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Re:A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job by JPKab on Friday May 18, 2012 @10:13AM (#3991915)
You got me there. I wish I could think of a word to describe the group of people who have been brainwashed into thinking that if they don't spend shitloads of money on stuff, and buy a big house in the burbs, that they are bad parents......

But you are right, saying it's a "white" thing is racist of me. There are people of all colors who get trapped into this bullshit, as well as people of all colors who are not fooled by it.

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Re:A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job by WiseWeasel on Friday May 18, 2012 @12:16PM (#3992617)
Bourgeois. Closest English term I can think of which conveys a similar notion is WASP.

I believe they might have been called "city-folk" at some point... maybe the equivalent of suburbanites or gated-community-dwellers today. Maybe saying, "that's a gated-community mentality!" would convey a similar meaning in a succinct and relatively PC way.

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Re:A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job by drcube on Friday May 18, 2012 @02:30PM (#3993251)
What do you think the "W" stands for in WASP?
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Re:A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job by WiseWeasel on Friday May 18, 2012 @02:32PM (#3993268)
I am fully aware of what it represents, hence the need to come up with a less divisive term. I was just observing that it's often used in that context.
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