These are rarely mildly humorous, usually just sort of “filler,” but I have to agree I can’t get behind this one. In the comments below the OP states he is only “allowed” to make fun of white people. However- if using the divider at a grocery store is a “white thing,” this implies it is not a common behavior of “non whites.” The divider exists as a courtesy to other customers and the cashier. The implication here is that grocery store manners or concerns for the checker are somehow exclusive or belonging to “whites.” With these things personal experience varies- but having been shopping since before it was common for every store to have a conveyor- in my life I haven’t noticed a particular propensity for any race or ethnicity to eschew dividers.
I do notice that many fresh immigrants from
Places without such concepts in common life often do not use dividers- which is understandable- and having not tallied it formally I do not believe they do so at a much higher or higher at all rate to the general public. All in all though- I doubt offense was intended, but logically the original joke reads as though it suggests that manners are a “white” concept as opposed to a universal concept of which the particulars might vary culture to culture or through sub culture. So on the whole- I can’t support the idea that using supermarket dividers is a “white” thing to do. My anecdotal perceptions do not support it either and I would need evidence and statistical data to even support the conclusion that “whites” use of dividers is higher or highest of any number of groups we could delineate.
Places without such concepts in common life often do not use dividers- which is understandable- and having not tallied it formally I do not believe they do so at a much higher or higher at all rate to the general public. All in all though- I doubt offense was intended, but logically the original joke reads as though it suggests that manners are a “white” concept as opposed to a universal concept of which the particulars might vary culture to culture or through sub culture. So on the whole- I can’t support the idea that using supermarket dividers is a “white” thing to do. My anecdotal perceptions do not support it either and I would need evidence and statistical data to even support the conclusion that “whites” use of dividers is higher or highest of any number of groups we could delineate.