From my friend Jason over twitter: Stuff White People Like, which is a blog about, uhm, stuff that white people like. Examples include recycling, Whole Foods, Arts Degrees and - bring on the flame wars - Asian girls. I’m assuming the blog is tongue-in-cheek done with a deadpan style. Oooh, deadpan humor; another thing white people like.
Which brings us to the next obvious question: What are stuff Asian people like that anyone else doesn’t? I posted the question on the 8Asians e-mail list, and these are some responses that people came up with:
Ben: BBQ chicken feet!
Efren: I’m sure we can all think of stuff… Durian is one example…
Andy: I hate to say it….but mothballs. Or maybe it’s just me, but I like the smell. =D
Brian: White people.
Efren: Speak for yourself!
As for me, I’ll humbly submit New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle” into the mix. If I had a nickel for every time that was played at a wedding or school dance in college, man. Also, doing karaoke in rooms the size of a shoe box and dancing in a circle. (Man, I should do some posts on these.)
Update: Is the author of Stuff White People Like an Asian male?
Update #2: Stuff Asian People Like.
(Flickr photo credit: genvessel)
Other posts you might be interested in:
Blog RSS Blog Comments RSS
Brian wrote:
Ernie, everytime I see you falling… I get down on my knees and pray.
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 2:52 pm | Permalink
Grace Chu wrote:
back in college, i used to accompany my roommates to a korean church on occasion, so i will submit the following:
- wearing the same outfit to church as to clubs.
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 3:43 pm | Permalink
Grace Chu wrote:
also… omd’s “living in oblivion”
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 3:45 pm | Permalink
John wrote:
Funny, my college friend used to call “Bizarre Love Triangle” the Korean national anthem.
Asians like Japanese cars - Honda’s, Toyota’s, Nissan’s, Acura’s, Lexus’s, Infiniti’s, etc.
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 4:07 pm | Permalink
tien wrote:
Ha..great idea for a site, anyone up for making a stuffasianpeoplelike site? Contact me!
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 4:15 pm | Permalink
yoshi wrote:
Dare i say it? White chicks. Um…I’d probably also say, Karaoke boxes… well, a lot of folks like karaoke…but it’s not like a karaoke box in japan…
oh, karaoke of beatles “let it be” or “yesterday”. I can’t count the number of times my mom sang those songs. ugh.
I’m sure I can come up with more. LOL
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 4:39 pm | Permalink
Efren wrote:
I remember in my college days and on the usenet group SCAA (early-mid 90s..*sigh*) thatall the East Coast Asian Ams insisted that “Bizarre Love Triangle” was their anthem. Considering that I’m a California boy and was a hip-hop fan, I couldn’t understand it at all!
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 5:23 pm | Permalink
Akrypti wrote:
What’s Bizarre Love Triangle? Oh nevermind I’ll find it on YouTube. brb.
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 7:01 pm | Permalink
Akrypti wrote:
Ok I’ve never heard this song before. Ever. And I’m *very* Asian.
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 7:02 pm | Permalink
burt wrote:
Doood! That is thee Asian American anthem! despite being by a British band.
Posted on 17-Feb-08 at 10:52 pm | Permalink
Xxxtine wrote:
Let’s not forget Notorious B.I.G’s “Hypnotize”.
I would like to also submit that Asian people like drinking water - straight up scalding hot.
Posted on 18-Feb-08 at 11:01 am | Permalink
Grace Chu wrote:
How about “bitching on internet about other Asian people”?
See, for example, http://www.8asians.com/2007/08/10/why-asian-girls-go-for-white-guys/
Posted on 18-Feb-08 at 11:40 am | Permalink
Grace the Spot | Stuff Lesbians Like: Part 1 wrote:
[...] site Stuff White People Like is blowing up on the internet. The latest example is difficult breakups, which, honestly, I thought [...]
Posted on 18-Feb-08 at 6:54 pm | Permalink
jc wrote:
on the theme of white people can’t dance:
* straight white people love dancing sloppily to YMCA and not knowing how gay it is.
* hopping up and down thinking that it’s dancing like the pogo
other things white people like:
re-appropriating “exotic” ethnic clothing as the new fashion
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 11:00 am | Permalink
jc wrote:
asian people love pastries that don’t taste sugary.
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 11:01 am | Permalink
April wrote:
What about rice?
Yes, non-Asians eat rice, but not like we do: with everything, including pasta and pizza.
Posted on 19-Feb-08 at 7:18 pm | Permalink
hadashi wrote:
see, all these comments just prove to my hapa self that my white side is totally subordinate to my Asian side. the rice, the pastries, the scalding water… and all these years i naively thought everyone loved Bizarre Love Triangle as much as me & my friends…
Posted on 20-Feb-08 at 10:53 am | Permalink
YvesPaul wrote:
Karaoke, BBQ Pork (Cha Siu), Dim Sum, Congee, Copyright Piracy, Mahjong, Buddhas, and Math!!! lol…
Posted on 20-Feb-08 at 3:03 pm | Permalink
Xxxtine wrote:
YvesPaul - I don’t think Asians like math … we just happened to be better at it than most.
Posted on 21-Feb-08 at 8:15 am | Permalink
Jackhonky wrote:
How can you be asian american and not know/have heard BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE? Totally odd.
That said, I will TOTALLY extrapolate and say that there is a definite overlapping musical taste in the gay community and the asian american community back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Anything synthpop was much beloved by both (Depeche Mode, Erasure, New Order, Pet Shop Boys. OMD). However only the hardcore peeps listened to the B-list 80’s synthpop (Information Society, Anything Box, Camouflage, Red Flag, The Communards). Strangely, in my personal experience it was the hardcore Super Christian Asian Americans, and the Flaming Homosexuals who both loved the B-list bands the most.
On a separate note, I have yet to meet a white person who likes Dried Cuttlefish, and I have yet to actually meet an Asian who doesn’t emphatically announce “I LOVE THAT STUFF!” when it comes up in conversation.
As for things that white people like - kanji characters as tattoos. what’s up with that?
Posted on 21-Feb-08 at 11:56 pm | Permalink
Glenda wrote:
Stuff Asian People like?
Apparently, they like posting stolen pictures to their own blog, taken from Rannie Turingan with no attribution to the artist, whatsoever.
*poke* Ernie, *poke* Kevnull:
http://www.thinkunique.net/stuffasianpeoplelike/2008/02/19/8-karaoke/
Posted on 22-Feb-08 at 10:40 am | Permalink
Jimmy wrote:
Looks like someones set up a wiki. Sounds like a better idea than another blog.
http://www.whatasianslike.com
Posted on 22-Feb-08 at 4:42 pm | Permalink
abcgirl wrote:
Loved Bizarre Love Triangle since forever, it’s my favorite song of all time. But never knew other asians liked it.
Posted on 25-Feb-08 at 5:13 am | Permalink
Ernie wrote:
I was talking about this with my friends the other day, so it has to be said here: HOT WATER DISPENSERS. Why yes, I DO have one in my house.
Posted on 29-Feb-08 at 9:18 am | Permalink