Stuff White People Like No.105: Unpaid Internships

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/23/Christian_Lander_Stuff_White_People_Like

Blogger Christian Lander reads entry number 105 from his satirical list of "Stuff White People Like" - "Unpaid Internships."

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From kickball and dinner parties to graduate school, recycling, and knowing what's best for poor people, Lander, the Los Angeles based blogger, has been keeping track of the trends, ideas, and tendencies dear to the hearts of the majority demographic - Politics and Prose

Christian Lander is the creator of the website Stuff White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book.

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[ossowiecki]

the dude scratching his neck. great shot haha.

[JayKHazen]

I feel scandalized.

[gundamWWW]

@thetexandub

You remind me of a facebook friend that I have...

She overcomplicates even the most simplest messages (even regarding video games) and she's an Liberal Arts major in university, philosophy and that kind of intellectual theorectical stuff.

You two would get along very well.

A 21rst century Socretes and Plato, lol.

[thetexandub]

@gundamWWW I definately see why you say my commentary was unnecessarily complicated, but I think it's important to tackle the root of cultural misconceptions, and if that means engaging my limited understanding of post-structuralism then so be it :)

As for your attendance at a tea party rally, that sounds like an excellent strategy that could lead to much hilarity =P, I wish you the best of luck.

[gundamWWW]

@thetexandub

Thank you for your polite but unnecessarily complicated commentary.

I actually plan on attending a Tea Party rally to see how (some) White People behave in political demonstrations.

I plan to gain their trust by offering them alcoholic beverages and pornographic magazines.

This strategy will be most effective.

[thetexandub]

@thetexandub Furthermore, I doubt a white socialist and a white conservative would have the same views on unpaid internships. Judging by this video what this man is identifying is not 'things that white people like' but constituent elements of the dominant white-middle class-socio-economic power structure.

[thetexandub]

@thetexandub In short, no one can understand 'how white people think', because a culture is a grouping of commonalities, not of predictable patterns - 'white people' as a group do not think in a specific way or pattern about anything. As with every culture there is a vast diversity of political opinion and ideology, religion, and personal attitudes on a micro-cultural level which will inform the way an individual within the larger grouping of 'white people' thinks.

[thetexandub]

@gundamWWW You need to be careful not to assume that the cultural observations made by one man are structural rules that help illuminate how a particular race or culture 'thinks'. Indeed, while a part of what defines a culture are the identifiable commonalities of mindset, outlook and behavior which its constituents display, and which informs the customs and peculiarities of that culture, it is important not to view culture as more powerful than human agency.

[krazy16dude]

@ossowiecki I think they were trying to point out hte Muslim girls behind him. As in to say that not only white people find this funny.

[stephenmichaelfrost]

i just can't put my finger on what makes this guy so unlikeable...

[gundamWWW]

@ThePublicEnemyNo1

I find it quite helpful.

Now I can understand people of a diffirent race better and this allows me to communication with them on a diffirent level. I think the more that we can understand how white people think, the better we will be to understanding them and their kind.