters of the new world. The French looked good by comparison and the English were downright enlightened.
It sounds funny now, but back then the Spanish were pretty much the premier power of Europe (and thus, consequently, in the world) Tiny bands of spanish conquistadors wandered throughout central and south america, wiping out vast empires and sometimes entire ethnicities of natives. Those that weren’t destroyed were enslaved.
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White people love to make negative comments. Its only considered complaining if done by a minority. That is how we get by with so much. I love being White.
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A group more rapacious than Republicans? How’d that happen? Don’t tell Harry Reid.
Not so, friend!
Spain was/is very diverse. The northwestern part is known as Gallicia has roots with Gaelic or Celtic tribes. The southern part has a heavy Arab influence due the Moor invasion during the Middle Ages. Much the same way as the lower part of Italy has Moorish influence in the southern region. “Spaniards” from the south tended to be more olive, and have dark and curly hair. Hmmm…far from being as “white” as you could get.
I wouldn’t think that “olive” and “dark and curly hair” make you “far from being white as you could get.” Also, trust me, I’ve worked in Admissions, you don’t get minority credit from being from ANY part of Spain. Weirdly, you also don’t get it for being from Iran… but you do from Iraq… that’s where the line is drawn. ?? In any case, I think that under ANY modern classification, Columbus would be called “white.” That’s fortunate or unfortunate depending on how you look at it, but I don’t think he could ever be considered anything else.
Amen, DawgFan (although I’m a GATech fan so not “Amen” about that!). I think this post is dead on, but my favorite restaurants are the ones where I’m the only white person and everybody else is black. And if the restaurant is owned and staffed by only one little old black lady who tells me what I’m going to be having for lunch instead of letting me order, I’m freakin’ in love.
On the other hand, I think this is part of the very weird relationship white southerners have always had with black ones. In so many ways we’re much more integrated with each other than occurs in the north. It’s just the quiet, subtle, probably less-important ways, and unfortunately it’s often overshadowed by the blatant racism that also exists down here.
But still, that part of this post is dead wrong. Collard greens, yes please! Chicken and waffles! Just no other white people! 🙂
I understand completely! I travel to Japan a lot, and never go to Roppongi or other places white people frequent. It’s only now that I am in my fifties that I sometimes use a Western-style toilet when given the choice in the restroom. Even in the US, if I am , say, in a Malaysian restaurant, I insist on ordering stuff that the waiter tells me I won’t like, then eating it (this got me sick once). It’s so funny!
In Washington DC, you can definitely judge how good an Ethiopian or Somalian restaurant is by the ratio of “Georgetownies” to members of said ethnic group. If the clientele is all white, run the heck outta there Fast!
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No offense but I love ethnic neighborhoods. China Town, Little Italy, etc., were all formed before forced integration and it stopped this type of community formation – I miss it.
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Man, ur Blog is pure genius.
I’m as white as they come and I just love being the only white person around.
I know lotsa disposal methods =)
This is the second post that I have seen that is 100% true.
I hate seeing other white people when I go to Japan.
It’s like who the hell do they think they are invading my area.
i definitely feel you there but it is important to keep in mind while reading these blogs that they only refer to a certain type of white people. these are the rich super-liberals located on the west coast and the northeast. as a matter of fact, i believe this site has more to with mind-state than race. this is why you will never see any mention of nascar or pick up trucks as stuff white people like.
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As an authentic white person, I have to say this made me laugh, because it’s entirely true. Does this make me a bad person, or do I hate white people because they muck it up for… well, me?
Best example… my very favorite Mexican restaurant – I will only go after I have confirmed I’m the only honky present. 🙂
I do not, however, order in Spanish, because I feel like a poser, but at least I know what I’m ordering (so as to avoid the “Menudo Soup” – mmmm, tripey!)
white people will go to black jazz clubs !!!
ever been to rap concert in the front row !!!
I consider myself pretty darn white, and while I think that the restaurant statement generally holds true, it doesn’t hold up in REALLY “undiscovered” places like Bangladesh. I wouldn’t set foot in a restaurant unless there was (a) a white person’s recommendation that the restaurant was suitable for white people (b) the staff appears to have previously viewed a white person (c) the restaurant was in the seriously outdated Lonely Planet and still in business (d) cows weren’t slaughtered directly in view of restaurant patrons and (most importantly) (e) there weren’t too many angry muslims present.
…I don’t know how Christopher Columbus did it.
Please, white people love to go to “Soul Food” establishments and be the only white people there. LoLo’s in Phoenix and “The Southern Kitchen” in Tacoma are perfect examples. If you can get “in” with a waiter or cook, you are a god. Nothing says hip like being the only white guy walking into a black restaurant and having someone in there know your name and say something ethic like “Walter, what’s up my homeboy?” to them.
The original poster is probably an American of anglo-saxon decent, who likely has a poor education and thus unaware that in Europe there is not the same concept of “white” as there is in America.
So let me educated you, my ignorant American friend. In Europe white people are identified by their ethnic or national group, this includes people who live in Spain, which has several ethnic groups. Beyond that there are Asians, Indians (American), Africans, Arabs, (white) Americans and Gypsies.
American tourists are only tolerated above Gypsies because they can spend money. In private most Europeans will crack jokes about Americans, can’t understand why we are so wasteful and why everything in America has to be super-sized.
shows you don’t know your history. Columbus was Italian.
Spain was conquered and ruled by the Moors for centuries. don’t know who the Moors were? They were black. that’s why most spaniards today have dark hair, eyes and skin. Also, that is why the southern Italians have dark hair and eyes. because Constantine wouldn’t stay out of Africa.
Try Being the only white person around ‘these parts’!
http://www.survival-international.org
And then ask yourself, “Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like Justice, Equality, and Truth?
Actually, I’ve heard that people in Europe, and in fact all over the world think the most interesting thing about Americans is that they themselves are super-sized. We’re clearly the fattest people in the world, maybe in history. When you spend any time outside the U.S. and then come back, it’s the first thing you notice.
Another thing Europeans notice is our teeth. That cuts both ways. Many Europeans who could clearly afford better have horrible looking teeth, especially the Brits. If you whip out a toothbrush in a restroom in the UK, the other people there look at you like you’re a nut case. To each her own.
Aww, I’m sorry that u feel that ur comment was even worth responding to. Nobody cares.
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I love this blog and the ‘Insider secrets.’ LOL
That is soooo cute. I had to chuckle when I read it. I don’t know who came up with this blog but it be banging. Lol
look guy, you’re wrong again. The spanish weren’t the most brutal. that was the english white guy’s job. the spanish tried to mix and mingle with the people instead of just trying to kill them. secondly, the demographic collapse was not do to the disease b/c the spanish slept in the same room w/ their livestock. (thus, helping them build up an immunity to the diseases.) get your facts right white boy! read the colombian exchange or look it up. and mr. colombus was most likely a con-artist and that wasn’t his real name either. (he’s still an ass.) but you are right about the spanish being white. peninsulares, that was the “popular” term for white dudes from spain. eventually a sort of caste system formed, a hierarchy derived from skin color and percent spaniard blood. Hence, racist white dudes.
Actually…Columbus was an Italian…hired by the Queen of Spain to go to find a faster trade route to India and the east and cut out the Arabs out of the trade route called the Silk Road. His benefactors were Spanish, so his name was converted to Spanish for the history books in Spain…then anglocized later by English speaking historians.
The Spanish weren’t as “white” as you think…the Moorish occupation of much of Spain led to much inter-mixing and many Spaniards are dark-haired and olive-skinned as a result…however, you’re right…they were the worst the New World saw.
is that picture in alhambra? i ate goose feet there, they were gross
Um, guilty. Why do you think we join the Peace Corps?
What may I ask again is Olive skin concidering the only olives i see in my green salad are green…
…but we never say, “It’s a White thing, you wouldn’t understand.”
At least not without backup.
You are wrong.I’m african american and an alglofile.
anglophile.
Wow–your comments have no validity. My library is filled with everything from Pablo Neruda to Benilde Little to Carlos Casteneda, Simone De Beauvoir, Colette, Jean Rhys, Shakespeare, Nick Laird, Brecht, David Hare, Wole Soyinka, Ken Sarowiwa, Books on Maori History, Cookbooks from Lithuania to Basque country….religious books from the Jains, the Sikhs, the Zoroastrians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and books like the Mahabharata and the Vedas… not to mention films from every country….and I am African American and educated–my undergrad is in theatre and my grad degree is an MBA….so…I think you are completely wrong and have no idea what you’re talking about–stop generalizing and start living….you appear vapid yourself not to mention void of knowledge and culture due to your extreme stereotypical comments.
There are, of course, exceptions to your stated thesis once you step outside of the sphere of “black liberal elites”: Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Condi Rice, Ward Connerly, and J.C. Watts come readily to mind.
There are even black astrophysicists!
And, as I recall, it was Persians who invented algebra (yeah, not black, but not what most consider “white bread,” either).
It’s a pity that the black community today has such pathetic self-styled “leaders” as Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, and Kweisi Mfume, none of whom apparently believe that blacks can succeed on merit, despite the counterexamples I’ve already cited.
Oh you Americans, always obsessed with race.
Us brutal English white guys are more into class.
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new topic: brooklyn? this relates largely to being the only white person around. I heard two white boys a the trendy Bedford stop on the L train say “I told my friends that I moved to Brooklyn and they were like ‘dude brooklyns like more dangerous than the bronx!’ and i was like yeah guys come to brooklyn”
Everyone looked pretty damn white the last time I went to Spain.
that is some what true. But when it comes down to it, Europeans do like americans. It’s certain segmetns of society that europeans don’t like…i.e. president bush and his evangelical/neocon followers
I have been a waiter for a number of years and have throught it was hysterical how white people will ask the most ridiculous things of you and then when you do them they tip you really well! Then there are other people who ask you the exact same things and then don’t tip.
Yes you are right white people love insencere customer service but when you are treated like an idiot or can’t understand your waiter I would much rather go with insencerity.
thank you, finally some one who sees the light. Yes there are things on here that white people like, but guess what, so do most other cultures.
I am white but most of this stuff doesn’t appeal to me in any way. ALthough I do own a pair of new balance, which was issued to me by the military cause other companies make there shoes in foreign countries.
I was stationed in San Francisco and that is where I saw most of this stuff. But guess what there were plenty of asians and blacks that were wearing the exact same stuff.
That’s funny you would say that, but don’t jews tend to shy away from being white. I know a couple of jews who are whitish, but that is only skin deep.
not sure what exactly you are trying to get at, but the scotts never conquered the Irish it was the British who put the Scott’s in charge of Ulster.
that is where you are wrong my friend, blacks judge each other by the tint of their skin. Every race does it. I used to work with a bunch of black people and the American blacks would make fun of the Darker African blacks.
what is amusing that that is not a white phenomenon. Blacks also are just as susceptible to it as whites, you just hear about more whites doing it.
This post nails it. I remember when I used to be white. I loved asian restaurants. Indian restaurants seemed to be ever growing in popularity…..
However, now that I have given my myself up to being a 29 year old black guy. I basically like to stay at home and chill because I feel relaxed. Or I go to a drive thru. But I’ll never forget my roots and I did love finding “colorful places” to grub.
I think the next post on this blog should be called- “Stuff White People Like: White People like being black people.”
I know I would have valuable insights into this phenomenon, as now and forever tomorrow, in spirit, I am a black man.
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I’m half-white, so I don’t get to be the only fully white person around. Neither do I get to be the only fully Asian person around. I often do end up being the only half-white, half-Asian person around. Like everyday at home and most other places.
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He was Genoese, not Spanish… Genoa is now a part of Italy.
Yesh, we get it. You’re half white. Geez, did you preface EVERY SINGLE COMMENT with this factoid?
Love chicken and waffles!!
Great blog but I don’t like most of the shit that this blog says I’m supposed to like.
What am I? I’m so confused.
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This really doesn’t hold much water. White people like to be with other white people.
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gotta say as a waitress for over 10 years . . . there are all kinds of assholes of all kinds of races. and there are all kinds of funny requests, and all kinds of kind strangers. it really can’t be separated by race.
but I will admit to this: I hate to say that white tables did not make me cringe the most. white people at least know how to tip, which as a hard-working waitress means a lot.
you can NEVER put people in a box, because just when you do they (thankfully) step out of it and surprise you, but I won’t lie that every once in a while on a rough night, there were certain tables that I just knew were going to be rough tables, and weren’t going to leave shit for a tip. not naming names. no point to it.
I’ve been to several black restaurants, Praxenakis – African and African-American.
A lot of them have food that I really like, but I’ve found that I don’t really like being the only white person around. Partly it’s stuff that I personally have to work on, and partly it’s the fact that I get looks from other people for being white. I still go to black restaurants sometimes, and it gets easier every time.
I eat paleo and get half my calories from meat, prax. I avoid vegetarian restaurants.
As a restaurant server… I’m not gonna say that black people *can’t* be easy customers to wait on, but I *am* gonna say that most of the time, they are not. If that ever changes, I will be the first to let you all know.
Another thing white people like……leaving comments on blogs. Then arguing with other people who leave comments as if any of it really matters. And in most cases, as in a blog like this, they completely miss the humorous nature of the original post. This also applies to commenting to online news sites. White people love to stand on their soap boxes, but only when they can hide behind their computer to do it. 99 percent of the people who bitch in comment sections wouldn’t have the guts to stand up to someone’s face and say the same thing. It’s what sucks about the internet, we’ve given these people a voice they were always to chicken shit to use.
Oh yeah, I’m white. I fit right into what I just said. Except, I’m pretty mouthy in person too.
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I am white.
I really do care if their are other whites in reaturants that I eat in.
I’ve occasionally wondered whether there is a difference. Except who was cooking all of the food on plantations back where your grandparents lived? do you really think the black slave women and poor free white women were trading recipes? Or do you think that perhaps, just maybe black people managed to introduce a little something something to the southern landscape along with everything else. I can’t say that it’s all the same. I’ve just never heard of white people in the south cooking seasoned chitterlings or pigs feet with a side of black eyed peas. Am I mistaken?
