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[quote=Anonymous]I always find these conversations about wasps funny because they mythologize a group of people who haven't really existed in a very long time.

My family is almost 100 per cent wasp, as in founded this country wasp, as in fled religious persecution wasp, as in fought in every conflict from the Bacon rebellion (both sides) on. But we're not wasps at all. I was the first person in my family born east of the Mississippi in almost 200 years and I will inherit nothing. There is nothing.

I'm not bragging, this isn't something to be proud of ashamed of. I'm bringing it up because there's a huge number of Americans just like me. Your DAR and your Dames women aren't coming from the people with summer palaces in Maine, or those who go sailing in the cape. They're coming from farm country. They're coming from factories.

The WASP illusion is very real, but it's full of people who are about as waspy as Ralph Lauren. Nothing wrong with that--but my point is, the "snob" appeal factor comes more from trying to keep up the appearance of wasp gentility than any bloodline.

I suspect this kind of class thing is nothing new. There's always been someone getting their family name on a crest or a tartan, becoming the ruling caste by adopting its mannerisms. [/quote]

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