Anonymous wrote:Welp it's clear none of you have actually spent real time with any of these "bros".

Anonymous wrote:As an international student at Georgetown, I'm horrified that an upper class exists in this country where they are "proud of never owning a passport" and being really American instead of aspiring to being a global citizen. In my country that would be considered really backwards!

Anonymous wrote:Welp it's clear none of you have actually spent real time with any of these "bros".

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has been my first exposure to this world as well. I've become friends with a few women who grew up in this culture and are married to these guys (although they're nice guys). It's remarkable to me how uniform their lives/upbringings are and just how small their worlds are. They have family money up the wazoo but they've NEVER LEFT THE US.
Characteristics of this crowd: lots of loafers, jackets at every occasion, Patagonia, hunting, all vacations must be to several US destinations--i.e the Greenbriar or Sea Island. Year after year, those are the only places they go. They have expensive dogs. They all work in finance or commercial real estate or maybe law. They drive Suburbans. The only people they know who aren't white are their nannies or house cleaners.

OMG, yes. You could be describing several of my neighbors, unfortunately. There is one family that looks like Barbie and Ken + 2 kids. The dad pops his polo shirt collars, wears Bermuda shorts with small prints (i.e. lobsters, sailboats, etc.), boat shoes/no socks, cardigan sweater jauntily draped around his neck (I kid you not). Drives a Land Rover. Mom, who drives a Porsche convertible, wears sheath dresses, also with cardigan sweater around neck. Son and daughter wear only Polo clothing. And the all-important neck-sweater. Vacations are in Palm Beach or Aspen. Never out of the country.

Anonymous wrote:The cultural differences are significant. You can be northern prep and liberal. In the South that's a capital crime. Lots of Southerners from good families are proud of never owning a passport, a northerner has been to almost all the EU countries before they graduate middle school.

Anonymous wrote:The cultural differences are significant. You can be northern prep and liberal. In the South that's a capital crime. Lots of Southerners from good families are proud of never owning a passport, a northerner has been to almost all the EU countries before they graduate middle school.

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I am from a Northeast prep culture which is very different. The clothes may be a bit similar---but the attitudes are opposite. The women are more Jackie Kennedy preppy--not tons of make-up, etc. but maybe same Lily dress.

NP here. I'm curious how the attitudes of a Southeast prep is different from a Northeast prep? And how are the women different in both cultures?

I can't help you OP, as I have zero exposure to these people. I work in DC and my colleagues are nice, normal and middle-class lol.

Anonymous wrote:Some of this is similar to the Catholic good ol' boy culture you get with boys who went to all-boy Catholic high schools. I went to Notre Dame and then these guys were housed in all-guy dorms and their social skills with girls/women were SADLY LACKING.

Anonymous wrote:DC has been my first exposure to this world as well. I've become friends with a few women who grew up in this culture and are married to these guys (although they're nice guys). It's remarkable to me how uniform their lives/upbringings are and just how small their worlds are. They have family money up the wazoo but they've NEVER LEFT THE US.
Characteristics of this crowd: lots of loafers, jackets at every occasion, Patagonia, hunting, all vacations must be to several US destinations--i.e the Greenbriar or Sea Island. Year after year, those are the only places they go. They have expensive dogs. They all work in finance or commercial real estate or maybe law. They drive Suburbans. The only people they know who aren't white are their nannies or house cleaners.