Reply to Is “WASP” culture still a thing?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Is “WASP” culture still a thing?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WASP culture:

1. Country Clubs in most American cities 
2. Balls that present daughters of the WASP families to society 
3. Junior League
4. The Society page of most city newspapers that show photos of WASPs at their charity events but never actually working at any of the charities. They're board members or benefactors.
5. Art galleries and art auctions. Jewish families of means, however, really found a place in collecting art and supporting the arts.
6. Opera, symphony, ballet, conservatory, repertory theaters- usually WASPs

As a Catholic who supports labor unions, I don't know how some Americans seem to long for the days of royal monarchs like in the UK, and yet we fail to acknowledge the charitable giving of the very wealthy WASP leaders of our country's past. And the WASP "Men who built America" did at least concern themselves somewhat with public libraries and literacy and education. 
[/quote]

This list made me laugh. [b]I’m married to a WASP and visit my in-laws is like going into an alternate WASPy universe. They live in a wealthy suburb that has a large Jewish and decently large Black population, but they don’t have any close Jewish, Catholic, or Black friends. The country club that the family belongs to didn’t start admitting Catholics or Jewish people until the late 70s or 80s. [/b]

My nieces/nephews growing up there all attended/were presented at debutant balls, and DH’s family had links to all the non-Catholic private schools in the area, since their family has been attending the schools for the last 100+ years.

My FIL is active in several charities and spends a lot of time in his retirement fundraising for them and he is on the board of several cultureal institutions. Of course, DH can trace his family back to the Mayflower. [/quote]

I married into a Southern WASP family where country club culture was huge when my DH was growing up. When he told me that the one (incredibly wealthy) Jewish family on the block was not allowed to join the country club, it blew my mind. They were all very friendly otherwise. Attended each other’s parties, kids were friendly. But no country club for them.[/quote]

Probably full of a bunch of good old boys like the Murdaughs. Good riddance.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics