WASP Lessons - People Like Us DELETED SCENE

[@ebobo628]

"Mercedes... old Mercedes! NOT new Mercedes... nothing after 89.”

[@RalphCQ]

Those people are so waspy, they buzz when they talk.

[@PrepDebonair]

"WASPs love to party... and they like to drink for free." SO TRUE!!

[@selfishstockton6123]

No food? Bring on the liquor

[@mary-gx5cl]

"where Gucci shoes but wear them to death, wear them out"

[@ddl4374]

Lol

[@mechellemcbride]

And wear them in the summer with no socks, lol

[@johncantrell9993]

Made me laugh because it's true

[@puremercury]

Yup, buy quality things, but never to show off.

[@puremercury]

Also, use cedar shoe trees. Have them re-soled as needed.

[@kevonmartini10]

I met her through a great aunt who knows her through their common membership in a local garden club. If you can I'd suggest picking up a copy of the book she co-authored, The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates. It's a very well-researched, if dry tome and being the consummate name-dropper that she is Eleanor devoted the lion's share of the brief Maryland section of the book to the gardens of her grandparents and great-grandparents on her mother's side.

[@jennifermurphy7849]

The last couple was so cute! So true about armcovers.

[@Alice-kq8eo]

They seem like nice people.

[@osirisasar2392]

you British? from St.Clere family?

[@gwest111]

I love my people.

[@owencao588]

I don't think your people would approve of your enlarged Polo pony.

[@jbekiaris7146]

When this doc aired on PBS originally, in 2005, this vignette was definitely in it. Must have been edited out later on.

[@johndong7524]

I remember watching it on PBS too. I wish I could watch the whole thing again.

[@_d0ser]

@@johndong7524 If you google "People Like Us Oklahoma part 1" (and then 2, 3, and 4) you can find it on a university's website that google has managed to crawl.

[@DutchfromZA]

The blond guy how says WASPs love to party is very cute.

[@ekesandras1481]

the word "party" originally means a gathering, a come together, a tea party, a garden party, a dinner party. That's what he means. Not jumping around to loud music in some basement on drugs.

[@titanicisshit1647]

​@@ekesandras1481*very cute*

[@D4rkX5h4d0]

I do love me some free drinks 🤣😂🤣

[@antioneberry5278]

I never seen a WASP before!

[@denton1972]

Sounds like it. Have you ever met George Herbert Walker Bush?

[@reaper88.]

They don't really talk about themselves and certainly don't like being in the spotlight. Often times some of them dont even know of their own identity, as they are oblivious to it. They refer to themselves as simply "American" Some WASPS have never heard of the categorization of different European ethnic groups in America and that is why they are unaware of their cultural/ethnic heritage.

[@charlesmiv3842]

@@reaper88. that’s sad

[@broidontlikeu9970]

​@@charlesmiv3842at least they have roots in America unlike Ellis islanders

[@charlesmiv3842]

@@broidontlikeu9970 So do Native Americans, African Americans, and Spanish. Most of which were on this soil before the majority of WASPs came over.

[@DutchfromZA]

Kevon, if Eleonor is from the South then she definitely had seen what I had seen and heard words which I have heard. Once they had a group of Holy Rollers pitch up and started saying these words in town. I went back to New England and people asked about life in Virginia. I then made the mistake of mentioning theCharismatics, which probably prompted people calling me a Southern Belle behind my back. Worse yet I repeated their words, and an old man stared at me and replied, "What a horrible word."

[@shadowfox1119]

Interesting documentary. I liked in. I think the couple at the end are pretty funny. "If it's gonna get dirty, let it get dirty." "Oh, alright!" Lol!

[@sams3015]

I wonder will he say this about Gucci shoes now, surely the brand is tarnished now in their eyes with its loud designs and new money audience lol

[@_d0ser]

Yes, you have the same pair for 20 years and get them resoled so whoever buys new ones now are irrelevant.

[@NoxLegend1]

Some people just dont get it. Ha!

[@beetles1964]

Why can't you say drapes???

[@beetles1964]

@Anon Ymous That's interesting. To me, the word drapes sounds formal rather than like slang.

[@jhood6949]

@@beetles1964 you drape something over a chair or a rod. Curtains is the correct word. LOL

[@beetles1964]

@@jhood6949 I am a descriptivist, not a prescriptivist. People say both. ;)

[@jhood6949]

I never say drapes😀 but I mess up a whole lot of other words.