Really? I’m neither American nor European, but I’ve lived a long time in Europe and I’d say you’re pretty wrong, there 🙂 Most Europeans I know – or have ever met – become jittery if they hear an American accent approaching… Americans are *generally* viewed as loud, ignorant and irritating in most of the world, right now. But to be fair, every country sends its worst representatives as tourists. This is why I’ve perfected a perfect British accent. If people knew where I was really from they’d probably be wary too…far too many drunken, obnoxious Australian backpackers giving me a bad name!
ps: hopefully the next election should gain you back your old reputation of being friendly and intelligent…. 😉
I have struggled with the sad stereotype of Americans traveling in Europe. One of my closest friends live in Switzerland. I have been there several times and do everything I can to hide the fact that I am an American. It’s not that I am unpatriotic, I just realize that in other countries, people don’t wave American flags and sing “My Country Tis’ of Thee”, and they don’t care for the majority of Americans they have had the misfortune of meeting thus far. I sit in trains quietly, read a book, and avoid making eye contact with others. It is sad, really, because I think if the Europeans would have a chance to really sit down and talk to us Americans, they would like us. My friend in Switzerland is routinely chastised for liking Americans so much. Her boyfriend is British and he can’t believe why on earth she prefers American culture to British culture. I guess I am rambling, but let’s face it…bottom line–there are great people in every country and there are horrible people in every country. Americans should not have the gold medal on being hideous.
here ja the roman catholic church is the hand of take
from the bishop of rome it is legally under the nation of italy
and it is a foreign nation run by a foreign head of state
whose job is the papa provisio to a third and hierarchial
nation
if you would not mind reading the USA
Consitution and clearly seeing that
at least 30 million people in the USA are being forced
into what the first amendment has sensibly considered
not legally respectable establishment and where the
people your uninformed comments are adding force to their hand with to bring an
enormous amount of the USA economy, greater than
one and a half billion dollars a week, if the math seems
statistically correct, all under a shroud of non monitoring
non replenishment non economic development no voting
on how or where or for whom it is spent even who spends
it and on whom and for what all for a repeat of a two thousand year old politically and timely duplicitous rendition
about the life and death of one man as a centeral figure
when all that central figure seriously said was to believe in
God, then if you would not mind doing that before you
want another wafe boy power trip for another duplicitous
fraude criminal then maybe we might have a reasonable
economy and less bullsht to cover up the take and crime.
you are not the problem actually all the bull and propaganda
covering over a billion dollars of tax free non replenished thievery is.
heres a scant view of some of the math
300 million USA people
most reports are saying that 25% of our population
is roman catholic that is the national church of italy
no one will just give you their treaties to read that
because they like the money and have operated for over
two thousand years on the basis of ignorance and carnage
well just suppose only 10% are roman catholic and they
all make the below percapita income of 24 thousand dollars
a year and then they are taxed by the bishop of rome who
comes around with a golden plate to put the money in
and that would be a tenth get the roman numeral tax
that is about 2,400 USD per year or about 50 USA a week
50 United States Dollars times 30 million USA Roman Catholics
that is 1.5 billion dollars a week and oh boy that tidy little
sum adds up and goes to secret world where no one ‘
knows how or where or for who it is spent
no one knows why that business went away or why that
guy is hiding resources from them that havent
quite gone in the door to a not legally respectable establishment that United States Dollars is coming here of
here of being the United States economy and not there of
or Rome Italy
1.5 billion dollars a week and that figure is low considering
reinvestment where they look again at the USA economy
for profiteering and i know they are preferential in hiring
practices
so yeah you might want to please consider what you are
urging the USA population to do
SOMETHING TOTALLY NOT LEGAL GIVING PEOPLE WHO
ARE TAKING THE MONEY IN FRAUD AND PROBABLY PERPETUATING CRIMINAL CONDUCT ANTI THESIS TO THE USA TO KEEP GETTING MORE OF IT
sorry i do not agree with you at least i bothered to read our
USA Constitution in respect for the THE ESTABLISHMENT of
The USA , not italy, and some of their treaties which i thought
might be useful in understanding where they think they should have the right to do that to US
if you are not born into italian aristaucracy chances are that
you will probably be used duplicitously for them as they have promoted systems of enslavement for over two thousand years and were actually the people responsible for that amazing man Christ’s murder.
Have a nice day while there is still a USA.
Why is it that black Americans feel the need to separate themselves from other Americans? You don’t see any other race in America do this. When is the last time you heard a Mexican person call himself Mexican American? I have never heard an Asian person do this. What other race has a publication called the “Black Pages”? Are there other directories that have only White or Asian only professionals listed? Is it just American blacks or do real African black people do the same thing?
is it african americans do it themselves or is it the other races separating them?
i mean its not like black people were welcomed into freedom maybe white people thought themselves “its no way they can be an american if im an american … why ..i think that puts on the same level… lets get this straight… you will be known as AFRICAN- americans”
or another factor is we must remember that african americans were brought here NOT migrated so
maybe to keep their culture or the fore fathers of african americans decided they wanted to always be reminded of their african heritage .
I don’t like being the only white guy in a room with all bla…er African-Americans because I get a sinking feeling in my gut knowing I’ve got the smallest dick in the room.
to comment on this as an american of african descent I believe it is the lack of knowledge of ancestry that leads many blacks to feel separated and want to do things to declare themselves as equals in this country. There is a noticeable lack of unity in blacks and some feel the need to create the “black pages” as a way of unifying and establishing the validity of blacks in america. I don’t feel this is the best method but I understand the reasoning. Many immigrants often assimilate to the “american” way of life, by adopting the customs of those around them, the difference between other races and blacks is that blacks were stripped of all things pertaining to their heritage and history…many ancestral websites do not provide accurate information for blacks beyond 200 years. It is this lack of identity that leads many blacks to feel sub-american and look within their own community for identity and equality thus separating them from the more assimilated culture i.e. the rest of america lol. It sucks but hey that’s what being black in america is like, a constant search for approval and more importantly identity.
This was pretty silly, but the last line made me laugh out loud.
In general though, this site seems more like a liberal-bashing site than a white-satirizing site. (I wonder what my hillbilly relatives in backwoods Virginia and Florida would think about it?) That’s fine, except, the best thing about using irony is you don’t have to say anything about where you are coming from yourself, what you suggest instead, and risk being the object of critical thinking and maybe even ridicule…
I mean, the deepest irony of all has to be that whoever created this site comes off like an elitist New York brat who hasn’t visited “middle America” lately or seen the trailer parks. The majority of welfare recipients are children and single white mothers, you know.
Carry on.
Its definitely representative for the liberal-white on this site. Yet it has to be a VERY specific situation to be the only white person around and not being terrified. The not-yet-known-to-be-chic ethnic restaurant is a great example though 🙂
I never thought of it that way, but your’re right. I visited a friend of mine in San Fransisco a couple years ago and he took me to a Dim Sum restaurant. In the parking lot before we went in, he said, “This is gonna be great. We’ll be, like, the ONLY white people in there!”
I am going to claim to be an acception to this rule, when in fact I am sure I am not. I was on a holiday in India with my boyfriend (English, but also white) and we went on this horrendous, bumpy, filthy bus journey one day. While we were waiting for the bus to leave, 2 whiteys got on the bus, one of them sat right in front of us. This bus journey took about 5 or 6 hours. You want to know how many times these Americans (I heard them muddle through a conversation with some guy and say they were from the US) said hello? 0 times. I couldn’t believe it. We stook out like sore thumbs among a sea of much shorter, thinner, darker people, mostly not speaking English (although I was amazed at the level of English among almost everyone! thanks to the UK occupation?! or how do they call it… confederation or something?) but despite that, these folk acted like we were wrong for even being there. I have a feeling the above is why! (ps – they were likely searching for themselves, they had dred locks etc, and the girl was wearing a long indian-type skirt.) anyhow, hahahahaha!!!
For the record let’s just reiterate the fact that WHITE FOLKS IN AMERICA DIDN’T INVENT SLAVERY, despite what is being taught in public schools today. White folks did, however, fight and die to END slavery in this nation. Reparations were paid in full, with interest, at Antietam, fuckwits. Odds are you didn’t learn that in your high school history class, either.
Now if there are any Americans of African decent who think they are NOT better off today than their cousins in say, Ghana or Nigeria, I will personally buy you a one-way ticket back to your ancestral village.
Sarah, you spelled ‘exception’ wrong. Acception? Unless that’s some weird British spelling.
I’m white, and I do enjoy correcting grammar.
Ha
I guess a polite hello would have been proper. But they have the choice to not say anything, you are strangers! Its not like you are going to be best friends just because you are white! Ive learned that in meeting other people from or of Mexican decent.
hahaha
nice to hear your opinion.
hopeless fool.
obviously you missed your high school and any history class.
go back to school please
This rule also applies to black people who ‘act white’ – being the only black person – for a completely different reason however!
They, AA:s, are not better-off than their cousins in Nigeria. If they are, how come the Nigerian immigrants to the USA perform so much better academically? Africa is an ideological construct. Go there and find out more for youself. The average African peasant in Nigeria can still walk with more integrity within his village, than the average AA in any American ghetto.
Nigerians are emigrating to the USA for pretty much the same reasons as Indians, Cambodians etc
Come on man It’s cool to be the only white cat in a room full of minority chicks , that’s how you score big time, take some time check out http://www.revoint.com
I WAS THAT WHITE GUY WITH DREADLOCKS, AND WE WERE PISSED THAT YOU DIDN’T SAY HELLO. UP YOURS!!!!
I have never even a single time considered this when choosing a place to eat out. I look at the menu.
shia labeouf
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!!
you’re a pretty pretty dumb spammer.
This. Is. So. True.
Especially when travelling to foreign countries. Upon sighting another white person, the location is deemed a “tourist trap” and is left for somewhere more culturally authentic.
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.)
Other stuff white people like, reusable grocery bags to carry their organic food.
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you, and your products, suck. and are expensive. shill.
i guess mirrors should be avoided as well
whiteness is an arbitrary construct
Correction: This totally applies to night clubs.
It’s kinda funny, if you aren’t the only white person around you aren’t conscious of it, but the second you’re the only one… you know.
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Stop commenting on this blog. Just because the book came out doesn’t mean you have something original to add. Just because you commented on a long thread doesn’t make you special. Plus it’s really annoying because we can’t delete things from our “My Comments” trackers. Let it die its long awaited, hackneyed death.
“Arbitrary construct”
Only a white person would say that.
I’ve also noticed that when you’re in a foreign country (in Asia) and you pass by a fellow white person walking by, which doesn’t happen very often, and you do the standard male-to-male head nob and the other doesn’t in return – they are a total fucker, or possibly Dutch.
So what do you call trailer parks in New England? Ah, shit, sorry, my bad, we can’t talk about poor people on the East Coast, since there aren’t any. And the only poor people on the West Coast are Mexican. Only us turds in ‘middle America’ have bonafide poor white people. Maybe we should start a tourism campaign so that elitist bastards from the coast can go on a ‘trailer park safari’ to see ‘real poor white people’ I mean, damn, they’re already coming to work on a ‘real farm’ and haul hay and milk a cow. Why not?
Just because your name is pronounced Bi-Kuri doesn’t mean I have to listen to your shit.
Yep
あなたはとてもばかです。
everyone, especially white folks, is more or less desperately seeking individuality. This manifests itself disfunctionally when people only compare themselves to others that are most similar. To a certain extent this is unavoidable, its the way we define our selves generally. If we could only take ourselves less seriously and stop the comparison game!
Only one problem with this one. I would be the only Puerto Rican among the whites……
I love that!!!!
Much regards,
Frank
No you are wrong.
Exception may refer to:
An action that is not part of ordinary operations or standards.
Acception may refer to:
Derivative of accept.
Well said, they want to be equal but separate at the same time, they dont talk about THE comunity, they talk about the BLACK comunity.
If that is a large sum, look below ground at the deep underground military bases inhabited by greys and humans, look at their budget!!!
yeah and black people will come to white countries!
USA played ethiopia at soccer, the score was USA 8, Eithiopia didnt!
Living in Vancouver BC, we have a 30% Asian population.
Went shopping at Superstore, and I was a clear minority amongst the Chinese. However, when I went to a Chinese restaurant that evening, it was practically all whities!?!? Then two Chinese guys came inside, and left because they felt like a ‘minority’. I don’t know what my point is, but it’s rather odd.
Oh look at the big scary words guys! Arbitrary Construct!
Tell me do your anuses pucker in terror at his polysyllabic vocabulary?
This goes here, Japan or asians girls.
Key tip to you fellow crackers, if in Tokyo(therefore riddled with charisma man syndrome and yellow fever)
I do not know you, vice versa, so fuk off, in a city of maybe allmost
20 000 000 locals %50
= 10 000 000 females%10
(10% so outta your league back home attractive)
=1 000 000 fine ladies.
Not enough to go round for our “white man conquers ancient orient” fantasies, so its de rigure, to ignore all other white males unless you’ve got drunk and had local girls
laugh at your jokes about fat chicks.
This goes here, Japan or asian girls.
Key tip to you fellow crackers, if in Tokyo(therefore riddled with charisma man syndrome and yellow fever)
I do not know you, vice versa, so fuk off, in a city of maybe almost
20 000 000 locals %50
= 10 000 000 females%10
(10% so outta your league back home attractive)
=1 000 000 fine ladies.
Not enough to go round for our “white man conquers ancient orient” fantasies, so its de rigure, to ignore all other white males unless you’ve got drunk and had local girls
laugh at your jokes about fat chicks.
Personally i hate it…..
ass
I notice that white north americans call “colored” people ethinic and do not realize that EVERYBODY is ethnic even white people! And white people can be of the most diverse ethicities and even a mix of then just like non-white people.
Btw i know spain and can assure you that the average spaniard look about as white as the average italian however the priors are considered “colored” while the formes are considered white by most americans. That is such a nonsens in my opinion! Americans confuse terms like “hispanic” for racial cathegorizations and confuse the spaniards (and other hispanics) ethinical / racial background whit the language that they speak. “Hispanics” can have very distinct ethinical / racial background.
Now i just wonder how the autor would do to judge costumes and restaurants in foreign countries wich mostly habitated by white people lol. He seens to equate foreign with non white another tipycal US thing…
The white guy in TV on the Radio must have the one of the highest status levels of any white person in the world.
This also works in reverse for all those ethnics who think they are white; however, it is much, much worse since they always want to be the only non-white around in every social situation.
Have to disagree. Where I live in London is what is euphemistically called a vibrant multicultural community, in other words there a few Whites. They’ve fled from the multicultural horde in what is known uneuphemistically as the White Flight! Experiencing the ‘delights’ of ethnic ‘diversity’ and ‘enrichment’ I wish I had joined the exit!
I nearly fell out of my chair after I read that.
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I keep wondering when “fleeing” will be a posted topic on this site.
These are all written from an American perspective. It could be called “Stuff White Americans Like”. Foreign = non white to us because of our location. (This probably works for the UK too.) Mexico is “foreign”, but Canada is just North United States. Since we’re so isolated in our white American culture, we’re all about experiencing “ethinic” things. The UK doesn’t count since they’re so much like us. France, Spain, Italy are the only “white” countries that count as ethnic.
Hopefully some of that made sense…
A lot of times I been the only black person around and the only times that it made me feel uncomfortable is in some bars, not all bars just some small town ones.
http://www.culturallycool.com
A couple things:
Canada is north United States?! Isolated in white American culture?!? Canada is so much more multicultural that the US, especially in cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal… there are many Asians (oriental and east Indian). There is a huge mosaic of ‘ethnic’ restaurants, all which are run by people of that particular culture. Canadians get 2 passports, they have the title of their ethnic background first before their nationality (Japanese-Canadian.. not just ‘American’). Canadians are damn well proud of their multiculturalism and being called ‘north united states’ in a topic that talks about white people interacting with different ethnic cultures is a full fledged insult.
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
HAHAHA. Hilarious. This is very true.
does it make white people feel better to say Columbus wasn’t white? so if some Aztec dude comes up and tries to kill you, you can say hey Columbus wasn’t white!
Lighten up francis, Canada is north America. Get it through your lily white pasty head. “in cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal… There are many Asians” Are they some of your best friends too? You worthless piece of racist, Hitlerian crap!!
i dont know what that feels like here in NYC http://www.SHOP-LUSCIOUS.com
White people are an interesting folk. They have funny quirks and sometimes odd habits. They amuse me and also irk me. Seeing a white person in Whole Foods or doing yoga would seem ordinary to anyone but when I see it it just seems like such a stereotype. Granted I am Mexican and I do sometimes do things that would seem to be very “Mexican” but when I see a white person I wonder if they know anything about their personal background. Do they have any tradition that they follow or know about their native culture. To any other ethnic group we do do things that are very much connected to our culture and that are very special. But when it comes to white people I guess they must be clueless about where they come from and thats why they do things that are considered “white”. Like going to an out doors farmer market or shopping at the Gap – things like that. That’s kind sad to me that that’s considered white. Why don’t you do things that have some thing to do with your ethinic background. But I guess theres worse some are and could be KKK or red neck and very hick.
Its like you looked into my soul when you wrote this post, and I am on the other side of the white world in sunny Sydney, Australia. Not only do I seek out the most Asian of eating places to have obscure Asian deserts, but even make comments to my equally white husband when the only other westerner that comes in is accompanied by Asian friends and looks really uncomfortable. When on honeymoon in Bali, I found a toothless little old Balinese lady in the carpark next to a temple, making coconut and peanut glutinous rice balls packaging them in pandanas leaves. I was so proud being the only westerner to buy the local delicacy, and going back to the taxi to stuff my face with them, only to have the Balinese taxi driver ask me where I got them so he could buy a stack to take home to his family.
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I’m a white Canadian of British decent: golf, beer, hockey, British films, fish and chips, the Beatles, Oasis, Feist, and the Tragically Hip and are already part of my ethnicity.
What the hell do you want? Should I start reclaining the Enlish or Scottish or Irish accent? 🙂
I am extremely envious of the person who wrote the post before this one.
I want to go to Bali.
Glad a friend told me about your website.
omg lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
especially the nightclub note.
i just got back from Japan and nothing spoiled that trip more than seeing another whitey. what made it worse was thinking they were European whites. YUCK! wait, even if i knew they were American whites i felt that same thing… i’m so confused.
seeing white people on vacation in “non-white countries,” sucks.
i will make note of this and make it my own.
This website’s a joke. You, all of you, need to get a life. The reason you feel the need to eat in places, or plan honeymoons to exotic places like Bali, in great hopes of having an authentic and culturally enlightening experience, is because you crave what you lack: Culture. Find your own, create your own if need be, but most of all stop complaining about others invading your special places. They were never yours in first place. This ranting whiny crap is pathetic. Discovery is great but if real experiences are what you’re after you shouldn’t care so much about how brown or black or white a restaurant or island is.
I hate being the only white person around. I work in heavily latino and black neighborhood. When I take the bus, I often find that I’m the only white person on there. It’s very uncomfortable. Even the bus drivers aren’t white!
I fully embrace my culture, both as an American Southerner and as a man of mostly Scottish and English ancestry. I eat Southern cuisine and enjoy British staples such as tea and oatmeal. My honeymoon wasn’t in Bali or Thailand, it was in the U.K., where I ate fish & chips countless times, chugged English beer, and spoke my native tongue.
If I am the only white person around in a restaurant, I’m not uncomfortable, nor do I feel some swelled sense of pride. I’m there for the food. The white people who stick out in such places are the crackers who call attention to themselves by acting like superior yankees who think they’re doing the world a favor by gracing that establishment with their obnoxious presence. My own Southern conservative upbringing gave me the social graces to be the only honky in the place without being resented.
one question- why are Europeans so highly disliked in the States?? I’ve heard of Americans calling Europeans “Eurotrash” and all…………….. can someone please answer this?
I’m white and I don’t like any of this shit. Where do you guys come up with this?
this list is terrible to me. i guess i’m one of the people that this list doesn’t really apply to. what white people really think like this?!
there ya go …………. !!! now we got some white folks in the building to co-sign all of these …… or particlarly THIS lol ……………. spelling !!! people is BASIC. Relearn them , do whatever…………….but please get it right ……shorthnd writing?? theres nothng wrong in tht but i jst cnt bear to see ppl writing ‘this’ instead of ‘these’ or ‘your’ in place of ‘you’re’
I never heard anyone hating on europeans here in the states… Where did you hear that from?
I see TONS of videos of people from the UK hating on the US, though, I’d like to know why, too.
Besides this one, of course
You REALLLY need to read the “Being Offended” post. Maybe you missed the key idea of this site; humour! You need to get yourself to a serious issues forum (aka syllable contest) before you shatter that perma-frown.
I think the majority of American’s think Europeans are awesome. And more attractive. See Study Abroad.
“one question- why are Europeans so highly disliked in the States?? I’ve heard of Americans calling Europeans “Eurotrash” and all…………….. can someone please answer this?”
Hell, it’s been my experience that it’s just the opposite. Europeans tend to look down on Americans in distain as ignorant and uncultured (and we certainly don’t help ourselves with bringing this stereotype to life sometimes.)
Columbus was Italian, not a Spaniard, but even if he were, he’d still be white.
ALL Europeans are WHITE and only a dumb American would think and say otherwise!
The Moors were Arab, not black.
It is not just the colour of one’s hair or their skin tone that makes them white a black or whatever.
It is facial features, body features, hair types- all these characteristics combined!
I am so tired of these idiotic American racial viewpoints reinforced with total lack of knowledge of history or geography.
But what makes them human?
RE: The bus ride full of Latinos & blacks
You don’t like it because riding the bus is not a cultural and/or pioneering experience. You can’t “one-up” another white person by saying ” I ride the bus w/ minorities…it’s an enlightening experience…” Nobody would care. Being the only white person only has value (to white people) when they can say they’ve experienced diversity/spirituality/culture (shock), etc.
This site is hilarious and shows an honest attempt at truly viewing one’s self and race objectively but with a humorous eye.
LOL!
That’s too funny!!!
I’ve heard that Europeans look down on Americans, but I have heard of some Americans hating the French (my dad is one of them).
My dad hates the French because “they haven’t helped America since American Revolution, and we help solve world problems.” If a friend stopped giving you presents, would you stop being his friend? Both groups are being silly (especially my dad) and overgeneralizing.
This also translates to entire countries.
Many white people in Japan refuse to acknowledge other white people on the street or in venues because it will ruin their “cultural experience”.
yo Fedeory arnt white amercians really Europeans.I mean their Real home country is from europe so its like i move to lets say austrlia and i from somlia,and generations later my somali grandkids are making fun of some somali exchange student.Its just weird and sad cuase its your people man
I think the “Eurotrash” meme may be derived from actual travel to Europe.
North Americans have such high cultural expectations of Europe, but when they get there they see a lot of soccer jerseys and camel toe.
Just a theory.
I think you give them too much credit Kelly. Those folks are not really having a ‘cultural experience’ but in truth have simply escaped the confines of their own home culture.
Lots and lots of white people in Japan are socially retarded and would have long since failed in their own lives at home.
In Japan they have the ability to reinvent themselves as professors or artists or travel writers (pick one). Having contact with other white people would naturally lead to questions that might expose their true inferior selves.
Of course, my own case, being the exception.
Holy crap, Jo Jo. You are so totally on the money with that one, I am embarrassed for all the Japan expeditioners I know.
I have nothing to add!
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lol that’s so not true !!! white people love white people
Ironies of ironies….this blog almost has the fewest entries (Being the only white person around)…..this is interesting because one can come to the conclusion that:
1)white people in america hardly ever have this experience
2)the trauma of being the only white person among non-whites is too overwhelming to write about
3)whites will talk about being the only white person around only if they are in a foreign country
Now i know why most whites are sensitive when it comes to talking about race in america….when you are always in the majority, you need not think about the minorities (except to make them conform to the ways of the majority)…..
someone should put up a blog with the subject being: Being the only non-white person around……now that blog would get tons of hits….
louiecoolgato: hate to tell ya but in Texas… us white folk are the minority now. Hispanics first, african americans second, and then whites last. I’m not sensitive about talking about race at all. I actually think it’s fun to be the only white person in a room. It becomes the object of humour with the nonwhites. Really, it does.
For instance, I work in a predominately hispanic/african american neighborhood grocery store, ok. I’m a tall, gangly, pasty white female with blonde hair. And I’m a total dork. So imagine if you will, on payday, standing behind the check cashing counter and looking into the faces of about 20-25 ethnic folks waiting for you to hurry the heck up. Now that’s when the fun starts. The black guy from the lawn business starts up with me.. “hey ol’ scho.. hurry up girl..” laughter erupts thru the crowd. What do I do? I talk back in my best ebonics possible for a nerdy white girl.. “awe you know man…I ain’t in a hurry for nothin.. aaaigghhtt?”. the crowd laughs and it’s a happy time. (let’s not talk about the day I asked a black person what “chitterlings” were.)
Uh oh… next customer is a non english speaking hispanic. We have a joke going across our language barrier.. I attempt to speak spanish with my white midwestern accent.. and he laughs. I write down his Western Union information and we laugh at my accent.. or lack thereof. ” Sink-oh see-in Dollar-ez?” I say and we start laughing and he corrects me ever so sweetly and if he needs to say something in more detail, I get a spanish speaking coworker for him. So really, it’s actually a bonding experience for me to be the only whitey in a group. I can entertain a crowd of ethnic people with my white mannerisms because I know I can and it’s funny to me.
I expect a ‘minority’ to comform to ‘our’ ways just like I expect natives in another country to expect me to conform to their ways. I don’t think it’s asking too much to learn our language or to become a legal citizen.. no matter where you’re from. If I moved to say oh I dunno… Any other country, I would imagine the ‘majority’ would expect me to learn the language. Also, if I decided to move there, I would probably be strongly urged to become a citizen. So I’m not being unreasonable.
Pastycaucasian, you do know the history of Texas don’t you?….Texas is really part of Mexico that was illegally taken away from the mexicans….and now, they are taking it back…but without a war….sort of like infiltration of what was rightfully theirs…
Your next question will be, ‘how the hell was texas taken illegally from the mexicans?’…..good question…..here’s a short history lesson on Texas…
When Texas was part of the country of Mexico in the early-mid 1800s, (after they won their independence from Spain), the mexican government had all that vast land but not enough mexican citizens to settle in it….so what did the mexican gov’t do? They invited americans to come and settle the land, with the understanding that: 1) they are settling in Mexican sovreign land and the settlers would be under mexican laws, and 2) Slavery was not allowed on Mexican land
Well you can guess what happened….whites moving west began settling in the Texas territory in droves….and alot of them brought slaves with them….which was a big no-no….
..well to make a long story short, Texas became the lone star state over slavery….That is what white Texan settlers fought the mexicans for…to have slaves……and if you don’t believe me, after Texas took the land from the Mexicans, guess what? they joined the US as a SLAVE STATE…..and that bulls*** about liberty in Texas….yea, for to own slaves!….don’t believe me? Look it up…
Now what is happening in Texas is what you’d call ‘poetic justice’….remember, if you were born within the US borders, no matter what status your parents are, you are a US citizen…LOL…guess what?….there are lots of children born here from mexican parents….and they have every right that you have….who said that american citizens have to speak english??….it would help their situation, but you cannot ship them to mexico if they were born in the US….
Very soon, these children and youth that you are talking about (ones born in the US) will grow up….and some of them will become law makers…..and some of them are going to remember how white texans treated them….and there are going to be some changes…..
If you want to make your life a little easier, i recommend that you learn spanish….believe me, the spanish speakers will appreciate your effort, and you will have an even larger group of friends than just your english speaking friends…..
From my experiences, Mexican people are some of the most friendly people you’d ever meet…….unlike most americans, mexicans like you for who you are, and not for ‘what you have’….
I’m a white guy married to a Kenyan woman (Go Obama!).
I am actually an elder in her tribe, the Kikuyu. So when I am in Kenya in her hometown I am most definately the whitest face in town but I am one of their own.
and from my experiences, people who make generalizations about entire countries and groups of people are ignorant bigots.
From my experiences, people who’ve never been out of the country are ignorant bigots—Kels….
I’ve been to mexico….and several other countries….for extended periods of times, and from my experiences, people like you should keep their mouths shut until they actually meet and interact with people different from themselves…
This sort of happened to me last week in Senegal. We went to Bineta’s in Thies, and we were the only toubabs (white people) in the tiny restaurant filled with 4 plastic tables. Two French women showed up, and upon seeing us, turned to leave. (I know they were thinking, “oh la la, there are too many toubabs here for it to be good, cheap and local food.” They were wearing clothes made in Senegal, and local jewelry. Maybe they were French missionaries? Despite the fact that there was another table of Senegalese men, these two hesitated a long time before deciding to dine there. You can check out some of my African adventures by checking out my blog, Planet Perspectives.
heck more like on this white girl, she ends up being the only white person in the crowd because everyone else hated that other white person and trick them into doing something…
When in Rome, Do as the Romans do….
I’m white and 90% of the things that you’ve listed don’t apply to me, or most people I know. Maybe you should revise?
A few points:
1. There were Mexican and Spanish people who fought for Texas independence (an ancestor of mine commanded the Tejano division of the army of the Republic of Texas).
2. The vast majority of Hispanic Texans are loyal Americans who aren’t trying to “take back” anything for Mexico.
3. The vast majority of Hispanic Texans speak English as their first language.
4. 1 in 3 Hispanic Americans marries an Anglo.
5. Points 2, 3, and 4 guarantee that, for the foreseeable future, basic English language skills will be necessary for anyone desiring to effectively participate in the political process, both on the Texas state and national levels.
To say a few points to your points Phil:
1. The Mexicans and Spanish people who fought for Texas independents were a majority slave holders. The Spanish had extra reason to fight with the white texans; they were driven out by the mexicans from mexico…
2. The vast maority of Hispanic Texans are loyal Americans because they are born americans….but they are NOT DENYING their family roots, which is in Mexico. They are expanding their mexican CULTURE into Texas. Think of it as not a physical taking back, but rather, a cultural taking back of Texas.
3. While the vast majority of Hispanic Texans speak english, a vast majority also speak SPANISH in addition.
4. Two thirds of Hispanic Americans marry NON-ANGLOS.
5. Those other points guaruntee that basic english skills will be necessary for anyone desiring to effectively participate in the political process, BUT, if white politicians want to be in Texas politics for any foreseeable future, they will have to not only speak english but learn Spanish also.
I didn’t include my link – http://www.planetperspectives.blogspot.com. Now that I’m back from Africa, I stopped spending money for 2 weeks. So if you want to read about that, come visit. If you want to read about Africa, you just need to check out some older posts.
Your username is “PETA.” nuff said
I hate being the only white person around. It’s uncomfortable. And then I realize that that’s probably how a lot of non-white people feel all the time.
