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Excerpt published with permission from JonathanBall Publishers. Visit Kalahari.com to purchase a copy of the book.
About Stuff White People Like
You’ll find them sipping an espresso with the Sunday Times open at the Zapiro cartoon, enjoying a Tasha’s 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.
Check out the second excerpt below:
Oppikoppi
Oppikoppi is an annual music festival held on a koppie about 200km north of Johannesburg in the dusty, thorny Limpopo bushveld, outside a town called Northam.
It has been going for 20 years and is now an integral part of white culture.
The festival lasts three or four days, with several stages of music comprising mostly rock, but also electro, hip-hop and jazz.
Attending Oppikoppi means camping in the bush with about 20 000 other people, all covered in orange dust and smelling of brandy and sweat.
White people cannot get enough of it. Oppikoppi is like a pilgrimage to reaffirm their white principles.
Most people spend the entire weekend drunk and unwashed, stumbling from stage to stage, losing their friends and screaming sporadically into the skies in Afrikaans.
Oppikoppi is the best place to see every decent rock artist in the country in one place.
If one of the 100 bands that plays there later makes it big, you can then say, ‘Oh ja, I saw them at Oppikoppi,’ even though, at the time they played, you were passed out upside down in the first-aid tent, waiting to have a nosebleed taken care of.
If you want to understand white people, going to Oppikoppi is a good place to start.
The festival fulfils white people’s love for unpretentiousness, authenticity, Afrikaans, rock music and camping. It is also a good place to eat boerewors rolls.
More and more black people are starting to attend and perform at the festival, too, so that’s the transformation objective ticked as well.
Also, something about being drunk in the same jeans for four days makes white people feel like they themselves are rock stars. And white people like to feel that they are actually unknown rock stars.
Read part 1 here. Part 3 to follow shortly.
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Excerpt published with permission from JonathanBall Publishers. Visit Kalahari.com to purchase a copy of the book.
About Stuff White People Like
You’ll find them sipping an espresso with the Sunday Times open at the Zapiro cartoon, enjoying a Tasha’s 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.
Check out the second excerpt below:
Oppikoppi
Oppikoppi is an annual music festival held on a koppie about 200km north of Johannesburg in the dusty, thorny Limpopo bushveld, outside a town called Northam.
It has been going for 20 years and is now an integral part of white culture.
The festival lasts three or four days, with several stages of music comprising mostly rock, but also electro, hip-hop and jazz.
Attending Oppikoppi means camping in the bush with about 20 000 other people, all covered in orange dust and smelling of brandy and sweat.
White people cannot get enough of it. Oppikoppi is like a pilgrimage to reaffirm their white principles.
Most people spend the entire weekend drunk and unwashed, stumbling from stage to stage, losing their friends and screaming sporadically into the skies in Afrikaans.
Oppikoppi is the best place to see every decent rock artist in the country in one place.
If one of the 100 bands that plays there later makes it big, you can then say, ‘Oh ja, I saw them at Oppikoppi,’ even though, at the time they played, you were passed out upside down in the first-aid tent, waiting to have a nosebleed taken care of.
If you want to understand white people, going to Oppikoppi is a good place to start.
The festival fulfils white people’s love for unpretentiousness, authenticity, Afrikaans, rock music and camping. It is also a good place to eat boerewors rolls.
More and more black people are starting to attend and perform at the festival, too, so that’s the transformation objective ticked as well.
Also, something about being drunk in the same jeans for four days makes white people feel like they themselves are rock stars. And white people like to feel that they are actually unknown rock stars.
Read part 1 here. Part 3 to follow shortly.
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Keen on reading this book? Buy your copy now.