[@wildchild10028]

Because the proper term is “draperies” (thanks Mom) lol

[@sequanamoore1895]

The final separation from the upper and lower class. It is certain things or words they will not say, do or engage in because of the prestige they feel within themselves. They live for other people and not themselves. I feel as if they truly do not know how to have fun and be loose. And, I do not mean wild, I just mean live life. Have fun enjoy yourself and the money, yes it is okay to sit up straight and hold the proper utensil when eating, but by all means live life.

[@_d0ser]

Who's to say they aren't enjoying life? Why is going to Tuscany for a tour less fun than going to Ocean City? Why is a dinner party less fun than a kegger?

[@puremercury]

They have fun. It just usually takes 4 or 5 drinks before they loosen up. After the official functions are over.

[@zannadoodles]

why didn't i understand half of the things they were talking about

[@number1authority]

The fact that you don’t is the whole point. Most people don’t live in their world, and so, aren’t familiar with their objects, ideas and attitudes. It’s no different than if you went to a foreign country. Even if you look racially similar to the people there, even if speak the same language, you will stand out as different almost instantly. Your clothing, posture, mannerisms and the way you speak will give you away. You simply don’t know what they know.

[@99scobey]

@@number1authority when I heard her say that you can't say evening gown or lingerie, I thought, what the actual F#$& is she talking about. I think that might just be a thing in her family, not all WASPs.

[@_d0ser]

@@99scobey It's not just her family.

[@lawdhammercy4448]

What would lingerie be? Evening wear? And what would you say in place of evening gown?

[@peteradaniel]

Whats piping?

[@_d0ser]

Piping Rock is a club on Long Island.

[@jhood6949]

It is a way of tipping your head up. Like when you see someone you know and you kinda tip your chin up and down and give them a big smile. I

[@mikecarone7320]

WASP shop in London

[@RaineFilms]

@gameshowluvr86 He has dry humor, it's not snobbery. He's mocking his own people.

[@MrNotebookguy]

last part was very funny :)

[@hasafienda]

A mixture of fear and Schadenfreude exists with me from the extinction of this group. My working class Irish-Portuguese Catholic heritage on my mother's side makes me laugh. Yet, they did make this country and only God knows what happens when they go extinct.

[@jaif7327]

you’re mixed race you’re literally the issue with this country

[@kevonmartini10]

Having met Eleanor on a few occasions at gardening functions I can say that she is fact worse than she comes off here, but she is indeed the genuine article. She comes very distinguished old stock on both sides of her family, as did her first husband Peter Keyser. She went to Garrison Forest for school, summered in Nantucket, debuted at the Bachellors' Cotillon of 1957, and was raised at the estate Harmony Hall, in the heart of My Lady's Manor horse country (where she lives to this day).

[@flagman57]

@TheAstroble White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ... In america's early history, this class constituted the entire upper class and a lot of the government. They are still arrogant about that today.

[@Salmagundiii]

how did you guys find Eleanor!? She's like the American version of Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton.

[@kevonmartini10]

fyi that's not Wendy Griswold but rather Eleanor Reade, and she's from just below the Mason-Dixon line, in fact.

[@jokermausland]

@gameshowluvr86 I remember watching this in my sociology class in high school and thinking the exact same thing.

[@Xariazs]

He's a comedian. He's actually making fun of the rich. ;)

[@KurtisHord]

I love these ghosts

[@GettnBooted]

the couple at 1:11 are posers I think...they look fresh back from Walmart methinks. lol...GB

[@mungkeyy1]

Piping.

[@ELFELICIANO]

@flagman57 I want that the upper class in my country to be prots as well. Arrogants but they knew how to build this country with social justice. Things that inexist in "Cafflic" nations. Just thank God youre in America.

[@36nibs]

Such a weird coincidence

[@Chrisdvc26]

Is the mustache guy her son or husband?

[@_d0ser]

Son.

[@conshalby1059]

White of Northwestern European with Anglican,Presbyterian, Methodist faith in Upland south or Some counties in New England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇸 those ho against race mixing until today and rich since when they born also their parents 90%of them support GOP party in Uk they support Conservative party UK in Australia they support Conservative party ,in Canada they support Conservative party

[@Oasix21]

Where can I watch this documentary?

[@_d0ser]

If you haven't found it in the eight years since you made this comment, if you search "People like us Oklahoma" a school in OK has it available for free. Otherwise you can pay PBS.

