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What White People Like

I think I was in Korea when this website took off because I only discovered it today in the form of a book that I happened to see at the Barnes & Noble in Georgetown today.
It’s pretty hilarious and self-deprecating look at what white people like and the often-stupid and hypocritical reasons for it. (The author Christian Lander, who is white, said self-deprecating humor is what white people like #103)
Of course it is funny because I find most of it true and have experienced it at one point in my life. Let’s take what white people like #11: Asian girls.

I think most Asian girls must have experienced being a victim of yellow fever. I tried to have an intelligent discussion about the phenomena of Asian fetish with a couple of white male co-workers at a Christmas party once which ended with one of them caressing my face and saying, “Maybe it’s the skin?”

Lander does state as fact, that “Asian women well into their thirties or forties retain teen or college-girl looks without the help of Botox, yoga, or a trendy diet.” I must say I do look younger than I am and still get carded often.
But in my opinion, it is as much as a social commentary on class and culture and not just on race.  I do have white friends who are obsessed with The Wire, Oscar Parties, 80s night, yoga, Apple products, Whole Foods and diversity, (for the food.) I, too, love The Colbert Report, NPR, The NY Times, and bakeries, books, grammar, bottled water, coffee, and girls with bangs (which i was denied 3x by a cutter last week because he said it wouldn’t look good on me….he was Asian.)
It’s called living in liberal, mass-consumer societies on the west or east coasts of the U.S.