An experience I had

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Originally Posted by rpgdemon

Does anyone else find the term WASP incredibly racist? Look at it objectively. Like, 3/4th of the definition for it is saying "White dude", and the other part is saying "Protestant". To say, "Dude, all white protestants are X" is -incredibly- short sighted and silly, and just as dumb as saying something about "All those black kids in the ghetto who are all doing crimes".

I was not using it to say they were all the same, but that at the time the nation was mostly white anglo-saxon protestants. At the time America was not a great melting pot, it was mostly people from the UK that felt new world would offer them a better life and their decedents. The entire congressional party, every single founding father, was from the exact same background. They had no frame of reference for what it would be like to have such diversity that a "majority" was really just the largest minority, something that to this day no other nation has had to deal with.