Being Excessively Early For Events, Classes, Meetings, Work, Parties, Etc
By: Eve A.
White people will frequently show up to various events 15- 35 minutes early for no reason at all. A favorite quote used to explain this phenomenon is “Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable”. What this means and why they live by this quote no one really knows, but it is a mantra that white people frequently recite to themselves every morning, as means or ensuring their timeliness to whatever function, they will be attending. In fact, this timeliness requirement extends to all areas of life, whether they are attending a social function, such as a party, where no one cares if you show up at the exact time it starts or to work, where being on time actually matters.
There is only one exception to this rule, which is when there is a limited supply of something that is deemed ultra-important by the white community, such as concert tickets, computers or other sale electronics, or reality television spots. White people may show up, 8- 24 hours early, instead of the normal 15-35 minutes, for these special cases, even if it means sleeping on the street in middle of winter (which is also referred to as camping) and foregoing “non-essential” things such as showering, brushing your teeth, and even eating.
Note- To gain the full approval of white people, being early is an absolute requirement. By arriving 15 minutes early to a class, one will gain their approval, but to gain their utmost respect and admiration you will need to show up 25 minutes early or more. They will automatically see you as a person who has attained a level of earliness, which can only they strive to achieve! Additionally, you will earn bonus points if you give a look of disapproval to people who are late or inquire about the cause of the tardiness of people who fail to meet this timeliness requirement. This will show you that you are genuinely committed to this super important cause and want to fix this societal ill.
Stuff White People Like 
This one not so much.
Sorry I got here late. Not white enough. My white watch is running late.
are these really the winners? is this the special olympics of stuff white people like?
haha, in college i had this one white friend (who fit the above stereotype) and 3 black friends (who fit the “other” stereotype).
it was hella hard planning a party, cause kim would show up 30 minutes early, and my blk friends would be 30 minutes late. so there would be an hour of awkward waiting…
Bravo. I think this is the best winner so far. There was actually a hint of the unbiased uhh.. “reporting” sort of style that Christian has. I liked it a lot.
*golf clap*
best entry so far, so true! I love that saying about how early is on time so much. good job
Am I the only one who missed winner #2? I only remember seeing Mark Huber’s post.
Yes, the “timeliness requirement” is a white trait, which correctly implies that tardiness is a non-white trait.
this meets my approval
*waves white hand
Even better, isn’t that quotation (early is on time…) from the movie Drum Line?
I do that all the time! XD
What the hell? My family has a saying, “xxx-time” (xxx being our actual family name). Because none of us are ever on time for things, ever.
I think this one misses. I know too many white people who are chronically late.
Again, not so much the “Stuff White People Like” but the “Stuff White Liberal Elite Left- Or East- Coaster People Like”…
You, use, a, lot, of, unnessecary, commas.
White people love hardcore marching bands. White people believe in such a thing.
http://awaitingtenure.wordpress.com/
Damn, I didn’t make the top three…I guess I’ll be happy with just the book.
Nope. Not horribly written, but not true. If anything, it’s non-white people who are more likely to be on time, because “fashionably late” is not the norm for them in their cultures.
So funny, so true.
especially enjoyed the “camping” bit.
back at school, [university of wisconsin] all those white kids would line up 3-5 DAYS early to receive hockey & basketball tickets!
definitely the best “winning” entry thus far.
Chalk up another one to the Protestant Work Ethic, or at least the remnants thereof.
Not really feeling this one, either.
People are going to be HARSH.
Not even close to being true (or clever).
An entry that is truly a white phenomenon. Whites are exempt from MST (Minority Standard Time for the whites that don’t know this lingo). Dinner is at 7, and we all show up at 7:30-8, with one mad white girl waiting at the restaurant.
This wasn’t necessarily a horrible post like Huber’s, but it was just plain irritating. Unnecessary use of commas made this way too difficult to read. Annoying.
thats assuming you make it at all.
I liked this entry. While I wouldn’t consider it entirely true, it’s certainly relatively true. Perhaps stuff successful white people like would be more fitting. Other than the ridiculous run-ons it’s decently written, with enough humor to keep it entertaining. Style makes me think of Mr. Lander hiring a mediocre ghost-writer, it’s the same basic format but just not quite right. Entertaining none-the-less.
That sounds more like “being on time” to me. I’ll bet the waiters aren’t too happy in that scenario either.
I am as white as white can be and am chronically 5 minutes late (sometimes more) when I go anywhere–work, reservations, parties, giving rides, etc. It’s just enough to piss off other, on-time white people (though I think they are smugly happy that they are more on time than me), but not late enough that they can complain without coming off as whiny and petty. Because, really, my minuscule lateness has never actually affected anything from functioning as planned.
Though, I must say, I am a waitress, and when you have dinner reservations, DO NOT come an hour late (or more than 10 minutes early) because it just f***s everything up, and then you’ll get mad when we have to rush your meal. 20 minutes…fine, but any more than that is just inefficient.
AMAZING. This is so true. I’m white and never early and I am always shunned by the whiteys.
Clearly Jews aren’t white in this case. “Jewish time” (15 minutes to several hours late) is standard for most of us…
I know very few white people who are regularly this early anyway.
The bst entry by far as far as I am concerned…
Chris
I too am white and this is so true. My mom raised me and she was never late for anything, and had no sense or desire of spontaneity. Now I find myself getting up at least one hour before I have to leave for work, and I do not like changes to my daily plans that may make me “late” to get home or wherever I need to go. In school I was always in the building half an hour before class started and I have had that mentality for a while, “If I am not early, I am late.” My dad on the other hand, constantly disappoints me, and literally disgusts me with his lateness. The other day he tells me he has a 12:30 meeting, mind you he tells me this at 12:15 while still in his bathrobe, and the meeting being at least 45 minutes away. Simply disgusting.
this one isn’t very good
Well, white folks are taught time is money, so being late means you’ve lost some cash.
This is why we’re confused when a Latino says “the party starts at 9” but really means “show up after 11.” To us, this is two hours of time where we could have been meeting and greeting. Why? Becuase a party’s not a party unless you’ve effectively lined up a new client/charmed someone who knows the h.r. director at a company you want to work for/found someone with enough money to buy your ‘art.’
In short, a party’s not a party for a white person unless they’ve networked properly.
this one isn’t very good, but is still slightly better than winner #1
Just an observation about the reaction to each entry. “White people think their comments actually matter.”
I regret not submitting an entry.
Not, as bad, as Huber’s, but definitely, needs to work, on her vomitous, use of, commas,,.
OK, I see where we’re going with this. My entries:
“Playa hatin'” – Whitey always be hatin’ on da playa who late fo’ work, know m’ sayin’?
“Playing music at an appropriate level” – Whitey cheap on woofers.
“Not standing directly in front of mall doors, exits, subway doors, etc.” – Whitey all considerate and sheeit, he be standin’ outta tha way.
Etc., etc.
Brilliant!! My white boyfriend leaves the house 30 minutes before he has to be work even though it only takes him 15 minutes to get there.
Yeah, I gotta agree with you. The idea here was okay, but definitely not written by a white person. The writing itself is all over the place. Doesn’t anyone check their work anymore?
This post seems to describe white people in general, not White People like this site talks about. The timeliness thing is true for a lot of us. But are reality deemed ultra-important by the white community? What kind of real white person camps out to get an audition on American Idol? What kind of white person even watches American Idol?
Nah dude, clander fucking trumps all these fucks. I can’t believe this was the best the world had to offer.
LOL Jewish Time….
Is this because we have to double check our selves before we leave and prepare for the worst. I am always told I am going to be a good jewish mother because I always have (or have a combination of) hand sanitizer, kleenex, safety pins, candies, plastic bag,umbrella, extra shirt, pen and some type of snack in my bag.
There is also the required shmooze before any event. This where you make friends and talk to old ones and form new alliances. The game “6 degrees of jew relation” is always played. It is about what camp or school you went to, what organization you belong to, who your parents work with, who your doctor is or who’s cousin is dating your best friend etc…
You can make fun of this all you want, but I see this prevalent in other cultures as well. This type of social interaction is how communities are formed and cultures thrived. Not all cultures in this world are so obsessed with time as the “white” one is. I never understood, apart from airlines and trains etc…why everything has to “be on the dot”.
I am sure the punctual businessman will get very incenced on a trip to the Carribean when “island time” is the standard and people don’t really seem to give a shit whether or not you waited 1 hour for them to show up. Just chill out man!!
Then you, sir, are an asshole.
Again, you are the WRONG KIND of white person, and how in the world people keep forgetting about this caveat is beyond me. Many of you sad fucks have comprehension levels of a 3 year old.
Yeah, if you couldn’t beat these cats then you are plain fucking RETARDED.
Nah, come on with this shit. Get out of the way of the fucking door,you good for nothing moron.
Texans suck big cocks til’ the shits be dribblin’ down yer chin.
yo, i find it funny as hell that half the white people are like, “oh this is so true about us, i love it”, then the other half are like, “oh this is so untrue this sucks”. then you got the handfull of people talking about how theres too many comas, and i know someone just noticed how i wrote “there” when i should have wrote “they’re”
come on now its not that serious.
here’s something that white people like, arguing if the list of stuff that white people like is really what white people like.
Ha, this is funny but not so much as a white thing as most of my white friends and family are freaking late all the time — as it is a consideration thing.
I don’t like being late, so it’s good to laugh at myself about that, as sometimes it just doesn’t matter at all whether we show up late.
When my lack of attention to time causes someone else problems, however, I am not a happy camper. I mean, I don’t like it when it’s done to me, so I try not to do that to other people.
I also regret not submitting an entry but I thought all of these were funny!
