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Book Review: Fussell on Class

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136 points DaoIsTheWay | 1 comments | 05 Mar 21 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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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1. NoImmatureAdHom ◴[05 Mar 21 15:23 UTC] No.26357802[source]▶
There are plenty of old-money Catholics (e.g. Kennedys), old-money non-U.K. protestants, old-money Jews, etc. I suppose the WASP old-money stereotype was accurate because it was the biggest chunk once upon a time, but not for a very very long time.