Stuff White People like is a blog made in January 2008 by a white Canadian; Christian Lander, a Los Angeles marketing specialist who experienced childhood in Toronto and who accredited from McGill University in Montreal. Lander’s web journal got famous rapidly, enrolling more than 300,000 day by day hits and more than 40 million aggregate hits before the end of September 200.1 For many who viewed the blog experienced it as insulting and bigot. Instead it is not about the interest of every white person, but instead a pattern of upper class consisting of corporate white North American who normally hold a degree in liberal arts.2 As we have learned in this course Lander is more of a humorist rather than an anthropologist, he jokes about
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The mainstream culture is created of many subcultures not necessarily consisting of white individuals. A great example would be the coffee as mentioned in the blog article by Lander “white people love Starbucks although they will profess to hate how the chain is now a multinational corporation”4 meaning that coffee itself wasn’t made, harvested, shipped, and so on by a white person, it consist of many subcultures. Coffee itself is originally Columbian so does that mean white people are trying to be Columbian by drinking coffee and not tea cause they should tea is often associated with white people. Second point mentioned by Lander “paying the extra 2 dollars means they are making a difference while their peers are drinking liquid oppression”5 as we learned in lecture three white people always try to create a “win-win situation”6, for them showing off their status by spending more money on coffee where it can be bought from somewhere else for a cheaper price example Tim Hortons makes them not part of the mainstream and if an individual can’t spend money he or she is considered fitting into a subcultural type which creates an illusion that the culture is faulty and
The mainstream culture is created of many subcultures not necessarily consisting of white individuals. A great example would be the coffee as mentioned in the blog article by Lander “white people love Starbucks although they will profess to hate how the chain is now a multinational corporation”4 meaning that coffee itself wasn’t made, harvested, shipped, and so on by a white person, it consist of many subcultures. Coffee itself is originally Columbian so does that mean white people are trying to be Columbian by drinking coffee and not tea cause they should tea is often associated with white people. Second point mentioned by Lander “paying the extra 2 dollars means they are making a difference while their peers are drinking liquid oppression”5 as we learned in lecture three white people always try to create a “win-win situation”6, for them showing off their status by spending more money on coffee where it can be bought from somewhere else for a cheaper price example Tim Hortons makes them not part of the mainstream and if an individual can’t spend money he or she is considered fitting into a subcultural type which creates an illusion that the culture is faulty and