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