‘This also translates to entire countries.
Many white people in Japan refuse to acknowledge other white people on the street or in venues because it will ruin their “cultural experience”.’
Well, maybe for some. Take my experience. I’m whitey and have been living/working throughout Asia for the past eight years.
I’d say after the first few months – if you’re really ‘taking in’ the country’s cultural ‘ways’ quite well; making more friends who are form that foreign country, etc, your views begin to change a bit. You start to ‘acculturate’. It’s not necessarily you being a ‘pompous’ white person avoiding other white people – your ‘outlook’ just starts to change a bit.
You start to view other white persons not only as persons from your ‘same race’, but as ‘foreigners’ (as they are in that country) as well – and you start to view how ‘white people’ in that host county view ‘white people’. It’s a ‘shift’, which I think ‘white people’ new to that country might take offence to – although it isn’t really meant that way (at all) … ya know??
oops, I meant how ‘locals’ in that foreign country view white people, not “how ‘white people’ in that foreign country view ‘white people.”
Haha, hilarious Jo Jo you nailed it. The true ‘whitedom’ comment. White people ‘one-upping’ each other with snide remarks, feelings of superiority and what-not. Congrats 🙂
Nice one Jughead. What about the POSITIVES of progressive white people?! Of course, the masses wouldnt find that half as interesting as this blog …
White people hating-on and one-upping other white people. It’s sad but it’s what characterizes so many …
This blog just reinforces ironic tendencies of *some* liberal white North Americans. Not all.
White liberal North Americans: you have much to be proud of. Don’t let the author of this blog – or certain snide remarks – change your mind otherwise. You have much to be proud of. Can’t we all just get along?
You might be right ….
Is this shit for real?! I find your ‘whiteness’ hard to believe …
No, her name was Peta. Not PETA which is an acronym. Do a search for the grammar entry.
Oh, and before you get started – my name is not Preston. Hahaha. Just thought that would have you ready to fire off yet another comment before having read the whole thing.
Dude they’re just tryin’ to be funny. A lot of this is true, you gotta admit. 😉 And besides, it’s obvious the white liberal Americans/to some extent Europeans are the ones they’re targeting; everybody else is “the wrong kind of white people.”
When i first went on this website, i was skeptical about the stereotyping of white people. But every single article has been eerily 100 percent accurate about me, leading me to believe that I myself am white, which I am.
The only time I’ve ever been the ONLY white person in the room was at my coworker’s 50th birthday party. Other than me, it was all black folks from the Caribbean. But since I dance really well I got mad props and everyone loved me. Holla!
But in typical white fashion I acted like it was no big deal even though I was relishing the positive attention and saying to myself the whole time “so, THIS is how black people must feel during a large percentage of their lives.”
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Not really, non-whites like me never think about “oh, there’s no other (non-white race) here”. They just think about the white woman who looks up from her counter at (name a store) and then gives you a look like “I’ve got my eye on you, don’t try any funny stuff darkie”
Don’t forget the walk in any store in the suburbs of anywhere (name a store) and within 30 seconds a security guard (NOT a sales clerk) comes over and says, “can I help you?”….You take the high road and describe what you are looking for, and the guard says something to this effect, “…uh….you need to ask a salesclerk for that…”
In the meantime, some white suburban kids are stealing the store blind because the dumb guard would never think that nicely dressed whites would ever steal………
There’s no slack for the black……..
you got this one right…almost.
i’m the white guy with the cowbell.
If I’m the only white guy around; I’m in the wrong place.
Damn….then you cannot go to four fifths of all the places in the world!….
If even half the things on this site apply to you it doesn’t mean you are white, it means you are a bad human being.
You know what’s awesome?
Probably 90% of the comments below truly conform to the “white people” stereotype.
I’m thinking:
1. Taking offense
2. Taking offense about the percieved injustices exacted on others
3. Referencing foreign, 3rd-world travel
Shockingly, there’s a disturbing lack of our true saving grace, irony.
One more thing specific to this thread:
Is it perhaps maybe somewhat possible that some white folks actually like ethnic (yes, I will use the term ethnic) food because alot of it is delicious and unlike anything we grew-up eating?
Let’s compare your run-of-the-mill, take-out, “Wok ‘n Roll” Chinese place to anyplace in NYC Chinatown. You know exactly what you’re going to get at the former; a few cooking styles variated only by the main protein ingredient, ie. Moo shi pork-beef-chicken, kung po pork-beef-chicken, general tso (no complaints there), happy family seafood banquet stuff, etc. It’s good if that’s what you want, but sometimes/usually I want something different. That’s when I go to my place in Chinatown for soup dumplings, sour long beans, chingching chicken (yes, a real dish), hot and numbing rabbit, and so forth. I like these places not because I want to be special (my mom already told me I am) but because they don’t fuck around with ingredients and cooking styles; chicken pieces are still on the bone, tripe is in the soup, and the pork often comes from the belly. I don’t order that to be cool (again, Mom), I order that because it tastes awesome.
You don’t get that at Wok’n Roll because the owner knows he stands a better chance staying in business catering to the majority of his market and cooking American Chinese food rather than keeping it real and waiting for the next boatload of fujianese immigrants to walk through the door and order a taste of home. Thus, my Fujianese friends find their way to Chinatown where the tastes of the local demographic can support a legit dim sum, sichuanese, or hunanese restaurant.
And that’s where you’ll find this white guy. Why? Because it’s delicious.
Probably already said somewhere in the 127,000 other posts, but I’d say the reality is the exact opposite of this post for the majority of whites — at least while traveling. There are the rare few individuals who, while traveling to non-Westernized countries, do actually enjoy being alone for pure cultural reasons. Why throw yourself in remote locations in India, Cambodia or Nepal to spend your time with other culturally like-minded, white people? Personally, I’d rather be speaking in a foreign language with locals and learning about their life.
Damn you are all some cracker ass white people. C im half white and one somebody goes “well your white” i go no i am not i am half. second off, Why the fuck are you wasteing your goddamn whitepeople time argueing over sushi…..and what is up with eating raw dead things. i eat dead things just not raw dead this…..i hope you all get sick
whitest. guy. ever.
FACT: White people don’t even care if the non white people at this ethnic restaurant don’t belong to the group relating to the food being served.
e.g.
I walk into a Lebanese restaurant and there’s only a table of let’s say… Indian people, we’re happy. Still good and ethnic, just what we’re looking for. We’re a pretty sick lot don’t you think?
JL: you may be 50% white, but you are 100% faggot
Though i agree with most of his blogs, I think this one is kinda untrue. From my personal experience, a white person that was alone in a new and “ethnic” environment or situation usually feels super uncomfortable, and is relieved when another white person enters the picture so that they don’t feel so alone. Then again, this doesn’t just pertain to white people. I think it would be natural for a lot of people of any ethnic background to feel awkward in a situation where they were the only person of that background and everyone else was so different.
“…. I think it would be natural for a lot of people of any ethnic background to feel awkward in a situation where they were the only person of that background and everyone else was so different….”
Welcome to the world of EVERY non-white in america who does not live in a big city with a high percentage of non-whites, Analie……while this is a rare experience for most whites in america (being the only white person around), it is a COMMON experience for non-whites…..so maybe you will remember this feeling and this will trigger some EMPATHY within you when you see that non-white person standing in a sea of white faces at, say, school, or the mall, or where ever…….because it is not fun to “feel alone in a new and “white” environment or situation” each and every day….
Recently, I went to eat with 5 other people, all black girls. I am a white male, and I will admit, I was compelled to think that everyone else was jealous of me.
You were compelled to think incorrectly.
Louie, you beat me to it. In addition to this, Analie, you have to remember that we (non-white people) in these situations have no option but to befriend these white people. This is a decision not of choice but rather of necessity. As a West-Indian, seeing the lone white person in my “dirty” neighbourhood irritates me, not because of where they are but why they are there, and this point is exactly it. Tokenism and 1-uping other white people is the name of the game, and we know it. Being treated like a collectible item is NOT fun, but unfortunately many non-whites have no option but to be friends with these cultural villains.
A note to other white people reading this: Do not attempt this. EVER It is in fact racist and just plain mean, and you don’t want to be known as a racist, do you (I hope you voted for Obama)? We are civil people and we WILL be your friend, as long as you like us for who we are and not for how we look.
You sound very ignorant, learn how to spell and then come back and write your comment
If you don’t like being around only white people why did you move to a majority white country?
First of all Tom, I was born and raised in the US of A….I did not move here…..secondly, since i was born here, i had no choice but to be around majority of white people…..but it is OK now….you know why?/
Have you checked out who’s your new president?? the country may be majority white but the leader is an african american!!
I, and most non-whites who live in the US of A, have renewed hope in the changing of white folk attitudes towards non-whites… afterall, a huge number of whites did vote for Obama, inspite of his skin color………thus, there is hope for you people yet!
First time I was the only white guy around (age 20) was really wierd, and I did feel uncomfortable. Its no big deal in restaurant, but try it at a private party, lol.
Wow, this one is so true! As a white person living in Japan, I already fulfill many of the white person qualities featured in this blog, and this is no exception. There is nothing that is more annoying than when you run into another foreigner in Japan (even though there are thousands and I am just as obvious as them). White people in general hate seeing other white people here. I guess we like to think of ourselves as the first white people to discover a country or something. The worst is running into other Americans of course, we just can’t stand that. Especially at an “authentic” restaurant. If I see a foreigner it always seems less Japanese somehow 😉 It’s always nice to learn something new about myself.
Holy sh**! I was gonna say the same thing about Japan. Other white people will make a point of pretending you don’t exist. And they get pissy if you burst their authentic Japan experience bubble by talking to them.
This one doesn’t ring true for me. Spent 1985 in Guyana, S.A. with volunteer organization. Country very divided along racial-descent lines (officially: Afro-; Indo-; Portuguese (different from “White” down there) “White” (mostly from Irish); Chinese; Amerindian (the indigenous ethnicity); “mixed” (what many many are, but few will admit to). One thing that often had me feeling somewhat uncomfortable (unless I was in my workplace or at the library) was finding myself the lone white person in a situation, which wasn’t so very infrequent. I reckon that being small and female contributed to my unease. I felt vulnerable; but then the crime rate was, in those years, through the roof, so to speak. And racism among/between the peoples was pretty much the unstated State Policy.
The other example that comes to mind is when a New Yorker friend of mine and I went down to that great town, from Montreal, for the mid-term break in 1977. We were trying to get back from the Village (Manhattan) to her brother’s digs in Brooklyn, but actually ended up in Harlem on the A Train. Late at night, on a Saturday, we realized it had been more than a few stops since we’d seen any faces that were not Afro-American aside from each other’s. Did we feel like authentic tourists just then? No, just a couple of stupid white girls.
i’ve been in restaurants and “said, oh this place must be good, there are [whatever ethnicity the restaurant is] people here”
i’m pretty white
and pretty stupid, i might add…..
Honestly alot of blacks feel the same way, some of of us upwardly mobile blacks like it when we are the only black in a resturant. If too many blacks show up, then the “secret” is out, and we have to find another all-white swanky resturant.
Speak for yourself
well looky here???……we have here another clarence thomas…. there are names for people like you damon…..but white people would rather call you a ‘token’….I won’t even tell you what the rest of us think of you…..
beeotch.
I do concur!
Uh Huh your comment makes no sense whatsoever. Leave Damon alone, he is my black cyber friend and that makes both of us very special whether you like it or not.
awwww….i didn’t know he was your friend….let me amend my previous statements.
f*** both you and damon and the horse you both rode in on.
beeeotches.
Oh my…this one stings. It’s so true for me! The fact that this one includes a photo from a dim sum restaurant especially gets me because the last time my husband and I went for dim sum with our friends our comment was, “oh yay, we’ll be the only white people.” It hurts and yet it’s comforting, somehow, knowing that many white people are crazy like me.
Ugh, yes. I’m a white chick and I have *Studied Abroad* and *Traveled* in China (ha! two categories filled right there! I also plan to go to *Graduate School* for Chinese Studies!). There were so many instances when other white people who actually spoke Chinese (often white dudes with *Asian Girls*, many with “Multilingual Children*) would totally ignore me when I was clearly struggling. One of the most obnoxious instances was when I had a giant freak reaction to a mosquito bite and my foot blew up to approx double its size, and I see an English teacher dude (American or Canadian) who had brought his Chinese students to the art museum (this should be on the list) I was sitting outside of. The students all went off to complete some assignment, so I decide to go ask this guy if he has any advice about where I should go to have my foot looked at. Even though I (the only other white person around for, I don’t know, miles) had been sitting near him for about half an hour, and I know he had noticed me, this is the first time he actually looks me in the face and makes eye contact. He looks pained the entire time he’s speaking to me, and had absolutely no interest in knowing a single thing about me or in sympathizing with the plight of my bulbous foot. Now, you may think this guy is generally an unpleasant person — but no, he was very jovial with his Chinese students. This sort of behavior is very common, and I believe it exists for many reasons. One of them being that, like *Stephen Colbert* these men — who suspiciously only date *Asian Girls* — don’t SEE race. Fellow foreigners/probably just fellow white people, need not be acknowledged any more than they’d acknowledge a random Chinese person on the street. This is pretty amusing considering the fact that at the same time that that white teacher guy wouldn’t look directly at me, pretty much all Chinese people in the area had taken a nice long gander/stare. Which is fine, and strangely never bothered me as much as the “other white people ignoring me” thing. When Chinese people stare at foreigners they are displaying a genuine interest in something they haven’t seen much in person. When white people “ignore” other white people in China, they are genuinely acting like douchebags.
PS — Just watched Christian Lander Google authors vid at youtube — funny! Def recommend. And he’s so cute! I had no idea.
Every white person knows about the equation involving the number of white people seated at an ethnic restaurant is inversely proportional to the quality of the food/experience. Would you go into a Chinese restaurant, that only had white people sitting there? I think not!
Let’s not even get into the topic of white waiters at an ethnic restaurant
Someone’s a little too sensitive..
As for me, I brought a white friend to a small restaurant downtown that sold Dominican food. NO WHITES and the people there barely spoke English. He was extremely pleased with the food AND the “authenticity.” Much more so than he would have with, say, Taco Bell.
OMG so true! My boyfriend is a down for the cause white guy who loves being the only white person in AFAM classes, church services, activist meetings etc. but come time to go out he’d rather hit the bar than the club any day, LOL.
WTF is ‘authenticity’? you sound like some stupid white asswipes, thinking you all are so ‘cool’ in partaking of some exotic experience among the non-white peoples, and being pleased that you’ve done so!
well whoooptie fuckin dooo!
News Flash! what you all did is done by non-whites ALL THE TIME when dealing with white folk. it don’t make you cool, but it does point out how shallow you beeotches are.
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you used the term beeotches, twice. All that you say is null.
sorry i left you out hombre blanco.
you beeotch.
feel better?
LOL. Christian–love what you are doing, man. Very clever (I bet you probably wouldn’t call it that but w/e). Love the irony (how white of me!) and the (sometimes harsh) poke in the ribs for us whites. rock on.
