I could've sworn I posted to this thread last week. (I've been away over the long holiday weekend.) I'd be worried that I had a post deleted ~ would've been a first for me ~ but I probably just screwed up and somehow failed to hit the "submit message" button, or may failed to uncheck the "preview" box.

My kid brother had sent me a link to this site a couple of hours before I found this thread and learned that Mudcat had been alerted to its existence.

The stuff is mostly pretty funny, but 'way less than accurate. The blogger(s) in charge seem to me to be white people themselves (and more specifically, American white people), who enjoy feeling superior to those they perceive as more "typical" white Americans ~ generally, the more clueless and overprivileged class of "yuppies."

Take for example, the topic "Marijuana." As many respondants pointed out on the site, as many members of other ethnicities enjoy this particular intoxicant as do white users: African-Americans, citizens of countries other than the US who are of African descent (e.g., Jamaicans), Mexicans (!) and other Latin Americans, South Asians, East Asians, Middle-Eastern Asians, probably even a few Eskimos too for all I know. The bloggers point out the penchant for expensive "boutique"-type paraphernalia, but (as usual) their discussion really pertains only to a certain subgroup of white Americans, spoiled college kids.

Some respondants argued that white people can be better defined by their other favorite drugs, e.g., methamphetamine. I'd point out that the stereotypical white meth user is of a completely different and separate social class from the typical owner of a $100+ bong. In other words, not all white peole are the same.

Also: how about the entry "Hyphenated Names"? Maybe a couple of decades ago, in the early days of "Women's Lib," wealthy-ish young college-graduate women began to make a fad of this practice, but nowadays it's almost exclusively upwardly-mobile Africa-Americans who like to use hyphenated last names, at least where I live. Every black woman lawyer who runs for political office in New Orleans seems to have a hyphenated last name. (Fortunately, in very case that I know of, they at least let their children grow up with single last names, and don't create the potential problem of multiplying hypenated last names.)

These days, among white folks, the hyphen seems to have lost its appeal. Even women who have established a business identity or some level of fame under their original ("maiden") names tend toward the more traditional practice of using that name as a middle name without a hyphen. Best example: Hillary Rodham Clinton.