Interesting. I always agreed with the OP’s take before, but now I wonder if you’re not right. The rise of mass media in the 20th Century may have simply lent national stakes to the superficiality and narrativism that has always defined us as humans, and more particularly as Americans.

In any case, one thing that is abundantly clear is that John Kerry looks and sounds much more intelligent than he is. From the content of his words on paper to the content of his standardized testing to his lack of even Obama’s shallow conversational acuity, it’s been observable since 2003 that there’s no “there” there.

There’s nothing wrong with this. What’s embarrassing is the number of people in our society who think that John Kerry is smart, especially compared to George Bush who is stupid. Even when I hear this from people I expect, like registered Socialist liberal arts professors, it’s distressing. His aura of intelligence so obviously a trick of poise and deportment that it’s hard to imagine its courteous presumption being extended to anyone who wasn’t at the top of a Democratic ticket, much less a Republican counterpart.

Thanks, yes, that was a typo. I just fixed it.

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is an informal term, sometimes derogatory or disparaging for a closed group of high-status Americans of English Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group believed to control disproportionate social and financial power The term WASP does not describe every Protestant of English background, but rather a small restricted group whose family wealth and elite connections allow them a degree of privilege held by few others.

The first published mention of the term WASP was provided by political scientist Andrew Hacker in 1957, indicating WASP was already used as common terminology among American sociologists, though the “W” stands for “Wealthy” rather than “White”:

hey are ‘WASPs’–in the cocktail party jargon of the sociologists. That is, they are wealthy, they are Anglo-Saxon in origin, and they are Protestants (and disproportionately Episcopalian). To their Waspishness should be added the tendency to be located on the eastern seaboard or around San Francisco, to be prep school and Ivy League educated, and to be possessed of inherited wealth

– Andrew Hacker

Andrew Hacker coined the term in the 1950s..
[so if you hear or see it in a movie whose history predates that time and they use the term. ring the buzzer!]

here is FORBES magazine
Celebrate The Wasp
http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/24/tad-friend-cheerful-money-wasps-opinions-columnists-melik-kaylan.html

Why can’t Americans lay aside the dreary, formulaic trope of ethnic or class adversity as the only life story that makes us legitimate?

It assumes that no one made it to the top in a short leap from a stable middle class. Nobody was driven to do great things by the multi-generational happiness of being American. It means that we don’t celebrate and add to what’s there, but must overthrow it every generation. So to get things in perspective, let us praise Wasp culture for a moment and see how it feels.

the funny thing is that its not as closed as it was, as they marry… and thye tend to marry social debutants.

t was the Wasps, let us not forget, who invented the Constitution and other political scriptures we now glory in. The Wasps fought the Civil War to eradicate slavery. Sure they fought it on both sides, many to retain it, but enough of endless self-flagellation. It was the Wasp cousins, the British, who first outlawed it, followed by the U.S., while it continued elsewhere in the world unabated—in the Muslim world, in various forms in Africa, and in China (eunuchs), Russia (serfdom) and elsewhere. Wasps fought off Spanish monarchical Imperialism at the Alamo and in California. There’s a reason Latin Americans prefer to come north, and it isn’t—or shouldn’t be—to bring their unmodified values here

yes… you guys and myself, owe what we wish to defend to the WASPS… but now, thanks to the perpetual revoution of trotsky, they are not wealthy, they are white… they are not the source of freedom in the world, they are despots.

yes. some are not so nice. but consistently, they have defned the US… now. if the people of the US want to hurt them, there is going to come a rekoning where thye will not save us from ourselves. will they?

then again… maybe they will.
but note, we who gab and dont even know the history and all that, are not part of this game.

the parents and others of that click i have known most of my life, they admire my pluck, my desire to work hard and achieve, and they especially regard my old world manners at the table, the customs, and even the ability to talk about histories that the common man has no idea of.

did you think i learned all this to impress people on a blog?

my family was and lost their titles back home, and so, we came here, janitors with upper class breeding.

now i am just a tall poppy that has to be sliced down

what? are you serious?
you have the “east egg” / “west egg” – great gatsby thing

🙂

i would take a look here if you can
http://www.socialregisteronline.com/

my first real girlfriend was a social register deb

in the east they are called debutant balls
in the fly over country they are Cotillians

A cotillion or débutante ball in the United States is a formal presentation of young ladies, débutantes, to “polite society,” typically hosted by a charity or society. The ladies introduced can vary from the ages of 16 to 21 (younger ages are more typical of Southern regions, while older are more common place in the North;) in some areas 15 and 16-year-olds are called “junior débutantes.”

The most prestigious and most exclusive debutante ball in the United States is the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, where girls of distinction of mainly ‘old money’ families are presented to high society.

Every débutante must perform a curtsy also known as the St. James Bow or a full court bow, with the exception of Texas débutantes presenting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, who perform the ‘Texas Dip.’

Débutante balls exist in nearly every major city in the United States but are more common and larger affairs in the American South. The Christmas Cotillion in Savannah, Georgia, first held in 1817, is the oldest Débutante ball in the United States. Many cities such as Dallas and Atlanta have several balls in a season. Dallas, for example, is home of the traditional Idlewild organization, as well as more modern organizations such as The Dallas Symphony Orchestra Presentation Ball and La Fiesta de las Seis Banderas, both of which benefit charities. The National Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball of Washington, DC, hosted by Miss Mary-Stuart Montague Price, has met every November for over 60 years with proceeds going to Children’s Hospital. In New Orleans, Louisiana, a débutante is usually presented during the Carnival season

the point is that they dont want you to know them, and so on… so they LIKE that you dont..

the family i wa with owned at least one Faberge egg
of course, a socialist friend lambasts me that this is impossible… but i held it in my hand and got to play with it.

and then there was the faberge egg that recently was given to a scrap yard- and one at a yeard sale:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/flea-market-find-turns-original-faberge-worth-millions/
and the 33 million scrap metal

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/world/faberge-third-imperial-egg/

its very frustrating that people speak with authority about things they have no idea of. they do not realize that they are doing the lefts work for them. basically pissing into the well of the common mind!

MOST will not marry someone who is NOT in the register. they do, but not that often. the ones that do, are ones that dont care much about that whole gig, have their cash and are happy. most politicos and others who want to be a part of the moving and shaking in the world, they will look to the social register and the debutante balls and other such stuff that rubes are not allowed to be part of. except when hired to serve cannope, caviar with creme fresh, etc

i have tried to let people know that much of my information and things comes from my relationships with such people, not just histories.

one of the most beautiful things her family collected were faberge floral arangements. i have mentioned them before, but only people in the social arena even know they exist.

she liked to go window shopping at Harry Winstons. but not in the downstairs, the upstairs private area. (harry winstons specializes in the most luxurious jewelary… with neckclasses easily toping 10 million)

http://www.harrywinston.com/

and if you like some special stuff, you can go to la veile russie..

http://www.alvr.com/

you can get faberge and russian artifacts there… note that they used to have a watch that i pined for, and now my son is a naval officer (who will ahve access to such people), i regret that i did not buy it. it was a pocket watch made in the late 1700s early 1800s out of whale ivory… the whole thing… hand carved ivory gears

and if you want a watch, rolex is a joke
you want to buy from Breuget…

http://www.breguet.com/en/

Putin has a Breuget collection..
i am very partial to their pocket watches and other timepeices…

by the way…
who do you think owns the arabian horses in kentucky?

http://arabiancelebration.com/

its amazing… IF you know where to look and know people… otherwise. the world might not even exist to you.

you can’t get rid of him that easily. 😉