Can't a guy engage in some simple hyperbole without it turning into the Four Yorkshiremen sketch? ;)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2255807183978932387#

But I'll say three serious things:

1) Yes, of course nearly everybody in the world is worse off than these guys.

2) No, such facts do nothing to cheer anybody up, however factual they may be:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/richard-cory/

3) Empathy is not a zero-sum game, in which giving it to one person implies that you must withhold it from another. Rather, empathy is like a muscle: If you work it, it gets stronger. The opposite is also true: If one makes a habit of sneering at the pain of the rich, one may soon find oneself sneering at the pain of the poor as well. Practice makes perfect.

I'm going to assume that by 'White People' you mean 'upper middle class'. This is based on my notion that Caucasians can suffer from cancer, starve to death, or live in Detroit with 2 crack addicts for parents.

Presumably it's a reference to this site:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

And, yes, that is what it means. I guess http://stufftheuppermiddleclasslikes.com didn't test as well.

Okay... how does it reference that? I thought that site was about sandwiches or something. I'll take this as an example of mixing up race and economic class, I guess.