Someone please explain the term WASP to me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Example 1: A caucasian with english heritage who is a Presbyterian.

"Protestant" usually Episcopalian not Presbyterian.

Presbyterian IS a protestant denomination. If you are a Christian you are either Catholic, Prostestant or Orthodox and all the various demoninations fall into one of the three buckets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know what it stands for, but who is someone that would be an example of this?

Not this guy:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Example 1: A caucasian with english heritage who is a Presbyterian.

"Protestant" usually Episcopalian not Presbyterian.

Protestant is most mainstream Christians other than Catholics (LDS also excluded).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know what it stands for, but who is someone that would be an example of this?

Not this guy:

But his mom was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Example 1: A caucasian with english heritage who is a Presbyterian.

"Protestant" usually Episcopalian not Presbyterian.

Presbyterian IS a protestant denomination. If you are a Christian you are either Catholic, Prostestant or Orthodox and all the various demoninations fall into one of the three buckets.

This. Episcopalian is one of many protestant denominations - lutherans, methodists, baptists, presbyterians, etc. Brush up if your going to run around correcting people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Example 1: A caucasian with english heritage who is a Presbyterian.

I qualify and I didn't even go to an Ivy!

[Anonymous]

I always thought it meant uppercrust, white, socially monolythic, mainstream protestant, NOT bible thumping evangelicals. The kind of people you think of when you hear the word society. East coast also comes to mind, as does vacations in the Hamptons. Those pictures of the preppy boys captures it.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Example 1: A caucasian with english heritage who is a Presbyterian.

I qualify and I didn't even go to an Ivy!

That is not saying much, half the rednecks in this country technically qualify as WASPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know what it stands for, but who is someone that would be an example of this?

Not this guy:

Actually you're wrong he is a WASP on his mother's side. He's probably more of a Wasp than you are ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Example 1: A caucasian with english heritage who is a Presbyterian.

I qualify and I didn't even go to an Ivy!

That is not saying much, half the rednecks in this country technically qualify as WASPS.

Very true! I can think of a few I personally know (SIL's exhusbands for example). While they technically qualify as WASPs, they are not the people I would think of when I hear this term.

[Anonymous]

I am swedish, so, not a WASP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always thought it meant uppercrust, white, socially monolythic, mainstream protestant, NOT bible thumping evangelicals. The kind of people you think of when you hear the word society. East coast also comes to mind, as does vacations in the Hamptons. Those pictures of the preppy boys captures it.

This is what I also think of when I hear WASP. Like the whitest of the white in America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always thought it meant uppercrust, white, socially monolythic, mainstream protestant, NOT bible thumping evangelicals. The kind of people you think of when you hear the word society. East coast also comes to mind, as does vacations in the Hamptons. Those pictures of the preppy boys captures it.

These people were essentially the power elite in our country up until about 40 years ago... before the civil rights movement, and the perversion of the Republican party by anti-intellectual evangelicals (not that it wasn't perverted before... look at Nixon!). Like a PP said, our first President Bush is a good example.

[Anonymous]

What about for women? Like the mom on Dharma and Greg? sorry I know it's a lame example, but this is the only person who comes to mind.