Why Do Black People Not Tip? -- LiveWire Teen Forums

Wow man you should consider working for the government census bureau seriously.

How many hours did you spend doing all that?

Anyway here's my thinking: its culture.

I mean from the charts you gave it looks like things were consistent pretty much across all incomes for all races.

I gotta say in my family we used to be a bit confused about the pizza delivery tipping deal for the longest time (although Im the one my mom asks to calculate the tip and she always generous when we dine out.) In my hood most ppl dont tip very much but my mom knows that she likes it when she gets tips from the customers when she does extra work so she makes sure she gives a good tip to servers in return.

The deal about the delivery thing is that they already charge you more for the delivery so some ppl are confused about whether that included the driver's tip or not. So I know some ppl might be confused about it.

The fact that the credit card has an extra tip line doesn't mean everything.

About the stereotype though I think its culture.

In latin american countries and culture tipping is usually expected so ppl know about it. We tip according to how much money we can afford and if we have coupons or deals we actually tip more because we have more left over to give out. Thats why thers more variation.

In the Asian culture they calculate the percent and they stick to that unless somebody really did something that strikes them. Thats why theres not a lot variation for them.

In white American culture they tip according to service quality and other stuff. I know my mom's friend who's white tips sometimes a lot sometimes a little but the way she does is always abit of a mystery for me like how she grades the waiter on what criteria.

I can't answer for blacks because im not in their head but I think they feel they already paid enough for the food and like you said they feel the driver is PART of the same company so it like they're paying the company more. I don't say all blacks do that. But its possible thats whats going on.

But I dont think its right at all to say "they dont care". its more that they feel the employee is already part of the same company.

When you do the grouping on behavior stuff like tipping you should think that alot of the stuff we talk about is culture NOT race.

Post edited at 8:26 pm on Aug. 19, 2008 by jakelong

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