Just out of curiosity, I tallied (by subtraction, believe me) how many of the 115 things I “like” over at the ubiquitous StuffWhitePeopleLike.Com. The author is originally from Toronto and fits the white, upper middle class, left leaning, arts minded, liberal elite quite well. And now I’m out of text breath.
94. I’m a percentage guy, so 82% completely fall in line with me. The ones furthest from my grasp were bumper stickers, rugby, 80s night, lawyers, and hating their parents. Hey man, not afraid to say I’m lucky for a solid childhood experience. The rest are dead on, and the ones that are especially embarassing for me are Mos Def, expensive sandwiches, and living by the water.
The great irony of this (x2) is people like us hate getting pigeonholed, we feel like we are clearing our own path of white liberal (guilt). He’s done a great job at classifying this sect of the population and more or less outed us as just another mass media demographic. Us whiteys may hate marketing, but yet another contradiction we possess is we conveniently ignore Apple, Starbucks, and American Apparel as beautifully targeting our market. So we hate marketing except when it’s for products we need or want or are cool… which covers…. yeah. Overall, I like that this site helps us actualize our contradictions and our normalcy. We need that.
