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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WASP seems to mostly mean middle class wannabes who think they look classy in pastel Vineyard Vines and Brooks Brothers blazers, who are too dumb for an Ivy or Duke, so they end up at some second tier private college.[/quote]

No, being called a "WASP" or having people think they're "upper-klass" is what these wannabes want.  Perception is reality or something like that.  They're the antithesis of WASP's traditional definition of "high-status and influential White Americans of English Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group who control disproportionate financial, political and social power in the United States," even if they are Protestant and have English ancestors.[/quote]

It's all an illusion. "They" control very little anymore — except perhaps the Maidstone Golf Club.[/quote]

Correct. There are some hanging on for dwarf life, but it's not the party it used to be.... Money is gone and society has changed. If the money is not gone now, it will be soon. [/quote]

I guess y'all didn't make it to Some of the high end getaways this summer.  Still lots of blond, lots of money and lots of conn, ny, DC, east coast old school types living in or renting extremely expensive places.  The difference between now and the "old days" is that Mrs. Wasp also went to a good undergrad and then a quality grad school.  There are surely new entrants  that didn't get a shot before but you are nuts if you think that the contents of the upper crust have changed that much.   [/quote]

Actually, you don't get it. The point is that in the past they did not rent anything. They owned significant land and ran the place.

Now it is far far far more diverse and mostly new wealth. [/quote]

It's wasp renting to wasps so it's not a huge difference...of course, relative to 1850-1950, there have been major advances in the position of non-wasps but, of the 20 richest Americans, 12 are pretty  much wasp, or wasp families.   Of the world largest 35 charitable foundations, 15 are straight u.s.a wasp and a bunch more are old line Brits

Any one in the private wealth space or who works with family offices gets the ongoing force of wasp money. They may not be where they once were but they still dominate.  It's naive to think a few tech types at the top have changed the rest of the pecking order that much.  [/quote]

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