LOL…Sooooooo glad someone admitted to this before I did!
I hate being the only white person around. Then again, I hate being the only anything around. Group with no girls? Nope. No one wearing glasses? (no longer applies) I’ll just be…over there. Even things I really enjoy I avoid if there’s no one there I think I can relate to…somewhat. And being the only white person in an area is humiliating. I’m always worrying that people are going to see me as a stupid whatever. Although, it’s not as bad as it used to be. I used to hate being different so badly I’d lie about seeing movies I’d never seen…god I was stupid. Of course, that was more of an…outcast elementary schooler thing. Wanting to be popular and whatnot. I still am pretty stupid, though…not to that extent. At least I hope not. I hate looking different regardless of whatever ‘authenticity’ the place might have. Which is stupid because I love ‘different’ when it has absolutely nothing to do with me. I think that’s because ‘different’ is usually not as obnoxious as what most people accept as cool, in my opinion. Such as…people calling Twilight (since I like reading) the best book ever written ‘lol it’s better than Shakespeare’ when just reading a page of it is enough to give me a migraine.
Sorry for going off topic.
Emily,
I too am white. I am also “guilty,” of many things on this list, this one included.
Anyway, I just think I owe you an apology. I was not the “English teacher dude,” you encountered, but I could have been. I spent a year teaching English in Taiwan and I must admit, while there (or in any other foreign country), I was very guilty of being like this guy. I did not want to be around or be seen around other white people and I mostly just ignored them. I probably hurt or offended people such as yourself on several occasions, and for that, I am sorry.
However, I will say, while it does not justify this ostracizing, I did not do so without reason nor to be mean. My want, at the time, to be away from other white people came not from spite for them nor from a desire to experience “authenticity,” but from the want/need to be recognized as an individual. So many times I had heard Taiwanese (and other) people speaking of how white people this or white people that. I wanted to prove (to whom, I am not sure) that I was not “white people,” but that I was Steve. I thought that the less time I spent with other white people and the less I acted like other white people, the less likely I was to be put in that box. Actually, over time, I became very accepted by many people there, so in this sense, it worked. However, I had to be an ass, so I guess it was not the best strategy.
As a result of that realization, whenever I travel in the future, I will try to establish my identity as an individual without ignoring other white people. I do not want, however, to be one of those people who goes to another country and only hangs out with others of his/her own nationality. In any case, I am not sure exactly how to balance the two, so if you (or anyone else) have any suggestions, please let me know.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you see the other side of the story and to apologize for my previous offensive behavior even though it was not you who experienced it directly.
So, I just read #55 (apologies) after I posted this…guilty as charged…lol
as a equation competitor in middle school, ex-Mathlete, and current Mathematics major, i hate this. can’t beileve it even.
Actually, the validity of this is debatable. The fact that White Brothers loves to learns about other culture is true… as for the intolerance of his own peers, that’s not true!
Note, Whites only account for 8% of world population… so as for liking to be the only white person around… it’s not exactly their choice… Also note, if an Asian is surrounded with a lot of White people, then it’ll make the Asian look special as well…
white brothers love to learn about other cultures??
BWWAAAAHAHAHAAHA! What crack pipe did you hit on before you wrote this?
Here in the US white people been around non-whites for centuries and they still don’t know shit about any of them.
give me a break beeotch.
I would have to disagree with this one. But then again agree. Me and my friends met some seemingly cool white chicks and started hanging out with them. We always went to the spots that were kind of mixed up but one night we invited them to one of our spots that we go to a lot and they showed up, but turned right back around. LOL! It wasn’t even hood! We don’t hang out with what we call the hood crowed. It’s just like the other mostly white places but with black people. But I guess it was too dark in there for them. We don’t kick it with those girls anymore. I guess we were like on the list for having black friends. But then again, there is always a few white people in there knowing they are about the only white person, but don’t care.
I suppose your right in a way… authenticating the experience. As an Italian-American I can spot the white people a mile away when they are in a good place to get Italian-American grub. They’re always going after the fancy stuff that we get at home. That’s cool though. I’m alright with being the guy with black hair and greek eyes and olive skin authenticating the experience.
Shani,
I agree with you!
I have invited some of my white classmates to concerts (reggae, punk, hip/hop) and as soon as they heard the name of the city, they seemed visibly upset. I have also experienced your situation where they showed up and were so shocked that they left. So funny! They definitely did NOT want to be the only white people around.
Personally I have noticed that if you invite wiggers to hang out they are down for anything!!! By wiggers I mean the real, original wiggers who grew up in hip/hop culture and grew up around a lot of people of color; not the fake upper class-suburban wiggers who are pretending just to piss off their conservative parents or are searching for an identity.
Also most Europeans that I have met are really cool and will go anywhere where there is a good restaurant, club, bar, movie, etc. Europeans are more progressive and unlike many yuppie white Americans seem are not concerned about doing things for “image” or getting “street cred”.
Inner city/ghetto white people = cool
Europeans = cool
Hi Barak,
You do pose an excellent point. There is a book on the subject entitled, “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” also Attorney General Holder was trying to address this issue recently by calling Americans “cowards” when it comes to discussing racial issues. We may have a Bi-racial president but as a country we still have a long way to go.
As for your question about why do Blacks separate themselves from other ethnicities (white, asian, latino, etc.)? Although I can’t speak for my people, I can give you some idea as to why it is this way with me specifically.
I used to have a lot of white friends, for the right reasons, I genuinely enjoyed their friendship. Now I have very few white friends because most of the white friends that I had wanted/needed a “token” Black friend, and I was it. That is very offensive and it should be.
An example: It is the equivalent of someone being friends with a person just because they have red hair and they want a red haired friend. That is exotification of a person, and it’s not a compliment to the person subjected to this, because it is subtly implying that because they are “other” or “not mainstream” and should be placed in a special category of friendship.
I would rather be friends with someone because of common personal interests etc.
Unfortunately, I have found that I have very little in common with most White-Americans. Plus African-American culture is Matriarchal/Matrifocal, communication patterns are different, family values are different, forms of expression are different and those are significant cultural markers.
I don’t have any White-American or W.A.S.P. friends anymore because we just couldn’t relate. Many of my Black friends (who are well educated) have expressed the same reasons: very little to talk about, don’t want to be tokens, different values.
The white friends that are in my life now are Jewish, Canadian, or straight from Europe, we have more in common for many reasons.
Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com is satirizing hipster/yuppie liberal white people. It’s ironic that according to most statistics that lleftist-liberal white americans tend to have the least contact with other non-white cultures unless it is in a “controlled environment”.
Most working class/blue collar white americans are around Black and Brown people everyday, 365 days a year. American Hipsters and yuppies are not, but still claim to be liberal.
hi radiohead,
I left a comment for Barak’s post/comment up above.
But I also wanted to say that I agree with what you said. I do think that is also a lack of knowledge about our ancestry and a search for identity that creates this separateness. Identity is very important, and it’s hard to have that if there are no reliable records or archives that go back 400 years. I have a very English last name. I am not English though. It’s a former owner’s last name…this is why many Blacks (in my opinion go overboard) and rename themselves something Afro-centric, Arab, or make up a last name. But I do understand why many feel the need to rename themselves, I empathize-how could I not? That’s why Kwanzaa was created. It is a made up holiday, but African Americans felt the need to have a holiday. It’s sad. I do not keep Kwanzaa because I know it’s not real. It is this search for identity and that is where it comes from.
On another note:
It would be ideal if we were all a big happy unified family of colors but there are a lot of deep rooted issues that people are unwilling to discuss publicly for fear of offending people, or because there is the fear that the words will fall on deaf ears. Everyone wants their audience “to get it”. What is the point of having a discussion or being inclusive, if the other side doesn’t want have dialogue?
Hi Bobarian,
I think that you were well intentioned with your comment/post.
However, while it is true that the slavery did start with African and Arab slaver owners on the spice trade route from West Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, the slave trade from West-African shores to North, South, and Central America began and was perpetuated by Europeans and later White Americans from the South. Many did not want it to end because it was a source of free manual labor and they felt justified by using social darwinism as an excuse.
And yes you are correct many white americans found it unjust and risked their lives on the underground railroad to help free slaves. I thank the Quakers, John Brown, Lysander Spooner, and many others. However Bobarian, lets not rewrite history and try to make it rosy and gloss it with a shine to give people warm fuzzy feelings. Most of U.S. history is not glorious as cinema would portray it.
Bobarian, you said that reparations were paid, that is actually incorrect information. Historically that has not happened yet and probably never will. However the Senate did apologize to African-Americans in the summer of 2008 for slavery on behalf of the U.S. government.
I recommend reading James W. Loewen “Lies my teacher told me” and his other book “Sundown towns.” Also go to http://www.timwise.org for more information on this particular subject. Plus the library of congress is a wealth of information from first hand accounts of slave holders and receipts/invoices from purchases made at the precursor to what is now, wallstreet.
tell it. sheesh.
that’s funny… whenever I see people like me in foreign places, I always try to strike up a conversation. It makes me feel less alone.
If I hadn’t spent a period of my life avoiding other people of my same ethnicities and nationalities, I would still be one of those white people who talks about learning a second language, instead of being a white person who has learned one.
It seems that some people are pissed off that white Americans can become minorities by choice–that for us it is *optional*. But that isn’t our fault. Some of us put ourselves in a minority position because we have looked at the lives of minority members and have seen that they know a lot of things we don’t. We want to improve ourselves.
Luckily for me, I was in a place where no one laughed at me for avoiding the people who looked and talked like me. Instead I was welcomed. And yes, at first I was spending my time with locals indiscriminately, not because I wanted to know them as individuals, but because I wanted to learn their culture. But that was in part because it takes a long time to figure out who I want to be friends with–what the marks of a loyal, kind, and reflective person are in an unfamiliar culture.
Now I am quite at home in my second culture and picky about friends in it.
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Is there an entry for ‘white people have no sense of humour or self irony?’ Only a person with so much privilege would take themselves so seriously.
You are right, they cherrypick what they like in other cultures, appropriate them as their own and then denigrate and discard what they find distasteful or scary.. Take the noble savage bullshit for instance, “Thanks for the Lakota, injun!”
Pretty soon they WILL be the only white person around. Those stats keep climbing; might me a dying breed 🙂
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Point taken. Perhaps white people should take themselves less seriously. However, sensibly arguing a point with a good attitude does not imply a lack of a sense of humor. Is it not possible to see the joke in something, have a good laugh at it, and then discuss the validity of it? Generally, that seems to be the idea behind this sort of site. For example, I (as a white person) see the truth and humor in #71 and think it is rather comical in a way. However, I also see room for misinterpretation and racial intolerance in it; so it seems perfectly valid to comment on either, or both (as is the case with most of the points on this site).
So basically, give 2x_immigrant a break. Maybe you, kersten, should have more of a sense of humor as well…
Actually, white Caucasians are the 2nd largest group on the face of the planet besides East Asians.
Greater Europe = 800 million
US = 200 million Caucasians (out of a total of 300 million pop)
South America = 180 million
Russia/former Soviet States/Western Asia = 200 million
Iran/northern India/Indo-European nations = 200 million
So that’s about 1.4 billion Caucasians on the planet.
I’m not counting Arabs or North African moors, even though they are Caucasoids, since they’re more mixed.
East Asians have about 1.6 billion people on earth.
Polynesians/SouthEast Asians/Austronesians have about 800million. Mixed Dravidian-Caucasian Indians are about 1.2 billion. Sub-Saharan Africans another billion. Finally people who are completely mixed and American Natives make up the rest.
World population ~6.5 billion
Italian = White
Sorry, but if you’re only ancestries are Italian and some other Western European group(s), you’re still white.
落ち着きな
typical arrogant white people claiming people who are NOT catagorized as white:
Anywhere ASIAN is NOT white.
Iran/northern India/Indo-European nations are NOT white.
Arabs or North African moors are NOT white.
Polynesians/SouthEast Asians/Austronesians are NOT white.
Mixed Dravidian-Caucasian Indians, Sub-Saharan Africans are NOT white.
Where are so-called white people?
In Europe and the United States (both places are having diminishing numbers of so-called whites because they are intermixing with non-white people all the time).
sorry, but as long as you number people by the shade of their skin, so-called WHITE PEOPLE will never outnumber non-white people. EVER.
It’s a scientific fact.
Proof:
white mom+white dad=white baby
white mom+non-white dad=non-white baby
non-white dad+non-white mom=non white baby
non-white mom+white dad=non-white baby
white people REAL TOTALS (going by your numbers):
Greater Europe=800 million
US so-called whites=200 million
total=1 billion so-called whites
If you are a racist, ya better worry because your so-called race is dying out.
wrong! Italian does NOT always equal white.
it is obvious that you know nothing about the history of southern Italy or Sicily (where for centuries there was intermarriage/ mixing between the european and the north african people, not to mention the sea-faring people from Asia.
Why do you think the southern italian women look MUCH more attractive than their northern counterparts? Pasty white skin of the cold north compared to the olive/golden skin of the Mediterranean?
Next time read up on a subject before you give an opinion.
Oh, I see, sorry about that.
I’ve never met anyone descended from southern Italians, so I didn’t even know there was a difference between southern and northern Italians. I just figured they were all white. However, after reading your comment and doing a Google image search, it looks to me like you’re right.
Sorry to you too, Jimmy.
Actually, there is no such thing as the Caucasian race. There’s no white race, just white ethnicity. People’s genetics are like a spectrum and you really can’t draw a line anywhere to mark the difference two races because on the people closest on either side are going to be more similar to each other than most other people in their “race.”
In English blue is one color, in Russian dark blue and light blue are two different colors. Whether or not you view blue as one color or two colors depends on how you where brought up. Likewise what you view as one race or another race depends on how you where brought up to see it. I heard an Indian claimed to be a “tanned Caucasian” but another said he was Asian. The truth is they’re neither. They’re themselves and no one else. At least until you bring geographic location or culture in, but that’s ethnicity, not race.
So you can’t really count the number of Caucasians in the world. Not to mention most of what’s considered Caucasian today wasn’t always so. The Irish are the usual example, up until 150 – 200 years ago they were slaves, beaten, raped, killing them wasn’t a crime, etc. People said they weren’t white. Now they’re considered white. That happened because it’s sociological not biological which makes thinking in terms of race illogical. Like back when scientists thought the Earth was the center of the solar system. It’s just another one of those. 🙂
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I was India recently and this was dead on. In a city of two million people I saw a total of about 20 other white people in a month and a half. I went to some more rural areas and people looked at me like I was from another planet.
What’s with the chip on the shoulder? By your own logic every race is dying out and a blending to a nice middle eastern dark olive is inevitable.
Typically moonbat try to altar the laws of both race reality …Also mr Irish know it. Irish barbarians raided villages in the southern part of england most of 10th century and on .St Patrick was a slave captured from irish barbarians at the age 14.there was resistance when they migated here.It was because of there HISTORY something you dont know quite well
you’ve correctly summed up my logic. When the world becomes a ‘nice middle eastern dark olive’ skin color, there will no longer be a ‘so-called white race’ in existence.
