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    Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
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    Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews

    By Christian Lander

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    About this ebook

    HOW WHITE YOU ARE!
     
    If you thought you had white people pegged as Oscar-party-throwing, Prius-driving, Sunday New York Times–reading, self-satisfied latte lovers—you were right. But if you thought diversity was just for other races, then hang on to your eco-friendly tote bags. Veteran white person Christian Lander is back with fascinating new information and advice on dealing with the Caucasian population.

    Sure, their indie-band T-shirts, trendy politics, vegan diets, and pop-culture references make them all seem the same. But a closer look reveals that from Austin to Australia, from L.A. to the U.K., indigenous white people are as different from one another as 1 percent rBGH-free milk is different from 2 percent. Where do skinny jeans and bulky sweaters rule? Where is down-market beer the nectar of the hip? If you want to know the places cute girls with bangs and cool guys with beards roam and emo musicians and unpaid interns call home, you’d better switch off the Adult Swim reruns, put down that copy of The Onion, pick up this book, and prepare to see the white.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateNov 23, 2010
    ISBN9780679604655
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    Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews

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    • 5/5
      I am not American so there could be somethings that are different in Europe.

      Wrong.

      I laughed a lot of myself through the whole book as well as I did while reading the first one.
    • 3/5
      Amusing catalog of white people and what they like -- at least some white people. In this book, "white people" are left-leaning, college educated, urban, mostly young white people, the ones you would expect to find at an Obama rally (unless they are Canadian, which some are). Blue collar types, rednecks, and the like are not likely to recognize themselves in this. Not as funny as it was at first, though the shock of self-recognition (that NPR lady from Minneapolis!) is always salutary.
    • 5/5
      I am a white person, and I am guilty of at least 1/2 a dozen things in this book. If you can't laugh at yourself, Don't read this book, if you can it is very funny! I think a lot of people need need to lighten up about this book.