Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions

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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.

Praise for STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE:

“The best of a hilarious Web site: an uncannily accurate catalog of dead-on predilections. The Criterion Collection of classic films? Haircuts with bangs? Expensive fruit juice? ‘Blonde on Blonde’ on the iPod? The author knows who reads The New Yorker and who wears plaid.”
–Janet Maslin’s summer picks, CBS.com

The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris. . . . It gently mocks the habits and pretensions of urbane, educated, left-leaning whites, skewering their passion for Barack Obama and public transportation (as long as it's not a bus), their idle threats to move to Canada, and joy in playing children's games as adults. Kickball, anyone?”
–Salon.com

“A handy reference guide with which you can check just how white you are. Hint: If you like only documentaries and think your child is gifted, you glow in the dark, buddy.”
–NY Daily News

Ratings and reviews

3.1
163 reviews
Courtland Prestemon (Court)
January 4, 2015
Tongue in cheek humor without the sharp tongue of someone like Stephen Colbert; less blood, but less of a spectacle as well. Just using the term "white people" repeatedly sounds uncreative, and awkwardly referring to "Nordic-Americans" or something similar would liven it up a bit. Overall, I'm glad this book exists, but I'm not going to read or buy it.
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C :-/
July 22, 2016
This is a review of the sample since I wouldn't spend a penny on the book. From what I have read, this book isn't racist, It describes a stereotype - hipsters of any race. The "Facts" have no evidence to back them up. The title needs to be changed because the book is not about white people, it's about hipsters. ehhh, what do I know, I'm not an upper middle class hipsters....
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Wraith Strongo Park
December 23, 2014
It's funny that for a couple hundred years in America(up to this very moment)white people have skewered every race and claimed it was all in good fun. When the tables are turned(in a not at all malevolent way)they start whining. This book could have been a truly vicious send up of white culture and attitudes, instead it's a mild treatment.
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About the author

Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book.

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