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Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions | 
 enlarge | Author: Christian Lander
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 551
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0812979915
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602
EAN: 9780812979916
ASIN: 0812979915
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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 It is Like He can read minds September 29, 2008
As a middle class white man it is as if he is reading my mind and knows everything about me. I saw him on Conan as well...I believe he practices what he writes.
For any white or non white person! September 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The unabridged definition of current white culture, this book even includes a comprehensive "quiz" at the end so you can rate yourself and other people you know to determine where they fall in the range of "whitenicity". Ironically, even my ESL students from other countries were able to relate to some of the blurbs they read from it, such as the coffee-drinking and shorts-wearing, as well as the outdoorsiness that us Anglos - particularly northerners - are especially known for. I could easily see these highly digestible blurbs accentuating a part of Social Anthropology and/or Human Studies, Demography, or even Marketing classes, too. Christian Lander did a great job in the actualization of his content that actually matches the originality of his premise! It's the perfect bathroom companion!!!
Best read out loud with another while pretending... September 18, 2008
...you are an anthropologist who, with the utmost seriousness and clarity, is presenting a research paper that describes the native habits, predispositions and spiritual foundations of a recently discovered tribe of white humans, who habitate the bi-coastal urban US (and big cities in Western Europe).
Great gift for liberal elites who still have a sense of humor, rare as that might be.
 Funny but not that important September 18, 2008
The book 'Stuff White People Like - A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions' sounded interesting because the title kind of indicated that it had something to do with marketing and psychology. Reading the book was consequently slightly disappointing as it brought no contributions to either marketing nor psychology
The content is divided into small chapters about stuff which the middle class are known/supposed to like such as: Wes Anderson Movies, Nonprofit organizations, Reusable Shopping Bags, Platonic Friendships or Threatening to Move to Canada. In the of the book there is a list of questions you may ask yourself to find out if you are part of the group.
The ideas are strikingly familiar and some of them rather funny: White people love 'Gifted' Children. Because an astounding 100 percent of their kids are gifted!
But that's about it! Plenty of half-jokes but no real information. Nothing new under the sun - except that on a closer look you might get the feeling that hypocracy even though not mentioned is also part of the stuff that white people like.
The book can also be read as a trendy image of the present which is pretty entertaining as well as disturbing! Passable entertainment but not a cadeau to the possible intelligence of the reader.
This book is completely right on. September 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book yesterday and couldn't put it down. I couldn't believe how many, many, many items on this list are exactly the types of things I personally cling to as part of my identity as a white person. Very funny, very insightful, and now I have the urge to go to a farmer's market in a pair of shorts, buy some organic produce, drive through a Starbucks while listening to the latest Sarah Silverman cd, and then go see the latest Mos-Def flick.
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