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Overview

They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees.

They believe they’re unique, yet somehow they’re all exactly the same, talking about how they “get” Sarah Silverman’s “subversive” comedy and Wes Anderson’s “droll” films. They’re also down with diversity and up on all the best microbrews, breakfast spots, foreign cinema, and authentic sushi. They’re organic, ironic, and do not own TVs.

You know who they are: They’re white people. And they’re here, and you’re gonna have to deal. Fortunately, here’s a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEA couch and lose yourself in the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being.

Praise for STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE:

“The best of a hilarious Web site: an uncannily accurate catalog of dead-on predilections. The Criterion Collection of classic films? Haircuts with bangs? Expensive fruit juice? ‘Blonde on Blonde’ on the iPod? The author knows who reads The New Yorker and who wears plaid.”
–Janet Maslin’s summer picks, CBS.com

“The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris. . . . It gently mocks the habits and pretensions of urbane, educated, left-leaning whites, skewering their passion for Barack Obama and public transportation (as long as it's not a bus), their idle threats to move to Canada, and joy in playing children's games as adults. Kickball, anyone?”
–Salon.com

“A handy reference guide with which you can check just how white you are. Hint: If you like only documentaries and think your child is gifted, you glow in the dark, buddy.”
–NY Daily News

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From the blog sensation of the same name comes a collection of brief, funny, occasionally biting profiles of things supposedly beloved by upper-middle class white people. Lifted from the Web and dressed up with a few quizzes and flowcharts, Lander's material should provoke minor controversy, mostly as to whether the concept is reflexively funny or covertly racist; there's an exclusive aura to entries on modern art, documentary films and indie rock, intimating that most of what's considered high culture is based in white people's idiosyncrasies. Much of the humor, though, is pure silliness, poking fun at white people's preferred eating habits (Whole Foods, premium juice, expensive sandwiches and "cleanses"), family lives ("Having Two Last Names," "Hating Their Parents," divorce) and causes (vegetarianism, recycling, "Knowing What's Best for Poor People," "Making You Feel Bad for Not Going Outside"). The book flirts briefly with political satire, such as the hilariously succinct entry on Barack Obama, but the stuff Lander likes most are easy targets; as funny as some of the entries may be in a covertly forwarded email, most fall curiously flat on the page.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780812979916
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 7/1/2008
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 51,186
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.06 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book.

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1. COFFEE
There is no doubt that white people love coffee. Yes, it’s true that Asians like iced coffee and people of all races enjoy a cup. But it is a certainty that the first person at your school to drink coffee was a white person. It was obvious that they didn’t enjoy it, but they did it anyway, until they liked it—like cigarettes.

As white people begin to age, a genuine taste for coffee will emerge. During this time white people will also develop a self- proclaimed “addiction.” This leads to them saying things like “You do not want to see me before I get my morning coffee.” White guys will also call it anything but coffee: “rocket fuel,” “java,” “joe,” “black gold,”
and so forth. It’s pretty much garbage all around.

It’s worth noting that where white people buy coffee is almost as important as the drink itself. For the most part, white people love Starbucks, although they will profess to hate how the chain is now a multinational corporation. This hatred is often sublimated by their relief at seeing one in an airport. The best place for white people to drink coffee is at a locally owned coffeeshop that offers many types of drinks, free Wi- Fi, and some sort of message board that is peppered with notices about rooms for rent and bands looking for bass players.

White people are given extra points for buying Fair Trade coffee, because paying the extra $2 means they are making a difference while their peers are drinking liquid oppression.

2. RELIGIONS THEIR PARENTS DON'T BELONG TO
White people will often say they are “spiritual” but not religious. This usually means that they will believe in any religion that doesn’t involve Jesus. The most popular choices include Buddhism, Hinduism, Kabbalah, and, to a lesser extent, Scientology. A few even dip into Islam, but that’s much rarer, since you have to make real sacrifices and actually go to a mosque.

For the most part, white people prefer religions that produce artifacts and furniture that fit into their home or wardrobe. They are also particularly drawn to religions that do not require a lot of commitment or donations.

When a white person tells you “I’m a Buddhist/Hindu/Kabbalahist,” the best thing to do is ask how they arrived at their religious decision. The story will likely involve a trip to Thailand or a college class on religion.

