White People Like Being First
Well, or at least second. Dawn was first to me. Remember less than a month ago when I linked to Stuff White People Like and told you it was funny? It had like 28,000 hits then. Today it has over 5 million. It's being talked about on NPR and in the LA Times (both interesting pieces by the way).
The commentors are often duking it out with each other. Some people are really pissed and calling "racism." Others insist the blogger is Asian and insulting white people. I think it's poking fun at a culture that really insists it's not a culture. And yes, the comments are right, that not every white person fits this stereotype. As my sister said after reading it "You're white, but I am merely beige." She listens to country music and doesn't care about politics. She is the other kind of white person. Not the latte-drinking, left leaning ilk that the blog is talking about. But kids, this is comedy. This is no different than what Lenny Bruce, Jeff Foxworthy, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock or a whole host of other comics have been doing for years when talking about "groups" they identify with.
The week or so after I linked there were so few comments that I could find a few people I knew. My link had the blogger coming over 10 or 15 times to check if there were comments. There was one bloglines subscriber; me. Today there are 640. Keep in mind this was a month ago.
In the true tradition of a white person, I'm going to tell you it was funnier before anyone knew about it. Because like indie music and films, the good stuff is obscure, not mainstream.
P.S. And today's post about Multilinguistic Children? Spot on, except for the French part. Everyone I know wants their kid to speak Spanish so they can easier get a job in a non-profit. However, Chinese comes second so the kid can get a job in international business and support their parents in old age. Because we worked at non-profits and are broke in retirement.
