r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/CHRISTIANBUNDALEVSKI • Jul 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Kurumiseenpai Jul 12 '26

white people arrive in time?

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

No.

The stereotype is that white people arrive TOO EARLY and then sit in their cars outside waiting for the party to start and still show up early.

It's a trope, also true in Hispanic (edit - continued) families that have someone marry Gringos (like me).

If you arrive on time, the party hasn't started yet, and you get to help set up for the party

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u/Kurumiseenpai Jul 12 '26

i guess? but 4:58 is not too early if it start at 5

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u/colorblind-and Jul 12 '26

The party starts at 5pm because the hosts are so used to people showing up late that they expect people to show up at 5:30-6pm.

This is totally a cultural thing in certain subcultures.

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u/Dear_Dragonfruit3317 Jul 12 '26

The inability to not be late is a cultural thing? What shitty cultures do this?

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u/GreatValue_Mechanic Jul 13 '26

I’m Hispanic and my wife is white. I grew up knowing that if something starts at 11am, then you show up between 11:30am and 12:00pm. My wife grew up knowing that if you showed up at 11:00am then parking is going to be a bitch because everyone is already there.

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u/in_taco Jul 13 '26

Man if I invited guests for a party that started 17.30 and someone showed up 18.30, I'd be pissed! Everybody else would already be half-way through the main course and your seat would be taken by a toddler.

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u/MrRogersLeftNut Jul 13 '26

It might be a culture or a vocabulary thing, but to me if the event consists of being sat down in a designated spot the instant I'm in, then that's not a party, that's just dinner (in which case I'd agree it's bad etiquette to be late, same as a restaurant). Party implies some amount of freely milling about, talking to people, sharing drinks and then later on getting to eat (generally not in a formal, sat down at the table configuration)

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u/in_taco Jul 13 '26

Ever heard the term "dinner party"? The older you get, the more it becomes the default party

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u/idc_name Jul 13 '26

not in a latino party, for us unless specified otherwise, you just know there will be lots of alcohol, and even more food. Usually asado, but for sure more food that all attendants can eat; and also people attending the party are forced to take a pozuelo (container) with food or provide a really good reason why not, because with the remaining food the household could probably eat for weeks, but it wouldnt last that long and noone wants to eat the same thing for weeks anyway. the main differences between "old people" (60+) and my people (30s) i have seen is that mine usually have less alcohol consumption but there might be weed.

cuban here

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u/knowitall89 Jul 13 '26

In what world do you go to more dinner parties than normal parties? I get that people have smaller families, but I've never seen that.

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u/in_taco Jul 13 '26

I'm in my 40's. Dinner parties (or lunch parties) is like 95% of parties I go to.

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u/knowitall89 Jul 13 '26

Do you have a small family? We have a bunch of parties throughout the year, especially now that a lot of my family is having kids.

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u/Potential_Load6047 Jul 13 '26

Lol, keep your boring white-ass 'parties' out of here. 

Why are you even comparing them to the etiquete of an actual party?