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Re:Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy by fakedang on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:04PM (#25837303)
Are you sure about that? Members of rich families in the US are routinely called as part of a clan - Roosevelt clan or Vanderbilt clan. Or they're collectively called something like Boston Brahmans.

It's less used in Europe, but they are still referred to as aristocratic clans.

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Re:Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy by mbg721 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:09PM (#25837388)
To me the connotation has always been something like Hatfields and McCoys, not exactly positive, but not linked to race.
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Re:Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy by fakedang on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:13AM (#25843088)
Brahmans isn't related to race either. It's just an alliteration. You're right that they are mostly referred to in the plural form (eg: The Roosevelts bought out....) but the clan usage is fairly common too (eg: he's a member of the Roosevelt clan/dynasty).
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