Yep! And “Early” is the new “On-time”.
awesome — we love recursion too, so the irony and self-inflicted stupidity fit right into arguing about whether the blog is accurate or not. good observation!
and yeah, it’s just good sarcastic fun here. well for most of us it is.
some of us are parodies of ourselves! (wait is that ironic?) 😀
LOL
Weak!!
Show up early at my house and your never invited again.
well, compared to the others haha. only said a hint =)
Ha! My submission is white people like to insult others using the word “retarded” up to the point that they become parents to be. At that point using “retarded” will have such an effect on the fetus.
They also like to use early 20th century jive (e.g., cats as a synonym for people) because it’s ironic and trendy.
In either case they demonstrate that they’re douche bags, but white people are encouraged to laugh at such language to make the abuser feel good about their silly vernacular.
What can I say, I didn’t find the post itself all that funny as it just hasn’t been something I’ve noticed in life. The concert line bit also didn’t fit in nicely with the office stuff.
No. 2 was good enough to be a “Lander”.
What I DID find hilarious and what made me laugh here is that there is someone on here posting under the name “Hubersucks” for entry No. 3.
That is great. You know you’ve made an impression when…
I’m white, but had to look up recursion. Good word. I hope to use it in conversation some day.
http://www.thechrisivesexperience.com
That’s not true. I’m white and I’m not like that at all- unless it’s a concert, book signing or movie, in which case I’ll show up hours earlier.
Bill Clinton was notoriuously late for events (like 45-90 minutes). Is this why Toni Morrison declared him to be the “First Black President”?
So true. Also true of Japanese people. I find myself in a terrible cycle of trying to one-up my Japanese colleagues at work. I think pretty soon we’re just going to end up sleeping overnight at work to ensure we’re the first ones in each day
I like this one!
I must have missed the memo. I totally hate to wait, so showing up early is not something that occurs to me. If being on time is important, i’m on time.
White people will often set their clocks forward by 5-10 minutes, in an effort to trick themselves into being even earlier.
No; *older* white people like marching bands. Latin Americans LOVE marching bands, and Bolivians specifically are NUTS abotu marching bands. When it is July in the Atacama, and night, and 20 below zero, you will see a marching band in the dead of night.
Too many commas. Bad grammar. Totally unwhite.
Eve is most definitely thinking of the wrong kind of white person in her entry. This is more of a WASP/yuppie thing rather than a “white people” thing. “White people” would rather stroll to an event, stopping along the way to soak in the nature, rather than speed to their destination in order to get there extra early or even on time, which could entail wasting valuable non-renewable energy resources. “White people” are above all people of leisure, rather than people of business, such as WASPs or yuppies. This extra time enables them to develop the unique interests they have, such as indie music, etc. Deadlines and being on time are trivial things for enlightened minds of white people. For white people, people obsessed with being on time are slaves to an arbitrarily determined schedule, that has no higher meaning in and of itself.
Actually you “should have written” “there are” too many commas. You see, “they’re” is a contraction, shortening the words “they are”, which would not make sense in this context. “theres” is not even a word in the English language. You also spelled “commas” wrong. Then of course there is your opening to that sentence; an uncapitalized “then” followed by “you got” the handfull…etc. It’s really just a mess. Even critiquing that paragrapg has resulted in my own messy paragraph. Thanks a lot.
In your next paragraph you start with an uncaptitalized “here’s” and misuse a comma when you should have used a colon.
I also find it funny that you started your entire retort with “yo”. Really? Yo? Are you trying to set the tone right from the start that you are the cool urban guy commenting on how ridiculous it is to be critical of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and overall writing skill when the subject of that very criticism is a writing contest?
The most amusing thing of all is that I really think you are hoping to have your comment taken seriously, yet you butcher your own first language in doing so.
Black people like to be 15-30 minutes late; it’s what we call “Fashionably Late.”
I found this article hilarious but not nearly as hilarious as all the comments. It’s fitting that they won.
This one ain’t as good as #2.
And why isn’t the subject line simply “Being Excessively Early”? C Lander’s subjects lines aren’t ostentatiously long like this.
Oh it’s true. White people are totally like this. And please don’t go too far indepth about the ‘camping outside’ for a free ipod or a ticket to see…what’s that child’s name that Miley Cyrus plays? For two of those tickets white people will live outside for 90 days. It’s because the whitest of wp are anal controlfreaks (as evidenced by geopolitical world conditions.)
My family is late to everything, to varying degrees.
Although in most respects, I’m TWKOWP, I try to show up on time or early.
That has turned around and bit me in the ass, sometimes.
A few weeks ago, on one of the first really hot days in the city, I showed up early to a party.
Just as the host showed up with the beer, ice, and snacks.
Did I mention he lived in a six story walk up? Or that he hadn’t been to the apartment in a few days, so the A/C wasn’t on?
very funny in a quietly hilarious manner.
lol good stufff
– http://www.anythingblack.net
What the fu…..I mean, WTF is TWKOWP, for fucks sa….I mean, FFS?
“It’s because the whitest of wp are anal controlfreaks (as evidenced by geopolitical world conditions.)”
So, you’re saying that white folk rule the world because blacks and latinos are always late to the game?
its funny how all liberal douches are the same, if you deviate from thier ideas you’re bannished forever….kinda facist don’t you think??
Who are you?!
I’m early to certain events in order to avoid long lines, obtain the best seat possible, etc.
I’m early to job interviews to increase my chances of obtaining a job.
I’m early to dinner parties to show respect for my hosts.
And so on.
What’s so fucking wierd about that?
The Wrong Kind Of White People. And Tic; your party host sounds like a dumb ass!
I thought that this entry was funny. I am Asian and a newlywed. My wife and I sent out two versions of out invitation one for our White friends and the other for our Asian friends and family members. Our parents made sure that the the “White” invites said 7 and the “Asian” invites had 6.
Everyone was on time!
sounds about right
The only way to make sense of this post would be to include the intended time of your event. Most “Asians” I know show respect by being on time, as well.
And what the fuck is Asian? That’s stupid – it’s like me calling myself occidental. Are you Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, friggin’ Indian? What?
Thank you. And, I agree.
Nope. I think I said what I had to say.
But no, Black [people] and Latin [people] aren’t “ruling” the world because “ruling the world” is not their life’s mission. *World rule*is a whitepeople sport. World domination doesn’t do it for Black people or Latino people the way it does it for white people. (Therein lies the unique, little, aforementioned controlfreakiness of wp.)
Second, white people don’t even *rule* the world, if you want to get right down to it. (Please run to the gas pump and shout “White people RULE THE WORLD!” if you want to talk about white “rule.”) White people have had their little run for about 500 years but *looks around real quick to share this secret* — I’m not sure if you know, but there was a great big world with lots & lots of rulers lonnng before 1500 and the future is up for grabs. The strength and resistance of Iraq was so underestimated that the war was *won* after about 5 days. Yeah ok.
white people “rule” the world. smh
waiting outside stores at 3 am on Black Friday is what The Wrong Kind of White People do.
Screw throwing in “people” like that. I didn’t do it and you don’t have to make up for it by doing it for me.
Isn’t euphemizing reality a fairly white, guilt-driven thing to do, whitie?
You are on this website a lot. I’m not sure if you really like it or dislike it.
White liberals are the world’s top “groupthink” minions without even knowing it. Furthermore, the “think” this group of sheep follow is mostly hostile to their own race, ancestry and culture. Most of their “thinkers” (Obama, plethora of anti-white liberal Jews, etc.) aren’t even White.
dave: It’s a mental disorder and more people are understanding that.
what if clander deliberately sandbagged the good ones out of fear??
Another thing white people like is proofreading. When we whites come across dependent clauses like the following:
“which can only they strive to achieve!”
we naturally assume that either an idiot or a slovenly writer was responsible for such a gaffe. Either that, or it is the work of a self-hating white who is indulging in irony in a feeble attempt to be “kewl.”
Which are you?
What
I’ve never heard that quote, and I don’t know a single person who is early for anything
Uh, for the record, I don’t use adjectives as nouns when describing people. Not my style. I don’t say ‘handicaps do _______ ‘ and ‘left-handeds are ________’ so I don’t say ‘whites are_________’ either. What is a ‘white’? And last I checked, I can type my response any way I like.
smh @ this white person demonstrating in living color just how controlfreaky white people are
No just living off the civilization whites built is the sport of blacks and “latinos.” Rule the world? Hell, they can’t even rule their own hoods and barrios.
— or have nothing better to do
“Whites built this civilization?” Goofy, what history book are you *reading*????? ::poor child is not smarter than a fifth grader::
When I said I was early, I meant real early. I tend to be the first one to show up (unless I’m getting a ride) and the last one to leave.
I got there a little after five, the party started at six with most people arriving after that, and I left around four in the morning.
Actually, the A/C didn’t matter too much because we spent all the time on the patio, which I think is the real reason he still has the place. He spends most of his time in his house in Jersey.
The place is a kind of duplex. He’s on the top floor of a five story railway tenement with an additonal bedroom and bathroom on top of it, with half the space given over to the patio. Since it’s on the west side, there aren’t that many tall buildings around so it has a pretty nice view. He rents out the space below, which has the usual one bedroom setup.
The only view I have is of the apartments across from me. If I stick my head out the window and look straight up, I can almost see the sky past all the air conditioners.
One word…whoa!
http://www.youtube.com/whoatv
White people, abhor, excessive, use, of, commas.
someones getting defensive..
White people also like to be early for movies. If a new Star Wars movie is going to come out, there will be single white males, still living at home in their mid-30s, waiting to buy tickets a full year before the movie is shown.
Using the word ‘hella’ should be a capital offense.
There’s New York time, there’s white time, and then you have Manana time, Inshallah time and the dreaded Islands time.