3. FILM FESTIVALS
White people can’t get enough of film festivals, especially Sundance, Toronto, and Cannes. This love can be due to a number of factors.
Fact #1: 90 percent of white people have taken a film class at some point in their life.
Fact #2: White people like feeling smart without doing work—two hours in a theater is easier than ten hours with a book.
Fact #3: If white people aren’t going backpacking, they generally like to travel with a specific purpose.
Fact #4: 75 percent of white people believe they either have the potential to or will become filmmakers/screenwriters/
directors at some point.
Fact #5: White people hate stuff that is “mainstream”—so they go to film festivals, where they see movies that every other person in their demographic wants to see. It’s a pretty sweet way to rebel.
Fact #6: It is required by white- person law that you publicly declare foreign cinema to be better than Hollywood movies, and on par with indie film.
Fact #7: White people earn credibility by being into films from strange countries: “Oh, you liked Sideways? Yeah, I didn’t see it, I’m really into Serbian film now. They had a great retrospective at the Vancouver Festival.”

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  • Posted February 16, 2009

    Great Gift!

    I bought this for my sister in college as a gift and she loved it. Hilarious and so true it's uncanny!

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 10, 2009

    Hilarious, honest, great conversation piece

    Great gift for that liberal in your life! As a graduate of a private liberal arts college in NJ, this book is a strikingly accurate and entertaining satire of "white culture." You will be hard-pressed to find a white person in your life who does not fit many, if not all, of these attributes. I found myself nodding and laughing out loud with each turn of the page. Erring more on the side of the far-left Caucasian, it will probably be coming soon to a Whole Foods near you...

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 16, 2009

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    30%

    After reading this book and taking the quiz at the end I'm a concentrated 30% white. Even though I'm first generation American born to Jamaican parents...and a yoga-practicing, outdoor-running, designer sweatpants-wearing, Whole Foods and organic-lving, tea-drinking, following my dreams cyclist. If you can't laugh at yourself and/or others around you then please don't read this book. Otherwise you will be laughing out loud through its entirety.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 3, 2009

    Fabulous, so much fun and accurate.

    Loved it~ fun read

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 5, 2008

    A Laugh Out Loud (or Secretly Snicker) Book About Human Foibles

    Christian Lander - with some photographic help from his wife Jessica Lander - has succeeded in transforming into book form his blog site STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE and the result is a compendium of 150 idiosyncrasies that mark white people as a groupie well worth 'mocking'. Lander writes so well that his zingers remain on target while providing entertainment for the reader instead of producing a mockery or lambast too personal to continue. The first clue to his universal approach is the subtitle of the book, 'A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions', and if you don't catch the humor in that then much of the book will be lost on you! After reading some of the 'Stuff' Lander lists we begin to feel the artifice of Lander's thinking the long list of everyday items, as defined or described by Lander, spreads in comic relief the pretentiousness, the shallow desire to be 'with it', the countless fads we indulge while denying the commonality of those items, and the way 'white people' are perceived by the world at large - both at home and abroad. It has been said that nothing is funnier than reality and this book proves that statement 150 times - with many more thoughts initiated by the book that extend the depth of comedy in the 'unique tastes' we claim. For instance, one favorite thing to discuss is public transportation, heralded as a big city luxury worth expanding into the little cities, but stopping short when the word 'bus' enters the conversation. 'When it comes to the subject it's best to understand that white people do not recognize public transit as a viable option until a subway line is built that runs directly from their house to their work. Until that time, public transportation is a luxury only for New Yorkers and Europeans, sort of like opera.' Other topics addressed range from Netflix, Veganism/Vegetarianism, Microbreweries, Yoga, Tea, Black Friends/Gay Friends, Portland, Oregon to San Francisco prejudices, Bakeries, Hardwood Floors, Integrity (versus 'selling out'), Natural Medicine, Plays, Cheese, Therapy - the list seems endless. From Following Their Dreams, to where to visit/vacation (Third World Countries for all the wrong reasons) to the importance of knowing how to give 'the good dinner party', Lander finds truths that cause us to ache a bit in acknowledging but force us to relax and really laugh at how each of these item is so very true. To continue on another thing ('stuff') that Lander addresses, Awareness of just how each of these traits define us in the brush with reality that will perhaps not only entertain us while reading this wisely humorous book, but will also turn on the light to the acceptance that 'white people' have become as marginalized as other social groups who have long since found audiences who delight in the 'truth confessionals' that fill our computer YouTube and TVs - oh, but then real white people don't own TVs.... Christian Lander has a major hit on his hands. Read this and share this. It is hilariously entertaining! Grady Harp

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 25, 2011

    Wrong.

