Like so many people in the UK I love the Stuff White People Like website. I was surprised to find that no one had done a British equivalent, so I thought it would be fun to make one. I emailed Christian Lander about it and he was cool with it, and even gave a few post suggestions.
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F.A.Q
Q: Where is your entry on The Wire? Mad Men? Tea? Farmers’ markets? Self-aware hip hop references?
A: Already covered in Stuff White People Like.
Q: I am white and British, and I don’t like any of the stuff on here!!!
A: Most white Brits don’t actually like these things. Only about 4% of the population reads The Guardian. Well done on totally missing the point.
Q: Nice blog, but why don’t you just call it ‘stuff middle class Brits like’?
A: Christian Lander’s response when he gets this question sums it up nicely: Do you have any other suggestions to make the blog less funny?
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Email any comments, suggestions or badly spelt hate mail to stuffwhitebritslike[at]gmail.com
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I would delete that comment, but it is a pretty good website…
A white guy appreciates your approval.
I live in Hackney and I’m not white or black but white people seem to like me. One day I hope to be included.
Good stuff, very accurate
Surely the site should be rebranded-
semi-autobiographicalstuffwhitecosmopolitanmiddleclasspredominantlysouthernbritslike.wordpress.com
Pretty catchy, that.
He/she’s right though.
Your do a pretty good job skewering my own liberal educated whitey soft Southern ways.
But my white 70-something working class Yorkshire in-laws, not so much.
I still don’t see why calling it “Stuff Guardian Readers Like” is less funny….
we’re not Americans: confusing race with class is one of those stupid mistakes we don’t have to make….
To think that class and race in the UK are totally separate is a blissfully innocent notion, scd.
but that’s not what I’m saying at all: the census definition of White British covers 80% of the population, who have all kinds of different class / culture, whereas your “white Brits” are as you say, about 4% max and have a very specific class, culture, and even geography… my White British extended family all live in Scotland would probably only like malt whisky off the list, and the only person I know who comes close to living the “white Brit” dream (in squats in fashionable bits of London, with fascinating / drug abusing European musicians) is non-white.
This was one of the good points about “The Middle Class Handbook”: by splitting up the middle classes into tribes, it was able to caricature them, but still be recognisable. Whereas the White Brits title takes a sub-culture and labels it as if it were 80-odd% of a nation…
That’s not to say that I don’t like the blog, but how have you not included Mitchell & Webb yet? and shouldn’t it be Tinie Tempah (only Grime act ever profiled on Newsnight) and not Dizzie Rascal?
Enjoyed reading this but a bit London-centric…. Half of this isn’t relevant to anyone who doesn’t live in that 600-square mile toilet.
Nothing on tattoos then?