I’ve been down there once.
Never again.
If someone won’t get out of my way when I’m getting off the subway, I go right through the son of a crack whore.
I’ll admit to being disappointed that they almost always walk away after they say shit. The fools seem to be surprised when not all white people fit the mold of timid victims.
I’ve noticed that. Doesn’t seem to be a trait the Chinese share. At least not the ones I deal with.
When hearing ‘Asian’ I usually think of East Asia: China, Vietnam, Cambodia, etc.
But there’s really five parts of Asia: the Middle East, the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia, Siberia, the Indian subcontinent, and East Asia.
That’s a lot of cultures. And there’s more difference between them than, say, Eastern and Western Europe.
I liked it much better then the winning entry and even the second entry. It seems lately alot of the entries are about White people habits, and not Actual things, just as Iphones or Futons or somthing.
Next winner… SWPL: Excessively long titles?
These were actually pretty funny though. 🙂
OMG YOU READ MY MIND! I didnt even see your comment about the “hella” when I was reading there comment, and I seriously stopped reading their comment when I got to the word “hella” and instantly I had to write a comment telling the person that using the word “hella” should be punishable by law. Wow “hella” seriously? Somebody actually wrote that, then reread what they just wrote and thought “Yeah “hella” sounds great, it really gives the comment a much more relaxed feeling.” It doesnt, its awful, dont ever use it again. Period.
Thats what im guessing, Im kind of pissed I didnt write one because otherwise I would actually be jealous and mad that these were the winners. I could write a better entry during a root canal.
So white people are Japanese now? Early to class? Are we talking about college kids??? Early to class?? WTF
Way off the mark.
don’t worry Al, I suspect you’re the wrong kind of white person anyway.
speaking of thinkers you might want to consider replacing yours.
either stop changing tenses mid-sentence or get the fuck off this blog.
In all honesty I think this one missed the mark completely, and is nowhere near as comedic as the other awesome winners.
Sorry.
My white friend like to rush me like he has something to do. I dont see the point to being extra early just to hangout with someone. I like this one.
i cringe at the thought of what the losing entries must have been like…
hopefully the next two entries will finally prove to be both relevant and funny.
Winner # 1 – Not funny
Winner # 2 – VERY funny
Winner # 3 – Not funny
I donno most white people I know (and I live in Portland) seem to think it’s always best to arrive about an hour late to anything. It’s never cool to be the first one in the room.
“sleeping on the street in middle of winter (which is also referred to as camping)”
That part was good. The rest? Y-yeah…
In the Navy we used to say: “If you’re not 5 minutes early, you’re 10 minutes late!”
good post!
Wow.. hundreds of entries, and this was one of the best? Your readership can’t be too bright.
Didn’t you know? It was the egyptians that invented the marching band. Or maybe it was the persians, no it was the arabs.
The only person I hear using that sixties term “cool cat” is that little weasel & crypto-jew Dennis Miller.
This is a funny piece about being too early and the irony of trying to win when there is no contest nor recognition for the winner. What is more funny is the dumbassed tic-picking of the commentors.
Put it all together and it becomes an, almost laugh-out-loud, result of unintended consequences. No one really cares about how you and yours measure up to a caricature joke about white people except the plural you and you care so eloquently with such precision. You do know who I mean, don’t you?
Now this contest is the ultimate funny white people thingy.
Yeah, that’s right. Contrast that to when the PS3 came out and every single obese non-white and unemployed gangbanger was in line for it. There were riots.
That’s the difference between Whites and non-white races. It stems from genetics primarily. Because in both cases, the people had to wait in line however in WI there are no rioting “youths” as the papers euphemistically these groids.
Yes
What a bunch of latent racist crap. My guess is that you don’t have any experience with non-whites, so you have unintentionally (I hope) suggested that non-whites don’t care about being early. It’s really no different than if you said “white people like getting good grades,” i.e. not realizing that you are also saying “non-whites don’t care about good grades.”
I’m no longer white! I am never early and am rarely even on time.
The game “6 degrees of jew relation” is always played. It is about what camp or school you went to, what organization you belong to, who your parents work with, who your doctor is or who’s cousin is dating your best friend etc…
Further proof that the ashkenazi jew is the most racist, self-segregating, and inbred group of people in the USA. By far.
It is illegal to marry a first cousin in KY and WV, however in places where jews have political power (NY, NJ, etc.) marrying a first cousin is permitted. Look it up.
Most jews are clannish, but those hasidim are even more inbred. Rednecks? not even close
Kissin cousins? Look no further than the ashkenazi clans.
Texas was better before it turned into a multi-cult soup like everywhere else.
The irony is, that Houston and Dallas, with all their “diversity” are just like everywhere else today. “Diversity” kills the real diversity the USA once had.
This is similar to when a black and white mix, the result is something that actually destroys forever the very diversity that once existed between the two.
good for you!!
I love speaking to idiot non-whites in this fashion in clear and concise English, and wait to hear them speak back.
A thought though: It probably would have been cheaper and easier for Bernard Goetz to have given away the $5.
That’s totally stupid.
Why do you think Whites achieved all that Western Civilization is? How did Whites put a man on the moon?
Following the WASP example that’s how.
I’ll grant you that Whites are ALSO the world’s most in-tune with nature types. Only White sought to climb the world’s peaks, sail the oceans, map the continents.
Compare that with the black, indian or asian that never did any of these things. Sometimes you see this propaganda that blacks are somehow more “natural” than Whites, but actually nothing could be further from the truth. In any big city, you hardly ever see blacks exercising or out in nature with the frequency of White.
Whites created botanical gardens, Butchart gardens, the list of Whites connection with nature is endless.
It has nothing to do with being unpunctual.
I am glad some White liberals here can finally see how much hatred non-Whites have for Whites.
Thanks moe.
By the way, the future “is up for grabs”, I agree. Whites can easily see what any majority non-White country turns into.
Liberal whites that love Obama, etc.
Can you name one single major non-White-majority country that you would call a success (racist Japan excepted) and that you would want to raise offspring in?
Please wake up, before you grandchildren curse what you stand for and did with your nation.
This guy above is one of those “slaves built this”, “Chinese built the railroads” propagandists.
None of anything in the USA would have been created without White lawyers, engineers, architects, industrialists, inventors, patents, etc.
There is plenty of labor in Africa and Peru and I don’t see jack-shit.
Was this really one of the best ones? Normally when I read these entries my extreme whiteness is confirmed – but I am NEVER early and often not even on time. And most white people that I know are either on time or late. I want to know who all these early people are.
However, the ‘camping’ on the street for tickets/sales etc – agreed – be there and done that.
ha ha, the truth hurts!!
shut up.
Non-whites (asians excepted) drop out of HS at a 50% clip. Do you honestly think these people care about being punctual?
Check these Blacks out, in this case they are punctual, lol!!!
One couldn’t even make this stuff up:
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/20735994.html
MILWAUKEE – The long voucher line was back Tuesday at the Marcia P. Coggs Human Services Center, but Tuesday morning, things stayed calm.
It was a much different scene compared to Monday where confusion over food aid led to some scary moments.
Over 2,500 people showed up. People thought they could get free food vouchers, but really, they could only apply and the vouchers are meant for flood victims only.
Organizers say some people, who didn’t have flood damage, tried to get the free food. Eventually, people lost their patience and things got violent.
It was much quieter Tuesday. The message was clear:
“Yesterday we had people over here the bombarded us and smashed people against these doors. It was not pretty. We are not going to have that today.”
Unruly behavior was not tolerated. Police officers were ready for anything, even blocking off parts of the area to eliminate traffic.
It was round two for Lastarr Armour. She got to the center before 5:00 a.m. for her chance to get free food stamps.
“Washer and drying, it was flooded and all that, and it was wet. I got a de-freezer down there. It was soaking wet,” Armour said.
Armour gave up Monday after waiting in line for hours.
Whites are punctual when they have kids and a babysitter to deal with. If Whites are single they are far less punctual.
All Whites show up on time for business meetings and interviews.
No.. this is not true. While it’s true that there’s “Mexican time” and “Filipino time” and what have you, I don’t believe that white people are particularly renowned for being on time.
Usually this blog is so spot on. This is the first time it’s just plain wrong. White people are generally on time, but not early; though there are certain individuals who are always late. A rule of thumb is – be on time. Five minutes late, isn’t late. Ten minutes late warrants an apology. The big exception is parties, especially large open invite parties. White people will show up 1-1/2 to 2 hours after the start time.
Wasn’t Portnoy’s Complaint about sex? Lighten up and get laid!
Idiot.
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Well, the day you dreaded is finally here, opening day of another chick flick (i.e. Sex and The City). As horrific as listening to Celion Dion, having to go to the store and buy your chick some tampons and having to call her loving pet names like sugar bear, honey buns and snuggle poop in front of your friends, you are locked into watching the mother of all chick flicks. You’ve already endured hours and hours of watching the box set of Sex and The City with your girlfriend (involuntarily of course) and when you heard the movie was coming out, you tried every trick in the book to not have to see it with her. If the BAL, (ball and chain) is dragging you to see it this weekend, have no fear. Follow the tips below from eHow.com and with a little luck, you may get out of having to see it.
7. Suggest she goes with some of her girlfriends or gay male friends.
6. Buy one ticket for her movie and one for your movie.
5. “Accidentally” drive to the wrong theater.
4. Buy out all the tickets online for the screening she wants to see, then buy two tickets for the movie you want to see. Apologize that her movie is sold out and go see yours. If it’s a rental, call ahead and reserve the film for someone else.
3. Pretend to be extremely ill or “sprain” your ankle on the way to the theater. Hobble for a few hours if necessary.
2. Plan a romantic dinner at her favorite restaurant instead of the movie. Then forget to make reservations and go to the nearest sports bar.