    Stereotypical, oppressive, and lying. I could write the same saying black people like chicken, watermelons, etc. Or one saying Asians eat puppys, and beat their wives. This whole book is based off of one group of people, but yet you still address it as white people as a whole.

    1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 4, 2011

    awesome

    white people be trippin

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 11, 2009

    not what they like but what they can afford...

    This book while funny on a superficial level if you pause for a second and actually take it in it isn't so much stuff white people like but what white people can afford unfortunately. I am disgusted at how much this is actually about class issues than about race issues, although don't get me wrong, they are somewhat in there. This book should be offensive to anyone reading it. All the book does is make it okay to perpetuate inequality.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2012

    NOT horrible NOT horriblr

    Its funny! Anyone who says that its steriotypical garbage doesnt get the trueness of it! Like 90 percent of its true and its nice to have a llaugh from a story like this. Its absolutely not horrible and should stay on the shelves for a long time.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 5, 2012

    Funny!

    I dont know why people are taking this book too seriously! Its a great book fore people that know how to take jokes.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 5, 2012

    How to Make Friends with a Hipster

    Sounds like a better title for this book than the one given. The humor works very well, great use of sarcasm and satire. But you're kidding yourself if you think this book accurately describes more than 25% of the white population. Who would've thought I was 80% Irish 20% German yet only 15% white?

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  • Posted December 11, 2011

    Looking for funny stuff...

    Just not sure about this one. Going by the description, book is not about white people but about Liberal New Yorkers. Yeah. Right?

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 27, 2011

    Wheres my whites at. Where are my whities at?

    They should make one that says, stuff latinos like. And i mean latinos that were born in the usa. Not mexicans. They just like to run across the border. Even though thats ho they gt here.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 18, 2011

    If it was "horrible" why was it on tyra?

    You white people are taking this book to god damned serious!! Like chill the hell up. It was on the tyra banks show and it didnt seem any white people were affended... so shut the hell up..the president is black.... live with it

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  • Posted June 23, 2011

    Great, if you have a sense of humor

    Some people apparently don't understand the meaning of "satire". Hilarious book that had me giggling the whole way through.

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  • Posted June 20, 2011

    If you can take a joke...

    As a white person from a metropolitan area, I can greatly relate to this book. Personally, I found this book hilarious and mostly true. I can't help laughing at many of the nonsensical white people taste and activities. As the book says, " the unique taste of millions". Many of his points are simply voicing the unmentionable and often silly reasoning behind these white ideology. I would encourage anyone to read this book with an open mind. Don't be uptight and serious when reading this book, instead take the ego hits and just laugh at yourself if it applies. This book does not apply to every white demographic, but it is still very funny. I hope you give this book a shot, because it is nit intended to be rude or belittling. It is just good fun...insightful and educational. Enjoy! :)

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  • Posted May 4, 2011

    Despicable

    If this despicable pack of lies and slander could get published, then apparently anything could pass for 'readable material'. This isn't even fit to be toilet tissue in the nastiest of restrooms.

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  • Posted April 27, 2011

    horrible

    I read a few pages of the sample and it was nothing but stereotyping garbage. Don't even waste your time!

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  • Posted April 27, 2011

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    jerk

    an auother like this should be put in jail! this 'book' should be pulled off the market and burned.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 14, 2010

    Genteel and Bleached

    Beware white people. Be prepared to laugh at yourself and, of course, to think of all of the things in this book that apply to other people. Other white people. Really, really white people between the ages of 20 and 40 or so.
    At times patronizing, at times sarcastic, yet at all times clean and good-humored, Stuff White People Like is an anthropological journey. Do you like sushi? You must be white. Do you hate your parents? You must be white. Do you like Japan? You must be white. Do you strive for cultural and intellectual superiority? And even to achieve these with (white) lies? You must be white. The book is spot-on but polite, and with its many photographs often shows the author participating in wholehearted whiteness.
    There is a fair amount of social, economic, and political commentary.
    At the very least Stuff White People Like can turn into a handbook for hipness, self-conscious at that.

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