#82 Hating Corporations
#81 Graduate School -- eventually, yes...
#80 The Idea of Soccer
#79 Modern Furniture
#78 Multilingual Children -- well, I was raised bilingual
#77 Musical Comedy
#76 Bottles of Water
#75 Threatening to Move to Canada
#74 Oscar Parties
#73 Gentrification
#72 Study Abroad
#71 Being the only (black) person around
#70 Difficult Breakups
#69 Mos Def
#68 Michel Gondry
#67 Standing Still at Concerts
#66 Divorce
#65 Co-Ed Sports
#64 Recycling
#63 Expensive Sandwiches
#62 Knowing What’s Best for Poor People
#61 Bicycles
#60 Toyota Prius -- my godmother swears this will be my next car.
#59 Natural Medicine
#58 Japan
#57 Juno
#56 Lawyers -- friends, girlfriends, interest in law school
#55 Apologies everyone apologizes...
#54 Kitchen Gadgets
#53 Dogs
#52 Sarah Silverman
#51 Living by the Water
#50 Irony
#49 Vintage
#48 Whole Foods and Grocery Co-ops
#47 Arts Degrees
#46 The Sunday New York Times
#45 Asian Fusion Food
#44 Public Radio
#43 Plays
#42 Sushi
#41 Indie Music
#40 Apple Products
#39 Netflix
#38 Arrested Development
#37 Renovations
#36 Breakfast Places
#35 The Daily Show/Colbert Report
#34 Architecture
#33 Marijuana
#32 Vegan/Vegetarianism -- for a time, at least...
#31 Snowboarding
#30 Wrigley Field
#29 80s Night
#28 Not having a TV
#27 Marathons
#26 Manhattan (now Brooklyn too!)
#25 David Sedaris
#24 Wine
#23 Microbreweries
#22 Having Two Last Names
#21 Writers Workshops -- shucks, I've conducted some...
#20 Being an expert on YOUR culture
#19 Traveling
#18 Awareness
#17 Hating their Parents
#16 Gifted Children
#15 Yoga
#14 Having (white) Friends
#13 Tea
#12 Non-Profit Organizations
#11 Asian Girls
#10 Wes Anderson Movies
#9 Making you feel bad about not going outside
#8 Barack Obama
#7 Diversity
#6 Organic Food
#5 Farmer’s Markets
#4 Assists
#3 Film Festivals
#2 Religions their parents don’t belong to
#1 Coffee

Man, by their standards, I'm WAAAAAY whiter than Charlotte...




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KidaDynamite said:

Well... it's a long story.

Lammastide said:

okay, i'll shut up.

Lammastide said:

Maybe this list might apply to me better!

What is a swede?

What is a swede?
A Swede is tall, blonde, blue-eyed, and wears a wooly hat in the winter. By nature he is shy, reserved, serious, industrous, and finds it hard to laugh at himself. He is also a creature of habit and every morning gets up at 5.30 to give himself enough time to read the morning newspaper before going to work. Since work does not usually start until 8 o’clock, this can only imply that a Swede is also a slow reader.

Apart from himself, his chief interests are money, his job, his home, ice-hockey, and his family (in that order). He also loves animals – especially dogs – and spends hours cycling through the town dragging a huge and ferocious German Shepherd behind him on a leash.

A Swede is usually punctual, honest, reliable, clean, has his own teeth, and is law-abiding. Evidence of the latter is particularly noticeable at pedestrian crossings. No matter what the weather is like, a Swede would rather get soaked to the skin than cross an empty street when a red light is showing. Similarly, he always wears a seat belt, never drinks and drives, always has a television licence, usually hands in his tax-return on time, invariably has a plastic bag in his pocket when he walks his dog, and never has a bath after 10 o’clock. YES!

A Swede is also very cautious and rarely does anything on impulse (except perhaps sneeze). To him, all decisions are a matter of life and death. Take a simple matter like buying cheese, for example. A Swede may try at least ten different sorts of cheeses before finally deciding to buy twenty grammes of Brie. It is the same sense of caution that prevents him from plunging into marriage straight away. Instead, he lives with a woman first, has one or two children, then – if all seems well – asks her to marry him.

