What do you consider social prestige?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Social prestige can be regional. In Boston it does matter and people do respect it there.

No. Used to live in Boston and the average Boston Joe don’t give two hoots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Social prestige can be regional. In Boston it does matter and people do respect it there.

No. Used to live in Boston and the average Boston Joe don’t give two hoots.

It may of just been the circle you were in. I've found that in Boston there are "Native Bostonians" and everyone else who moved their from out of state or were students. I'm a business owner and when we first did business (effectively niche consulting) there we were told not to do it without an insider doing the introductions or we would run up against problems. It was true. I found people constantly asking about who we were related when we were just trying to do business. We hired someone's green kid with a pedigree who had just graduated from Harvard to make contacts. It made all the difference. I've done business in LA and NYC and never ran into that there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Social prestige can be regional. In Boston it does matter and people do respect it there.

No. Used to live in Boston and the average Boston Joe don’t give two hoots.

It may of just been the circle you were in. I've found that in Boston there are "Native Bostonians" and everyone else who moved their from out of state or were students. I'm a business owner and when we first did business (effectively niche consulting) there we were told not to do it without an insider doing the introductions or we would run up against problems. It was true. I found people constantly asking about who we were related when we were just trying to do business. We hired someone's green kid with a pedigree who had just graduated from Harvard to make contacts. It made all the difference. I've done business in LA and NYC and never ran into that there.

So you are doing a niche business with an ever dwindling social circle. It doesn’t make them prestigious in the eyes of the rest of the Boston population. It’s like saying you do business in Utah with Mormons and need a Mormon representative, doesn’t make it socially prestigious. At the end of the day the concept of social prestige in America is dying.

[Anonymous]

There is no such thing it's all about kindness to others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Social prestige can be regional. In Boston it does matter and people do respect it there.

No. Used to live in Boston and the average Boston Joe don’t give two hoots.

It may of just been the circle you were in. I've found that in Boston there are "Native Bostonians" and everyone else who moved their from out of state or were students. I'm a business owner and when we first did business (effectively niche consulting) there we were told not to do it without an insider doing the introductions or we would run up against problems. It was true. I found people constantly asking about who we were related when we were just trying to do business. We hired someone's green kid with a pedigree who had just graduated from Harvard to make contacts. It made all the difference. I've done business in LA and NYC and never ran into that there.

I went to Harvard and always thought the natives were townies. I was meeting people from around the country and world. I didn’t care who was a native Bostonian.

[Anonymous]

That I can go to a yacht club or White House meeting or art gallery opening and fit in and be comfortable. No one questions my presence, how I got there, who invited me. Okay, maybe they ask those questions at the guard's gate at the White House, but not once I'm in. And it's never a problem at the gate.

Oh, and the police are nice to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That I can go to a yacht club or White House meeting or art gallery opening and fit in and be comfortable. No one questions my presence, how I got there, who invited me. Okay, maybe they ask those questions at the guard's gate at the White House, but not once I'm in. And it's never a problem at the gate.

Oh, and the police are nice to me.

That's called being white.

[Anonymous]

Being well connected across the board to readily getting anything completed to satisfaction . Having significant influence to getting things done quickly. Having the right connections and keeping politicians, lawyers, businessmen doctors, key decision makers in your back pocket. All of the above can be accomplished if you have a boatload of $$ AND then know how to put it to work.

[Anonymous]

Someone who has connections and know the connections are legit and honest and worthy and services can be done with less money and both parties are happy with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That I can go to a yacht club or White House meeting or art gallery opening and fit in and be comfortable. No one questions my presence, how I got there, who invited me. Okay, maybe they ask those questions at the guard's gate at the White House, but not once I'm in. And it's never a problem at the gate.

Oh, and the police are nice to me.

That's called being white.

Touché!

This has been highly entertaining. Thank you everyone for the good laugh.