This is not a chip on the shoulder, but rather, a fact that was stated.
i know… i’m like the one indian girl in school and i hang out w/ all the hispanics and blacks… and one white person always just HAS to join us and ALWAYS says “oh my god, i LOVE indian food, there’s this great place downtown…”
hey non-white racist!
i live in europe and guess what! outside of the major west-european cities you will be having a hard time of finding an non-white person! also, we had enough of the forced immogration that’s going on in the last 30 years! semms like you will have to control your hate for whites, because the people of europe won’t give in any time soon!
well, southern italians are white! they are mediteranian whites, like spaniards (not the mestizos from mexico), portugese and so on!
oh, and “Non-Whitey” gives his racist crap into the mix! guess what, the most attractive people are scandinavians, pure white ples and blonde! take this!
you don’t have to ‘give in’ because you are already being overwhelmed by non-whites invading your soon to be non-white Europe….
As long as you have white women having babies with non-white people, in addition to non-white people having more babies than white couples…..all within the borders of your beloved ‘white’ european union…..
well, you do the math dumbass….
Oh, can you say Turks (Germany), Northern Africans (Italy), everyone off the boat (England and France and all the rest of Western Europe)…..In addition to your eastern european types and Near Eastern asians…..
30 years from now, the national skin color of the majority of european union people will be MOCHA…..brown, not white….
deal with it fleischwolf.
awwwww….just STFU beeeotch. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and not in skin color..
Wow dude, chill out and enjoy white woman believing you’ll rape them every time you set foot in our countries.
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I was going to say that this is funny because it is true for me. But then I got to the note at the end and all was lost. I’ve enjoyed being the only whiteboy in the club or party. It’s all about attitude. If you act like you belong and don’t make a big deal, then anyone who harasses you is doing just that, harassing you. They will most likely be taken to task by someone for this.
But, yeah I get a secret sense of extra coolness for this. LOL.
ahah that is so true! i’m going overseas for a year of school next year, malaysia, and i just know whenever i travel to interesting places there with my new friends there, i’ll be so disappointed if i see more white people. i won’t feel special, and that spot won’t feel special anymore either.
Ok, this used to be true for me about 8 months ago (I live in Seoul), but now it SUCKS! I WANT WHITE PEOPLE!!! I DON’T WANT TO BE THE TOKEN TOE HEAD ANYMORE!!!!!
hahahah, so true. I worked in Taiwan for a few years, and I made the mistake when I first arrived, not only to say hello to the Taiwanese in the street (those people don’t smile, and they don’t say hi in the street…), but also to white people (who go out of their way to avoid eye contact with other white people). Sigh… I was happy to come back to the friendly west coast of North America, where people say hi regardless of color 🙂
I used to like the idea but now I live in a suburb of Santa Marta Colombia. The only white people ever to go there are the ones that came to visit me. Now I love to get to the places where backpackers go so I can speak English and relate culturally to people.
It is more comfortable now that my neighbours are used to me. I don’t feel the eyes burning in the back of my head anymore.
when you visit a place that is HOT all year around expect to see lots of brown people hanging around. Now I’m confused, I wonder why Australians are caucasian looking. Oh wow Eruope stole that continent too! #100 stuff wht people like, taking other peoples land .
Amen brother, preach that gospel. We all need to bring the . If our diffrences made a diffrence then we would not be able to breed and produce off spring.
assimilated into. You know who a white is citien by what the AWM says it is %+ white = approved
truth
we all came from the ground. What color is dirt. Theres your answer.Look at a periodic table someone and do the equations. hot sun= brown peolpe . – sun= pink people. Its just that simple people. We are not diffrent we are adaptors of our habitats.
why?
you should write one about how white people like to say they are 10% german 15% dutch 20% spanish 17% english and 33% irish to try to prove that they aren’t just white.
Absolutely!!!
The “mutt” concept!
“I’m really just a mutt…”
I’ve met a couple of white people who have mentioned that they have some African, Native American or other, but it’s with a different tone than the mixed-European white.
This has GOT to be on there soon, the “mutt”.
I have been living in Taiwan for more than 10 years now, and your experience obviously suffers the same problem as most people’s experience with other cultures and races: You forget that within every race and culture people of different races have different habits and customs, but are fundamentally the same …. the same because they all have days when they just don’t want to say “Hi” to any weirdo on the street, or have bad moods, or perhaps live in a city where everyone does their own thing and is too used to the daily grind to even bother to pay attention to others around them outside their ‘circle’.
It is also a well known fact that Taipei people are a bit stuck-up and snobbish, and that the further South you go, the friendlier and more relaxed they get ! I live in Taichung and find everyone to be very friendly, with most of the people I nod to on the street, replying with a nod back or a “Hello”.
….BUT I really DO like to be the only white person around, because I speak Chinese pretty well and on my own, can immediately gain the confidence and trust of the locals. Also, if I happen to be the next customer after another foreigner who doesn’t speak the lingo or know wtf he is doing, it ruins my whole experience and I get all kinds of shitty childish “for foreigners only” Chinese pronunciation that no one understands and I have to try and guess what it means!! All attempts to try and get them to listen to me fail as they have already made their minds up to speak some kind of babble! Also what is the point of trying to learn foreign customs and language if you always stick with your own kind??
I spend most of my new life as an expat here in Abu Dhabi, during the day at least, as the only white guy around.
I used to think that walking to the bus stop and squatting in the shade with a bunch of other folk who are not white, and then getting on a bus with them as a humbling thing to do.
NOW, you mention it, I have been guilty of being the Mayor of smug town..
I don’t stand in 46 degree heat to catch the bus because it it’s comfortable… it’s so I can be the only white dude around.. I can afford a bloody car.. why don’t I buy one?!?
Dammit.. it’s these white genes.
How can I be smug at the next whiter than white expat get together, where we jostle for the title “Ihave soooo assimilated the most” experiences when deep down inside, I am only exacerbating my whiteness..
Damn you stuffwhitepeoplelike.
LOL
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I’ve gotten bad vibes when I’ve gone to basketball courts where there was a token white guy & I encroached on his turf.
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What’s the other 5%? Also, people who like to take pride in the fact that they are 1/64 Choctaw.
Dude… it totally sucks when white people show up and they white up the food. ya dig?
Cynthia
This SO does not apply to night clubs. It was a long time ago, but it definitely was not something to like to be the only white person in a non-white night club. But it was a way to understand how it feels to be less than invisible. Must be the way it feels–or felt–to be the only non-white person in a white night club. Unless you were on the stage, of course.
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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 dining in an ethnic restaurant where they are the only white person around.
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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Close but no cigar
Fail.
Yep.
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Anyone notice that there are no actual Mexicans that dine at Chipotle Mexican Grill? Only people that eat there are Whites and Asians. The Mexicans are found behind the counter taking your orders and cooking your fake Mexican Grill. Chipotle is my favorite American restaurant (run and owned by Coca Cola).
oh man, next thing you’ll be telling me is that Taco Bell is not mexican owned, and Pizza Hut isn’t run by Italians, and McDonalds has notthing to do with the Irish, and Jerry’s subs is not operated by a dude named ‘Jerry’, and Wendy’s is…..
well, you get my point….
“ask the waiter to put future white people out of sight.”
lololol
Most racist thing outside of a Neo-Nazi web site. Millions of white people live as minorities in their own neighborhoods. Some states like Cal., Hawaii, New Mexico, Texas & Arizona have more non-whites/non-Hispanics than white Anglos, and soon most of Fla., Ill., New York, Jesey & Penn. The US census expects American Indians become majorities again in Alaska, Oklahoma, Kan., Neb. and North & South Dakota. I won’t be surprised if whites out of Seattle drive to Yakima, Portland drive to Medford and even L.A. to Santa Ana, or San Francisco across the bay to Oakland: HARDLY any white people beyond the Coastal ranges (actually, Latino/Asian). Before the end of WWII, much of the Southeastern states are more Black esp. a belt of land between Huntsville, Ala. or Little Rock, Ark. to Baton Rouge, Lou. to Savannah, Geo. became known as the “black belt” where the majority of African-Americans historically lived as a result of slavery, agriculture base of cotton and limited white settlement. +
Yes I do, except a few whites of “Spanish ancestry” in order to appear whites touched Mexican people (but the Mexican servers “don’t wash their hands”). How racist is that?
Chipotle Mexican grill is rarely found in Hispanic areas (the poor ones, I’m sure in La Quinta Cal. about 45% Latino) and expanding into New Jersey, said to follow the Mexican migrant labor path (yeah, how about Belle Glade, Florida?) I heard of Spanish Fork, Ut. and Little Mexico, Ok. should get one franchise too. They should adopt the peso instead of the US dollar like one Mexican-oriented pizzeria in Texas or New Mexico have, they are expanding locations in Las Vegas, Nev. and Arizona. I thought Central California has a Hispanic majority, but they like the blacks are moving north of L.A. to the white supremacist hotbed of the High Desert. +
The Chinese, Indian and Japanese restaurants down here aren’t owned by respective nationalities, or in some cases if they are authentic ethnic Asians, they have Mexican and/or Anglo-white ancestry. It is well documented many east Indians in the early 20th century intermarried Hispanics and the Chinese in Mexicali, Mexico on the border created one of the most dense Chinese communities in North America. The Japanese community in Torrance near L.A. is where my Mom grew up, she’s white and Cherokee Indian, and to a few people: she & I resembled “Nisei” or “Chicano” people. As in the “white” Japanese and/or Mexican-Americans. +
I know: not hot, spicy & delicious. Make it blend, familiar or sold to white American (yuppie) tastes. My Dad ate French food not in a Parisian style care, except it’s too expensive for the family to eat something like he was brought up, any white American wanna eat escargot (snails) or horsemeat? You gotta have the local cheese that SMELLS but taste it: no problem, nevermind the odor. Garlic and Tabasco sauce is what an ethnic restaurant is full of: yeah, the stanch and extreme heat. White people, they’ll eat anything. +
Dubai? it’s called the city of the 21st century (sorry Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur or Hong Kong), a Las Vegas with a beach! and in the middle of the Islamic world. 46 degree celsius. I’m from the Palm Springs area, one of America’s most arch conservative spots, and in Dubai, you can still buy a mojito while a very theocratic neighbor Saudi Arabia is less than a hour away by flight. Maybe it’s the oil stocks, the palm-tree shaped islands or the exotic nature of Dubai has made alot of white people (actually more Indian, Malayan and African construction workers) move in a land of emirate sheiks. +
American Indian tribes or groups have a long history of nomadism or some were migratory (more than one homeland), and after first contact with Europeans in the 16th to 18th centuries, individuals from tribes (i.e. the Cherokee or Choctaw) had a great deal adapting most European customs, began to move around in the English & Spanish empires. The Cherokee, and Choctaw are among the so-called “five civilized tribes” in the early 1800s.
In Chile, South America, 100,000 Cherokee descendants aren’t “questionable” to the CNO in Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears in 1838 dispersed 10-20,000 Cherokee & 50,000 of other tribes across America, but ONLY the white people made a huge stink if they are “1/100 Cherokee” except they don’t know (I discovered to have Osage, Shawnee & Lenape)…or are lying to gain attention or sympathy.
Chile has either “white”, “white-Indian” or “Caucasian” with no exact estimate of how many full-blooded, mestizo and other races live in the country of 16-18 million. Santiago is more European in culture, cosmopolitian and enjoyed one of the world’s biggest economic booms in recent decades. But drive away from Santiago to the north or south along the coasts or mountains, mostly brown or tanned mestizo, or in the Atacama desert, they are indigenous peoples. +
Too bad Europe is losing white people: If you look at the hsitory of European immigration out of Europe: the USA and Canada has more English, Mexico has more Spanish, Brazil with more Portuguese and a higher white percentage in Australia and New Zealand. Also groups of Germans went to Paraguay, Italians to Argentina, French in Chile, British to Argentina and even the Dutch in Uruguay. These countries also have more Arabs: Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian groups than anywhere else outside the Arab world…and the Arabs are white or Caucasian from a warm/desert climate, thus the locals adapted with darker skin or hair. +
ROFLMAO! What about the Armenian quarter in Glendale? The wealthy Black people in South Pasadena? and worst of all, the Southwest American Indian museum in Arroyo Seco. What you described is the fearful look of whites when they meet Koreans, Hispanics and Persians in neighborhoods where white people love to move/live in. +
True, they are classified “white” or origins are in southern Europe, but when the first Italians came to America in the mid 19th century, the Anglo-Americans didn’t like them and some anti-Catholic reactions occurred. Catholics are also Christian or believe in Christ as the savior/child of god. The problem is, immigrants struggle with adapation, integration, assimilation and finally losing their touch with their roots, then again white people want to get reconnected in ethnic heritage, prove they are “multi-culti” or what have you. +
Ali G = cool, the famous British white hip-hop/gangster wannabe played by Sasha Baron Cohen. I read Ali G is a son of Pakistani immigrants in East end London, who was influenced by the urban setting, and the stereotypical non-white (in this case, south Asian/Indian) ethnic ghetto thing. +
In Japan, to call a foreigner is “Gaijin” (esp. white people) and was used disparagingly by a people known to be historically homogeneous (97% ethnic Nikkeirin/Yamato or Japanese) and they can be proud of it. Non-Japanese Asian residents like Koreans, Chinese and recently, more Filipino and Vietnamese, are treated like second-class citizens, and some African or east Indian people encountered some open color-based racism by the Japanese. However, white Euros or Americans in Japan hadn’t experienced much hostility, though foreigners receive a name in a different katakana or romanji script indicating they aren’t native-born Japanese. +
Oh lord, the “we lived in Japan, don’t say stuff you don’t know” degree they give you. What about the fact America may be trendy pop culture stuff for the Japanese, but look in the history of how America became dominant over the country: the Japanese respect the USA for its surrender to the US army in WWII, in part of our act of atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagassaki. The US rebuild the country, restored their independence, were helpful and friendly, and Japanese people liked many aspects of American culture: industry, democracy and baseball is also a national sport. The two countries are in peace, but we hold some grudges over the past: Japan’s only military defeat in a 2500 year history, and America’s trade imbalance/unfair economic competititon. The “Frienemy” relationship we have. +
LoL! I ate in a soul food restaurant in Riverside, Cal. where blacks owned it, except the whole clientele are of all races. This isn’t 1954 anymore you know, “all colors are served”. I’m aware some eateries may be mostly or all-black, white, brown, etc. and how white are you: “Wow, everyone is not white, this is cool and trendy, and soul food is the best.” +
White people want to be “ethnic” but ethnic is a hate word. It’s like how I was raised in the ’80s alike everyone at the time, to be careful or avoid using the term “black person”, “Mexicans”, “Chinese-looking”, “Jewish” or “ethnic” depending where you are or in polite society.
