{"id":171,"date":"2008-10-08T17:54:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T21:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/10\/08\/stuff-white-people-including-me-like\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T17:54:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T21:54:58","slug":"stuff-white-people-including-me-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/10\/08\/stuff-white-people-including-me-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff White People (including me) Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Christina pointed me to a site — a blog, actually — that has been the bane of my existence. It's Stuff White People Like<\/a><\/strong> (as well as a like-titled book<\/a><\/strong> by Christian Lander<\/strong>) and, to my self-reflective, obsessively analytical brain, it's a nightmare.<\/p>\n

Well, first, I was reading along and thinking, \"gosh, that's funny\" — each item, one after another, actually did reflect things that I liked or that I recognized that most people I know [and most of them are white, I might add]<\/em> liked. It's amusingly written as a guide to non-white people on how to assimilate into white culture — a sort of field-guide or cultural travelogue. Christina mentioned it because it's as if white culture were invisible — assumed by default — so there aren't really anthropological studies of it … at least that either of us could recall.<\/p>\n

But then about page two, and 35 or so entries in, I started to panic. Was there anything unique about myself at all? I mean, here it was: a definitive list<\/a> of all things I was, with only a 10% miss-rate. At least \"White people like to claim understanding of what it's like to be a minority by reading 'Stuff White People Like'\" was not (yet) on the list — despite tangentially-related topics like \"#20 Being an expert on YOUR culture<\/a>\" and \"#62 Knowing What's Best for Poor People<\/a>\".<\/p>\n

I'll have to contact the author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Christina pointed me to a site — a blog, actually — that has been the bane of my existence. It's Stuff White People Like (as well as a like-titled book by Christian Lander) and, to my self-reflective, obsessively … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,197,611,6],"tags":[779,778],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-comedy","category-for-the-parents","category-philosophy","tag-christina","tag-stuff-white-people-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}