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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, like the Kennedys and FDR spoke. It's a WASPy northeastern boarding school accent.[/quote]

Kennedys are not WASPs[/quote]

The term WASPs means nothing anymore.   Literal definition =  a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination.   The Anglo-Saxon ethnicity is Germanic.

WASPs families in England were practically inbred.  The US is a country full of mixed heritage and people don’t marry under the same circumstances of old timey England.

Also who uses the word posh?[/quote]

Someone on this board always says that “WASP means nothing” and that the Kennedys are basically WASPs. I mean, no. That is kind of the whole thing about the kennedys. They were rich and old-ish money and preppy and did the whole New England family compound thing, but they were not WASPs. It was very much noted in the 60s. Just the same as Catholics in Chevy chase wearing preppy clothes and going to the CC Club are not WASPs.

It’s not a value judgment. I don’t think WASPs are better or worse or richer or poorer or more or less cultured than Catholics. But there is a WASP tradition that’s beyond just aesthetics and it’s dumb to call the Kennedys WASPs or say it’s not a thing anymore. [/quote]

+1. It was a big deal when Kennedy was elected because he was the first Irish Catholic. Before that, the presidency was very much a protestant thing and WASPs looked down on catholics.

-- and old family WASP who only admits it anonymously online[/quote]

The other thing people don’t get is that the Preppy Handbook was about more than clothes. It was an almost perfect encapsulation of WASP way of life, then and now. There were no Catholic schools mentioned in the book for a reason. People can try to dress and act like WASPs, but you really have to have it engrained in you since birth to really understand the way of life.[/quote]

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