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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People always think I'm an old money WASP but I'm not -- my grandparents were poor immigrants and my parents come from huge working class families. My mom never went to college and my dad attended a large public university out West. I spent the first 10 years of my life in a trailer park, then in a middle class house in a decent neighborhood when my dad's construction business did well. I went to public schools all they way through and knew nothing about WASPs until I moved to NYC in my mid-20s.

People think I'm a WASP because I'm thin, fashionable (something I learned from reading fashion magazines), well read, and have what others would call "poise." I'm not even rich now, though I am a professional at least. People assume wealth because they don't associate education and manners with working class or poor people. What is interesting to me is that when a truly rich person is stupid and rude, all excuses are made, but when a poor person is well-spoken and intelligent, they are assumed not to be poor.

In conclusion, the following qualities "scream old money": hypocrisy, ignorance, and arrogance.[/quote]

Yes and something that is not in style or just cheap is great if they do it (like someone mentioned Triscuits), but if someone not in their social sphere did a similar thing it is looked down on. [/quote]

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