1. Tell her that you heard Jessica Alba makes a cameo and you’re really excited to see it. Women hate Jessica Alba.
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Not one of the best premises, and rather poorly written as well. But keep trying! (Thumbs up)
As a rule of thumb, when I am early for something, I find something else to do – from listen to the radio in my car, to getting a snack to window shopping or whatever. Walking in the door at exactly the right time (with seconds to spare) (even if if means you were waiting outside) always seems more impressive to me…
I like it when people are on-time or even early. I hate making having to wait and wait for someone to show up, especially when it was their idea, and then get the inevitable “Uh, going to be late” call. I mean, if I am going hugely out of my way to help someone out, I don’t obsess on it , but if I am actually getting paid, or if it is a big deal that they need to be somewhere, yeah I will be early to allow for traffic and random BS that may come up. When someone else is on-time or even a few early, it really adds to their credibility of being a non-flake.
I have a relative that is a chronic late bird, she drives me nuts. Not minutes late mind you, more like hours. Does everything at the last minute late. Like wrapping presents at home she just bought at the little Korean corner store down the street – waste of money ‘gifts’ that bear no relation to the recipient, or if we are really lucky , a gift card she bought at Safeway on the way over, but had to be wrapped and placed in a fancy bag- but hey, it was convenient for her to last minute get them, wrap them DURING the time she was supposed to be eating Christmas dinner, thus holding everyone up. I mean, why even buy those gifts for people you don’t value enough to even show up at a halfway decent time – people who have made the effort to be ready, buy you and your kids stuff, and made you dinner? The messing up of the whole night isn’t worth whatever they threw together to appear they are truly participating. Man I hate people sometimes. Probably why I haven’t bothered with family Christmases for years.
Silly winning entry. Reality television spots are for The Wrong Kind Of White People. White people don’t even own TVs, remember?
This one seems completely off to me, unlike most other posts on this website. The majority of white people I know make a point of being half an hour to an hour or more late to just about everything they do; waking up, parties, even work. It’s generally best to schedule an event half an hour before you want it to occur in order to get people to show up approximately on time.
I saw a picture of that line. The only white people there are cops. I didn’t even know there were that many blacks in Wisconsin.
I know this was to Moe, but who said anything about Obama, you paranoid freak? They were talking about WORLD rule. Empires rise and fall. This one will, too. That’s the way of the world. I don’t see any Ottomans walking around here. And sure, plenty of folk in Asia— China, the Filipines, Singapore, Malaysia— many countries of the Middle East, too numerous to list… Africa… are perfectly happy raising their children there and don’t want a thing to do with Western living. If you spent as much time reading books as you do on this site, you might have a broader perspective.
You’ve been to Peru and the continent of Africa? What part? For somebody so concerned about who built what, you sure do spend alot of time arguing on the internetz, buddy. Real productive and uplifting. And you might want to think twice about who you *assume* is white and who you *assume* is of color. Plenty of white people think nothing like you. (Preaise the Lord)
Again, (and then we will be done) … or at least *I* will be… I have work to do … you might have all day to sit around and spout nonsense but I have things to do… “white people built this civiizalization” is an absolutely ridiculous statement through and through. But thanks to you, we have now gone full circle regarding the controlfreakiness of wp. End
This only applies to classes (professors looooove early students), and work.
As a blue-eyed half black half chinese PhD student \ hip hop impressario, I often arrive early for my engagements.
I also play rugby and enjoy hiking.
This person has an extremely bad case of comma epilepsy. not gonna lie.
I don’t know about this one. I’m constantly late for everything. The Japanese tend to be very punctual though! I guess they are honourary White People!
I’m WASP-white and agree with this one. At the tender age of 17 a drill-sergeant at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, screamed in my ear the dire consequences of being late to _anything_. (In combat if an individual or a unit isn’t exactly where it’s suppose to be when it’s suppose to be there people can get killed, battles lost). I saw a soldier receive an “Article 15” and fined $100 for being a minute late to a formation.
It made an indelible impression on me and 32 years later I still work in a 10-15 minute “fudge-factor” to all arrival-times. Being on time is good, arriving a little early is better. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
Didn’t the author proof this?
What happened?
“which can only they strive to achieve!” [fairly obvious mistake]
“but it is a mantra that white people frequently recite to themselves every morning, as means or ensuring their timeliness to whatever function, they will be attending.”
[unnecessary commas, terrible phrasing, typos, and idiocy]
Or perhaps this piece was intended to satisfy the white urge to correct grammar.
Rest assured, I am a professional copy editor.
“Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable”
the actual quote I always heard was, “Early in on time, on time is late, late is don’t bother to fucking show up.”
Uhm, Daniel, it seems that the “readership” includes you, too.
😉
What about the dude who is afraid to swear and uses the phrase “hecka”?
Not funny.
Oh God, it’s true – I’m always early to everything and I’m always complaining that everyone else is always late, since my social group is almost exclusively non-white.
Eve missed the most important event for early arrival as a new parent: getting your child into the ‘right’ school in a ‘good’ neighborhood. camping out at the school the night, or even days, before registration begins is a ‘normal’ part of the process to ensure that your child has the best educational experience that being surrounded only by offspring of equally educated and wealthy parents can afford. the path to a bright, secure future begins early, very early.
My husband and I do this…not sure why, because I’m always looking at the clock and thinking, “Well, since the clock says it’s 6:30, it’s really 6:20, so I’ve got 10 more minutes…”
That said, I’m ALWAYS the first person to arrive anywhere.
So, when I show up early like that, am I on WPT?
A corollary to the early habit: keeping one’s clocks set a few minutes fast. My father (in the 50’s) kept our home clocks 5-10 minutes fast. I’m now down to 2-3 minutes. But my car clock is 4-5 minutes fast.
An acceptable excuse for lateness to an evening meeting: “I had to watch Final Jeapordy and see who won.” Then everyone who left in the middle to be on time can discuss the game and enjoy knowing its outcome. If you give the clue first, then everyone can pretend they would have known the answer.
I’m glad someone pointed this out.
Sadly, almost everyone is likely to get things like this wrong. Very few of us were raised in middle- and upper-middle-class families, and fewer still have the perceptivity to understand the subtle distinctions of any class other than their class of origin.
Turning this contest over to the masses was like inviting the kids on the short bus to drive it for a few blocks. That experiment always ends in tears.
What happened to being “fashionably late?”
Is my whiteness going to be revoked?!
I am SUPER Punctual. In fact if I am going to be fashionably late I am going to have to plan. I am typically in the area parked and hanging out at a Coffee shop so I am not stressed.
Stupid dumb ass.
…that this funny blog would be something that people of all races could laugh at and not take too seriously. But, as with anything involving race, it degenerates into “whites rule and minorities would not have shit without whites” rantings. I have some black relatives who are early for everything (my father-in-law) and have white friends who could not be on time if their life depended on it.
Racists and politically-correct extremists suck the joy out of relationships.
I have to leave now as I need to be 15 minutes early for my appointment. My co-workers were impressed saying “That’s pretty white of you.” After I punch them in the mouth, I’m out the door.
You have never been to these places, dumb ass. The only traveling you have done is to a hot air balloon contest and ended up winning “The most concentrated hot air source in the world” category. I know, everyone is entitled to an opinion; but we are damn sick of yours, in case you haven’t noticed.
My mother-in-law lives by this rule, and it is obnoxious! How is it not rude to show up at our house an hour before we asked her to be here? She thinks that being late is rude, but crazy early isn’t. For our daughter’s second birthday, my husband called her the night before with a specific time. We don’t mind having her over, but when you are setting up for a party, and your mother-in-law is following you around talking, it can get annoying. She showed up an hour early, and didn’t say anything about the phone call the night before! My husband is too polite to call her on it (he’s very white). My non-white father and his extended family are always late, and I’m more comfortable with that 🙂
Personally, I think this one should have one. Punctuality is a cornerstone to whiteness.
Portnoy doesn’t do sex, except when he is playing with himself at the computer. He also has spiked hair and a short right leg. (That’s why he leans to the right.) The constant slimy drainage from his nose is brain infection run off. (At least I give him credit for a brain, sorry.) The yellow pegs with black stains imbedded in his reddened gums are useless teeth rotted off by his high sugar diet. Oh yes, and he is blind, blind to every thing he chooses to be blind to. Oh what a sad recluse he has become, poor old Portnoy, so sad. Let’s all say a prayer for Portnoy, a prayer that he falls to his knees, bends over backwards and drowns in his own nasal drainage.
Goodbye Portnoy, you were not loved nor appreciated. Not a tear will be shed on your behave, nor will anyone offer to throw dirt on your body. Just lay there and let the sun mummify you.
Now, DIE, goddamn it, DIE.
The truth is: Your daddy is black.
Yes, so funny. I work in a prodominately Black/Hispanic area. Meetings, appointments, schedules, etc. never on time. When i first started i ran to be 15-20 mins. early only to find i was 30 to 60 mins. early. We waited for the 2nd revised schedule before taking an event seriously. Something to keep in mind. Evening does not mean the same thing to most minorities as it does to white folks. Events in the non-white community don’t start until 10PM whether the invitation says 8PM or not.
Now i come late or don’t show. It’s been 15yrs.
We called it BPT. “Black People Time” :>
Well Are you saying that white people are not very flexible, Being on time is a virtue, there was a time I was a financial gambler and sometimes I was late placing bets and that taught me to be on time.
http://stuffgirlslike.wordpress.com
Hmm… I think being early is a trait necessary in life. I wouldn’t say that it applies only to white people though. It is just part of being responsible. Employers and others will look down on you if you are late for things…regardless of your race.
