Dumb Ethnography Megathread

[Cpt. Nemo]

Everybody is 1/16 Cherokee princess.

This is the go-to for southerners that want to be special and exotic. They're real proud that their great great great great great great grandfather was a Cherokee "chief", but can't for the life of them remember his name. Or anything about Native American culture.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

It's like WASP is the pizza base and all other ethnicities are toppings.

 

[Is Milse Póg]

Everybody is 1/16 Cherokee princess.

This is the go-to for southerners that want to be special and exotic. They're real proud that their great great great great great great grandfather was a Cherokee "chief", but can't for the life of them remember his name. Or anything about Native American culture.

Let alone pronounce his name.

It's like WASP is the pizza base and all other ethnicities are toppings.

I think it's only relevant to mainly WASP whites. Because these days being a plain WASP is just not "cool" enough, so it's not something that comes from racism but maybe a misguided admiration of minorities, I guess.

 

[Dystopian]

well you are evil if you are white so yeah I'd be scrambling for an acceptable identity too

 

[kurczak]

It's like WASP is the pizza base and all other ethnicities are toppings.

In that it's really the dough that makes or breaks a pizza and everything else is just random crap on it and without the dough you don't even have pizza in the first place?

 

[Úlfheðinn]

well you are evil if you are white so yeah I'd be scrambling for an acceptable identity too

Just claim to be a devout Christian and start ranting about how oppressed you are.

"Christians in America today suffer greatly, because we can't tell everyone what to do, it's really basically the Holocaust 2.0."

 

[rebelknight]

Always wondered, are french Canadian WASP-like in North American society or are we exotic?

I remember a separatist teacher in high school telling us we were the ''white ****** of North America'' 
Dem separatists are dumb ****.

 

[Bluehawk]

Well, the P in WASP stands for Protestant, and most Quebecois are Catholic. Also traditionally in places like Montreal and Quebec City, the moneyed elite were predominantly Anglophones in the 19th century and there are still stereotypes that the English live in a happy privileged bubble, despite economic realities leaning more in the opposite direction. Buying into that myth means adopting an inferiority complex about being French or superiority complex about being English. If you want the snooty rich Connecticut squash-player with a sweater tied around his neck's opinion... the answer's no.

The only thing that would actually make a Quebecois exotic though in, say, downtown Toronto, would be if they spoke with a thick accent.

 

[Dystopian]

yeah the Protestant-Catholic dichotomy is a big deal to WASPs, how can you know freedom when you live in tyranny every day frenchie?

 

[Almalexia]

Do I have to point out the AS stands for Anglo Saxon as well?

You fit one of the three, at least, and that's about all that matters nowadays.

 

[ColonicAcid]

The only thing that would actually make a Quebecois exotic though in, say, downtown Toronto, would be if they spoke with a thick accent.

Would that really be exotic though? Toronto is more diverse than even London.

 

[Bluehawk]

The dual-language politics make a Quebecois accent in particular (you know okay for sure there bu-ddy) make people walk on egg shells.

 

[Austupaio]

You fit one of the three, at least, and that's about all that matters nowadays.

Truth, most WASPs wouldn't even know what 'anglo-saxon' or 'protestant' mean. Catholics, Jews and agnostics, heck even blacks can all be WASPs now. It's a behavioural and social status now.

 

[kurczak]

lookatme_iamwaspnow.jpg

 

[ColonicAcid]

You aint seen WASP until you come to the south west.


It makes the hamptons look like the inner city.

 

[kurczak]

Uh wat...

 

[Dystopian]

lemme get some moral highground points

hey whats that all about man? not funny

 

[ColonicAcid]

My entire county is basically 99.9% white british. The only outlier to this is Bath, to which there is a sizeable asian population but compared to the overall make up of Somerset it's nothing.

It gets progressively more and more WASPy as you go more and more west until you reach rural cornwall where unless you're in a holiday town you will not find any other ethnicity other than burn in the sun white british person.

It makes sense though, England is the originator of WASP, we perfected it. 

 

[Almalexia]

Oh, I thought you meant like, Arizona or something.

 

[AreJohn]

I really had never heard of the term "WASP" until you guys mentioned it on here. Stop polluting our side of the Atlantic with your Yanker social constructs.