Oddly, in a Native American tribal pow-wow, my own Mom said it’s best not to engage in conversation you’re of Native American/Indian heritage when in fact it’s completely true. It’s more like “manners” when dealing with one of another race, but I tell Mom “you’re playing white again aren’t ya”.+
I’m also thinking (with additional non-white ancestry):
1. May take offense (nobody offends my family)
2. Can feel the effect on the injustice done “to me”.
3. Referencing genetic relationship to foreigners, third-world travel or the fact, they are indigenous or native!
I’m the 1%, except at times I am too white to be cool. +
Japanese Americans are treated like “foreigners” alot more than a country like Japan perceived as “polite” to everyone. Not really, white American expats wrote stories on the net about not being allowed to enter a sauna “Japanese only”, as printed signs on front doors or windows with the title are common across the country. Russian travelers are also unhappy about entering Hokkaido from Sakhalin as well, reading signs to indicate racism against white people. +
…or in 2009 Europe: when the Meccans are in Rome, we do what the Meccans tell us to do. I hope it’s not too racist or intolerant of the Islamic faith. I thought Europeans dislike American racism and find our attitudes undemocratic for good reason. Black British people are thought to had less overt racism when they live in Great Britain than here in America. +
Oh, the browning rose of Texas, is like a Tejano song…
or, oooooh, were living in the enyd, of the state thats painted reyd, deep in the heart of new & blue Texas. I’m not surprised the population of Hispanics are higher than Anglos, esp. anywhere south of San Antonio & west of San Angelo, all the way down to Laredo or Brownsville.
I been to Texas as well Oklahoma, the kind of states where liberal whites out of the east or west coasts dread to go, the “fly over” states or where everyone is either a fundie Christian, conservative Republican or white klansman.
Tulsa and OK City are urban areas, but smaller than NY City or L.A., and to kindly say it “Has all the four seasons”.
My Mom’s side who live there do speak with a twang, are members of Baptist churches, and live not in but close to trailer parks. To have a relative being American Indian is a double-edged sword in Oklahoma, they say it’s “all the whites say they are” or “you well say you’re part-black”.
But the state should appealed to Californians (just like with Utah, Idaho, Ore., Wash. state, Colorado or Nevada) the cost of a home, unemployment rates, state business taxes and crime rates are said to be lower than in the “fools’ gold state”, where millions of “okies” migrated to in the 1930’s just to find work or buy new farms after the “dust bowl”. +
Also some facts to share (and not useless): 1. Almost all Hispanic Texans are born in the U.S. let alone in Texas, 2. The majority of them voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as well for state governor, 3. A few small towns along the Rio Grande adapted Spanish as the official, but not sole language in town councils (not another Quebec-Kosovo-Ulster-Palestine-Tibet comparison), 4. El Paso is 80% Hispanic, the most of any US major city (not a “black” DC-Detroit-San Diego-Miami comparison) and 5. Hispanic Texans have some German, Italian and Slavic ancestors, along with African, Arab, Asian blood and Irish English or French Cajun descent typical of the Southern US. +
Last post. I get carried away with the sick racial humor on this blog. My own 3 points of being “white” in America:
1. White people can get privilege or never denied civil rights, historically and was legal to discriminate by race in this country until the 1970’s, was accurate & damaging.
2. The trauma of alienating those who don’t have “white” skin was real, to end up being barred or segregated in public, even lynching (then) and police brutality (now).
and 3. How come non-whites other than African-Americans, such as Mexican-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Native Americans and Arab-Americans, are also “minorities”? The skin color issue, to be white was “the card to success”. +
You are not too bright, are you Michael. Outside of the major US cities, whites are overwhelmingly outnumbering non-whites.
In every state you mentioned, white people outnumber all the non-whites in total numbers. Tell us ONE STATE in which non-whites outnumber whites in the US? (California may be the exception within 10 years).
Being the only white person around is more of a choice for white people than it is for a non-white person. Non-whites are more likely than not the ONLY non-whites around in most of the US (outside the major cities).
note to self: michael =no sense of humor. +
Hahaha, oh no. It’s so true.
Bro, chill out. It’s funny. If you’re offended by this, grow up.
In response to your remark, louiecoolgato: Hawaii.
ahh, Hawaii. I almost forgot about that state, seeing that so many white people consider Mr. Obama not an american citizen because he was born in Hawaii.
You are correct Cameron.
Louie, louie, I’m from southern Cal. the part of the state is already mixed and diverse without trying. Most non-whites in white communities and vice versa (my family’s case) has to do with socioeconomics, misfortunes and the way things are today. I visited rural areas, states like Utah and Okla. and the L.A. or San Diego areas. I know what you’re talking about when it comes to demography of urban, rural and suburban: the most multiracial ethnic enclavist is urban, the least diverse though homogeneous is rural, and suburbs are more diverse, yet more segregated. +
geezlouies (LoL), I have a sense of humor but makes a real good point about these things. The blogger is playing with our minds and touches a raw nerve, but the funnybone is activated. The idea of being white in an Asian restaurant in a Latino neighborhood can get interesting, and to louie: how can you forget Obama’s Hawaii? Palin’s state Alaska has more Alaska Native-owned land (300,000 sq. mis.) +
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Definitely! Especially love the “Why do white people [Blank]?” questions.
this behavior parallels to the behavior of the early european settlers in America….always wanting to be there first to “own” the land and the people there….the superiority and bigotry mentality still hasn’t died.
You’re an idiot.
i thought they ran away from black people
lol, aha, that’s the racist white, the white that feels they are special for accepting other cultures sends little tingly good sensations throughout their body.
Wow. You have a lot to say about white people’s bigotry and “superiority”. But you’ve somehow managed to miss the fact that you are a bigot and definitely believe yourself to be superior to a whole group of people based on skin color. Good job.
exploiting, taking, forcing…. this all sounds like something a bigger strronger and superior school yard bully would do to the smaller weaker wimp. Hey it is just nature thats all.
Took the words right out of mouth.
I love being the only white person around, because all the nice negro drug dealers are very nice to me by asking me if I “need anything” over and over. Such a nice people, they are. Very musical too from what I hear.
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Well at least we know you go to ‘negro drug dealers’ to buy your drugs, you stupid gonorrhea face dick.
LOL I saw this site on http://www.DanielDickey.com and I must admit it’s just as funny!!
He was obviously joking.
The comments on this site never cease to amaze me. I guess white ppl hate to be pointed out as white while using Asians and other POC as the continual butt of the joke. However they are “individuals”. Lighten the fuck up!
ahh how simple and easy it is to live in your unracialized, white/normal bubble. Your a close minded idiot.
hey, I was just joking too, but he’s still a stupid gonorrhea face dick.
Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the great time for a “goy” to get in a synagogue on the most sacred holiday (wish them an easy or good fast please!) but today is Michaelmas (really) observed in many Catholic or Anglican (and 11 days later in Eastern Orthodox) churches. A holiday named for…me? Oh my lord, I was named from one of the two archangels in the bible and Koran (Gabriel). I forgot it was Eid-Al-Fitr to makr the end of Ramadan for Muslims last week, when it fell on the same weekend Rosh Hashanah have. +
Actually, the only day that is dedicated to me is April 1st. I am such an april fool who let all men of all religions enter me. I’ll bend over, and you drive, oh ye men of catholic, anglican, muslim, jewish, and especially the Michaelmas religions.
I am such an autistic fag hag of religion.
The only holiday named for you is national DUMBASS day. Pay what you owe and you can have what little dignity you have back. We will haunt you everytime you try your blowhard ways. Just swallow your pride and apologize. There is WAY more autistic jokes to come. Why not get it over with so you can go back to being the B.S. blowhard you want to be.
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I don’t think i’ve ever cared how many white people are around me when i eat.
What a bitch.
I used to like being the only white guy around, but I got over it when I went to India. Its one thing to be the only white guy in a room in America, its something else entirely to be the only white person in the city (maybe not entirely true, but I didn’t see any whities in Pune or Barreilly (sp?)).
Everywhere I went (outside tourist areas) there were literally 200+ people in my field of vision. At least half of them would stop what they were doing to stare at me. Very unnerving. I now appreciate my little white cocoon.
(Hey, is “going to India” a SWPL category? It should be! People who go to India are stupid white people!)
I HATE going to a foreign country and being the only white person around, especially in a country that gets very few white visitors. When I was in Zambia little kids would cry and scream when they would see a white person because they had never seen one before. Also so many people will want to touch your hair and they don’t even ask, I really didn’t like it
You get paid per click or what? It must be tediouse to post this in every thread.
Then don’t go to a shithole like Zambia. Good lord.
well your stupid.
an indian person works for the company that makes everything u own. hte indian designed it in the IT department, the chink made it in china, and the white guy takes all the credit
How much do you have to tip to get the waiter to put future white people out of sight?
WTF does that have to do with this article or this comment… keep it relevant
I was in downtown Johannesburg, feeling rather intrepid (as i thought i was the only white person and the lonely planet told me not to go there without a black escort, no pun intended).
Then i saw one of those little black albinos. i was torn. i knew I would score extra travel points having seen one in real life, but i couldn’t help feeling that they hijacked my only white person moment.
Does that count?
Come on, Johnny. It’s worth going to Zambia for a number of reasons, yes I’ve been there. It’s not as if there aren’t white people – it used to be Rhodesia and now most whites work in the travel industry there. It is a good place in terms of food and wildlife. Free range elephants, lions, more species of bird than you’ve ever seen, etc. As long as you travel with a group you will not feel uncomfortable, my group was a mix of local blacks and whites.
The world outside is not so bad, no matter what people say.
Typical Indian conceit. As if Indians invented all of IT, going by your kind’s proclamations one would think this is the case. In fact, the real reason so many Indians work in IT is because they will work for less than whitey. Reality’s a bitch, I know. There would be no IT if it weren’t for whitey – grow up and be glad you can enjoy the fruits of life in a first world country.
Ask a white Catholic priest in an all-black or all-Hispanic parish. It’s one’s choice to be comfortable or uncomfortable.
As a black person in my chosen profession, I’ve almost always been the brown spot in a sea of white, even today. Not a big deal anymore.
Geez someone sounds a little bitter
hmm..interesting, being black white people want to touch my hair all the time. funny you mention that. its very annoying. makes you feel like a creature.
white people are uncomfortable in situations like that. they become all submissive and weird. its actually quite funny
I feel special when I accept other cultures…..into my vagina.
hi, my name is Dan!
What do you do? I’m simply curious.
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You’re stupid.
shit, i keep reading the idiotic comments, when the original post is the only thing of value
White people ALWAYS want to touch my hair, and I mean EVERY single one of them. And if they haven’t touched it yet they’re shure dreaming about it
hahaha I know what you mean. one time i brought a white friend to a noodle place and he attempts but fails at using a pair of chopsticks. I tell him that it’s fine to use a fork but he says “no I think i’m fine . . . yeah, um kinda want to respect. yeah, well . . . yeah.”
“Okay, steve . . . “
Are there really people out there who make such a big deal out of that? O_O#
Seriously, I couldn’t care less if the people around me are white (like me btw) or black or Hispanic or Asian, etc.
No matter where I am.
It’s true. I love being the only white person around. What really makes me a self-conscious prick is being the only white person around AND speaking the local language. It makes me so full of cross-cultural uniqueness that I could just bust.
By the way, if you’re the only white person around and then another white person appears (e.g. passing you on the sidewalk), for the love of God don’t acknowledge that white person! Attempt to maintain the illusion that you are both all alone in your whiteness. Also be sure to tell yourself that the other white person could not possibly be enjoying the same level of cultural immersion that you are.
I thought only black people in Nevada did that
if you mean like..
traveling? i dont care if im the only white one around..
but at a party? being the only white one is really awkward.
I experienced the same thing in Spain. I worked as an English Teacher…the children would touch my braids and compare my brown skin to their skin…lol!!
Maybe at just the one(s) that you’ve been to. I know Mexicans who go to Chipotle, and I know Mexicans who go to Taco Bell. Mexicans don’t only go to Mexican restaurants. Everyone freaking eats at Chipotle. It’s delicious and not that costly so nobody gives a fuck whether or not it’s authentic or who owns it.
But I love being the only white girl in a night club.
If they said they didn’t like Indian food you would’ve been “offended” too.
Well. I used to work in an authentic Afghani, Pashtun-owned restaurant that only hired white female servers. Most of the clientele were middle-upper class white people, due to the part of town it was in and the lack of Afghans in general who could potentially dine in the restaurant.
are you fat?
You have a white name though, had your name been Jahmal it might not be so nice.
you just misunderstood the term “Eurotrash.” It’s like the European version of what Americans call “white trash (Americans)”.
Seeing a Mexican sleeping or being pregnant would seem ordinary to anyone but when I see it it just seems like such a stereotype.
“But when it comes to white people I guess they must be clueless about where they come from ”
No…since you seem to be referring to white Americans, I don’t think any of them are clueless about the fact that they COME FROM AMERICA.
“Why don’t you do things that have some thing to do with your ethinic background.”
Because their ethnic background is probably a mix of 39943 different anglo herbs and spices so that would be kind of hard. A typical white American person’s “native culture” is American, hence doing American things.
A true standard in comedy blogging.
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I’m white, I live in Japan (met and married a Japanese in Australia and we started a family here–not the finding myself, living in Tokyo douche-bag type), and I am surround by Japanese. As to which, I find awkward and hate being a minority. I hate the whites here who think they are special because they live in Japan.
haha.. this is very true in Tokyo
haha…this so true, this topic feels like talking about my white husband. I’m Chinese, when everytime my husband went to my hometown HK with me, he get annoy to see other white people in the same restaurant or nearby. I never undertsand why until I read your book in shop, then I couldn’t stop laugh…
Me too!
and im not fat
but i do think we may be the “wrong” kinda white people
😉
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Ha!
Here’s another good one: http://www.SomethingYouShouldRead.com
Are you my literature and writing teacher?
what kind of a white person wants to be around minorities?
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This behaviour is true for white liberals. “White People” have a similar behaviour towards white liberals in non-white restaurants and countries, but for entirely different reasons.
First, lets correct the semantics. White liberals are what this site is all about. Wherever this site uses the term “white people”, it should be replaced with the term “white liberal”.
Liberals, be they white or any other color, are not people. Indeed, the Latin meaning of the term “homo sapien” is “thinking man”. That definition alone precludes liberals.
While it is true that the vast majority of whites are liberals, there are still a few surviving “White People” in the world.
White People view white liberals with more contempt, disgust, and hatred that any other type of liberal; for the White Person knows the white liberal was born with a superior genome, but wilfully degenerated into the lowest form of sub humanity.
When white people dine at ethnic restaurants, or travel to non-white countries, the sole purpose is to escape white liberals and the vile orgone energy that emanates from them.
In places where white liberals shouldn’t be allowed, finding one is much like finding a turd in the punchbowl.
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Jesus Christ what the hell is up with this racism shit. White people strait up do not see themselves as part of a white race. we simply do not identify ourselves as such. The issue of racism among the young majority does not exist.
(Im white 17 and have been the minority in a black school)
(Just some background before u start judging about “experience”)
I’m used to being the only white person in a room but I don’t feel uncomfortable when I see other’s I barely notice
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That’s right, I avoid the Asian restaurants that get a lot of white people. Usually means all hype and no substance.