“should have won”.
I’m white, and I follow the rule of always correcting grammar. 🙂
But I also agree.
Hmm, I beg to differ here. Most of the white people I know still stick to the “fashionably late” rule, especially for social gatherings. This tactic ensures that they are perceived as busy and important — which is crucial to white people. If you are early it indicates that you have too much time on your hands and that this occasion means a lot to you, which means you are a loser in white world.
I am always way too early to every imaginable event or function, with one very important exception: Work. White people love being 5-10 minutes late for work.
The author of this one has clearly never met the White Graduate Student, who is incapable of ever showing up within an hour or so of when an event is supposed to start or they are supposed to meet someone. To get a White Grad Student to show up on time one must lie to them about the start time of an event. Preferably by at least 2 hours.
Ha! MST!! We call is CP time!!
it* sorry. Obviously not white enough to check my spelling!
your post was a barrel of laughs.
White flight.
Wasn’t there already a post on that?
ha ha… you cannot prove me wrong, so you resort to slurs.
Weak.
Losers.
Having read them all this is still by far the most relevant and easiest to relate to as a white person. White people hate being late and more often that not are early for functions and events.
Chris
http://www.stuffwhitebritslike.com (about America)
Empires rise and fall. This one will, too.
yeah, with dupes that think like you around here.
You would be much better off in life emulating your White grandparents who succeeded in life, than internalizing all the drivel you are spouting.
You represent degradation and weakness from what your grandparents were. Can’t you see that?
And sure, plenty of folk in Asia— China, the Filipines, Singapore, Malaysia— many countries of the Middle East, too numerous to list… Africa… are perfectly happy raising their children there and don’t want a thing to do with Western living.
Sure we don’t have any Third World illegal immigrant problem, no sir.
Sure, we don’t ever need to spend billions on foreign aid with these “happy” blessed people, no sir. That doesn’t happen either.
All these people love the USA and only wish the best for us. Sure.
Obama represents the first step in non-White American rule.
If you were to study, as you were asked, countries where Whites live as minorities under non-White rule, what are the results? Name one that is successful. That’s all.
Brazil is the future for the USA and it isn’t pretty.
Ha!!!!!
I have read so many of your replies on here and can tell that you are the type of ethnocentric white asshole who loves to slander others when there is no chance of recourse. In other words, the people you offend with your pro-white anti-everyone else bigotry cannot see your face. This post is particularly humorous because you claim to “love speaking to the idiot non-whites”. My guess is when you come across a non-white in day-to-day life your natural instinct is to drop your eyes to the ground and move along, for fear they will see right through you.
How about using this a way to offer criticism of the writing, not as a vehicle for your racist rants?
i arrive 35 minutes early for work everyday.
Amen. Where I work, only the Black people show up 30 minutes earlier ’cause they’re afraid of getting fired… most of the whites show up at the last minute…
i’m white and i’m NEVER early…
aye-yi-yi, lighten the fck up. both of you. quit patroling the comments like you’re so… effin… cool. it’s hella annoying. hahaha
Bomber on June 24, 2008 at 1:12 pm
“It’s because the whitest of wp are anal controlfreaks (as evidenced by geopolitical world conditions.)”
So, you’re saying that white folk rule the world because blacks and latinos are always late to the game?
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Dude, when was the last time you heard of an illegal alien with OCD or even some kind of autistic savant syndrome for that matter? There you go with your little name-calling ‘control freak’ crap. You know , some people are self-aware control freaks. Kind of like fags taking back the word ‘fag’.
This one was a lot better than the first one! But I still didn’t laugh.
Key point: “mother-in-law” 🙂
During the height of South African Apartheid, the SA government would only recognize other white governments. Japan was, in fact, recognized as an “honorary white government.”
what a world…
Actually you jerk,
I am sephardic.
What makes you assume I’m ashkenaz? Secondly, what’s wrong with a sense of community?
Obviolsy the only community you are part of is kkk blogs, and child porn sites. I am sure you date thousands of hot white german women on your time away from your computer.
While you are on the inbreeding subject, why don’t you take a look at your “White” royal family across the pond and tell me if inbreeding isn’t held up in the proper white culture.
Most jews are not inbred. That is a very old stereotype and may have occured due tothe fact that we were opressed and ghettoized with little accsess tothe outside world – due to racits pricks like you.
sooooooooo trueeeee. mainly cause non-white ppl don’t show up on time for anything where no white ppl are expected to be. try getting 100 brown ppl to get to a prayer on time. they’ll all show up 2 hours after the event has started and right when the food is about to be served.
I see that everything I said hits home. Thank you for that post, jew.
And promise food. That always gets my fellow grad students to arrive on time!
What the hell? I don’t get the math.
Stay inside the barrel, dumb ass.
I don’t thing that there is anything wrong with showing up a little early. I think it is sad that some white people I know do it because they have no life outside of work. They also work late.
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That is so me. I usually explain it by stating that “Punctuality is my best and worst trait” as my early arrival is sometimes necessary and often a nuisance.
I’m not tired of hearing Portnoy. He at least has an informed perspective, and uses facts in his argument, not just name-calling. Keep it up Porty.
smh that’s so wrong….. come to any of my college classes and most of the people late don’t look like me.
I screen this site but never commented before lol….. i’m black but I dunno if I am an eh odd one *rolls eyes* but I’d rather show up somewhere 10-20 mins. early than late…I HATE being late….I go by if you’re early you’re on time and if you’re on time you’re late. lol
a hundred times funnier and truer than the actual “winner,” but the errors with grammar and commas really piss me off.
I am a white girl who is NEVER on time.
Even as children my parents took my brother and I to everything almost 15 minutes late…
Somehow they even screwed up the time for my preschool play and I got there after the whole thing had ended. I never got to be Jill in my Jack and Jill Nursery Rhyme performance. I missed my big break, as you can see, I’m still bitter.
This is so correct.
This is a mantra beaten into your head if you were ever in the armed forces
This only applies to WASP’s.
This is the funniest thing I have read on this site. I laughed so hard, tears ran down my face. If you’re on here arguing “I’m white, and I’m always late”, you should leave this site immediately. This is about white society as a whole. This author hit the nail on the head.
“Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable”
HAHA. My band teacher said that to me all the time.
I’m always late, but I like the post!
im white. my indian and korean friend and i threw a party for 200 people a few weeks ago. the people who arrived early and on time… were all asian. who shows up on time for a party?
At least one Jew (my wife) is not “inbred”, since she’s with me, and I’m de-goyim-ing myself.
All our kids will be little jewlets ready to put your kids with their first names all the same letter and kreatively spelled to the bottom of their high school class.
Danke, schiesskopf!
I had to move to Haiti in order to fully understand how true this is. There is not such thing as
1. Early
2. On-Time
in Haiti. IT starts when you get there.
Kind of refreshing actually!
Very funny stuff.
Did the site start using a different writer or something? A lot of the newer posts just aren’t written as well. The wording is often awkward, and the tone is different. Has anyone else noticed this?
this new format of comments is GREAT!
OK, onward to the comment
I only discovered the concept of being to a place early this year. I was with friends (all white) who insisted that we HAD to leave places early to arrive other places early, I had to get up early to be ready early, etc. and I’m usually at least a few minutes late everywhere I go. it was a jolt, a concept I had really never considered before, and I DON’T like it!
brushing their* teeth
“…then you got the handfull of people talking about how theres too many comas, and i know someone just noticed how i wrote “there” when i should have wrote “they’re”…”
well, actually, it should have been “there are too many commas” instead of “theres,” which, if correctly punctuated, would be “there’s,” meaning “there is”.
“they’re” = they are — not appropriate in this context.
Yep, I’m a white person who is also a grammar freak. So sue me.
Your mouth via blog gives you away, dumb ass.
Facts???????? What the hell are you talking about? You must one of those fat ugly crack whores looking for some dumb ass to support your dumb ass. Well, just jump at Portnoy, show him something better than Rosy Palm
My band director drilled this mantra into us as well… must be a band thing…
I’m white. I’m always late. I’d be late to my own wedding and funeral.
ooo nooo. there is a common splice in the first paragraph. i cannot take this.
This is a good point about white people “uptightness” …. this is cultural, not racial, I’m thinking, anyway ….. I was at a High School Percussion State Championship at a big fairgrounds a couple of months ago, and they closed the fieldhouse for lunch. It was cold and windy, so I went looking for something inside and there was a pow-wow going on. I sat on the bleachers for a couple of hours and watched the dancers and singers and drummers at this pow wow. One of the things I loved was how the dancers would join the group that were competing, when the dance started half of the dancers wouldn’t have all their costume on, they would join in a relaxed manner…… this was contrasted to the State Championship, where all the performances were precisely timed, with spit-polish precision. I think this cultural thing is all about efficiency and is very stressful.
Umm . . . except, this is all wrong . . . has no one heard of being “fashionably late”? Has no one noticed that the white people of liberal arts colleges show up 5 minutes late to class? I honestly can’t think of a single case where this applies to the yuppie-white group that this site had previously been describing.
Also, the rampant comma splices. You are killing all the white people who love grammar.
I disagree with this one. I can’t count times I’ve made plans with people and ended up waiting forever for them to show up. I’m always on time for things because I was raised to believe punctuality was a good thing. I don’t show up early because I figure the event or party has a start time for a reason. I think white people like tardiness and being “fashionably” late more than being early. I’ve lived in a few different cities and countries and have seen much more evidence of them liking being late than I have them being early or on time. Nothing more fun that throwing a dinner party that starts at 7 and your guests showing up at 8. Or worse showing up to a dinner party that started at 7 and being the only guest there until 8. Actually, I guess the only thing that would suck more is not being invited at all.
