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Book Review: Fussell on Class

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136 points DaoIsTheWay | 2 comments | 05 Mar 21 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.458s | source
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etaioinshrdlu ◴[05 Mar 21 05:43 UTC] No.26353226[source]▶
What the author calls Upper Class I would call "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" or WASP. It doesn't really seem like they are exactly above other classes of people in the US today, however. Not politically, financially, or culturally, they are not entirely on top.
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lainga ◴[05 Mar 21 06:10 UTC] No.26353407[source]▶
Well, as the review would say, they simply are, and they don't care where you place them, as that would imply they have something to prove.
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1. etaioinshrdlu ◴[05 Mar 21 06:23 UTC] No.26353484[source]▶
It does make Upper Class the wrong word for them however.
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