(branching off from the WalMart thread)
Have white people in the US jumped the shark?
Have they (we) become culturally irrelevant?
Do whites in the US even
have any culture of their own? You don't exactly see kids at the mall dressed like Jack Welch.
Yes, this is about stereotypes. Quadraphonic stereotypes.
As was stated previously, unless you have lots of cash - and it's externally visible - or some other 'hook,' "normal" white guys don't even get a passing glance anymore. Being confident and funny is one thing, but if you can't even get your foot in the door it doesn't do you any good.
By the same token, white girls don't seem to interest me much. I've been fishing a lot lately, and everything I've been hauling into the boat, I just throw back. They're either lets-go-shopping, cosmo-readin' poor white trash, or let's-go-shopping, cosmo-readin' WASP beeeotches. With nothing else to define them, they load up on piercings and tattoos. There also seems to be a sort of 'entitlement' mentality with white girls.
Disclaimer: yes, I'm sure
your wife/gf is the exception, yada yada yada. But I'm not dating her... or am I????
Obsetity seems to be "in" now, too. I need to get a camera phone for no other reason that to take pix of the cows (we're talking north of 200#) chicks wearing "Phat Farm" gear. And am I the only one who sees the irony of a fat chick in a $200 athletic outfit. And love handles are a badge of honour to be displayed, proudly draped down the side of your lo-rise jeans, dontchaknow? I wonder how many belly button rings have disappeard after one too many big macs...
So, back to the original topic: have white people become culturally irrelevant, reduced to parodying everyone else's trends? (ala Eminem)