Stuff people like

When people get together, they want to be reinforced and be validated for their characters and their beliefs. That's how I pissed off some readers here because I blogged about "stuff" that contradicts or challenges their whole world view. Case in point, the whole American dream idea, that anybody can be somebody if they work hard enough and all they need is more self-improvement. Or worst yet, they can learn to smooth talk and hustle people if they can just acquire the skills, be that through books, seminars, workshops, bootcamps, or some silly monthly subscription. The reality is that there are very few smart people in this world, only a few will emerge as leaders, and even rarer are those who can hustle, i.e. bypassing the traditional routes to success; the majority of the world is filled with your average joe's and followers, i.e. losers.

Instead of keep beating people's heads about those depressive subjects and trying to convince them to see reality objectively, this blog and its companion book are great in giving us a glimpse of one particular ethnic group in America likes and talks about! It has been an endless source of discussion for myself, friends, and more times than I can count, strangers. If only people are less predictable, then I don't feel as though I can mess with them like a kid could with his pet hamsters.

Let's compile ethnic profiles for different groups in America: white people, blacks, urban, asians, hispanics, catholics, gays,...