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Stuff white people like:

#41 Indie Music

If you want to understand white people, you need to understand indie music. As mentioned before, white people hate anything that’s “mainstream” and are desperate to find things that are more genuine, unique, and reflective of their experiences.

Fortunately, they have independent music.

A white person’s iPod (formerly CD collection) is not merely an assemblage of music that they enjoy. It is what defines them as a person. They are always on the look out for the latest hot band that no one has heard of so that one day, they can hit it just right and be into a band BEFORE they are featured in an Apple commercial.

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Heh. Many more (sushi!) at the link.

(via Illka)

UPDATE: also via Illka, Half-Sigma highlights a SWPL commenter’s guess at the ethnicity of the blog’s author. Right or not, there’s a lot of interesting (well, to me) info there about Asian-American culture.