Stuff White People Like

My personal favorites on the list: 

1) Bottled water

2) Gentrification

3) Natural Medicine

4) Living by the water

5) Whole Foods and grocery co-ops

6) Arts degrees

7) Apple products

8) 80s Nights

9) Hating their parents

10) Non-profit organizations

11) Religions their parents don't belong to

12) Coffee

The list is hilarious. It doesn't say "All white people like this stuff" and I think it would be absurd to assume so. In fact, there are many things on this list that I make fun of other people for, such as the Wrigleyville losers, Dave Matthew's fanatics and those who only buy organic food. Many items on the list only apply to yuppie posers.

While I find this list really amusing, it'd be interesting to see if it could be applied to another race with the same lightness in humor. It's harder to imagine it being equally funny without stirring up concerns of racism. One of the items on the list is Juno, the Oscar-nominated movie that finds humor in teenage pregnancy. Sure, it's easy to find humor in a white suburb of Minnesota with a spunky pregnant lead character. Place that exact same plot line in a city that has a higher propensity for teenage pregnancy and high school drop outs, and make the lead character an African American girl...suddenly it's not so funny anymore. Some humor just can't transcend ethnicity or cultural contexts.