Christopher Hitchens - 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart...

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'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Christopher Hitchens

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Deutsche Übersetzung

„WASP“ ist der einzige ethnische Begriff, der in der Tat ein Begriff der Klasse ist, abgesehen von Redneck. Dies ist ein anderes Wort für dieselbe Gruppe, die sich jedoch in den unteren sozialen Schichten befindet, und ist daher unerklärlich mit sozialem Ansehen, Kultur und Geschichte verbunden in einer Weise, dass die anderen Silbentrennungen einfach nicht sind.

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