With reference to marriage, a Swede is quite unlike most European men. Anything a housewife can do, he can do better – from cooking to sewing on buttons. In fact, everything in the home (apart from breast-feeding) is shared.

A Swede also likes to think he is well informed and spends hours finding out all he can about such things as nuclear power, the Third World, pollution, South Africa, the sexual habits of the centipede, etc. while at the same time paying little attention to unimportant matters - such as the name of his neighbor or whether certain types of beer should be banned or not.

Most Swedes as fanatics when it comes to keeping fit and regularly spend their weekends running through the nearest forest or cycling for hours in the cellar on a bicycle fixed to the floor. With his health in mind, he has also given up smoking, sugar, drinking coffee in the evenings, going to bed after 10 o’clock, and mixing with strangers.

But perhaps the greatest thing about a Swede is his sense of equality – of everyone being the same as everyone else. To help this, most Swedes have the same surnames – Svensson, Nilsson, or Persson – earn the same amount of money after tax, have the same taste in furniture, dress alike, think alike, drive a Volvo, and go to Majorca or Kreta in the summer.

A Swede also refuses to admit that he is prejudiced in any way. To him, all foreigners are just the same as Swedes and, although he doesn’t actually have any Jugoslavian, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Italian, Finnish or Czechoslovakian friends, he is certain there is very little difference between them and Swedes – apart from their names, their customs, the way they grow vegetables in the kitchen, the fact that they carry knives, rob banks, live on social security, pinch their jobs, breed like rabbits, beat their wives, and speak Swedish like someone with a gobstopper in his mouth.

Finally, a Swede loves the sun, hates queuing, gets a kick out of being first on the bus, detests winter, enjoys sex, can’t stand gypsies, believes what the National Social Board of Health and Welfare tells him, doesn’t believe in God, worships Ingemar Stenmark, only gets drunk when he drinks, is patriotic (wears Swedish flag underwear), visits the off-licence twice a week, visits his parents at Christmas, goes to English classes, and, inevitably, is deeply offended by an article such as this.
YES

maybe not

#82 Hating Corporations - to a great extent, though i'm still waiting for someone to tell me why starbucks is the root of all evil, other than the fact that it's fashionable to do so.
#81 Graduate School - never really been in the cards for me, i like being somewhat poor and ignernt. it's sexy.
#80 The Idea of Soccer -
#79 Modern Furniture - eh.
#78 Multilingual Children - i am sans child, but if my hypothetical offspring, little Diamanda Parkerposerxiety, ever stumbled across my "Learn Icelandic!" book, she's more than welcome to it. i guess it makes me white as hell that i even own a "Learn Icelandic!" book to begin with.
#77 Musical Comedy - Uh...I like Hedwig and Xanadu. Not so big on traditional musical theatre.
#76 Bottles of Water
#75 Threatening to Move to Canada - canadians must LOVE us
#74 Oscar Parties - only little get-together-y ones at my place. nothing fancy.
#73 Gentrification
#72 Study Abroad - never done did it
#71 Being the only (black) person around - oh wait. am i supposed to be answering this?
#70 Difficult Breakups - someone explain the significance of this to me
#69 Mos Def Abso Cert!
#68 Michel Gondry - like his videos, not his movies
#67 Standing Still at Concerts - depends on the concerts. i don't mosh at laurie anderson shows, if that's what you mean. oh wait. laurie anderson. i'm white.
#66 Divorce - child of divorce, but that knows no racial whateverness.
#65 Co-Ed Sports - wtf
#64 Recycling - yeah, but it's the law where i live
#63 Expensive Sandwiches - gross. i hate that crusty ass shit with the snot-like grilled vegetables. give me a chipotle burrito or a good indian buffet.
#62 Knowing What’s Best for Poor People - staying poor! that's my solutino, and it works just fine for me!
#61 Bicycles - nope
#60 Toyota Prius - is that a kind of transit bus? if so, then yes
#59 Natural Medicine - sometimes. i swear by oscillococcinin
#58 Japan - more of a china boy myself, but sure
#57 Juno - i do know. and i likes.
#56 Lawyers - they sign my checks
#55 Apologies what???
#54 Kitchen Gadgets - i don't like cluttering up my kitchen with gadgets that only do one thing, especially if you have to plug them in and then they take up valuable plug-in space. give me a spatula and a hammer and i'm good to go.
#53 Dogs - not especially
#52 Sarah Silverman - yes please
#51 I TIRE OF THIS LIST

