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| Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 72 reviews)
Sales Rank: 826
Category: Book
Author: Christian Lander
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0812979915
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602
EAN: 9780812979916
ASIN: 0812979915
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
Release Date: July 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Reverses white/black relations October 7, 2008
4 out of 25 found this review helpful
Racist. Here is a post from his website that describes the book perfectly....
... what ticks me off is you're riling up a new generation ... and stretching the gap between whites and black which so many strong, dedicated people have worked and even died to close....
 It is Like He can read minds September 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
For any white or non white person! September 21, 2008
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!!!
Best read out loud with another while pretending... September 18, 2008
...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.
 Funny but not that important September 18, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
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