Totally true! That my father frequently said “on time is late” never struck me as strange until I met nonwhite people.
Great story! I would 110% agree with you.
Being a wedding and portrait photographer… I cannot ever ever be late. Did I mention I can never be late? In fact I always show up about 30 minutes early to every wedding. It is good to scope out the room, meet the priest, snap a few getting ready photos, then proceed to the wedding. My job is then to capture said people as they come in early for the event.
Thanks for making me laugh! Cheers!
Hmmm……. Another accurate difference between the two cultures. I am a white female who is often late and often criticized by my brethren for this defect.
Then I attended an HBCU for graduate school and was introduced to the concept of CPT “Colored People Time.”
CPT appears to affect everything from school functions, class starting/ending times, and when the Financial Aid office will deign to release my loans me.
I used to think that the delays, ah the many, many delays, was due to administrative incompetence, but no more. I now fully embrace all cultural aspects my HBCU!
Thanks SWPL blog for showing me that I am more white than this girl from Iowa ever thought she could be!
I’m white and am always late. This one doesn’t make any sense.
I’m sure glad the book is out, now it’s just a matter of time before it get’s old and this blog dies out. In fact the book is already available as used copies on Amazon lol.
So where can I download the book for free??? I know it’s not worth paying for! haha
Ha ha, I’m of half-Jewish half-white-genteel heritage, and I think I ended up with the worst of both worlds! 🙂 I usually end up a bit late, AND I feel guilty about it. I perfectly understand why everything has to be on time. Because ‘there’s a sytem, dammit’ … things have to be done right. It inconveniences people if you just turn up anytime. Which I do.
Yup… completely agree with both points. I don’t know anyone in this group who is punctual– everyone knows about being fashionably late. The grammar is killing me, too. The book has been published, the ideas have run out, and this blog is becoming out-of-touch.
Would you consider a blog about “what black people like” to be racist and demeaning? You are stereotyping in exactly the same way.
I would have disagreed with this one until I moved to Iowa. I lived in California and Massachusetts and everyone seemed to follow the ‘fashionably late’ mode of operation. If you wanted your party to start at 8 you would tell people it started at 7:30.
In Iowa, if you want your party to start at 8, tell them 8:15!
Being late to things like a movie or play, a class, or an appointment is a sign that you are selfish and don’t respect the people who you’re with or the people who are waiting for you.
Showing up way early is generally NOT a “white people” thing, however, it’s just an OCD thing.
If being early is a “white” thing, apparently that’s strictly limited to the USA… I once attended an international summer course (in very punctuality-obsessed Holland), and most of the attendees could be deemed “white” but there was quite varied views on what “on time” meant that usually followed ethnic lines… Brits, Americans, Canadians, Germans, and Swiss tended to fall into the “early is on time” category. Folks from Eastern Europe (as well as not-very-white Asian and African countries) tended to be right on time. But the Spanish, Catalan, and especially the Italian students… well, they took being “fashionably late” to new levels of absurdity (but I will admit, they did look damn fashionable when they arrived… best dressed out of all of us).
Man, you’d have to be white not to realize how true this is. I can’t believe all these people saying “well I’m always late so this can’t be true!”. Don’t you read this blog at all? This is my first day here and I get it. If you want to demonstrate that you grok the values of successful left-wing white Americans, then yes you will value being early. If you’re not a successful white person then you might not like all the “stuff white people like”. If you’re poor, if you’re conservative, if you’re an immigrant, if you’re some other race, then this stuff may not apply to you unless and until the stuff trickles down from the white people who liked it first.
“being late is a sign that you are selfish”, that’s a white people thing to say, sorry. Who decides what is late? Why do things have to start at “appointed times”? Do you realize that the vast majority of cultures in this world don’t view time that way?
If you were “raised to believe punctuality is a good thing” then you are either white or who-ever raised you wanted you to be successful in white culture. I hope it doesn’t blow your mind too much to know that there are plenty of people, in fact, the majority of people on earth, who have no concept of this thing you call “punctuality”. They’re not beholden to the numbers on a clock.
I’m chronically late but every white person around me seems to be chronically early…
I went on a 40-day safari trip in Africa with other expert-level white people from the US, England and Oz. Each evening our local guide would tell us something like: “tomorrow morning, wake up call at 6:30, breakfast at 7, we leave at 7:45”.
Each morning, as I woke up at 6:30, the other white people had already packed their tents. By 7, they were done with breakfast and were idling around casting passive-aggressive looks of disapproval at me. Talking about peer-pressure…
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Not all white people are on time. Irish whites, and Euro-Latin whites e.g Italians, and Spanish, are never on time. The Irish always say, if nine is meeting time for example, ” I’ll see you around Nine-ish”. I know cos I’m Irish, born and living in actual Ireland (the nice part)
Germans, Brits, and other Germanics are anal time keepers.
I have yet to be early for anything.
Wait a minute, are you sure this entry didn’t come from the “What Asian people like” pile? Part of the trick to being white, which is why I don’t envy my white friends, is to show that you are superior without, in fact, looking as though you believe you are better than anyone else. If an Asian person, like me, arrives early, I’m just doing what comes naturally, like doing my homework. But a white person who arrives early is obviously trying too hard. The acme of white superiority is achieved when you attain that zen-like state where, by arriving late, you show that demonstrating your superiority is utterly unimportant to you because you and everyone else in the room already knows that your superiority requires no further proof.
Ha! This is classic “White people”! I love my White friends, but it can be annoying when I’m putting up the final decorations for a shin-dig and they show up…EARLY!
However, even though I am of Spanish descent, born and raised in this country, I’ve come to admire this “being early” cultural trait. Sometimes, my Spanish roots keep me from achieving this rank, but I’m learning. My boyfriend (who happens to be White) says that his father always says: “Being on time is being late.” I’ve grown to embrace it, and if there’s anything my multi-racial children (Black/Hispanic) will learn…is to be EARLY!!! At least while living in this country.
Still, it shouldn’t be the end of the world if someone’s late 😉
Thanks for posting this.
I’m Haitian and one of the things that I particularly despise about my culture is that there is no such thing as TIME or being on time or early. It’s like nobody as a watch or something. This is so true!
“Its better to be ten minutes early than five minutes late” Says Chris Paterson. My dad drilled that into my head when I was a kid.
I am always punctual because of him.
This rule in no way applies to anyone living in the South. My family is always early to everything. It was embarrassing. My husband’s family however drive me crazy! When we visit them they will say, “let’s go get something to eat”. I foolish assume that means we are leaving in the next 20 to 30 minutes. But no, it means in the next 4 to 6 hours.
Your blog is sooooooooooooo funny!! I’m brazilian, not white and just get early on events with my white americans and chezh friends, ahhahahahahaha…
That’s funny and so true!! But, I have to say, being white…. showing up early isn’t about approval, I show up early because growing up my mother was ALWAYS late to pick me up! The majority of the time I was the last kid to be picked up from school, practice or a friend’s house.
White people show up early????? Not in NYC they don’t. If you want a white person to show up for a party at 8PM, you tell them the party starts at 7PM, or even 6:30. With relying on public transportation to get around, white people, black people, brown people – all people – tend to squeak in at the last minute, or late.
I disagree. I am pretty much as white as it gets (love coldplay, wear thrift store clothes even though I’m rich, etc.) but in reality only 34.57% of white people like to show up early. In the wise words of Bono, “Be late or look like a fool.”
Just kidding. But me and all my white/asian friends and token black friend always show up late because nobody wants to be the first one to an event. Then you just look dumb and overeager.
Only for a new iPhone release.
Guilty as charged.
I am early for everything (except parties… which I am gracefully 30 mins late to), but I think it’s more to do with OCD than actually being white.
I used to show up for class a half hour early, but so would all of my friends so it was a way to hang out before class started. And maybe get in some last minute studying!
Why does your black friend have to be a token? Your use of the word token makes it seem like your black friend is of less worth. <<<<<<>>>>>>
pftt, what all the rush about? get there when you get there.
I am always an 30 minutes to an hr early for my 9:20 speech class.
No way! Showing up early to a social occasion is extremely rude. I was told to always be five minutes late. Five minutes early to class, maybe 10 minutes or more early to work. But never early to a party. And I loathe when people show up early to my parties. You white bastards!
White people love any form of camping.
this is the funniest thing i’ve read and should be #1. i have a friend writing a screenplay about this very topic.
I’m Asian also and I never show up to a damned thing on time. Except job interviews, because it’s usually white people doing the interviewing. I can’t help it. Similarly, all of my Asian friends are similarly running on “Rice Time.” Our White friends don’t understand it.
In New York City, a common substitute for showing up early is to show up late and complain about how unreliable public transportation is. (Of course, this is in regards to timeliness only, since public transportation IS reliable in helping white people reduce their carbon footprint, the reason they are using public transportation in the first place.)
When I began working in New Orleans in clerical positions one of the first things I learned from my superiors was that there was “Black Time” and “White Time”. “Black Time” was 20 minutes after a scheduled appointment time and “White Time” the converse.
…and thats why white people rule the world. Must suck to be colored.
This is so true! And I am so guilty of this, but it is really about my own anxiety around being late or feeling rushed….I do admit I occasionally have bad thoughts about those who are perpetually late……from my perspective, if I have arrived 20min early and the other person is 20 minutes late, my annoyance can be attributed to 40 minutes of waiting and obsessing about the general tardiness of people and how all of the planets woes can be traced to tardiness……..
lmao! this is so true! guilty as charged. most of my friends are hispanic and i’m always the first one there at every party, get together, etc. i need to stop doing that, especially since hispanics are almost always at least an hour late to these types of things.
