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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Wasp culture has become synonymous with UMC success. Can join a country club? Send kids to elite private? Do you “summer”? Live in the best enclave, with appropriate zoning? ( obviously this means no multi family dwellings ( exception: NYC) That’s wasp culture. Simply shorthand for making it.[/quote] No, it’s much more than that. No new money. Your family has to have been WASP’s for generations.[/quote] +1 The old WASP families still live on (heck, the Roosevelt descendants alone probably number in the hundreds at this point), but I'm not sure if they're still "into" the whole WASP thing. Many work everyday jobs, some struggle to make rent, and a more than a few have different last names than their ancestors' grand ones. Quite a few are living the hippy lifestyle, doing yoga retreats and all that, vs the country club -> cushy job -> G&T and martinis in the evening one. Some even send their kids to -- gasp -- public school, and some certainly don't live in the "best enclave." I think what the first PP described above, the "UMC success," is based on old, outdated books and movies about WASPs/generally "rich" / "old money" folks that people use as "guides" for aspirational purposes.[/quote]
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