Is it more socially acceptable for white people to listen...

Exactly! One of the main reasons why I've gravitated towards ww through out my life. Just far more fun and open minded. When I took up whitewater rafting ALL my black friends had a joke to make about it but white friends were down to go the minute I mentioned. Same thing with snowboarding, ziplining, indoor sky diving, reading certain books. Most times we do this shit to ourselves as a group. I remember when I starting learning mandarin and everyone I knew made racist jokes about learning ping ting toy language but my white friends thought it was cool and wanted to sign up too.

The more I travel the more it makes me want to move.

 

I am with you on that one. Most of the things I enjoy got me ostracized by someone, lol. But, to play devil's advocate, group identity under "siege" conditions makes people feel threatened and, as a result, want to 'count heads' and feel a sense of group solidarity. In an atmosphere like that, people in the minority group (even if not manifest outwardly) feel at some base psychological level, alone and threatened. And no one wants to feel alone and helpless. Granted, that's no excuse, but that's how the externally imposed racist view of minority groups can get internalized by those same groups.

 

I can definitely see that but interestingly I see that more with African Americans. I'm not Asian or Hispanic but from the outside looking in they seem to get a pass on a lot of things. Like there's a lot of Latin guys who do metal and rock and don't get me started on the neo nazi alliances in prison. Asians seem to be allowed to indulged in everything without being ostracized, they do everything from skateboarding to playing basketball and no one bats an eye.

 

In Puerto Rican culture you get dissed for being into rock. Big time. There's a black/indigenous-centric Puerto Rican culture and a white-centric one. Has a lot to do with race, but also class, particularly back on the island. The ones who listen to the most rock and stuff tend to be those with the palest skin and higher economic standing. Reggaeton, rap, salsa, merengue, bomba and the other styles are much more identified with the poorer villages and the ghettos on the island, as well as the NYC/Florida diaspora. And it's by no coincidence that the people there are generally more black and indigenous than white. Another factor is that the rock subcultures in a lot of Latin ethnic groups stem from rock scenes in their countries of origin as much as or more so than association with whites in the US.

My buddy's married to a Japanese American girl and he says their culture is very norm-conforming as well. There are a certain percentage that are very assimilation-oriented, and they generally adopt a lot of 'white' culture, but there's a strong undercurrent of the Asian version of the 'Soul Patrol' as well.

 

My own musical tastes and influences fall more on the lines of:

70’s, 80’s & 90’s R&B
Classic Rock & Soft Rock from the 70’s, 80’s & 90’s
Classic Hip-Hop from the 80’s & 90’s

Even to this day my 5 favorite bands are:

Earth, Wind, & Fire
Chicago
AC/DC
The Commodores
Sly & The Family Stone

Real music has no color, or at least it shouldn’t. Music should be whatever you choose to listen to but at the same time you really need to understand more than one genre to get the full concept of it and the effect it can have.

 

I'll listen to anything(maybe not country music). I don't care about what other people think. I love Metallica,Korn,Nirvana,The old Linkin Park. Good music is good music. I blast my Metallica with pride.

 

I would love to whitewater raft. Have never done it. I need to get up the courage. Around here it can be pretty harrowing in some of they places they take you.

 

I can imagine. In Pa where I did it it wasn't that bad but I didn't do it on a damn release day which is suppose to be pretty wild. I might be up to that this summer its on my list after parasailing.
One thing I have to say about CO that I like in general is how fitness minded everyone is and how nice they seem to be. I didn't spend enough time to figure out whether it was an act or not lol.

 

I can relate! Cycling is looked at as being "white" to some lol (shallow & sad). You stepped out of the so called "box" with things. Rafting, ziplining, ect. People who date, not just fuck, "out of their race" tend to be more "open-minded" about life (music, countries, cultures, ect). I'm frowned upon for bumping east coast hip hop. Lol. Imagine the looks when it's prince, céline dion, and a band of horses. Lol

 

yeah people are very insular about a lot of shit

 

When I get those looks from doing tri, I tell them that bike/run/swim will keep you from ending up like this:

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I always thought it was weird that guys could ride bikes their entire youth and then have it become anathema once a few French guys got on tv doing it.

 

Cycling is for white people you French dip motherfuckers.

 

I listen to all kind of music. In my collection I have mostly hip-hop, dancehall reggae and, R & B but, there are a lot of alternative and rock songs I like also (and have in my collection of music). There are a lot of alternative songs I have heard and like but, don't know the names of them or who sings them.

I even have one country song that I really like by Lee Ann Womack called " I hope you dance" I heard it on a comercial and really liked it. I asked a White co-worker - who listens to country music - who sings that song and he gladly told me. I immediately downloaded it from itunes.

When and were I grew up It wasn't that big of a deal what black people listened to among other black people. It was more of a issue of white people not liking Hip-hop. This was back in the middle to late seventies and early eighties, when rap was really getting going everywhere. It's funny how much has changed since then.

 

So what is Snoop doing, the Tour de Crenshaw?