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In Yvonne Bynoe's article entitled "The White Boy Shuffle", the author is trying to convince his audience that suburban, white youth are undermining what the true essence of hip hop culture is by adopting the characteristics of the culture and using them as a vessel for their own teen angst, social rebellion, and self-expression. The author also implies that this "borrowing" of black culture by young white youths perpetuates certain social stigmas and stereotypes of …

…why they use it to fulfill their own sense of self-expression. Again, an unsympathetic white audience may feel alienated by these types of insinuations. In conclusion, I feel that the article, while well written and full of poignant language, does no more than condemn a trend popular among the white culture, and try to convince an audience that this trend will be the downfall of black or hip-hop culture, when that simply isn't the case.