Hometown boy does good

[thebitterguy]

Anyone reading Stuff White People Like?

Apparently the author, while currently living in LA, grew up in Toronto.

SWPL: Well remember a lot of the white people I’m lampooning (including myself) always can laugh at the comic view stuff because we’re like “yeah, those OTHER white people, they are ridiculous.” I grew up in Chinatown, in Toronto East Chinatown. a neighborhood bordered by a housing project, greektown, and little india. the neighborhood was always safe, but it’s gentrified like crazy in the past ten years. but I would say growing up there made me aware of whiteness right away. I knew most chinese slurs for white people by age 10. but at the same time, I wasn’t isolated. Toronto produces some pretty diverse crews of friends.

Comments

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Every article on that blog is a deadly accurate knife plunged into my heart.

I rss'ed it which is a white thing to do! :)

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Yay, another fan! I love this site but when I posted a link to it, nobody else on my friends list seemed to think it was very funny. My theory is, they don't have enough yuppies and hipsters in their neighborhood annoying them or something (or rather they have just the right amount).

Also, yay the new Oscar party entry, I went to one last night ...

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Read it. Not a huge fan. It's got its moments, but "This is something white people like" is already becoming a tiresome forum "joke."

[kinra.livejournal.com]

It feels like toronto.

It's very clever.

I am glad I am not white enough to quite appreciate it. I'm too geek to be that white! Hooray for ghettoized subcultures.