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Former Cheers executive producer Rob Long makes the case for preserving the traditions of ""whitebread"" America--uncomfortable formalities, awkward silences and all.In Los Angeles, you can buy a hot dog wrapped in a tortilla and topped with kimchi. ""It's about as perfect a metaphor for twenty-first-century America as you can find,"" writes Rob Long. ""It's also pretty tasty."" But as wonderful as today's multicultural American kaleidoscope is--and it is wonderful--there's something to be said for America's waning WASP culture, or as Long calls it, being ""whitebread."" To be whitebread is to be unironically normcore: to assume a formality of dress and manners, to embrace awkward silences, and to carry seemingly obsolete traditions from generation to generation.Long, the Emmy-nominated executive producer of Cheers and creator of Sullivan & Son, lays out his argument for being ""whitebread by choice"" in this tongue-in-cheek paean to the tried, true, and very unhip ways of whitebread America.

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Rob Long is a screenwriter and television producer in Hollywood, best known as an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated executive producer of Cheers and as the creator of Sullivan & Son. He's also the founder of the conservative website Ricochet. During the Clinton presidency, he famously published an anonymous political satire column in National Review titled Letters from Al. He is now a contributing editor for National Review. His previous books are Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke.

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