WASP
American social category
WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, describing Americans of British Protestant ancestry who historically dominated the upper echelons of American society, business, and politics.
The term often carries connotations of inherited privilege, old money, and social exclusivity: a WASP enclave in Connecticut, WASP culture.
Sometimes spelled Wasp. (Lowercase wasp is the stinging insect.)
Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
- eliteSuperior select group
- preppyPolished, traditional aesthetic
- establishmentFounded organization or venue
privilege · old money · country club · Ivy League · boarding school · blue blood · patrician · upper class
Anglo-Saxon
Pre-Conquest British Germanic peoples
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
- eliteSuperior select group
- preppyPolished, traditional aesthetic
establishment · privilege · old money · country club · Ivy League · boarding school · blue blood · patrician · upper class · New England
- 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
- Military Diversityblack soldiers, minority recruitment, minority representation, ethnic diversity, diversity goals
- wartime organizationsWar Department, USO, civil defense, Home Guard, Selective Service
- wartime womenwar nurses, army nurses, military nurses, flight nurses, nurse corps
- Women AviatorsAmelia Earhart, aviatrix, aviation pioneers
- social classesupper class, middle class, lower class, working class, nobles
WASPminority
Smaller part of whole
person of color · Jewish American · Irish Catholic · African American · ethnic minority
- wasp stingVenomous insect puncture
- wasp nestColony structure for stinging insects
- wasp sprayAerosol targeting flying stingers
- paper waspPulp-nest-building stinger
- giant wasp
- wasp waistExtremely slender midsection