Fun With Caucasians

While shopping for Christmas gifts, I came across one of those little box calendars that have 365 pages. It was called "Stuff White People Like." The examples on the box were hilarious, so I bought it for Husband, thinking it would give him something to laugh about at work. I was wrong. He took one look at it and said, "I can't take this to work. It's racist." HUH? How can you be racist if it's about your own race? He wasn't convinced that it was a good idea, so he said I should just keep it on my own desk at home, since I enjoyed it so much. Merry Christmas to me!

Seriously, though, this stuff is just laugh-out-loud funny to me. So far, I've learned that white people like Hummus, Manhattan (and now Brooklyn, too!), Pea Coats, Frisbee Sports, 'The Onion,' Unpaid Internships, 'Annie Hall,' Promising to Learn A New Language, Coffee, and Religions Their Parents Don't Belong To.

Today, it's Film Festivals: White people can't get enough of film festivals, especially Sundance, Toronto, and Cannes. This love can be due to a number of factors:
*90% of white people have taken a film class at some point in their life
*White people like feeling smart without doing the work - 2 hours in a theater is easier than 10 hours with a book
*75% of white people believe they either have the potential to or will become filmmakers/screenwriters/directors at some point
*White people hate stuff that is "mainstream" so they go to film festivals where they see movies that every other person in their demographic wants to see

It's a pretty sweet way to rebel, and it is required by white person law that you publicly declare that foreign cinema is better than Hollywood cinema and on par with indie film.

Good stuff!