I worked in Urban radio and events for seven years now. And although I'm of Caucasian persuasian, the staff would joke me for when the White would come out. Like when I hounded my sales manager for Velvet Revolver box tickets...Everyone on the staff was like..Kat? going to what show? But I also was in charge of the Old School Hip Hop records we would put into rotation for Summer Holiday weekends.

I would sing That 70's Show theme at work (dude, I loved that show) and the receptionist would say "Kat, you have been passed into us, but every now and then you take that left turn back to your Whiteness and you leave us behind".

I was the one that knew all the samples when we had guess the sample on air promotions. All the rock records the hip hop artists sampled I knew...got joked for that too.



shit i cant spell edit

But, it was all in fun and everyone loved and respected each other. It was kinda fun to openly tease each other about their stereotypes. Cause we knew it was full of shit anyway.
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Stymie said:

Ivy don't fake the funk, you stab people! if thats not a black woman then I don't know what is

Let's see....

I love New Wave music, as well as many other kinds of music.
I'm not a great rapper, but I am proficient in guitar, bass, drums, and piano.
I've been to college.
I suck in basketball, as well as many other sports.
As of late, I'm really enjoying skateboarding.
I like to visit art galleries and museums.
I love studying history.
I don't drink, smoke, use drugs, eat meat or processed crap.
I have good hygiene.
I have a brilliant command of the English language.
I've never been to jail.
I hold my pants up to my waist.
I'm not a theif or a criminal of any kind.
I'm not promiscuous.
I don't waste my youth by hanging on the street corner being unproductive.
I think Rev. Al Sharpton is not the emperor of our people.
I am a Buddhist.
I hardly ever drink Kool-Aid.
.....and the list goes on.

So does this still make me a stereotype?

This may upset some of y'all, but it's the truth about me.




"Heeeee's just a stereotype....!"

NWF said:

I think this list goes in the other thread.

You have to post what stereotype you actually fit.

I am at an utter & total loss...

OK, I love to make Mexican food, beans especially, and think it's the best food on earth pretty much.
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DevotedPuppy said:

My sister just sent me this link last week and I was going to post it in GD. I guess I'm too late.


The Michel Gondry one (*68) made me laugh out loud.


"Talk about how you wanted to direct music videos after you saw Michel Gondry’s video for "Around the World" by Daft Punk. Then make a joke about how foolish you were at that age and everyone will have a good laugh. But they will also feel your pain about sacrificing your artistic dreams."

I never wanted to direct that video, I always wanted to be in it as one of the dancers. That and "Thriller" of course.
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heybaby said:

NWF said:

stereotypical straightedger

sextonseven said:

You're crazy .

Ohoh, we might have some serious fights going on if we would have met under not right circumstances. That doesn't sound English at all, but I guess you understand what I am trying to say .

evenstar said:

In all seriousness, I end up talking like that a lot. I'm a valley girl.

INSATIABLE said:

GUILTY, I say "hella" ALL the time

NWF said:

Love this picture.

I don't think so

Mara said:

I LOVE them!!!!! Oh the memories they bring.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Who are they?

DevotedPuppy said:

I've threatened to move to Canada I can't even look at the rest.
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evenstar said:

I know, I'm from so cal! I chided myself relentlessly for weeks afterwards!

Stymie said:

The Specials.

My favorite song is Rudy, A Message To You.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

THE BEST SKA BAND EVER!

I'm praying for a reunion.

NWF said:

Yes!!!! I wish.

Off the subject a little, did you know that YAZ is going to be in San Fran in July? Alison Moyet! Woo hoo!!!

white people love their ska!

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

And they're coming to NYC.

NDRU said:

Love the irony. White folks and their love for a Jamaican music genre.

NWF said:

I'm a dork. I'm getting you mixed up with NDRU. He's in the BAY AREA!!

Cool, they'll be in NYC too!!! I hope I can get tix.