Hey, what are we talking about…I JUST got here…??? …Freakin’ Johnnie Law be all up in a mofo’s grill…just ’cause I was going a few mph over the limit. Ax’in’ me “Do you know how fast you were going?” So I said ” I THOUGHT…that’s why you STOPPED me…You can’t be stoppin’ people when you don’t even know how fast I was going? … I oughta…………….
………….Okay, okay, SIR…you right. I wuz doing about… ((uhhh))) …35 in a ….30….???….Please mister po’ leas…please don’t smack me upside the head with that club no mo…
Sooo..I was a tad off on my estimate…I don’t see the big deal between 35 in a 30….and….92 in a 25….
Punk po’leas… splitting hairs and gittin’ too picky…JUST to keep a brutha down…:-)
NOT TRUE! I’m Mexican-American and I show up before the white people do!
*is Black American (non-hispanic lol)* and I have to be about/AT LEAST 10-15 mins. whenever I have to be somewhere …. pssshh most of my caucasian friends don’t obssess about being somewhere early on neccessarily on time so I dunno what Eve A. is talking about….she needs to follow me around for a few weeks at my college.
are you stuck in 1958? lol
ha I’m actually not offended….at my college it’s common to see a “token black person” when people are in groups hanging out *shrugs*. I don’t think calling someone a token makes them of less worth it’s just saying they are the only one lol.
Well there is a what EBP (educated black people) like blog lol.
The period goes inside of the quotation mark….
ex. “This site is very funny.”
Okay, I know for a FACT this is untrue. I am late to everything, always.
That wouldn’t apply to most people I know. I have a few friends who are, as I am, so punctual that if we say the three of us will meet at 2:12at the corner…sure enough all three of us will pretty much be walking there at the exact time, not 20 minutes before.
On the other hand….more people I know are ALWAYS late = I ended friendships over it. I said it was something that was unacceptable in my books. I was not there to wait around for 30 minutes for someone. They’re on time for work, trains, and planes, they can be on time for me. Too much for them…and fine with me.
As someone once said, if you lend someone $20 and never see them again, it was probably worth it.
I can’t believe this site can recycle (in reverse) the worst stereotypes about minorities (e.g. they are always late) and be considered amusing. No doubt it is mostly white people who enjoy ‘Stuff That White People Like.’
Malcolm X said “The first thing every good revolutionary needs is an alarm clock.” Perhaps he just wanted to emulate ‘white people’.
Comma errors make me sad.
Dumbest reply ever. So this post was racist because it didn’t acknowledge that important non-whites such as Malcolm X can be early too, despite that earliness is portreyed negatively? Sounds like something a white person would say.
Also, “minorities” being late is the worst racial stereotype? I’m white and I hate being early. I’d prefer the stereotype of always being late and know plenty of “minorities” who don’t mind being associated with it.
You people are taking this WAY too seriously…it’s satire for crying out loud.
I’m Spanish – from Spain – and we get nervous if we are early to something. Well, I do. Being early to a party? Most unsocial, ackward action ever!
What a blog this is……funny shit
at my church, the white folks are universally early, sometimes very early, and the black folks are generally late, sometimes up to a half hour. and that’s the regular attendees and members.
i’m just saying, and i’m not saying which one is me.
White people have no concept of the term “fashionably late.” Arriving super early and or being the last one to leave is beyond lame, and it should be avoided in all non-professional situations.
In most of the world arriving early is a sign of ‘you have nothing better to do than to come out here and sit around until everyone else gets here’. I’m married to a white man and he’s constantly freaking out when we run a minute or two late. I’m Latina, so it’s perfectly acceptable to be 10 or 15 minutes late (unless someone is waiting in the rain or something). I’m running on what my Black brothers & sista’s call “Colored Folk Time”. That’s what my watch is set on.
Whites built civilization. They have shit to do and are punctual.
Gotta be early to get the best seats.
So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager
lol whatever… My boyfriend and I are white and even before we met, we were known in our circles as “the last one to arrive” at any event. We were late for my nephew’s baptism this year for crying out loud.
my teacher charged 25 cents in high school when you were late… he probably bought himself something nice and expensive for the amount of money i paid out to him back then!
I do hate the expectation at work that if you are on time, or 5-10 mins late – you are late. WTF… I’m willing to stay an extra 30 mins, but all they can focus on was that i came in at 9:02. Ridiculous. If you are not paying me for that time – Don’t expect me there.
The concert thing however IS true… I wave to all the losers in the back when I’m at a show as I know you gotta put some effort into it if you want to get the good seats! I’ve seen people cry in lines (white and non white) who don’t get in, or get shitty seats because they showed up to buy tickets 15 mins before they go on sale… losers, lol.
Good cultural assessment, applicable to all situations. I’m always early or on time, so you don’t have to guess who my peeps is.
Sorry hun if you “camp out” for tickets to a concert than you’re a douche…get a life.
I’m sure there are a lot of white people around who are consistently early, but the demographic that this blog usually refers to, (white, under-40, liberal, upper-middle class, etc.) definitely doesn’t contribute very many to that group. My mother is 53 and does show up a few minutes early for things like work and church, but definitely not parties. And I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone in my life, of any race or what have you, that goes to parties early. That’s just strange. For the record, I’m as white as a person can be, and I’m rarely punctual for things.
However, just to add my two cents on the whole punctuality debate, I think it’s easy to see the value of being on time for many things in our culture. Things like work, interviews, appointments, and dates, all may involve wasting the person’s time who’s waiting for you. Other cultures can make fun of us all they want if things are different where they come from, but in North America, it’s simply bad manners to keep people waiting for you. It’s not an issue of being “a slave to the clock,” it’s an issue of being considerate to others. I guess it’s fairly obvious that valuing punctuality is a symptom of our busier, more rushed culture, which, as a whole, may or may not be in our best interest. But for better or for worse, the way things are, being on time (for the right things) is just an unavoidable part of common courtesy in western culture.
uhmm… been to the West Coast lately?
i’m always early i can’t help it, and im white, i think its a paranoia or something, i am always like 30 minutes early. its also hard to know traffic too.
“FOUND” PEOPLE TO WORK HALF TO DEATH TO BUILD “CIVILIZATION” IS MORE LIKE IT.
Nice comment! Never thought superiority was a pressing issue, but it makes sense…you shouldn’t have to prove your superiority if you really are so…
I am currently in a college Officer Program for the United States Marine Corps. I am white.
We are taught to be at all functions 15 minutes prior, just for organizational and accountability reasons. Plus, better to be 15 minutes early and ready to go than on time and possibly late. So I guess if the author is trying to say that white people are responsible and know the definition of punctuality, then I suppose I agree?
lol
Well, if you’re there to see the early people and the late people, I’m thinking you’re white.
When white people come early to my parties, I put them to work. They’re handy like that. I have them pull stuff out of the oven and mix drinks. If they’re really early, I send them right back out the door to get ice. I’m just saying, it can be a win-win situation 🙂
Wow, I’ve never even heard of this one. Guess I need to reconnect with my roots?
Ha! My thoughts exactly.
Yea, whatever.
OBAMA ’08!!!
lol.
There you have it… Jews are NOT white…There’s something called, “Jewish time” which means, if youwant us there by 7:30, better say 6:45… Although I do show up for job interviews early, and for the past month or two, have been managing to get to work on time most days…
A favorite quote used to explain this phenomenon is “Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable”.
When you have a quotation, commas and periods ALWAYS go inside the quotation marks, while question marks and explanation points go inside the marks if they are part of the quote and outside the marks if they are not.
-2 Aryan points for you.
Lol…like CP Time? I’m black and Jewish…so you know lol.
That is funny I always thought I was the only one.
White people cannot compete with the Japanese in this regard. I worked in Japan for one year. I taught at high schools, but when class was not in session, it was required that I appear at the local prefectural government office. However, it was NOT required that I do anything for the board of education at this time. It was expected that I would show on time, and little else. Despite my not having any responsibility and my not contributing any work on these days, my supervisor would become very vocal about my being even two minutes late. Damn that 8:30 a. m. daily chime.
Silence! The practice of defining mundane or positive traits, habits or preferences as evidence of strange, hypocritical or amusing, is only acceptable when confined to White Anglo Saxon Protestants. To observe that the Japanese are very polite is kinda racist. To claim that spooks are “obsessively anally retentive” about time keeping is hysterically funny.
That’s my motto too and I’m a second generation “American of Mexican descent”. My mom (in the first generation to be born in the U.S.) is the one who actually taught me to leave the house at least an hour before you’re expected anywhere, just in case there’s traffic to worry about on the way. As a result the latest I’ve ever been somewhere is 15 minutes early, and that’s because the event was 20 miles away in an unfamiliar part of town. But yeah, I am right with you there on the whole “if you’re early you’re on time and if you’re on time you’re late” edict, and can’t stand chronically late people. I equate that with rudeness and have no problem dropping those people from my life.
The word “wise” and Bono can never be friends or even acquaintances. Bono is a blowhard egomaniac with delusions of sainthood. There is also no such thing as a dumb person who arrives early somewhere. Guess who gets the better parking, is less stressed upon arrival, never gets yelled at, etc.? True idiocy is making a habit of showing up late.
Apparently if you don’t give a shit about arriving late to your own job but have to spend hours or even days waiting for concert tickets, work ain’t that important to you. I will not be at all surprised if you have a checked work past and wonder just how much longer this job will put up with your chronic lateness. How about setting better priorities? Oh wait, that would actually involve the “r” word: “responsibility”.
It goes back to our early childhood. In order to absolutely guarantee being on time for something, you have to allow a margin of error, which you do by planning to arrive 15 minutes early. It is difficult and counterintuitive for us to break this habit, such as for parties, where we will frequently show up 15 minutes early and then read quietly in a chair until the actual start time.
