Stuff White People Like

Yeah, I know that title sounds really prejudice, but it's actually the name of a blog I've read that makes fun of all sorts of things.  The bottom line... you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and this blog certainly seems to accomplish that with its satire about some of the more mundane things in life...

The first one that caught my eye was a blog about bumper stickers.  This had more truth to it than I had anticipated when I first started reading it, and thought it was really well done.  Here's an excerpt:

It is a fact that white people will never turn down an opportunity to enlighten other people on the correct way to think. While this is very easy to do through email or face to face conversation, it is exceptionally difficult to do while driving a car. Fortunately for white people there is a solution that is both popular and ineffective: bumper stickers.

The next one that caught my attention was about the Ivy League.  Having applied but not accepted to an Ivy League school - twice - I was thorougly amused by this:

[White people who did not attend an Ivy League school] desperately need a source of comparison so that they need to figure out if you are actually smarter than them. In fact, the only way to stop this line of questioning is to imply that you only got in because of your minority status. Once you say that, white people will stop feeling threatened since they can now believe they too would have been accepted to an Ivy League school if they were a minority. It also gives them a personal story about the effectiveness of Affirmative Action.

That is special right there. 

This last one I saw that I enjoyed was one about frisbee sports e.g. Ultimate Frisbee or Frisbee Golf.  Being that my alma mater was "big" into Ultimate Frisbee as part of its line of intramural activities, I found particular amusement in this:

If you look a little closer, you will see some surprising things. First, you will never see hippies get more upset than on an Ultimate Frisbee field. It can be jarring to see people who look like they should be playing acoustic guitars yelling at each other about whether or not Blake stepped out of bounds. Secondly, you will notice that Ultimate Frisbee matches are the best place to meet white guys who wear headbands.

Ding.  This was my alma mater's culture surrounding Ultimate Frisbee to the letter!