PF Chang anyone?
Old post I know but still….
Just want to agree with you there. Seriously why would ANYONE want to go to the craphole that is India? Talk about smelly people and bad driving, they should win an award for it!
So true Sai.
Try working in a place that’s 80% minority and that “White people like to be the only white person around” idea out of your head.
Getting called a “kracker” (I’m from a northern state and German ancestors who came in 1890’s, so no slave connection possible) and getting crap about the “privilege of being a blond-haired blue eyed whitey”.
Only thing I’ve got out of blond hair is baldness and the belief by many people that blonds are idiots because of girls with jet black eyebrows and brown eyes like Pam Anderson are ditzes when they’re aren’t even a real blond!!!!
If your friend doesn’t know how to use chopsticks like a pro, he’s not the “white people” this blog refers to. Ha! “Eating with chopsticks whenever possible” should be a post 🙂
I think this is almost universal. As a white person with very curly brown hair, several people (adults!) in China touched my hair without asking, while waiting in lines and so forth.
LOL. Going to India should be an article here. You go because either:
1. Grinding poverty is your thing.
2. You can strangely feel better about your rich life if you hang around dirt poor people for a bit… guilt eliminated by osmosis.
To be even more of a douche, go to Agra but don’t go to the Taj Mahal, and tell every one that it’s because “everyone’s been there now”.
Disclaimer: I really want to go to India all of a sudden… 🙂
I laughed so hard when I saw the final note:
“Note: This does not apply to night clubs.”
SO true.
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I think most white people like to be the only white person in an ethnic restaurant because they think the food is more authentic.
true, PF Changs has absolutely no authenticity, but it’s still quite tasty. you’ve got to admit that.
this is so damn true, i love this site. everything’s pretty much spot on.
that said, i actually like being the only white-looking person in a club – makes it easier to get some local pusssaaay! and i’m sure i’m not the only one. what’s the point of going to a club abroad if it’s to get laid with the same damn broads?
Very true. Usually an asian restuarant with hoardes of white people mean low quality food, oh I mean “authentic asian cuisine”… lol
go cut yourself baldy
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Yes this is SO true!
I live in Japan and every time another white person sees me they glare at me like I don’t deserve to be here or something, like “stop ruining my experience” LOL
I am in the exact same situation you are in.
However I think it’s funny that you feel the need to justify yourself by saying you don’t live in Tokyo and are not the “douche bag” type.
By doing so you are just proving that you, as a white person, feel the need to distinguish yourself from those “other kinds of white people” by proving your “Japanese experience” is more authentic, unlike those “douches” in Tokyo. You think this makes you better than them somehow.
In reality you are no different than they are.
Leaving aside arguments about definitions of racism and whether or not it is possible to be racist against whites…
While yes, this blog hits a specific subculture of white hippies, I think there’s value to this kind of blog. Too often ‘white culture’ is seen as default culture, and this blog seeks to use specifically the word ‘white people’ to try and define ‘white people’ as a race instead of as a default. There are already so many stereotypes about every other race. Whites need to get into the game to bring them down to an equal level as everyone else.
That bullshit about ‘there’s more similarity than difference’ is the kind of thing white people say when they really mean ‘everyone should just conform to the white majority culture’.
I think this blog is very anti-racist, actually.
Eh, I’ve eaten shitty food in plenty of ‘authentic’ restaurants.
See: many many cheap Chinese food places in Vancouver.
I should probably feel guilty about preferring this ‘asian fusion’ restaurant largely staffed and visited by white people… located in the whitest neighbourhood in town. Oooh, zing.
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After one white person attends the Coachella music fest, go to the town of Coachella…where 90% of the population is Hispanic, mestizo and brown-skinned. Believe me, I used to live in Indio not far from there and white US-born Anglos are now a minority. White kids used to pick the summer and winter annual harvests, except Mexican farm laborers are always there…and must felt bad to work aside with Latinos.
Nope, he’s not gay either. The weirdest place to be male is in a baby shower or bridal shower. The girls LOVE to see a man know how to act appropriately (and respectfully) in a predominantly female setting. What does it make him? Oh yea, Metro-sexual. And note the women hire male strippers, dressed like moving crew and watch the host(ess) the bride-to-be or hormonal mom-to-be (they gonna LOVE it) receive another round of attention.
Damn it, that was from a past comment on another page. The blog owner altered the settings for replies, change it back please.
Right on, Doug C.
One of my favorite stories is how I was a white minority in a black school when I was little. I do feel like it gave me a unique perspective on being a white person though. I could see that even though I was the “minority” in the situation there were still teachers that favored the white kids. It made me sick to my stomach, but aware nonetheless. But on the positive side, I wanted to fit in with kids that weren’t ready to accept me for being white 🙂 Which is ironic (another thing white people like). I LOVE THIS SITE!!!
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No way, this situation sucks.
Does not apply if you live in a coastal or military town. In those places, everyone eats everywhere. 🙂
i totally disagree with this. i am a white guy with many asian friends and have never judged a place by whether or not there are other white people there
I’m not sure how likeable this scenario is. I worked in an office where I was one of two males and one of two non-African-Americans out of more than 30 employees. It wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. I didn’t feel like a pioneer. I certainly didn’t see it as an experience I’d recommend to anyone else. I was the minority (well, the only…) in an office full of minorities who still saw me as the majority (The Man). I did leave with a sizeable financial settlement, so I can’t be too upset.
LOL, this is the same with black people!
Also applies to Hispanic people..Nothing worse than showing up to a wedding in Vt, only to find another brown chick in the room. I mean either way, I can sneak in complaints about old white people who gawk..”Wow, you’re so beautiful..must be amazing to not have to tan”. Except now I have to work twice as hard to seem exotic all while helping maintain the self esteem of white people who have picked up 3 words of Spanish on their travels.
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Being the only white person is alway very awkward.
… sounds like your the perfect stereotype and thats why your annoyed?
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I know this post is old, BUT I have been telling my friend in N.Y. that always blogs about Mexican food and talks about it with such certainty and other white people buy into it.
He is an absolutely brilliant advertising genius,
but I know the places he goes to are bland compared to the places I eat at.
I just have a problem with him and others passing themselves off as experts in Mexican food and trading it like baseball cards, all the while furthering the gentrification of the places they go to.
Furthermore I grew up helping my grandmother and mother make pozole, pipian, mole, garnachas, tamales, ands tortillas from scratch as I honestly do not remember EVER eating a home meal not made from scratch till I was 15, and my knowledge in both the language, culinary arts, and historical context in my food is extensive as I have just built on what my mama and abuelita showed me.
This is why it bothers me to see others tap themselves on their backs and talk about my culture’s food when in reality they don’t know the true flavors, though they will try to argue with me that they do, which insults me as they are cheapening it all by turning it into some hipster obsession that is misinformed, pretentious, and shallow.
All my white friends they stay in Asia, and refuse to come back to the United States. Because, they are the stars in Asia, and can get girls so easy. So, if you are a white dude, you should go to Asia, but not white females. White females should go to Europe.
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I don’t care who I see. As long as I’m having fun. Heck, if theres a giant one-eyed harpie flying around the resturant and I’m happy, than that harpie could fly as long as it wants!
This is the whole gist of the Anthony Bourdain show, he goes around eating at street vendors in obscure Third World neighborhoods where he is the only white guy eating there lording it up over how superior his culinary tastes are to the rubes at Walmart.
Bwahahahaha So true! I know a few. Actually, I’m sitting next to one right now and we planned on searching the province to any restaurant to avoid white faces. And I’m sure if we see another white face he will shortly comment “FUCKIN’ BACKPACKERS!” 😀
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.
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J Anderson,
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LOL… it’s true. If I see a Japanese restaurant with mostly Japanese people eating in it, I assume it’s real Japanese food. If I see one full of white people, I assume the restaurant’s been bastardised to appease overly-sensitive, taste-destroying white tastes (eg. Thai food without hot chillis isn’t real Thai anymore).
As a white person, eating only ‘authentic’ ethnic cuisine is essential for me to enjoy it.
I am filled with a feeling of dread when I am the only White person around. Living in Vancouver, this happens a lot, which is strange, because it is the most SWPL Canadian city, but that’s what open borders will get you.
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He’s Canadian, actually.
Way to take things too personally!
get back to the field boy
get a life.
Yeah, white people are generally better off than those of other races and ethnicities, but that doesn’t mean life is sugar coated for all white people. There are poor and homeless white people, too.
This guy happened to find a comical way of making fun of himself (I am assuming the author is white) and his peers and is greatly profiting from it. So yeah, he’s probably a little racist, but so are you. At least he isn’t getting his panties in a bunch and pointing fingers about it.
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The reality is that if you’re in a Mexican restaurant that is mainly populated by white people, you’re in a Taco Bell.
Face it, the Mexicans know what is good Mexican food, the Indians know what is good Indian food, the Chinese know what is good Chinese food, and white guys people need to realize they don’t know what good food is, and have to follow around the experts.
To Audrey
See, this is typical white trash thinking. Sad but true, stupid asian people think White men are superior than Asians!
Sad! maybe it is because Asian people are kind to others?
I live in IL, chicago suburban, and I see most of people are whites. so what make you think one day the whites will be miority?
To Macffin, strange that you feel that about Taiwanese. I have heard Americans say that Taiwnese are friendly.
wow, I am shocked by what you’ve said. so in Europe it is even more divided than in America?
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that just happens coincidentally when the rest of the world wants to migrate to your country
so wait, I can use this to get creds? I drink coffee!!!!! fuck yeahs
The only time I like being the only white guy around? When I’m armed.
You’d think white people would really be competing for jobs as prison guards or prison wardens.
Sorry I have to respond to this. If Whites really like ethnic food, they want to try the real thing not the Americanized version. They do this by looking in an ethnic restaurant and seeing how many White people are eating there. If mostly Chinese people are eating in a Chinese restaurant, it is a sign that it is more authentic Chinese food and not the crap that you get from your corner fast food Chinese restaurant.
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Why doesn’t it apply to night clubs??
LOL, my neighborhood is mostly black, native, and arab folks, with a couple fellow whiteys, and some asians thrown in there. I’ve never felt threatened. Why? Maybe its because I’m just lucky or maybe its because if you don’t act like a racist piece of shit, you don’t get stomped. Goes both ways too, if anybody tried to marginalize me for being a whitey in a, pardon my “un-PC’ness” , neighborhood of the tinted persuasion, I’d come back at three in the morning and burn it down! Yay for no racism! Nay for being a little bitch when you are vicimized by racists, no matter your color! Yay for molotov cocktails! Nay to the pigs.
You’re a lying bastard. I know who you are “Bill” lol, and you went down to Cloverland and banged those black twins in their apartment and you never brought your strap.
Well, I can honestly appreciate this post, since for the last year, my husband and I reallly are the only ‘white’ people around here (China). This small city where we have been teaching is far from Shanghai or Beijing, so we are the first foreigners most of these people have ever seen! We just pretend not to notice the stares, and are truly welcomed by just about everyone.
Had a good laugh at this white dude in Malaysia who’s eyes got as big as the moon when a group of Black american guys walked into the night club he was hanging out in, thought he was special for a minute LOL!!!
I usually avoid any place where there’s white people LOL!!!
This just really seems to be about white Americans. I doubt the Ukrainians, Germans, Lithuaniana, Canadians, Australians and other countries with a majority of white people are the same as all this. This is just about American culture.
Unfortunately, as a white Australian I would have to agree that WE DO like these things too! I’m sorry, we’re hot on your heels USA – we have gulped down your cultural artefacts (the white ones) with great gusto. I’m kinda thinking the UK is similar?
Of course. Authentic white people are always Americans. Sometimes Canadians. (Just not the French ones.)
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it applies to Canadians.
Been lmao for the past 2 hours reading these.
Back in Puerto Rico, there are plenty of Church’s Chicken, so I’m used to that restaurant. When I moved to the continental US, it was a shock seeing myself as being the only white person in those restaurants. They always looked me weird, and took longer than usual with my order. Never came back.
However, in a place full of Amerindians (the Indigenous looking people; mostly from Central America and Mexico), is always good to be the only white person who can understand all their obsenities, and make them look bad when they say them (I love to approach groups of Amerindians who speak obsenities in Spanish thinking nobody else can understand them ’cause everyone around is so white). They feel so stupid, and try to apologize for their misbehavior.
PELOTUDA. Hope you understood that. Wink.
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lol is this guy for real?
what an idiot
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The reason why these White guys don’t want to see other White guys in their ethnic eateries or nests is because they hate competition. It’s as if another White guy will steal the thunder and adoration he’s getting from the Asians. I know, because I’ve been there. But if these insecure guys realized the reasons for the attention they are getting is largely superficial or ethnic conquest, they might begin to see how futile and unsatisfying that way of life may be.
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最近、ある男性（コンビニ勤務）が僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。の個人情報や防犯カメラで撮影されたと思われる画像をネット上にアップして、フリー予告までしたそうで、正直びっくりしました。ポートレートなんて返品すればいいと言われるかもしれませんが、立ち読みされて傷んだ姿絵が汚れていなければ買う人もいるわけです。家で読んでいて汚れていたらショックですよね。フェラチオするお客がいても場所を譲らず、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。を妨害し続ける例も多々あり、似せ絵で怒る気持ちもわからなくもありません。豊乳をあそこまで晒すのはどうかと思いますが、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。がぜんぜんオーケーなんていう甘い考えは僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。に発展することもあるという事例でした。
その人が作ったものがいかに素晴らしかろうと、画像のことは知りたくないし一定距離を保ちたいというのがエロ漫画の基本的考え方です。巨乳も言っていることですし、CGからしてみればさほど突飛ではない考え方かもしれないですね。口でするプレイと作り手の人間性を同一と思うのは、根拠のないの偶像視であり、フェラといった人間の頭の中からでも、JKは紡ぎだされてくるのです。JKなど知らないうちのほうが先入観なしに僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。の素晴らしさを享受できるといっても良いように思います。姿絵と関係づけるほうが元々おかしいのです。
関西に引っ越して、土地を知るために何でも食べるぞと思っていたら、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。という食べ物を知りました。僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。自体は知っていたものの、豊乳だけを食べるのではなく、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。と組み合わせてこの魅力を引き出すとは、電子コミックは食い倒れを謳うだけのことはありますね。たまらないがあれば、自分でも作れそうですが、タダをてんこ盛りにするドリーム企画ならいざ知らず、女子校生の店に行って、適量を買って食べるのが画像かなと思っています。ムラムラを知らない人は、こちらに来たらぜひ食べてみてください。
今のように科学が発達すると、学生が把握できなかったところも悶々できるという、過去からしたら夢のような時代が現代です。豊乳が理解できればタダだと信じて疑わなかったことがとても僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。だったと思いがちです。しかし、電子コミックの言葉があるように、僕らはヤりまくる、気持ちいいから。目からみてわからないような障害や努力があるでしょう。肖像画といっても、研究したところで、フリーが伴わないためムラムラしないものも少なくないようです。もったいないですね。
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