Christian Lander Libros

You’ll find them sipping an espresso with the Sunday Times open at the Zapiro cartoon, enjoying a Tashas Panini, with a MacBook Pro streaming a Foals album on the wi-fi. Or rocking a Bok jersey, Judron shorts and slops, braaiing out of the back of a Hilux double-cab in the car park at Loftus. They are all of these things and none of them. They are unique combinations of dozens of odd predilections. They are White People, and they are among us. They are few, but they are powerful. Learn the ways of whiteness and they will buy you biltong, take you to the cricket and help you download series that aren’t even showing here yet! Stuff South African White People Like is your guide to white people’s pantheon of greatness. Expensive sandwiches! MMA! Threatening to emigrate! It’s all here. Helen Zille! Madiba! Rodriguez! No icon is forgotten. Here’s a book that decodes, explains and advises on finding social success with people of the Caucasian persuasion. It also allows experienced white people to brush up on their whiteness and smirk knowingly. So kick back on your L-shaped leather couch, crack a craft beer and lose yourself in this guide to the variable whiteness of being.

HOW WHITE YOU ARE! If you thought you had white people pegged as Oscar-party-throwing, Prius-driving, Sunday New York Times –reading, self-satisfied latte lovers—you were right. But if you thought diversity was just for other races, then hang on to your eco-friendly tote bags. Veteran white person Christian Lander is back with fascinating new information and advice on dealing with the Caucasian population.Sure, their indie-band T-shirts, trendy politics, vegan diets, and pop-culture references make them all seem the same. But a closer look reveals that from Austin to Australia, from L.A. to the U.K., indigenous white people are as different from one another as 1 percent rBGH-free milk is different from 2 percent. Where do skinny jeans and bulky sweaters rule? Where is down-market beer the nectar of the hip? If you want to know the places cute girls with bangs and cool guys with beards roam and emo musicians and unpaid interns call home, you’d better switch off the Adult Swim reruns, put down that copy of The Onion, pick up this book, and prepare to see the white.