Að ferðast
Það er margt fyndið að finna á Stuff White People Like. Þessi kafli, um árið sem mann dreymir alltaf um að taka sér frí, fannst mér sérlega góður:
When someone goes through a stressful experience they usually require some time off to clear their head, regain focus, and recover from the pain and suffering. Of course, in white culture these experiences are most often defined as finishing high school, making it through three years of college, or working for eleven months straight with only two weeks vacation and every statutory holiday (”they don’t count because I had to spend them with family.”)
Though you might consider finishing school or having a good job to be “accomplishments” many white people view them as burdens. As such, they can only handle them for so long before they start talking about their need to “take a year off” to travel, volunteer, or work abroad.
It is most common for the person taking the year off to use this time to travel (see Post #19 for reasons why). Generally, they will start off with a set amount of money that will use to travel for as long as possible. This explains why a white person with an $800 backpack will haggle with a poverty-stricken street vendor about a $2 dollar plate of food.
If you work with this person, be sure to give them a FAKE email address on their last day on the job or you will be inundated with emails about spiritual enlightenment and how great the food is compared to similar restaurants back home. Also, within the first five days following departure, this person will come up with the idea to write a book about their travel experience. Sadly, more books about mid-twenties white people traveling have been written than have been read.
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Regardless of how a white person chooses to spend their year off, they all share the same goal of becoming more interesting to other people. Sadly, the people who find these stories interesting are other white people who are politely listening until they can tell their own, more interesting story about taking a year off.
Thankfully, there is an enormous opportunity for personal gain. You see, whenever a white person takes a year off it opens up a valuable apartment, job opportunity or admissions slot. Consider it to be the most pretentious form of affirmative action.
Gott stöff!
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21. júní 2009 kl. 11:53
Hahaha þetta er stöffið!
3. júlí 2009 kl. 11:09
Skemmtilega mörg sannleikskorn þarna
3. ágúst 2009 kl. 22:43
Ég las þennan texta og brosti út í annað.
Sá svo að Aganar er kominn með tenglalista á forsíðuna sem ég hafði ekki áður séð. Skoðaði hann og hverjir voru með mér á skrá.
Fór á síðuna hjá EOE og fyrstu línurnar á síðunni hans eru eftirfarandi
,,Ég lauk síðasta bloggi á því að segja frá lokum á útsýnistúr um Gunung Bromo eldfjallið. Við höfðum verið talsvert óviss um það hvernig planið fyrir næstu daga ætti að vera en ákváðum að lokum að koma okkur til Bali og færa okkur þaðan til Lombok eða Flores.”
Þá gat ég ekki annað en hlegið :)