Really? From my personal experience I thought white people liked being fashionably late to everything? It just makes you look so much cooler, occupied, and mysterious lol. Then again, time is money, so this makes sense.
I’m always late to everything. My friends have tricked me into being on time by telling me to show up at 6 when they wanted me somewhere at 5. 😦 My entire family is like this …
and we’re white as can be!
Yeah, I agree with other posters who say that white people are generally late to everything – although they THINK that they are the ones who are on time. The reason is that if you show up on time you are too excited to be there, and that’s bad. Showing up on time (particularly to class) is for “poseurs” and sellouts. It’s bad to show up early for many social events also, because then you have no life.
I am surprised you posted the opposite – haven’t you ever been to a gettogether? I am generally on time, and I usually wait in the car because otherwise I am the only one there and I detest making small talk with the only other person who is there, the host.
This extends also to work – seriously, how many people do you know who are actually on time for work? The majority walk in 10 minutes late, and if asked, it is because something crazy happened that morning.
Ok maybe if your German( I’m Part German)or smug so-called Christians(ie. The ones who don’t get it that Jesus hates Bigots). White people early, do think this is so ask any mutt like me.You either a pain in the rear Prude who’s obsessive about being early ( like my Oma, a grandma in German) or your not My wife who is also mixed is an early bird but raised as a Turk.
Ok maybe if your German( I’m Part German)or smug so-called Christians(ie. The ones who don’t get it that Jesus hates Bigots). White people early, do think this is so ask any mutt like me.You either a pain in the rear Prude who’s obsessive about being early ( like my Oma, a grandma in German) or your not My wife who is also mixed is an early bird but raised as a Turk.
Yep… haha- that’s me to a tee. funny stuff.
Damn, this is annoying, too . . have you ever been in the shower when these &^%$# show up?! It’s a control mechanism: if you ask guests to come at 7:00 and presumably stay until midnight , you’re telling them you’re giving them 5 hours of your time. People who show up a half-hour early are infringing and getting more than you want to give. Bastards!
Can all you people complaining about grammar and the style of writing work out that this is a published story from a WINNER of a contest the blog writer held?
This piece is not written by the normal person, as it is a reader contributed item.
OH-MY-GOD. I’m a first generation American. My family, my extended family, and, to the extent of my knowledge, my people are perpetually late.
But it’s like…not a big deal.
I dated this white guy for a while. He was not only early to every paltry event of his life–he BRAGGED about being early, like about how “punctual” he was…and he would occasionally scold me with that stupid little quote.
This is the more illuminating quote, in my opinion: “Time is money.” America is a capitalist society. In this country, especially in the northeast, where I grew up, you’re raised to believe that sticking to a grid–calender, cul-de-sac, min. 4-year college education–is the ideal. Why? This type of meta-standardization is more efficient. It increase output…
This is why I was diagnosed with “ADD”. I have a “disorder” because I happen to see the tautological absurdity of the concept of “being on time” in the American sense. I’m not sold. Sry!
I used to work in a restaurant where that quote was painted above the door to our dressing room. But I think that makes sense to me in the world of waiting. You NEED to be early in order to get ready for your shift and change. Especially if you’re coming in during the evening and you need tables transferred to you.
Or, you were in the Military at a young age and were trained to relieve the watch 15 minutes before the appointed hour, or it cost you—-And I don’t mean 5 bucks.
More like 1/2 months basic pay, 2 weeks restriction to the ship or barracks, and 2 hours extra duty for 2 weeks.
Not what white people like in the original example, more
White liberal elitist.
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IST baby! Indian Standard Time = unacceptable by my white friends and my meetings with work colleagues
LOL. Me to a ‘T’ when I’m at school. I’m always 1/2 hour early for all my classes. It makes my classmates crazy.
Yeah, but there are lots of typos in the regular entries as well.
You’re reaching with this one.
Bingo. Getting to a party early is social suicide for a white person. Also, I myself have never noticed “arriving for class or work early” as a widespread trait among any group of people, white or otherwise. This entry is sad, just sad, and I’m happy to learn that it is not an “official” Thing That White People Like.
You make me sick.
Too many “comas,” huh?
One too few, if you ask me.
How racist! I learned this quote from a very intellegent African American man. Don’t pigeon hole the races, there is enough of that in the world already!
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lol.. this blog is hilarious….. “24 hours early”… that’s funny
This is very good! I work with African professionals (in Sub-Saharan Africa) and we always have fun with work breaks. We differentiate (name the country) time with US time to determine how short our breaks are.
Examples: “Let’s take fifteen Ghanaian minutes,” or, “Only fifteen American minutes, sorry.”
I agree. I just posted a comment that spoke of nearly an entire continent of people that have a different–but effective–concept of work time. Let’s not go crazy here–every race and culture has hilarity (in comparison to another culture) attached to it. Loosen up!
If we can’t universally laugh at each other and ourselves we have missed out on some important and harmless cultural clashes.
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I am told that people in Europe are not nearly as obsessed with punctuality as we Americans are. Sounds great as we are all likely to kill ourselves with the importance we place on being on time.
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
Evelyn Waugh
A quote I found. I must not be very white because I don’t pretend to know who she is. Much less, I did not know it before any other white people.
Advice: Be late to things just for fun. This I call Irrepunctuality.
It’s funny because Evelyn Waugh is a man!
Also because I’m correcting you, and I’m white. Ha, ha!
Europeans? By this do you mean the Italians and French? I’ve never been on a German train or bus that didn’t show up on the exact minute it was scheduled. Being punctual is usually seen as a good thing. They might as well put “Doing well in school” on here too.
This is pretty funny. Although I can understand the views of each side, it’s still funny to me. Like another reader posted, I learned this quote from a Black man, and I am black as well. Being an educator, I teach this to my students every semester. It’s a shame that you equate being on time to “white” but that just shows your personal supremacy of certain races. At any rate………it’s still funny, haha!I’m not offended at all, I live by this mantra because the early bird catches the worm, not because I want to please “white people.”
Wow. The number of ignorance and ethnocentricity-fueled defensive comments in this thread boggles the mind. Or it would. Latin countries are well aware of this obsession of the “US” culture, as are MANY others. It’s funny that people want to forget US culture is defined by whiteness when it feels convenient to do so, but still manage to enforce the fact with the pretty singular exception of the acceptance and prevalence of black music in *Pop Culture*.
Yes, LAWD. this is the truth!
Btw, I’m willing to bet this trait came from Germanic-descended cultures, like the English. I doubt punctuality would be *perceived as* an *International* preferred business standard if there had never been a British empire.
Now THIS is really interesting. Can you talk more about it? because, from what I can tell of white culture there’s a LOT of preaching social virtues and then punishing people when thy adhere to them by labeling them as further undesirable. (most cultures have strict rituals for EVERYTHING, and are hella more consistent in their social values. But in white culture, it’s like, unless you know The Code, you can’t win for losing. Is it because US whites have teenagers, and have had them longer that any other US culture? And that teenage culture mostly consists of rebellion against social rules, but with tightly restricted alternative formulas for group conformity? And is it because this youth culture has pretty much taken over US culture in general and that the proposed age of membership is ever expanding? I really do think your discrepancy is one having to do with perceived age or subculture membership that goes away once these same people join the most prevalent culture. What do you think?
Not always; it’s horribly, terribly different if you’re British.
An interesting concept, ‘white people’, but a little bit broad for anything other than fatuous generalisation . Perhaps this piece refers in the main to ‘white Americans’ , although this fails to take into account the sheer diversity of European, and European-derived cultures, and doesn’t address the norms of behaviour in Asiatic or Arabic cultures . How would your correspondent react to the suggestion that all black people turn up on time or late? In an age of efficient travel, cellular phones and instant communication, the concept of punctuality, or of ‘arriving in good time’ may have taken a bit of a battering , but in the past, the uncertainty of travel and the time and inconvenience of sending a message or of arranging a rendezvous , meant that many people developed a habit of arriving early for an event or meeting . Other reasons might include availability of seating, the time taken to actually enter a venue or party, the ritual of greeting your host, a limited supply of food or drink, the start time of any entertainment , and above all the idea that it is rude to keep people waiting . As for business, just try persuading anyone, white or black, that turning up late is in some ways a cultural right or norm, rather than taking the precaution of a safety margin . It’s rather pathetic that ‘being early’ is perceived as some kind of white conspiracy to impose unreasonable colonial standards upon the non-white American community . It’s also inaccurate and condescending to all concerned
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I always overestimate how long it will take me to get ready for something and then how long it will take me to get there, and then its like, I could sit in my room for the extra 20 minutes doing nothing or just be early… I hate being ealry. -.-
I am a white american and you have discribed me perfectly. I am always early and I think it is extremely disrespectful to show up late. I take great offense to tardiness.
I happened to google this quote so I could restate it to someone and came upon this blog. This is quite a generalized statement… I know many white people who may as well dispose of all forms of timekeeping they own because they seem to have no sense of time. I’m BLACK and number 1 on my list of “things I hate” is being late so I too live by this mantra! I’d rather be an hour early than a minute late…
Perhaps lateness and circadian rhythm disturbances are correlated. Studies have shown that some minority groups are more likely than White Americans to report daytime sleepiness and an inability to sleep well. Maybe sleep rhythm abnormalities are more common among some ethnic groups than others. By this I mean that even if people could subtract work, kids, and stress, there are those that will still still not sleep well due to biological factors. This would directly influence lateness.
haha, no. my family is the type of family where if people invite us they have to tell us that the party starts an hour before it actually does so we can get there on time.
So you’re basically saying that white people are intelligent and like to be early, while on the other hand, black people are unintelligent and show up late. Wow… I agree 🙂
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