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The Real 'Stuff White People Like'

Posted by samzenpus on from the taking-a-closer-look dept.

Here's an interesting and funny look at 526,000 OkCupid users, divided into groups by race and gender and all the the things each groups says it likes or is interested in. While it is far from being definitive, the groupings give a glimpse of what makes each culture unique. According to the results, white men like nothing better than Tom Clancy, Van Halen, and golfing.

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  1. Re:white men? by Wrexs0ul · · Score: 4, Funny

    How dare you think that as a Canadian I don't like Van Halen!

    Now, where'd I put that mullet...

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  2. Re:The female responses . . . by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    outdoorsy crap in women's profiles is their way of engineering the males they receive responses from. The basic idea is to frame yourself in an athletic manner, thereby driving off the lazy, the fat and the unambitious. In practice, I'd expect this to torpedo a lot video gamers, guys who live at home, geeks

    Well, I play Tetris while water-skiing. I showed them!

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  3. Hmmm, they somehow missed by SlimXero · · Score: 2, Funny

    How 99.9% of women between the ages of 15-40 list themselves as bisexual. Odd.

  4. Above everything else... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    White people love reading lists about what white people like.

    1. Re:Above everything else... by mjwx · · Score: 5, Funny

      White people love reading lists about what white people like.

      Actually I like reading lists about what Asian women like,

      From today I'm a simple person and mechanical engineer who enjoys noodles, cricket and basketball.

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    2. Re:Above everything else... by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2, Funny

      The surprising thing for me is that apparently I *am* asian.

      OK, I'll go scurry off and read Freakonomics now..

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  5. Re:The female responses . . . by rubies · · Score: 2, Funny

    "This hot dog is wild!"

    Oscar Meyer

  6. Re:white men? by interkin3tic · · Score: 3, Funny

    How dare you think that as a Canadian I don't like Van Halen!

    That wasn't an extremely polite way of saying that... admit it, you're not actually Canadian, are you? You're from New York! Nice try, NY, but -real- Canadians would apologize for being Canadian and liking Van Halen, and then would invite AC to have a beer.

  7. Re:Race? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    As someone who took a semester of Sociology 101 years ago

    Being that old I'm impressed you can say anything but "get off my lawn"!

  8. Re:But false advertising hardly seems the answer by Rogerborg · · Score: 2, Funny

    While you were typing all that, I just lied my way into dates with three banging hot chicks who are into long walks and pilates-skydiving or whatever the hell it was that I ticked. Now, which of us has fitted genes, Poindexter?

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