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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Catalog: Book Release date: 2008-07-01 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 224 Ean: 9780812979916 Book Isbn: 0812979915  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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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 |
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 Written on September 29, 2008 Summary: It is Like He can read minds 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. Written on September 21, 2008 Summary: For any white or non white person! 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!!! Written on September 18, 2008 Summary: Best read out loud with another while pretending... ...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.  Written on September 18, 2008 Summary: Funny but not that important 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. Written on September 15, 2008 Summary: This book is completely right on. 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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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2008-07-01 | 2008-06-03 | 2008-07-08 | 2008-04-01 | 2008-06-19 | 2008-04-22 |
| Media | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover |
| Format | - | - | Illustrated | - | - | - |
| Number of pages | 224 | 336 | 240 | 240 | 247 | 264 |
| Ean | 9780812979916 | 9780316143479 | 9781416957881 | 9781594483066 | 9780761147039 | 9781416954125 |
| Book Isbn | 0812979915 | 0316143472 | 141695788X | 159448306X | 0761147039 | 1416954120 |
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