What do you consider social prestige?
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Anonymous
+2 Spending my precious few spare moments with a bunch of shallow, vapid harpies? Sign me up! </s> |
Anonymous
This starts with money though. In america, your zip code is your destiny. |
Anonymous
| lol imagine asking this question in this area where virtually anyone walking down the street or can be a multimillionaire. Nobody really cares. |
Anonymous
| someone who retired early 40-50s and living well |
Anonymous
| I think there is class but not in the UK way. I also think you see less of it in larger cities. In smaller towns, the conventional ways still matter. Money, being known in town. |
Anonymous
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American oligarchs have social prestige.
https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files...CostofFoodJan2022LowModLib.pdf Other people here are right that outside of Oligarchs we don't have "elites" or "social prestige" the way other countries do. We do have a culture of pride in folks who "pull themselves up by their bootstraps", which is why we have that expression. |
Anonymous
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Back in the day is started with Old Money (which frankly started out as "new money". Now new money is fine as long as there is a lot of it. With all that new money you buy in the right zip code, send your kids to the right schools, participate in all the right activities, join the right clubs.....
But the piece that bumps the socially prestigious into the big leagues, as it were, is use that new money to, one, donate in a significant way to political candidates who then win, and you get invited to a different class of parties and events than traditional local events. Also, donate to causes, universities..... Start foundations that donate to causes. An ivy league professor, white collar worker and doctors don't reach that level. |
Anonymous
| If you drive a BMW or an Audi and have a 5000 Sq ft house with a au pair. Oh and you have to like golf. |
Anonymous
That is a sign of a very bad person not an elite. |
Anonymous
You've clearly never been to Boston. The Boston Brahmins are a thing and even if you have serious money and are not one of them they want nothing to do with you. See the story about a member of the Winthrop family declining to approve the condo ownership application of John Walsh, a multi-millionaire spa owner worth around $100 million, to purchase a condo in their exclusive Beacon Hill building. The reasoning was that Walsh would not "coalesce" with the community there. Effectively they were Boston Brahmins and he was not good enough to live in the building despite his wealth because of his Irish roots and lack of pedigree. |
Anonymous
| I am not trying to be snarky or sarcastic… but who cares about the Boston Brahmins, besides the Boston Brahmins. It’s a silly name in itself, which speaks to faltering social class in this country. People will whig out more about the Kardashians. |
Anonymous
| I am not trying to be snarky or sarcastic… but who cares about the Boston Brahmins, besides the Boston Brahmins. It’s a silly name in itself, which speaks to faltering social class in this country. People will whig out more about the Kardashians. |
Anonymous
| What I am trying to say social prestige counts when other people recognize it. Most people don’t give two hoots about Boston Brahmins. At least the queen is recognizable to the masses. |
Anonymous
| OP, I think this is an interesting question and don’t know my answer! I am a HS teacher, husband works for government, kids are happy, and our house is just fine. I obviously see that people have nicer things than I do but man, I see a lot of people (poorer and richer than I am) who seem a lot less happy. |
Anonymous
Social prestige can be regional. In Boston it does matter and people do respect it there. |