[@Oasix21]

@@_d0ser Thank you.

[@Oasix21]

@@_d0ser Long time, but thank you!

[@iasadwerasd3605]

I really love when a 10-year old comment finally gets its answer and the comment’s author is still alive and replying

[@Oasix21]

Yes.@@iasadwerasd3605

[@Gandalfthegangster]

the Irish i mean the real Irish settled in the northern parts of america like Boston and new York there's not much Catholics in the south.

[@osirisasar2392]

I thought Irish were both catholics and protestants like the flag suggest. Catholics tried to take power from charlemagnes descendants after he died. Charged people to get into heaven. Killied the African Twa of ireland and Changed the original celtic religion and way of life to Catholicism. That is the celebration of St. Patrics Day. He Stripped the Irish of whom they were. There hasnt been real Irish people long before America. If your speaking of Catholics and Protestants then you can argue that all day. If protestans hadnt stoped catholics then. Catholicism would have srpead and they would have tried to take over the world like they did the Irish.

[@conshalby1059]

Irish Warrior in the south Irish Protestant who are royalist in north Irish Catholic.

[@conshalby1059]

Ulster Scots Presbyterian we call them in the south Irish Protestant they are Scottish more than Irish

[@conshalby1059]

Most British Americans live in south &mountain state ,Irish in northern state because most British New Englander or New Yorker go to the mountains states (Nevada,Utah,Montana, Wyoming ,Arizona). Germans live in Midwest ,Pennsylvania, Washington,Oregon , Scandinavian live in the Dakotas ,

[@conshalby1059]

Italian live in New Jersey& Delaware

[@rw2452]

What is WASP?

[@KathieTruitt-h7g]

White Anglo Saxon Protestant

[@rw2452]

@@KathieTruitt-h7g thanks

[@hmcccpp]

englishman

[@89playstation65]

WASPs.....all they care about is money.

[@leoh5744]

I will pray to Our Lady that she might pray for you.

[@davegibbs6423]

This is playing on mid-century stereotype. White Anglo Saxon Protestants are very diverse.

[@Thedarksecret1]

They have no sense of style.

[@robertcholmondeley113]

WASPs are wannabe aristocrats lol

[@reaper88.]

They are aristocrats

[@robertcholmondeley113]

@@reaper88. They are absolutely not.

[@_d0ser]

@@robertcholmondeley113 I can tell you, having met two of the people in this video personally, that they are absolutely aristocrats. The man with the mustache is a judge who's family has been in Maryland law for centuries.

[@kariminalo979]

@@_d0ser That doesn’t make them close to aristocrats. I grew up as a 1st gen immigrant in Sweden, and I know how real aristocrats behave and value in their everyday life. I had a friend who is of Prussian ancestry dating back to the 14th century in Northern Prussia who were related to some of the most influential royal members of the Swedish Royal Family. WASPs in the USA don’t come any near to the true existing nobilities in Europe.

[@raphandant]

@@kariminalo979 Well that's obvious? But they're still considered the aristocracy in America even though they don't carry titles because they've dominated since the revolution, if not, before.

[@DutchfromZA]

I was told I don't qualify as a WASP. I may be White and Anglo-Saxon, but I am Roman-Catholic, so a WASP lady told me that I am just an Anglo-Saxon. Ok, that's fine with me.

[@kariminalo979]

Why so obsessed with identifying as WASP? He who can’t take pride in his own existence and bloodline is doomed to be worthy of.

[@_d0ser]

Two of the groups people in this video are also Catholic. I know several of them.

[@DutchfromZA]

@@_d0ser Our ancestors just didn't change our religion, that's the only difference.

[@jaif7327]

you can’t be anglo saxon and catholic, are any of your ancestors irish or italian?

[@broidontlikeu9970]

​@@jaif7327most WASPs have irish and Italian ancestors, they just don't know. white Americans in general are ethnically mixed

[@r.higgins7869]

All BULL!

[@bookworm1616]

Watch the documentary People Like Us. I could not stand the guy at 0:48. Part of me wanted to slap the privilege out of him.

[@atyg1967]

Interviewer should have asked them, "Is that a semen stain on your sofa?"

[@sedecim]

The word was introduced in the 1960s they don't really exist

[@organenthusiast5803]

These people look pretty real to me.

[@jesseleeward2359]

Preppy people

[@theone1087]

Thank the fictional god that be, that the WASP class is going extinct.