I think Kevin Drum almost gets—but ultimately misses—the point in his brief analysis of an article about Stuff White People Like, a blog that collates different cultural characteristics applicable to the young urban professional white person. What is novel about it is not that it targets a particular demographic that has been depicted by Hollywood as Normal™, but that it explicitly associates this culture with race.

This is significant because it at last explains what people-of-color mean when they tell other people-of-color, “You’re acting white.” This is significant because it makes it explicit that if a person-of-color buys into the American Dream™, they are necessarily buying into a particular subculture that, on one extreme, can totally obliterate one’s root culture, and at the very least, must be reconciled with one’s root culture.

Less significantly, it also illustrates what Chris Rock might describe as the difference between a “white person” and a “cracker.”